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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Sound | #6 | 3.273 | 3.316 |
| Fun | #9 | 2.857 | 2.895 |
| Graphics | #12 | 3.585 | 3.632 |
| Overall | #14 | 2.805 | 2.842 |
| 90s | #15 | 3.273 | 3.316 |
| Theme | #16 | 2.182 | 2.211 |
Ranked from 19 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Did you, or anyone on your team, use AI to generate any aspect of this game?
No
Did you work on this solo or as a team? What was your team size?
Solo
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Cool concept! Gunplay was actually enjoyable and the goofy animations did grow on me after a while!
I do recommend keeping the camera at the same angle when sprinting; That Snap to middle when sprinting was very disorienting, I would simply just make the camera pan inwards or outwards opposed to changing location. As an example to what I mean; Look into Mass Effect 2/3's sprinting :)
Well done mate!
when you start the game switch to your pistol, and then try jumping
Cool and cool game! I liked the funny animations of the hero and the good music tracks.
Cool! I like the wacky animations, and the graphics are pretty good. Great music! I do feel the game lacks a bit of purpose. It’s super funny that you can just ride the train and leave the stage
Very interesting game, i like the idea, and also the goofy animations :)
It does have potential to be something good that streamers could play if there were more levels
overall, a great experience!
This one was definitely an interesting experience. It was pretty neat, especially for a solo dev. The visuals and animation was pretty good. The main menu was pretty sick. However, the camera snapping when you start sprinting made me feel physically ill. I think a better way to handle that in the future would be to tween the camera out to the sprinting camera position and it would work much better. Once I kinda got over that, I was pretty lost on the Port Doks stage. I shot all the targets like I assumed I was supposed to but it really didn't do anything. There were shut doors and I tried jumping around but I was just kinda lost. Maybe if there's some direction or indicator I missed, please be sure to let me know. The next stage I did was a bit more interesting, I liked the part where you had to shoot the enemies but the moment it got interesting it just kinda... ended? I feel like this project was apart of something a bit overambitious but got sorta shafted by the development time and other factors. It had all of these mechanics but nothing was really done with them and that was kinda disappointing. Like it doesn't really feel like it had a vision or any ideal gameplay mechanic in mind, nor did it tie to the theme. Although don't let my negativity get you down, I'm sure if you keep developing this game it could really get somewhere but the game at its current state really doesn't have much going for it atm.
Ok...
BUT
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the main idea of the project was to do all sorts of stuff with a fight And the level at the docks was more like training...
the point was different weapons have different possibilities in moving, so a light pistol allows you to jump and strafe faster (in the files of the game there is same light one-handed sawn-off shotgun, but I probably can't be able to add it)
The second level is about more accurate jumps
Level 3 is cut out, it should have had fight for learning how to use the ring
OH okay that sorta makes more sense, but I'm not sure how I was supposed to know that. Maybe if there was a bit more of an indicator for the Dock level? Also not being allowed to jump in the assault rifle weapon seems like a weird design choice that just kinda confuses me. There's just no real direction on where to go in-game which is a big issue imho. I'm not really sure what you mean by the main idea of the project, do you mean something like an immersive sim like Deus Ex? Admittedly, I feel the idea you had with the weapons could've been infinitely utilized much better as well. Maybe you could've had a giant enemy with a shield that you had to run behind using the strafing pistol? The AK could've been used to break down doors or something, or could've ricocheted off of the ground or something. The level design didn't really account for any of this either imho, there wasn't really any reason to swap from each weapon in combat, you could've had maybe some section where you were stuck in a corridor and couldn't take advantage of the mobility of the pistol so you needed the higher damage output of the ak. I just didn't feel the need to swap weapons (the only time you needed to was during the platforming segments which in my opinion, wasn't that fun to play and felt super shoehorned in as the movement didn't feel like it was designed for this sort of level design) and I just held down the LMB without any consequence or regard for anything. Like I said before, this is a pretty neat game and has cool visual direction but it just doesn't really feel like it did anything it was attempting to do and was really short. I think this project could've benefited from taking a quick step back and trying to just do one thing like focusing on the shooting aspect and switching between weapons instead of what we have here. Hopefully nothing of what I said sounds rude, I do genuinely hope you can turn this into a project that plays as good as it looks because that would be awesome. Good luck homie.