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Predestination

By inanimatecarbonrod

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall6623.5522
Fun4213.6123
Innovation12372.6321
Theme13112.7823
Graphics7353.5923
Audio4163.5723
Humor7992.7619
Mood10223.1521

Comments

haastregt 2022-04-04 21:25

The controls feel fluent, and I really like the background art and soundtrack! Also, I really liked how the player got introduced to the controls.

I have to admit that I did not manage to get to the bullet hell part, maybe I was going the wrong way but there seemed to be an impossible jump.. (or maybe I am just kinda bad haha)

A small bit of constructive criticism would be to reduce the time to respawn, especially given how often you die haha

bdiaztobarra 2022-04-04 21:32

Love the idea of watching your corpse where he died before, yes you can guess, I died lots of times! I liked the music and the way it made me want to run faster and faster. I don't know why but after diying like 10 times the game started to bug, music started to have some delay (it can be my computer anyway). But generally I liked the experience! Good work!

j-fret 2022-04-05 01:23

Game was really fluid and controls felt tight! Was a bit confused as to how the theme tied into gameplay.

xmagpie42 2022-04-05 02:59

movement feels great however on gamepad change sprint to a trigger as its quite annoying to hold down the sprint button while trying to jump. Also please add a instant restart button as every time I died I had to waste a decent chunk of time staring at my corpse. Background art was excellent. Overall great fun just needs a little control remapping

marc-grabow 2022-04-05 09:31

Super meat boy! :clap: :clap: :clap:

save-sloth-studios 2022-04-05 09:41

A pretty simple but fun game! It's really hard on a keyboard, but that's on me I guess. It fits the theme very loosely though, or maybe I didn't understand something. Also really simplistic, but great music and art too!

stalemeat 2022-04-05 09:41

Nice entry! I really like how the wall jump felt. Defiantly better with a gamepad like you said. Nice work!

peter-ondus 2022-04-05 09:50

The platformer segment controlled quite well, the music was nice. Only thing is i have no clue when the double jump is available and when it's not. I assumed at one point I needed to do it after a wall jump to continue but I couldn't, so sadly didn't see the second part of the game. Also as magpie mentioned, holding down the x button most of the time felt a bit meh, maybe change it to autorun, X to not run?

andrewdt100 2022-04-05 22:11

You have most of the controls locked down really well. I found going down a bit clunky and slowed down gameplay but I do agree it's probably better played on a gamepad. I loved watching my corpse but I didn't like how long it took to restart. I wanted to get back to the gameplay quicker.

apphons6 2022-04-08 04:11

cool meatboy vibes, is there an impossible jump? movement feals good and free, nice art!

ty-victorson 2022-04-08 04:41

Game was pretty fun but I never got past the platformer part, I feel like you could remove the sprinting function and make it always one speed since you end up sprinting for almost the whole time anyway, as for the music it was great never got repetitive and fit well with the gameplay! Nice work!

stochastic 2022-04-08 13:39

This was fun :D Graphics work really well and controls feel nice. As said before, respawn time could be shorter and more instant. In these type of games it's fun to die a lot and learn from mistakes, so quick respawn is very nice to have. Other than that, great job! :1

seng 2022-04-11 07:04

Game reminded me of super meat boy. Platformers like this require good controls over anything. It's very hard to get it right but you did a great job and got very close. Midair control and double jump felt a little bit off. The respawn time was too long for this kind of game. Usually you die a lot and want to be back into action asap ~~instead of having time to contemplate your life choices~~. But other than that pretty good job. Graphics and Audio are really nice as well.

The bullet hell part was unexpected but cool. I died after a few waves. Is this endless or does it have an end? I felt like the movement was a little bit slow to react to all the bullets. Also maybe making the player/bullet hitbox smaller would probably make it feel slightly better when navigating through lots of bullets. Really liked the soundtrack in this part.

All in all great entry. Keep up the good work!

jzucc12 2022-04-11 13:12

Really cool game with nice design in both parts. Part 2 had a few bosses where I could not move and defeat them. It was really tough otherwise. Good job!

digitaldude555 2022-04-11 13:58

Wall jumping was a lot better than I feared it would be, love the little ghosts that pop up after you die spawned enough for a haunted house after a while, I would recommend resetting to checkpoint a lot faster after dying in a game with a lot of deaths. Good work.

jamie-slowgrove 2022-04-17 11:29

Nice game! The art and the audio worked well with the game and I thought the hint text was well done. I did have a bit of a problem with droping through first though as it wasn't clear that I needed to hold down and then jump (I spent a while just holding down or wall jumping up the wall to see if the fall would make be go through :sweat_smile:). Either way great work! :grin: