epb9000 2021-10-03 23:29 ♥ 1

Linux build ran perfectly for me. Nice job. Trick-or-Treaters are hopped up on sugar. So fast hard to 'borrow' their candy sometimes. I did them a favor 'borrowing' the candy. Clearly, they had to much. Someone had to cut them off.

greenxenith 2021-10-05 03:46 ♥ 1

I really like the spooky synthwave-esque music. More variety in costumes would be cool.

gamebuilder 2021-10-05 22:48 ♥ 1

Short and sweet. The artwork is very good — I like especially the buildings in the background. You did a good job with sound as well. If you wanted to develop the game, you could add some variety to the trick-or-treaters and the flying critters. But this is just a suggestion. Overall, a solid entry.

lone-wolf 2021-10-05 22:56 ♥ 1

@gamebuilder @greenxenith @gamebuilder thanks for playing!

More costumes were planned, didn't get the time though. As to more flying enemies: I think it'd be neat to bring in the attack helicopters from the first game.

I probably won't do all that for this game though. I think I'm going to combine the series into one big official game when I get the time. Using LD to scout out more directions I can take the Aliens + Halloween idea

thesedatedprince 2021-10-05 23:17 ♥ 1

A very fun game - really like the art style and the music. Challenging, without being frustrating. Overall, really enjoyed playing it :)

devparty 2021-10-05 23:21 ♥ 1

Nice game! It was really fun! It would work really well for a full release on mobile, I think you could make bank of of this. 8/10 nice game.

laurenceogden 2021-10-05 23:35 ♥ 1

Liked the game, liked the difficulty escalation, really liked the city and buildings in the background. As a next step I would vary up the obstacles so they're not only birds and they would behave differently.

Gave you a high humor score for the way birds would spiral off after hitting your ship. Hope that was meant to be funny.

lone-wolf 2021-10-06 18:43 ♥ 0

@thesedatedprince @devparty @laurenceogden Thanks for playing!

The bird spinning was intentional, like a few other weird things :P

If you manage to follow a bird after hitting it you should see it straighten out and continue as normal.

mateusboga 2021-10-07 14:59 ♥ 1

Interesting take on the theme! I like the mechanics and the implementation is flawless. Just wish the game itself was longer though/had more levels. Overall, nice job!

nyxkn 2021-10-08 14:12 ♥ 1

Cute! Very short but controls and gameplay felt quite nice.

montazhnikus 2021-10-08 19:19 ♥ 1

The only game on this jam, which I still could go to the end) Stop, it was a little difficulty ???

lone-wolf 2021-10-08 22:10 ♥ 1

@mateusboga @nyxkn thanks for playing!

@montazhnikus I'm not sure what you mean. Is it too easy or too difficult? I added a difficulty slider but wasn't able to balance it enough before the compo time was up.

rubenwardy 2021-10-11 19:11 ♥ 1

Well done, this was pretty fun. I liked the difficulty slider

honey-pony 2021-10-12 00:22 ♥ 1

I think that the multitasking involved in this game is pretty neat. You have to both track the trick-or-treaters and avoid the birds, which requires sort of paying attention to your peripheral vision. It's a pretty straightforward combination but I think it's effective--either task on its own is pretty easy, but doing both at once makes things much more complicated.

The different difficulty levels definitely have fun names. I did eventually manage to beat the hardest difficulty.

One thing I liked is I'm pretty sure I saw two birds collide at one point and fall down. Those kinds of interactions between mechanics are always fun to see.

I had to go back and play Trick or Retreat again as I couldn't really remember it's story. I wonder if the aliens in both games are related or unrelated. If unrelated, the Trick or Retreat alien may find themselves in an unfamiliar UFO after this game, it seems. 😄

jk5000 2021-10-12 08:31 ♥ 1

A bit difficult, but else a fun little game.

yopox 2021-10-12 08:55 ♥ 1

Nice entry! The beam has a nice implementation and difficulty options are a great thing to have.

lone-wolf 2021-10-15 21:47 ♥ 1

@rubenwardy @honey-pony @yopox thanks for playing!

> One thing I liked is I’m pretty sure I saw two birds collide at one point and fall down. Those kinds of interactions between mechanics are always fun to see.

If you win below a bird you will kidnap it on your way to space too :P

@jk5000 I added a difficulty slider, was the lowest difficulty still too hard? How would I improve it next time?

loveapplegames 2021-10-16 16:42 ♥ 1

Cute game! Nice retro look. Locking on to the candy is kind of frustrating. Maybe a different control scheme would make it easier, for example, moving using the mouse, enabling other parts of the game to be more difficult.

jk5000 2021-10-23 12:59 ♥ 1

I don't know if you read this now, but I have given your game another chance. I did not see the difficulty slider the first time I played the game, and I so it now and I will say it worked okay. I will also say that the difficulty levels was named a bit weirdly and I did not really knew what was hard and what was easy.