phase

matt-swieboda 2022-10-03 23:00

my high score so far `1675`

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:D

there are definitely some bugs, and things we intended to fix such as - not always spawning 2 more carriers when one dies) - carrier can float over asteroids and through star bases - bumping is hard to avoid, can cause unknown damage - show player health, or enemy health percentages/indicators

but fairly playable so far. Let us know what we could have improved, given the time restraints.

we also fully intended on a starry, galaxy background, with a nebula, but I didn't have time to throw those in there unfortunately

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coolgunxdd 2022-10-03 23:26

Yes, the game is a lot bit buggy. Typical Game Jam Game don't expect to much. The game itself is awesome, and you can further improve the game base on 10s. Good work

matt-swieboda 2022-10-03 23:36

Thanks @coolgunxdd any specific bugs that were particularly bothersome?

coda-highland 2022-10-04 02:44

Hey, another space shooter!

Pretty solid. Would be fun with twin-stick controls, I think.

matt-swieboda 2022-10-04 02:49

totally agreed joysticks would be great! If I continue with it, I'll shoot for that

gamejmunk 2022-10-04 05:24

It's cool to see people using less popular frameworks like SFML. But.. no linux compile? :'(

fudgeawsome 2022-10-04 06:03

pretty nice space shooter game, fixing the bugs are definitely an area of improvement

eugenik 2022-10-04 13:06

Very fun! Nice job!.

nottahipster98 2022-10-04 22:17

The art assets were clean and fun to watch. GG!

raphiell 2022-10-04 23:17

Sweet little shooter. I blasted through the asteroids and found a bunch of orange ships sitting around and 2 more starbases. Curious!

Well done!

matt-swieboda 2022-10-05 15:21

@gamejmunk I probably should have kicked off linux builds, sorry about that. maybe if I get some time tonight

matt-swieboda 2022-10-05 15:23

@raphiell those are blockade ships that will auto fire enemies, if they make it to the 3rd base, as a last ditch defense. (Try having your first 2 star bases get destroyed)

core-foliant 2022-10-06 13:49

So interesting gameplay) Good job)!

sh4dup 2022-10-08 06:25

Hey overall a really good space shooter game, loved the art style. if we ignore the bugs it addictive

simplepotential 2022-10-13 21:05

Nice shooter, might need a bit of polish but overall fun to play. Nice job

macaroni-dev 2022-10-21 01:46

Windows seems very sure that `phase.exe` is a Trojan and won't let me play it.

matt-swieboda 2022-10-26 20:00

@macaroni-dev yes, sorry about that! It's a simple .exe I compiled in C# that calls a script using `system("phase.o")` and because of that it probably gets flagged as a virus, since it's so generic and broad. For now it was the only way I knew to make it an `.exe` run the compiled crystal program. Alternatively I could have had a batch file (`.bat`) that ran it instead. Next time around, I'll find a way to make an exe more friendly to windows anti-virus stuff.

Apologies for that, you'd have to allow it to run, or disable anti-virus.