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Dot Blaster

By avi and Reinhold Willcox

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall13762.9420
Fun11543.0220
Innovation14162.5220
Theme15042.1620

Comments

zvyaga 2021-10-06 06:25

A good idea for a simple mechanics, we got into the topic very much, a good balance.

sli 2021-10-06 06:29

Interesting idea. I see it expanding :)

minus 2021-10-11 11:44

Sadly couldn't launch it, when installing it gives errors about wheel package. Other than that I cannot say much about your game, cause I didn't have possibility to play it.

kimbsy 2021-10-11 12:34

Pretty cool, always fun to try out new technologies :)

Might be nice to have the turret rotate with a little acceleration and with a higher top speed, it gets pretty tricky to turn around in time sometimes!

I think not having background music and sound effects hurts this kind of game as you miss out on setting the mood and intensity. Would love to see an update with a kick-ass soundtrack :D

mar3k 2021-10-11 12:42

Nice little game, but frankly I'm not the biggest fan of using arrows to rotate, mouse would be nice, but also make it a bit easier (which I dont know if you wanted or not). Good job

python-b5 2021-10-11 13:57

Neat game - nice work making it in Pygame! It was a bit of work to set up due to `pymunk` not being correctly listed as a dependency (had to manually install it), but I eventually got it working.

Fun to play, though aiming was tough without a reticle. Adding one would've helped the game, I think. And it's a shame you didn't have time to incorporate the theme = the idea you had seemed like a lot of fun!

Good job overall :)

rufson 2021-10-11 16:01

I like how the laser changes colors depending on which ball it is flying to. The plans for using gestures and clapping sounds interesting. Maybe implement it in post-jam version and have fun experimenting. Grats!