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| Year | LD | Theme | Game | Division | Rank | Ov | Fu | In | Th | Gr | Au | Hu | Mo | Co | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 35 | Shapeshift | Shape Shifter | compo | 733 | 2.88 | 3.00 | 2.96 | 3.24 | 2.92 | 2.79 | 3.68 | 100 | ||
| 2015 | 34 | Two Button Controls / Growing | Tri-Fission | compo | 202 | 3.62 | 3.57 | 4.17 | 3.86 | 2.79 | 2.63 | 2.48 | 3.00 | 82 | |
| 2015 | 33 | You are the Monster | Elegy of the Night | jam | 638 | 3.08 | 2.78 | 2.89 | 3.66 | 3.02 | 3.30 | 100 | |||
| 2015 | 32 | An Unconventional Weapon | Deadly Attraction | jam | 298 | 3.47 | 3.33 | 3.44 | 3.76 | 3.25 | 3.14 | 100 |
A straightforward Touhou clone, which makes it derivatively enjoyable.
The bronze, silver, and gold pickups are a bit hard to distinguish from some enemy bullets; and some white bullets kind of blend with the background.
Quite fun, though it took a while to realize that the guards' visibility depends on your field of vision (thought it was a bug when they appear out of nowhere). Particularly because the bacons are always visible regardless of where you are.
Nice concept, though I finished the game without ever finding out what action Spacebar does, it just says "Miss!" even at signposts and boulders.
Also encountered the "The content was stopped because a fatal content error has been detected." error, was playing the web version.
"The monster is short and The monster is tall"
Uh... sure.
Monster vs children hitbox is a bit too small.
Spot-on Ace Attorney references. Bookmarked for another run later!
Straightforward and fun, but a bit hard to connect it with the theme. ("You destroyed these innocent cars, what a monster you are", and that's it)
Movement control relative to character-to-mouse direction takes some time to get used to.
Funny story, got the bad ending at the first time. Feature-wise, it's a well-done VN engine.
Reminds me of the Kraken battle in Shining Force 2.
Brilliant!
That twist.
Interesting mechanics, will be great with some proper level design.
I don't quite get it.
So, you need to put monsters on the field, then capture them again to use them to create bigger monsters, which will kill your smaller monsters, so you should quickly capture your smaller monsters for you to be able to create more big monsters?
Wave 3 is unreadable, and the screeching sound is painful.
Good voice acting, and interesting story as well.
One missing feature is "press E while a dialog is animating to skip the animation".
I completed the game.
Generally fun, hitboxes are a tad too large, and curse that one level which has both "move NOW or else you die" and a leap of faith together.
Good gameplay.
One thing though, when you leave room X through the right, you'd expect to enter room X+1 from the left, not right. (The first 2 screens are fine, then suddenly it's flipped.)
Some feedbacks:
-. Slow speed + big map + infrequent spawn = lots of walking with no action.
-. Shirt is missing from human-down-leg up frames.
-. Werewolf-right sprite is slightly off, with respect to human-right sprite (try holding Right and press X repeatedly)
-. Weird collision hitbox.
-. Layering. (NPCs are always above player, even if player has larger Y)
I played this game longer than I should, not sure why. Maybe because it feels like a shmup.
A few things:
-. Diagonal attacks pls.
-. Poison is supposed to be the emergency "everyone dies" attack, but a bit hard to pull off because its range is even smaller than a normal attack, and it's delayed.
Score: 40250.
Very funny, loved it.
Feels like shooting needs to be anything but mouse click.
-. It's hard to click on the invaders while dodging frantically.
-. Moving your right hand (to/from) (Enter key/the mouse) everytime you die is a bit troublesome.
Good shmup, bullet patterns are straightforward.
Most of this game's issue comes from the laser.
-. It has no cue
-. It obstructs bullets.
I kind of love how confusing this game is (not sarcasm).
"A small hostile! Open your shield! A larger hostile! Ope-wait-close your-" *BOOM*
I wish I can move while the sword-swinging animation is still running. Currently it feels a bit clunky.
It's simple, minimalistic, pure fun. If anything, the distance is too short to really read and dodge the scatter shots.
You survived 60.98s.
An interesting take on a rhythm game. The blank actions adds some depth to the game. UI-wise, the left part of the bar doesn't see much action.
Good game!
It's fun and challenging, loved it! The music though, the early part is almost literally brain-splitting. Score: 12750
The control scheme is Action 52-esque awkward.
So, you want to do a running jump? Oops, you can't!
Love the water skidding effect.
I couldn't quit the game.
And control is awkward, because the bottom side is a bit limited.
I only used left mouse button so far, haven't reached a part where I need to press a second button.
And that's a very short-ranged fireball.
@Fanttum: Good news! I've just added a Mac build. :)
-. I keep missing stuff when on Eat Mode, eating hitbox should be larger than avoid hitbox.
-. The yellow and orange emitters are somewhat annoying, why are they on my orbit?
Good game overall.
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Score: 15768.42 / Combo: 103 / HPS: 12.875 (Same combo and HPS as someone else here, not sure why score is different)
Though fun, there's not much of a game here. Maybe provide a losing cutscene if score is less than a treshold value?
Well-written narrative. The ending is a bit anticlimactic though.
Control doesn't work as advertised.
LMB : Hold to move and set polarity to blue
RMB : Hold to set polarity to red
Which simplifies this game to "Hold LMB and dodge red stuff".
Cool concept, I like how the music shifts depending on the game state. If only there's an AI to play with...
A bit too hard; You cannot easily circle and shoot enemies, and you move so fast that there's no time to react to stuff.
The game pooped up a lot. XD
Didn't go deep enough, but I like the art style.
Fun patterns. #2 is interesting, because this pattern is one that typically needs a vertical movement. 30575.
The initial speed feels really slow.
First stage is ok, but first boss is just tedious. Didn't go further than that.
And not sure how to connect this with the theme.
Good game!
But really soon, it turns into a "just hold A+D, and watch the amusing bug traffic jam" game.
A really fun shmup. Music is awesome.
Energy system feels like a slippery slope, as in if you can't get to level 3 before a certain point, you're out. Once you get it rolling though, that's where the fun begins.
Energy pickups doesn't move left when they appears, so it feels like the game is punishing the player for being good. (In-universe, they are static objects, and the player is moving to the right, so... yeah.)
86.62 seconds.
Good game, but the shapeshifting aspect is somewhat negligible. Just pick a shape (purple, because purple bullets are harder to see), shoot others, absorb bullets, blaster, repeat.
The artwork is really neat, and the audio fits the game well.
During my run, I never needed to transform to mech form at all. Staying at Jet form means you don't need to worry about the time at all, and you can survive the patterns with basic bullet hell skillz.
Was at 5000M and 400~ sec remaining, then quitted.
A bit buggy, blocks can go through other blocks (and the game boundaries) while shifting.
Clever puzzles, loved the jokes!
Though, I couldn't figure out what some of the items are beforehand, only after I trial-and-errored through them.
I wish it has an AI.
And cooldown. If you can't return to short form within x seconds after going to long form, that would add some strategic component. Right now you can go long just before hitting the ball then immediately go short, so it's as if you're playing with long form all the time.
A decent platformer for your first entry, good job overall!
Except for level 3. I spent like tens of tries cursing for that one platform to come down.
Animation is cool, but maybe a bit too slow. And as many has mentioned, you shouldn't be able to cancel the attack animations. Though, cancelling allows for some interesting strategies. (Use axe, spam click, and you'll never have to worry about birds ever. Release for skeletons.)
@glaze_96
I... did not. Well, maybe not here, but take a closer look at the in-game title screen! :D
Good work on the puzzle design, really enjoyed it.
Short, but fun.
Most of the difficulty comes from the arc projectiles, which are a bit erratic at times.
Good job on your first game! Graphics are nice, though the gameplay could use a bit more improvement.
It is hard to control, because the movement feels inertial. Shmups ideally should have no inertia.
Eagle form is too short and feels like an afterthought to the game. In contrast, wolf form is actually useful, because I couldn't dodge bullets properly with that control.
Decent gameplay, but the game somehow looks off. Form 1's bullets are spawned only on the left side, and random enemy generation doesn't reach to the right side. It's as if they are... shifted.
A good job for your first coding project!
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The area you start off has the worst experience, because you can't even see your own projectiles, and there's no way to know that your projectiles are short-ranged.
It gets better as it gets greener.
Control scheme doesn't really work that well, I think. Base form's bullets are angled and hard to aim. Shifted form's bullet is straight, but the transformation itself is inertial and also hard to aim.
And the "where do I go now" map screen.