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Bombastisch

By stealthorc and shiirroo

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall10132.9832
Fun8613.0532
Innovation10552.5432
Theme6873.4632
Graphics9162.7832
Audio6922.1925
Humor5802.8529
Mood9602.8829

Comments

riesyeti 2023-10-03 10:29

I love Vampire Survivors so I love this game too! The bombs with the destructible floor make it challenging and fun, the Timer gives you a reason to play again to get further. The graphics are cute!

The projectiles you fire could've been a bit faster I feel. Audio is missing I think (?) but I don't think it's a big deal honestly, fun game

metagen 2023-10-03 11:16

Not Bad! Cute Graphics and theme implement are great but the character only shoot left and right and it makes the game harder than I thought.

stealthorc 2023-10-03 12:08

@riesyeti thank you for your feedback! Yes the sound is missing sadly, I would've loved to add some music and sfx, but we could not get to it in time! :c I hope you had a fun time even though!

stealthorc 2023-10-03 12:10

@metagen Yeah, right? We wanted to chase the somewhat clunky feeling that vampire survivors has with its attack animations, so we left it at left and right. At a future revision I would've considered beingable to shoot in more directions, but it is what it is for now! Thank you for your feedback!

afra-gerami 2023-10-03 12:16

Graphics are simple yet really funny and have good mood. I also really like the name of your game. Good job!

mindhijacker 2023-10-03 14:04

You need a key to hold down shooting direction like holocure and also kinda lacking music really hurt the game so bad. Gameplay wise, you have done great, you have objective but kinda forgot the gameplay loop. I had to close and reopen the game. I hope you guys can do better next time or ask for someone with music taste to make music for you. I am very happy to see a decent working game. tldr, I have 3 disappointments: the loop(I did my game alone from java IDE and have proper loop), music(I made my own), control(if you want to copy or learn something, gotta do the whole package)

n-feofentov 2023-10-03 14:08

I love the idea of destructible level in the game where movement is an essential mechanic. Though, I expected that my projectiles would fire in enemies' direction so my runs were kinda short :slight_smile:

stealthorc 2023-10-03 14:20

@mindhijacker thank you very much for the feedback! Yes I now also feel that a 360 ish shooting direction might've been better, but due to the inspiration from vampire survivors.. and lack of time, we didnt implement it. We also had more ideas for units, upgrades, auras, but werent able to implement them sadly.. Oh and yes, I wouldve loved to make music for it if we had the time for it. Or any sfx really.. it would pop way more and make it a lot more polished!

its-capp 2023-10-03 16:01

The game was rather barren, besides the pixel art (which was pretty good), the lack of music really drags this game down as well as if you press spacebar too many times the player can no longer fire projectiles :(

stealthorc 2023-10-03 16:11

@its-capp thank you for your feedback.. yeah I sat way too long on those sprites, which many of which we couldnt even use since the system weren't ready for it... quite went out of our scope I feel.. I would've loved to add sfx and music especially for this game! :c Thank you though.. we might revise this game again and then I will add some sfx and music, I hope!

foreyes 2023-10-04 00:59

Feel sad that I can only automatically shoot the front :sob: And it will not prevent me from moving into the destroyed tile.

I think the core of vampire-survivors-like is the experience ball and level-ups, not the automatically attacking. Maybe you can try vampire-survivors-like while using top-down shooting controller. :smiley:

greenpig 2023-10-04 04:55

Love this inverse bullett hell type game, reminds me of Vampire Survivor and ive put a lot of time into that game so i killed a lot of time with this as you can imagine. Great game.

magic-mike 2023-10-04 13:32

When i pressed space it gave an incredible firerate. Love the animation, good art, nice idea. It really lacks of a gameover so that we can replay the game. Good job

fatemperor 2023-10-04 15:49

It looks funny. I didn't figure out the controls and the purpose of the game.

dioinecail 2023-10-05 21:03

i wish you could jump over corners cuz if you locked yourself inside an enclosed space you're done for good :(

stealthorc 2023-10-05 21:14

@dioinecail Oh yeah we also feel this very hard! Any type of being able to cross those gaps is really hard right now. We're also looking for a solution on this one as we will further revise this game! Thank you for your feedback!

snorps 2023-10-05 23:46

Love the concept and character designs. The player's shooting animation is very fun. Not sure how well the vampire survivors style clunk goes with attacks that can kill you instantly though. Definitely a cool idea!

leviathonk 2023-10-06 00:03

I had a lot of fun with this game. The vampire survivors gameplay style is a lot of fun to play with, and I love to see more games making use of it. The grass texture was a little hard on the eyes, and the lack of sound was a little jarring. However, the level up system was great, and having enemies destroy the ground was a great use of the theme. Plus, the slime and enemy sprites are ADORABLE. Wonderful and cozy experience. Thank you for letting us play it!

matthewstott99 2023-10-07 11:51

Solid game, would have loved some audio since it felt a bit empty without it. It was also a little difficult to aim & move in diagonals across empty space which might be by design but perhaps having aim on mouse cursor and easier diagonal traversal would expand gameplay.

saralizzieb 2023-10-12 21:58

Fun game, solid concept! Very cute graphics as well

egormnc 2023-10-14 14:34

The game is interesting, it was quite nice to play it, keep working on it and everything will be cool