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b-Blaster

By velaachlorine

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall454.0024
Fun583.9523
Innovation4412.8523
Theme2353.6623
Graphics294.2524
Audio503.9023
Humor1793.0521
Mood3103.1320

Comments

badmuchachob 2021-10-04 00:08

Really unique game, nice work! Love the graphics.

robert18 2021-10-04 00:19

Graphics are great, the main menu alone impressed me. Fun game!

ethanzech 2021-10-04 01:07

Got top high score of 1016. Game was solid, the graphics were unique, and the sound design was amazing. Really liked the sound Small complaints are that once you get to a score of ~1000 it seems to be almost impossible to surpass it because the particle ejects its mass really quickly. Also I think the screen clear would have been better if it worked when you clicked it or pressed a button, because I pretty much only ever triggered it by accident. Very solid and polished for 48 hours.

velaachlorine 2021-10-04 03:24

@ethanzech somehow i did not consider making the screen clear a hotkey until you mentioned that, and also yea after ~1000 points jitterclick stamina and ample use of the screen clear becomes the main way to survive, and it becomes hard to manage really quickly; i had already spent way too much time tinkering with the balance though so i just left it like that lol

reccy 2021-10-04 09:39

This is awesome! I got to 1052 points. Gameplay was a lot of fun, it definitely becomes a lot harder to survive past 1000 points. The BGM, SFX and Graphics were also great and the game overall is really well polished. Good entry, nice work!

silkworm-sweatshop 2021-10-04 17:26

Superfun! Really like the sound design of everything, really juicy but so is most of the game.

ildfuglen 2021-10-04 18:30

I love the graphics in your game! The controls feel really smooth, and overall this is a really polished entry. Very simple game mechanics, but it kept me focused for quite some time.

korolles 2021-10-04 19:39

Nice game, but I would change the music on the menu.

javicoder 2021-10-04 23:38

that has been intense! Very good game feel and design. Cool.

stanroy 2021-10-05 00:42

Really cool game!

xyterix 2021-10-05 00:42

Simple gameplay but very fun and focused! I liked the magnet effect.

vimlark 2021-10-05 00:42

Super fun faced paced twin stick. The art is adorable!

jega-studio 2021-10-05 00:47

Awesome game! Loved the visuals

honey-pony 2021-10-05 03:25

This is a pretty cool game. I do think the gameplay curve is worth commenting on, as it has a couple strange features.

In particular, I've seen a couple people say that 1000 was when things got hard. But this was not my experience. For me, things got really hard around 700, and progress became really slow. A lot of the enemies I was killing were dropping hearts instead of protons as I kept taking damage, so it took quite a while to get to 1000 points. But then, once I reached 1000 points, the game suddenly became much easier. I think this is because a bunch of new enemies were spawning in, so I could build up mass much more quickly, and getting more common heart drops was a good thing too. I ended up with a score of 1626.

I think the way that the electron-spawning mechanic works is really interesting. It essentially ties your score directly to the difficulty of the game--increasing the score means, necessarily, increasing the difficulty. I think this mechanic in arcade games does usually exist, but is usually not so explicit. It's an interesting choice to make it more explicit.

I found that the clear screen mechanic is something I never used on purpose, but did use by accident sometimes.

One small thing I really like is the buttons on the menus. They are very good.

Overall I think this game is pretty good. It was fun to play and the graphics and especially the sounds are very good.

3mpty 2021-10-05 05:13

I love the designs of all the characters, the art is great and the sound is awesome and most important the game is really fun! It's a well made and polished twinstick shooter with an interesting twist and everything is executed well, outstanding compo game!

joshuarabbit 2021-10-06 10:14

I love the sound effect and it makes the whole game lively!

ekaterina 2021-10-06 13:46

А very enjoyable game, fun and enjoyable to play. I liked the animations and character designs, it makes a very good impression.

Most often, you hit the exclamation mark by accident, it would be better to put it on a separate button on the keyboard.Otherwise great work!

rollcreators 2021-10-06 18:23

Nice fun game!) I undrestand terms in this game) It is fun because the core loop is physcal process)

bobi505 2021-10-06 19:19

Very simple, BUT very addictive game!)) Good job))