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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 55 | Summoning | RAT CHEESERS | compo | 151 | 3.57 | 3.73 | 3.57 | 3.77 | 3.52 | 3.65 | 3.75 | 4.13 | |
| 2023 | 53 | Delivery | The Nearsighted Mailman | compo | 122 | 3.75 | 3.83 | 4.11 | 3.69 | 3.94 | 3.47 | 4.11 | 3.83 | |
| 2021 | 49 | Unstable | 👥 | God Engine | jam | 927 | 3.39 | 3.35 | 3.71 | 3.25 | 3.53 | 3.50 | 2.29 | 4.03 |
| 2021 | 48 | Deeper and deeper | Well Darn | compo | 3.25 | 2.18 | 3.41 | 3.58 | 4.00 | 4.81 | 1.43 | 4.54 | ||
| 2019 | 45 | Start with nothing | Apartment Furnisher | compo | 338 | 3.21 | 2.78 | 3.50 | 3.88 | 3.17 | 3.12 | 2.52 | 3.35 | |
| 2018 | 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres | Arachnovoid | compo | 168 | 3.66 | 3.73 | 3.92 | 3.57 | 3.69 | 3.55 | 3.00 | 3.90 | |
| 2017 | 39 | Running out of Power | Wrong Slumber | compo | 253 | 3.43 | 3.43 | 3.26 | 3.65 | 3.60 | 2.63 | 3.35 | 3.72 |
I thought the player graphic and the environments looked really really good. I wasn't a huge fan of the 3d lighting in combination with the 2d sprites, I think it detracted from how good the sprites were. Fun bow mechanics.
Really enjoyed the art - the environment looks fantastic. I wish that it told you the basics before you could potentially die but once I learned you can just hold still to read it it's fine. The UI unfortunately detracts a bit from the quality of the other assets, but understandable for a 48 hour game.
I wish the camera were a little closer to the player character. It seems like I'm looking behind myself more than in front of myself.
Overall a nice gameplay mechanic and the hit detection seems precise for the most part but I had a few instances of not being sure why I died one time and lived another time - a closer camera would help in the narrower areas.
For me the desert rocks aesthetic really shines though so great job on the look.
Really polished on all fronts for such a short time. Fun gameplay too. On my client the cursor was just a black box which was really hard to see in dark parts of the screen though. Not sure if it was bugged or if there just wasn't time to make a graphic. Normal mouse cursor would have been nicer. Great job though.
Thanks for the feedback guys and particularly about the Mac and Linux builds. There is indeed audio. And I've run into that problem with Mac builds before. I'm not sure how to fix them, and the game was built on Windows and intended for Windows.
I will try to see what I can do about those other platform issues in future games.
Thanks guys!
I can try a WebGL build and I can try the Mac Store Validation. Thanks.
What do you mean by higher aiming speeds? Did you adjust the sensitivity?
EDIT: I've added a WebGL version that seems to have some minor issues. Please play the Windows download if you can! WebGL should work fine to check out the game though.
Thanks for the feedback.
Unfortunately there are some issues with the spawn system as I wasn't able to balance it great in the time allotted. There is actually one wave sort of mid-way into the game that is straight bugged - they all spawn right on top of each other instead of spread out across the play area - and I wasn't able to fix it in time either.
Thanks for playing!
Simple and fun. For some reason I got confused really easily, not a negative but difficult game!
Nice humor and I love the punching animation and the enemies flying away when they die.
cool little game. I think it would be awesome if you had to "run away" from certain sounds, or run towards them, in order to win or lose.
great mood!
I love the graphics!! Cool game
@arcolm rats and summoning just go together, y'know? loved your game btw!
@sirjupitron thank you for the kind words!!!! i don't really use twitter
@theyflower glad you got it sorted. I wonder what was causing the black screen... it has worked for me on both windows and mac. wonder if it an OS thing?
Fantastic presentation and a great game with a very approachable concept yet it is still difficult! It rules!
The art is fantastic and the searchlight mechanic is very cool!
Hey I love your game!! Total Loom vibes with the instrument. Great visuals!
this shit rules
i love this one. its a really cool idea and i could see some interesting gameplay with bouncing your player off the wall and stuff - i almost hit the puck twice by having the player bounce off the puck, then off the wall, and back towards the puck in one stroke.
its pretty easy that you can just click exactly where you want to send your character - the distance display in a small radius around your selected player doesnt even matter because you can see your mouse cursor - if you understand how to aim pool or billiards shots you can just click exactly in the right spot every time.
really cool game though
@benbusby that's a great solution, wish i had thought of it! i spent a few hours trying to make a smart camera system and couldn't come up with anything effective.
really hard but i think its fun to keep retrying despite its difficulty. i like the stripe world and some of the story descriptions are funny. the writing needs a little editing though
the idea is actually pretty cool. warioware/infinite runner.
the game gave me a math question and none of the doors were the right answer so i just died. not sure if there was a joke or trick answer i missed but it felt like it was a randomly generated question that didnt generate a correct answer.
critical thoughts: you shouldn't lose health in the first room where it explains the controls and how to tweak the settings
movement feels weird. partially because it feels like i'm moving on a fixedupdate which runs at a slower rate than the game itself, so everything kind of skips around. you could decrease the physics timestep to make the physics updates happen more often or figure out a way to have movement be in update. good movement however is probably hard to make in 48 hours
@ORECROS I've done the same thing in unity - its a really obvious disconnect between smooth movement of the camera and jerkiness of player movement, because the game runs at a much higher framerate than the physics timestep - by default the timestep is .02 i believe - which means the fixed updates happen at 50 frames per second, compared to the 200+ of the game itself. What I've done on simple games is just decrease the timestep so the fixed updates happen more frequently, but I haven't done anything of significant enough scale to have that adversely affect game performance which it surely will at some point.
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i like the idea and presentation but it's hard to really move enough to hit all the notes if you can only move on the offbeat. maybe you could have had eighth note high hats going the whole time that you could move to the beat of.