Trick Or Retreat 4

mateusboga 2026-10-20 12:11 ♥ 1

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I don't understand why I keep colliding with nothing, sometimes the ship just flops randomly. The idea is interesting, with a little more polish this could become one of those hectic bullet-hell style games. Right now it's pretty easy though, you can just hover on the sidewalk and grab people out of the way. The mechanics were a bit confusing too, I took a while to understand you're supposed to hold left click to steal their candy. I also didn't realize you're supposed to neuralize them or you lose score, but it didn't seem to matter too much either. Overall, this has potential!

justinmullin 2026-10-21 15:43 ♥ 1

Some cool stuff here. The motion of the saucer is very smooth, I enjoyed just flying around. It was fun to dodge cars and try to play fast. Unfortunately I kept dying randomly, and was never able to figure out why!

nephem 2026-10-21 16:00 ♥ 1

What a fun mix of parkour and mouse controls! Stealing people’s candy and then wiping their memories really cracked me up. It took me a little while to realize I needed to click and hold on pedestrians to steal candy rather than just click, so a quick tutorial explaining that would help. Overall, I absolutely loved it and had a great time!

lone-wolf 2026-10-21 16:02 ♥ 0

@mateusboga @justinmullin @Nephem Thanks for playing! The random ship flopping is the ship thrusters failing, which ties into my 'old spaceship' theme interpretation. Was it obvious that you have to spam-click the thruster button when that happens? I had hoped the flashing arrow over the button would be enough to indicate it but maybe I should have shown a '👆' icon over it instead

justinmullin 2026-10-21 16:32 ♥ 1

@lone-wolf ah, got it! The game plays a lot more coherently knowing to spam-click the thruster. Now that you mentioned it I can see the tool tip on that button, but it was not clear to me at all playing the game blind the first time that was the plan. Got a much better score the next time!

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the-fazzo 2026-10-21 17:06 ♥ 1

Nice game. Was difficult at first to understand the thrusters and memory eraser effects, and sometimes the spaceship was only moving to right or left. But overall its good 👌 Congrats for the entry!

lone-wolf 2026-10-21 21:57 ♥ 0

@the-fazzo Thanks for playing!

I just realized I had dark reader turned on when I edited the itch.io theme, sorry about that. I've made the theme much more readable now

mem0 2026-10-21 23:32 ♥ 0

Fun game! Stealing candy with a tractor beam and then wiping memories with a neuralyzer is a great idea, and the elephant crossing the road made me laugh. The thrusters were a bit confusing at first, and a short tutorial would help, but the concept is original and has a lot of charm. Nice work!

lone-wolf 2026-10-22 03:36 ♥ 0

> and the elephant crossing the road made me laugh.

That sentence is kind of the elephant in the room of your review: Screenshot of all the code I had to write to add elephants to the game, worth it

(I forgot to pay tribute to the great-theme-that-was-left-out, works nicely as a honeypot on my itch.io page though)

emaigualmc2-art 2026-10-22 03:53 ♥ 1

A very surreal idea xD; I can't quite see the connection to the game jam's theme. I found it rather difficult to figure out how to play at first, but after reading some comments, I managed to understand it. Otherwise, you did a great job in such a short amount of time, congratulations!

sheaksadi 2026-10-22 09:07 ♥ 1

WHY DONT I GET POINT FOR HTTING PEOPLE lol. The graphics remind me of old IGI games. so far pretty great. Also love the fact no one is scared seeing a flying socer on the streets

zyl 2026-10-22 14:49 ♥ 0

Haha great entry although I dont exactly see any old tech but fun nonethless.

daniel123 2026-10-22 15:44 ♥ 0

Interesting little game.

pinzari-dragos 2026-10-23 12:47 ♥ 0

nice game bro

rocktavious 2026-10-24 11:51 ♥ 0

We didn't understand what to do at first and then realized you need to click and hold the people to steal their candy. After that it was fun but its was kind of brutal that if you hit a car 1 time you basically lose.

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lone-wolf 2026-10-24 16:22 ♥ 0

@emaigualmc2-art @sheaksadi @daniel123 @pinzari-dragos @rocktavious Thanks for playing!

My play on the theme "old tech" is "tech that is old", I sadly didn't get enough time to fully flesh that out though (I had more tools and things that could fail planned). ..so the main occurrence of the theme is in the random thruster failing (accelerated by crashing into things), which you can fix pretty quickly by spam-clicking the thruster button.

I'm surprised you're finding that 1 car crash is basically an instant loss, unless I didn't make the need to spam-click to fix obvious enough? I can cause a pileup of 3-4 cars and still repair thrusters in time

serendibity-efreet 2026-10-25 17:39 ♥ 1

Hahahaha I guess I wasn't supposed to accelerate to top and crash into the cars.

michalbe 2026-10-26 14:28 ♥ 1

I had hard time understanding what am I supposed to do here, but after I got it, it became quite funny experience. Some colliding issues here and there, but nothing serious.

aweskybear 2026-10-26 20:32 ♥ 1

I don't know why but this is one of the cutest games I've seen in the jam so far ! ! Ha! It's just that navigating the flying saucer feels somehow relaxing. I liked grabbing people and taking their groceries (lol ?) but I did not really get the point of "erasing their memory"? :D Thanks for this sweet game! Music fits so well too.