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A jam submission

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Survive in the spaces between

Submitted by ELAiNE — 3 hours, 20 minutes before the deadline

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Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Gameplay	#1	4.571	4.571
Overall	#2	4.381	4.381
Music	#15	4.000	4.000
Originality	#23	4.357	4.357
Art	#29	4.286	4.286
Theme	#38	4.286	4.286
Is the graphics 1 bit?	#100	4.786	4.786

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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PD CGTSubmitted1 year ago

Outstanding re-translation of Ikaruga's color swapping, wonderful stage music too, I think this might be my favorite game from the jam, I wish I played it during voting :')

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Tetherlure

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danSubmitted1 year ago

really good game

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night shift

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Irish Ronin1 year ago

I made a top ten video of the games from this jam. (Spoiler alert, this game is in it)

If you like the video, please feel free to share it :)

Check it out!

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ELAiNEDeveloper1 year ago

Thank you! There are a few games in your video that I haven’t played yet; I’ll have to try them out!

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PastruviumSubmitted1 year ago

It's fun, challenging, and feels good to play. It looks spectacular, giving you cool and intricate bullet hell patterns in a 1-bit style. The music choice is also really good.

The only suggestion I have (aside from just more) is that the difficulty spikes once the patterns become based around melding together to switch colors/destroy themselves. It might be better to introduce easier patterns with this design before getting to the more difficult ones. Also it might be better to have the "warning" icon show up a little earlier than it does for some attacks as it doesn't give you a whole lot of time to react. As the game is designed though, it doesn't detract from the game too much as dying doesn't feel bad.

I really liked the feeling of completing each challenge, especially when I ended up dying to a pattern several times. I also really liked the small portion that had timed switches on the player. It was like a small rhythm section which was cool.

I really enjoyed this entry, great job!

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Quest For Balance (Jam Ver.)

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ELAiNEDeveloper1 year ago(+1)

Thank you for the very thoughtful feedback! I think you’re exactly right about the difficulty spike; because the xor drawing is the central conceit, it deserved a little more thought about how it’s introduced.

I also agree with the warning sign; it was added early on and never refined as well as it needed to be, and there are a couple of patterns where it’s really needed but is missing entirely.

The rhythm game pattern went through the most revisions for difficulty, so I’m really glad to hear it worked!

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Len UnderbrinkSubmitted1 year ago

Cool idea and really nice attack patterns! Would be cool when the player is completely invisible when being of the wrong color.

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The Moment Of Death

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kopoflakesSubmitted1 year ago

So cool. I had a blast!

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Extinction

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