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Blade Gunner 2022

By nohac and hansj

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3973.6832
Fun2943.7031
Innovation10132.8131
Theme3913.8631
Graphics1544.2531
Audio1773.8530
Humor7332.5423
Mood2773.7628

Comments

zakroutil 2022-10-04 10:53

Cool game, feels nice to play and looks and sound great! I would like to have the option to choose from several abilities instead of just receiving one and rerolling. Overall fun game, good work!

kesha 2022-10-04 10:59

excellent game!! what engine did you use? 5 stars!

hansj 2022-10-04 11:27

@Kesha Thank you! We used Godot!

milq 2022-10-04 11:33

I love top down shooter games and this one with power-ups even better. Great game!

jungle 2022-10-04 11:33

Excellent entry! Graphics are awesome and it is very fun to play. Congrats

astoeth 2022-10-04 11:40

Really fun to play and well polished ! But the performances degraded a lot over time on my side so i couldn't go really far without a very laggy game (Web version on Edge). Still a really pleasant experience until the point it's no longer playable !

chromaphase 2022-10-04 11:41

Good atmosphere and graphics ! Could have add more of the theme into it maybe? ;)

k3y 2022-10-04 11:41

Really cool game, love the art

hansj 2022-10-04 11:46

@Astoeth You might have gotten unlucky, we posted a performance patch right before your comment. THanks for playing thought!!

@chromaphase Thank you! Yes... always the hardest part!

@k3y Thank you!!

chaikadev 2022-10-04 11:48

Your game has really nice production value! It was fun to play. I agree with Zakroutil about being able to choose from several abilities instead of just one. I would have liked a keyboard shortcut to continue or at least a bigger button (so it's easier to click) so I can get back to the action faster. I thought the gameplay pausing every 10 seconds was annoying.

Nice work!

hansj 2022-10-04 11:56

@chaikadev Thats really good feedback with the keyboard shortcuts, we tested mostly with a gamepad so that the mousekeys and enter button doesnt work for the menu isnt great! Thanks for pointing it out!

rezioz 2022-10-04 12:03

Cool one ! Very addictive gameplay. Sadly enough, I'm starting to experience serious lags by level 15 or so...

shmador 2022-10-04 12:14

Roll was very satisfying to dodge enemies attacks, Had fun :)

phillip-scott 2022-10-04 12:46

Good job on this one - I liked the aesthetics and shmups are always fun. The money could have had a bigger collection zone as picking it up was a little painful. Also the money felt a little useless as the upgrades were all great - maybe could have made the enemy upgrades better and money used to skip the enemy upgrades?

Hit a performance issue when I moved in the the area to the right and the game became unplayable.

ofiro 2022-10-04 13:06

The look and feel are impressive even before considering you only had 3 days for them :)

I feel the upgrade stop broke the flow a bit. Maybe the upgrades could be integrated into the gameplay in such a way that doesn't stop it? Suppose you get a different power every 10 seconds, and to keep it you can use the money.

I destroyed the right barrier and enemies swarmed in. The performance took a hit at that time.

gonzalol 2022-10-04 13:15

I can't believe how amazing this art looks, congratulations. The controls are smooth and it's fun to play. Very high score for this one.

phoenixofforce 2022-10-04 14:34

The game got a bit laggy when the enemies swarmed in. Other than that the game is really good. Nice entry :)

msplanlos 2022-10-04 14:43

Controls smooth as butter and such a nice artstyle! (:

dod108 2022-10-04 14:59

Cool game, fun to play and nice graphics. Increasing max HP seems to be useless, since I didn't see any powerup regenerating HP. Icons informing about previous powerups are messy, it would be better to list the stats somewhere or sth like that. Reroll could apply to enemy powerups too or you could pick from 2-3 random player/enemy upgrades instead. Spawning could involve some animation or something, it would make it more fair imo.

puhan 2022-10-04 16:05

The web version game gets laggy when player attack speed and bullet quantity increases, and reroll sometimes doesn't change the result. Graphically intriguing but as a classic arena shooter, it needs more polish in the gameplay experience.

hansj 2022-10-04 16:07

@rezios Thank you!! Will look into the lags, thanks for reporting!

@shmador Thank you for playing!

@phillip-scott Thank you for all the feedback! And the performance needs some tweaking!

@ofiro Thank you! Yeah, true, it's a bit forced. And performance could be better...

@gonzalol Aw, you are too kind, thank you!

@phoenixofforce Yeah, performance is a thing we have to fix.

@msplanlos Tusen takk!!

@dod108 Thank you, and thanks for all the constructive feedback! The HP powerups are scattered all over the map, maybe you were just unlucky and didnt get that one.

The previous passive cards are a mess, just a time thing.

deniz-aras 2022-10-04 17:13

Nice Game however it got performance issues. On other lanes enemies keep spawning even when we don't have any access to that part of the game. I played till left laser gate was down and there were more than 40/50 enemies at once. That is what decrease the performance. You should check your enemy spawning and bullets. Probably bullets have the same issue. They may not be destroyed out side of layout.

Love the sound and art but that performance issue was a big one. Hope you fix it soon. (I played on itch.io - HTML5)

dileriuml 2022-10-04 17:28

This is so cool! I enjoyed every second of gameplay! Thank you for this nice game!

hagamosvideojuegos 2022-10-04 18:35

I like the aesthetics, the music and have a good control.

Well done!

quoc 2022-10-04 18:46

Really cool game, web worked fine for me :D

clement-dupont 2022-10-04 19:39

Nice game, movements are great and i love the aesthetics and the music of the game.

kuviman 2022-10-05 10:58

TOO EZ. only died because of FPS issues. Fix your game

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cavejohnson332 2022-10-05 17:50

Cool game, solid experience, loved it!)

savolae 2022-10-05 21:34

Very nice, I like how both you and the enemies get more powerful at the same time! Got to level 52 but at that point I had so many bullets and attack speed that the game started to lag :smile: Had a lot of fun though!

arzi 2022-10-07 20:51

Hey Itch.io LD page neighbour :laughing:

Really cool cyberpunk aesthetic and the game was fun too! On my second run I mostly got more speed and more spawns so things got pretty hectic pretty fast!

badcop 2022-10-09 09:43

Thanks for linking this on stream! [Here's a link to the VOD](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1619345236?t=2h12m00s)