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The Holy Scanner

By teun-de-vries, bart_diepvries and Koos

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall4713.6853
Fun3353.6953
Innovation6543.2653
Theme8253.6453
Graphics5063.8153
Audio2293.8252
Humor424.2753
Mood3523.8052

Comments

beebster-games 2023-05-02 02:01

A very innovative try, well done. The graphics were interesting

leyamez 2023-05-02 02:18

Your about section made me laugh :laughing: 10/10 agree with what Robert ten Brink said.

poboy 2023-05-02 04:43

MY SWEET LOVEMAKING MACHINE OF A CHILD needs to see a surgeon, his poor legs.

Dialogue is great & full points for humor. One small gripe is it's easy to accidentally click on an upgrade, which I did several times. I hope Hermann gets recognition for his troubles.

yoran-den-heijer 2023-05-02 12:14

Very funny artstyle/player controller. Did not expect a spooky twist on this game. Bats are hard to hit lol. Nice music and sound effects.

moritz-b 2023-05-02 12:57

I love blasting away at the foul creatures that lurk in the dark (especially the bats!). The music is very fitting and thematic for the fast-paced, shooting-lasers-everywhere playstyle. Sometimes the menu opens while you're still firing and you purchase something random. I think there needs to be a short delay there. Personally I would have liked a more "pew" instead of "beep" for the scanner, but the sound is realistic. Great Game!

blueanoli 2023-05-02 15:01

This was so much fun! Great sense of humor!

obe-dot 2023-05-02 15:03

Interesting graphics

spacemyname 2023-05-02 16:19

Really interesting game! Like the art style.

benedict-ide 2023-05-02 17:12

Not half bad- there's not a lot to it, but the balance job was pretty tight. My first run I got screwed because I just ran past a lot of the bats, which meant they were still there when I had to run like hell away from the bosses, so there's a little thought you have to put into it. One issue was, like poboy said, it's easy to accidentally click on an upgrade when you level up, since the screen comes up instantly while you're probably in the middle of spamming click on a bunch of enemies.

darchankaen 2023-05-02 19:15

Oh, this was awesome! Art, music, idea, dat moving animation...very fun game!

fernofai 2023-05-02 20:11

Verily, mine eyes have witnessed a most amusing game! Though the bats did vex me sorely, striking me down a fair few times, until I did discover the rapid fire gun technique, which should surely earn me the employee of the month award. The sounds, and the music in particular, were most excellent, and the graphics as well.

ciderpunk 2023-05-02 21:58

omg those bats! it felt a little unfair how they'd all fly in at once after a cut scene... looks and sounds amazing top work!

bad-fetus 2023-05-02 22:48

Absolutely hilarious, best game I've played so far in this jam. I was laughing the whole time, well done!

crimoudin 2023-05-02 23:27

Very funny story. I loved the ending, but I was hoping that meant I got to play a second level and it just ended but I guess wanting another level is a good thing, right? I would like to be able to skip cutscenes quicker as I died a couple times and waiting was a pain.

eli-delventhal 2023-05-03 00:03

Nice! The derpy legs and the humor in general were hilarious. Loved that aspect, and the overall vibe. I think the actual gameplay left a bit to be desired for me – it seemed either very easy (kill stuff off screen) or I would suddenly be swarmed by bats and die. I wasn't sure what triggered which, but the bats for sure were tough to deal with once there were one or two. The moment I started getting hit that was it.

mkraw 2023-05-03 11:47

Hilarious game!

joao-marcello 2023-05-03 15:34

Your game is absolutely hilarious :smile: !

The music is pleasant and the graphics are great. The movement of the legs and the arms of the player made me laugh a lot haha.

The only problem was that your game don't support 1366x768 resolution and I can't read the dialogues. It's a shame, cause judging by the comments, they must have been pretty funny.

Overall, a nice entry! Good job!

teun-de-vries 2023-05-03 15:42

@joao-marcello that's weird, the windows build had some UI issues that force it to only be able to play 1920x1080, but in the web build that's fixed, 1366x768 runs fine on my computer

allosius 2023-05-03 16:03

Nice gameplay and works well, but lacks feedback on actions

teun-de-vries 2023-05-03 16:16

@moritz-b @poboy @benedict-ide Thanks for the feedback! I've added a html version that has a little delay before you can buy upgrades, hopefully that will fix the accidental upgrades

aloya 2023-05-03 16:20

Omg, that's so good!

sorreveloper 2023-05-03 16:38

Felt kinda strange the lasers fall for gravity, but a fun game to play! Great job!

adrieldf 2023-05-03 16:42

really good and fun entry for the jam! great job!

ardorugus 2023-05-03 17:06

Such an immersive pun! Cool char with charming face and animation. All fives! Loved the humor, man.

fachscahfttf 2023-05-03 17:53

This was hilarious. Loved the story and the humor. Was a bit too hard though :(

noskro 2023-05-03 18:51

Wow. Just wow. Did expect nothing. Got everything. The art is unique in that I never seen a game like that before. Hitboxes might be a bit strange sometime. But that is only so I can say something to improve :D Ah no. The title screen clearly shows a continuous laser. I wasnt infinite fire rate and not just small laser blips (and why are they affected by gravity??). Maybe I should have focused my level ups on fire rate. why didn't I do that... ok time to try one more time

metallicpotato 2023-05-03 19:00

absolutely hilarious, and I really liked the music!

coatline 2023-05-03 19:16

One of the best entries I've come across thus far! Everything about this game is charming. From the movement of the character, the scanning of the scanner, to the exquisite narrative it is entertaining throughout. The gameplay is decently engaging, I like the unique upgrades. Awesome game.

grizeldi 2023-05-03 19:44

I... am not quite sure what I just played :sweat_smile:

sebbot 2023-05-03 19:48

10/10. fantastic. best game in the jam. why the hell are the lasers physics enabled

silvio 2023-05-03 20:15

:bat:

cypheus 2023-05-04 00:41

Loved the art and music. This kind of quirky stuff is great to me, and it's well executed. A side-scrolling run & gun is a simple concept, so the feel is everything, and this game sells it well with the atmosphere. Still, there wasn't much depth to the strategy with there being no platforming and limited need for dodging, but overall it's a great game.

igor-minenko 2023-05-04 13:37

wow, such a funny game, I really like graphics and audio, good job!

jatinstic-gaming 2023-05-04 14:18

This is actually hilarious! Thank you for this.

velvetlobster 2023-05-04 14:32

I got myself laughing hard at this

the sound is really good but seems to be extra low for some reason (compared to others games I played)

neat cutscenes

the zoombies are really really hard to go through

oh man this IS hilarious

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momo-hunter 2023-05-04 15:05

What a great game, the art was perfect for it and the text of the god makes it so hilarious, had a great time with it. Well done and keep it going

wolfier 2023-05-04 17:27

This game is stupid and I love it.

Criticism, I was spamming clicking the mouse because I didn't realize I only needed to hold it and skipped like 3 level ups because of that.

big-cow 2023-05-04 17:58

I really loved the writing, art style and audio. the guy's physics-based animations as his legs dragged along are hilarious. I agree with @ciderpunk about the post-cutscene bat onslaught feeling unfair.

jasonsumm1 2023-05-04 21:39

Well this was different! Amazing art! Pretty random! Nice job :D