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Magic Miner

By Swyka, m-mae, Noahwus, HullalMiah, soraskyfly, MixedLetters, Nate Geschwill and Alex Fortino

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall8553.4522
Fun6283.5222
Innovation10503.0222
Theme9323.3522
Graphics6113.7522
Audio7913.0522
Humor4243.4419
Mood8053.3621

Comments

2021-10-05 01:53

Very straight forward, objective was clear and gameplay was as well. Controls were easy to adjust to, while sensitivity control would have been nice. Hit boxes were not easy to see but easy to adjust to.

parkuhrmd 2021-10-05 17:14

Fun game! Good looking, and easy to control. The boss fight was challanging but fair. The mechanic of balancing your power level was fun.

I had some trouble telling when I picked up a crystal. Some audio cues for picking up crystals could help, and increasing the range at which crystals are picked up.

Overall very enjoyable!

pikachurian 2021-10-05 17:14

I really like this game. The animations, the bullet hell fps hybrid gameplay, the music, and the cute rock monster dog things. I like that stability system the game has, though at first I didn't know that you get knock out if you reach zero stability. The animations and art style is really good, though some of the play attack animations are a bit rough, it's understandable because this is a jam game. Though I don't the the music fits, it sounds amazing, did you compose it. The 3d bullet hell patterns for the boss are really creative. Even thought the game was short, it was really fun. The game is really balanced, so that it feels like I could lose, but it's not difficult to win. Unrelated, is a strategy to purposely get hit by the boss's bullets to lower your stability bar if it gets too high?

dob 2021-10-05 17:15

Very impressive visuals and peppy gameplay. I couldn't figure out what the business was with the stuff I was supposed to collect - was that the spiky crystals? I didn't seem to be able to interact with them.

stupidhobbit 2021-10-05 17:21

kinda hard

math-s 2021-10-05 17:24

Very fun and the graphics, particularly the colors, are just perfectly choosen.

jyzz 2021-10-05 17:41

I liked it ! I found myself fighting more with the mineral for the first try cos I didn't see we could drop some from him xD. Throwing cactus and ennemies when empowered was funny even though (or was it the unstable part?) i think their hitbox need some work cos it went through. But overall it was fun! enjoyed it!

rollcreators 2021-10-05 19:38

it is really fun! Good idea is hp = energy for shooting. Boss fight is very nice! Well done!

mythalore 2021-10-06 21:12

Loved bouncing around! Felt really satisfying with the missile impacts and being flung around the level. :)

random-ideation-studios 2021-10-16 07:23

Very good game!!!!!!!!!!!

ty-victorson 2021-10-18 04:11

Fun little game, I beat it pretty quick by just spamming my abilities but it was fun! Also nice work the music was great and the game felt really polished!

paullyaudet 2021-10-18 11:46

Why does I shoot cactus ? XD Alos haven't understand, I can't take dammages ? At first time I fought my mana was also a life bar but it appears that not at all. Or it's a bug ?

conduit 2021-10-18 13:38

Yo! This was super fun! A touch that I really enjoyed was the unique crosshair effect when dashing, a fantastic little detail. Movement was smooth and the physics of the long range spell was fun to play with. Very well polished as well, definitely one of the more just fun games I've played this jam <3

basset-romain 2021-10-18 20:52

Very Nice game, but why my health is constantly taking damage?

rhoka 2021-10-19 03:52

Good job! I know you tend to see a lot of similar games in LD but this was strangely similar to ours in concept. The art was very well done for what's there and I loved the rock dog monsters. It's not entirely clear that the top bar is the boss health and not your own at first. Also I'm not sure if the two different spells had different effects but I found myself mainly using just the fireball. The end of the fight was quite hard and chaotic but I made it through. It seemed like the boss fell apart but I had to fire one more shot at where it was and then I won the game? Anyway great job!

adnonymous5 2021-10-19 04:01

Impressive and whimsical! Cool art and responsive mechanics. Kudos!

zhennaperks 2021-10-19 04:02

I was tripped up by the blue bar being mana and health at the same time but once I realized I could break crystals it was a lot of fun! I feel bad attacking the cute dog golems, they're too good. I do wish there was a little more audio feedback for the death but really solid overall! Thank you for sharing.