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Harbinger's Harvest

By mad-brokli

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall3033.6222
Fun2133.6923
Innovation7672.4522
Theme7992.4223
Graphics3243.8123
Audio1093.8323
Humor4862.6821
Mood4853.3222

Comments

alpharock6 2023-01-09 21:34

Impressive scope for a gamejam! I was especially surprised to hear a fully VA'd intro. With a bit more SFX and juice mixed in on the bullets it would read pretty similar to some Vlambeer games, nice entry!

scolondev 2023-01-09 22:02

I got a score of 2077, your use of the theme is more of a story/general thematics one than that integral to the game mechanics. Your game seems to be a basic shooter survival game other than that. Not bad! In terms of the gameplay, the controls feel a little slippery and that makes it very hard to dodge the large arrays for bullets. Improvements to the movement mechanics should make it a lot easier (and funner) to play! Overall, good game :)

theghostoftommy 2023-01-10 04:27

Amazing job, Reminded me a bit of Brotato. Really liked the sounds and music you managed to get done, but I would really like to see it with some SFX in the arena.

fusionnist 2023-01-10 18:07

Victory! Very cool game. Good efforts on the cinematic elements too :)

zluca 2023-01-10 18:33

Cool game. Nice graphics and a catchy soundtrack. Could use some more player feedback and soundeffects, but its of to a great start. I didn't know the machine gun runs empty and died to like 20 slimes :joy: The bossfight was also quite good. Good job :thumbsup:

asahi 2023-01-11 15:08

Love the game, especially the audio. Got victory after trying three times. Have to say I enjoy it!

papaya 2023-01-11 15:29

The gameplay is solid! I also like the art style and the music of the game! I wish there are some sound effects to complement the action! Overall well done!

mad-brokli 2023-01-11 16:54

Thanks for all the feedback guys! We're working on adding sound effects and more player feedback, we just didn't manage in time. The next patch should solve that, together with ironing out some minor bugs :D

chompdev 2023-01-11 22:22

Cool music and gameplay, and you even had a second music track for the game over menu! The shooting is pretty fun, and you've got a nice variety of weapons here. Good variety of enemy sprites, too. If you add more features later, it'd be cool to have enemies only fire when they're on-screen, and differentiate the enemy attack patterns and movement styles even more. Lots of great work here for a short jam, wow!

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mad-brokli 2023-01-11 22:53

@chompdev thanks chomp! :) Unfortunately since the map is so large, you'd rarely have enough units within the screen to fire at you, so we went with the decision of giving them more range, otherwise we'd lose out on the bulletstorm aspect :(. We're planning to add some new enemy patterns in the next couple of patches, which will include some other changes based on player feedback :)

mad-brokli 2023-01-11 22:54

@papaya We're working on adding more sounds since we've got all of the audio files ready :) They should be included in the next few patches.

mad-brokli 2023-01-11 22:54

@asahi That's awesome! We're still trying to find the right sweetspot in terms of difficulty! Quite difficult to balance it :)

mad-brokli 2023-01-11 22:54

@zluca We're adding a ton in the next few patches! :D

stone-pacifier 2023-01-12 00:57

Difficult (as I'm not used to this kind of game) but fun. Well made all around. Atmosphere is great.

mad-brokli 2023-01-12 03:52

@stone-pacifier Cheers, it's hard to strike a difficulty balance for people that are new to the bulletstorm genre since it can get quite overwhelming, though we're preparing a small patch to make it somewhat easier :)

dzejpi 2023-01-12 06:12

Love bullet hell types of games. I think the huge improvement for the enemies would be a knockback effect - I can see I am killing them, but I don't feel it. And the movement is kind of "floaty", so it makes it kinda hard to dodge projectiles. Otherwise, I had a lot of fun, the music is nice, and I think you did a great job here!

harmadillo 2023-01-12 20:15

I'm terrible at these games, but it was fun. Especially liked the graphics for the main character and the intro. Needed more mini-gun.

rickylee 2023-01-12 23:34

Fun game! ^^ The intro reminded me of that old flash game "Mastermind World Conqueror" haha

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chase-of-bass 2023-01-15 23:07

this was a really fun top down shooter! the harvest / closing in border was cool -really fun and like most good bullet hells it was intense but had a good flow for bullet dodging and keeping the action intense -awesome work!!

sheng-mai 2023-01-20 07:59

A very hardcore shooter with great sound and graphics. The map is too big and I often don't know where the bullets will come from to hit me, which makes me die quickly. Looking forward to doing more content in the future!

rustynoob 2023-01-20 14:25

I found it rather difficult but this is not my genera. I liked the music and the art. overall a fun little game and I really enjoyed playing it