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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 54 | Limited Space | Homework Havoc | jam | 798 | 3.32 | 2.88 | 3.70 | 3.94 | 3.35 | 3.50 | 3.35 | 3.64 |
Really cool art and I really liked how the scenes were an actual play with props and the curtain draw when switching scene! I didn't really find the culprit though, the mystery didn't click for me.
Congrats on submitting!
You were seved! Mission failed! I win, but I still lose in the end lol. I found it so hilarious that I decided to replay the game, and that's when I understood the game was broken. The big issue with the game is that it's luck based. You win only if a bunch of heavy items spawn (fire extinguisher). If only sandwiches spawned, you are basically screwed, and no matter how well you play you still lose.
If you can take one lesson from making this game, it should be that you should be careful how you implement randomness in a game. I'd advice watching this video from GMTK.
https://youtu.be/dwI5b-wRLic?si=2IcKG1Ad0pSR-Qjl
Congrats on submitting. Hope I didn't come off too mean!
it's kinda disturbing when you think about how this is probably what you hear when you're getting bombed. Be careful though, you should prob have a warning for loud volume or a volume knob for turning it down, it really broke my ears when is started ringing
Congrats on submitting!
Going into this I was wondering what kind of shovelware I was about to play, and then I instantly loved the game. The feel of running around and shooting the enemies felt great, music was going hard, and the crabs snapping their claws at me had me going.
The idea of making a game where the play space reduces was one of my first ideas, glad someone managed to make it work.
A little tip to improve the feel of the game further would be to buffer the shoot input. Since you have to click on time with the recovery, you sometimes press a bit too early, so buffering the input a tiny bit (maybe 100ms) would make you shoot anyway even if you clicked too early.
My first try I scored 50200!
Awesome art and animation work! There was nice enemy and weapon variety! Boss was also pretty cool, but he got destroyed by my poisoned blade. It's just annoying how I was forced to switch out one of my weapons, but if I got rid of a potion, I couldn't drink it. I also think the difficulty was a bit random. Once I got good cards, nothing could stop me.
Well done on submitting!
@hasty glad you enjoyed it! I was also dreading the fact my game was going to turn people away because it's about "completing your homework", but I'm happy to hear you had a good time!
@recher hehehe! The keyboard space was intended and I'm glad to see my gameplay vision was realized! Also, about the dates, I ordered them to be in the same order as the book, a bit like if it was teacher covering each chapter over a few classes, but I guess I should have made it more clear by giving an explicit title to each note.
Thanks for playing!