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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #1 | 4.520 | 4.520 |
| Theme | #1 | 4.627 | 4.627 |
| Overall | #1 | 4.440 | 4.440 |
| Originality | #6 | 4.440 | 4.440 |
| Art | #14 | 4.333 | 4.333 |
| Music | #23 | 3.893 | 3.893 |
| Black and White | #29 | 4.827 | 4.827 |
Ranked from 75 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Wow! This game is wicked fun! I can only get to level 4 but I just want to keep playing!
All the animations are extremely fluid, movement feels satisfying and predictable, bullet bounces are fast, but fair, the music and sfx are top notch, and the graphics are phenomenal! Additionally, the core gameplay is innovative, fun, and satisfying. I really can't say enough good things about this game.
My only complaint is that if you are standing where your previous self fired a bullet, you can be killed by that bullet. It's an extremely minor, but somewhat grating annoyance I've found.
Keep making games!
Thank you so much for such a nice comment! I can't tell you how much that means!
And yeah, getting killed by your ghosts when you're on top of them was a tough choice to make. It used to not be the case, but then I let a friend test my game and he found a way to stay alive forever by just standing still for the entire game or camping in a corner, since your ghost couldn't kill you this way it made the game insanely easy.
I did add the 3rd enemy after that, which shoots bullets directly at the player when killed, to furthermore prevent this cheesy technique, so maybe now I can go back to the ghosts not being able to kill you if you're standing right on them, it's something I'll definitely need to experiment with!
Sorry for the little annoyance, I really hope this didn't make your experience with the game bad, and thank you for the feedback!
omg i think it gets hard from lvl1!! Well made, love the retro synth sound all the way. I do feel like the jump takes a while to master D: Good job!
pretty cool, i am absolutely horrendous at it but very cool
Love this entry! I'm incredibly bad at it though. But this is some real high quality work.
Thank you! For what it's worth, the game gets really hard, so you might not be as bad as you think. :)
This is just really good. it's... just that good.
concept is innovative, visual is fun, and no matter how I try the battlefield turns into a complete chaos really quick. I had a good chuckle when the shot I made at the initial loop straight up killed me 5 loop later without even bouncing, because I completely forgot about it and jumped right in front of it.
It's the kind of game that you find online and catches your eye, then end up spending good chunk of your free time because you immediately start investing your effort into it, trying to reach higher score than previous run.
Thank you so much, you just made my day!
Dying to a bullet from 5 loops before because I had forgotten about it happened to me more times than I'd like to admit.. What is your best score?
Ah, this is the most polished game I've played so far. I really enjoyed this a lot. Screen shake + lots of bullets is a really nice combo. It gets hard quite fast.
Thank you very much! I do enjoy polishing a lot
This game is so much fun I enjoyed playing, even tho it's pretty hard. My best score was 7 haha
Hey 7 is good! A lot of people don't get past loop 5 from what I read
awesome game
Wow, pretty cool concept!
The game gets hilarious and hard at each level; I can't pass the level 10 haha!
Great submission!
Hey level 10 is actually really good! You might have the highest score I've heard of so far!
Thank you very much :)
Shooting completely horizontally at 3 seconds left or so, did the trick haha
Sounds like you found a solid strategy, I might give it a try maybe I'll beat my highscore!
Love how polished the game is but it gets hard very fast
It does get hard fast, sorry if you thought it was a bit too much, I definitely could have made the difficulty ramp slower.
I do think it gets easier if you try to limit yourself to one bullet until at least loop 5, and try to kill the monsters (the first enemy) each loop because they won't despawn at the end of the loop, making them multiply really quickly.
That's just some tips that should make the game less hard, in case you want to give it another try :)
Thank you for the kind words!
Very nice concept and execution, super difficult as well. Good job on a well crafted game!
Thank you! I loved your game as well
Awesome! One of the best entries I've played so far.
Good thing that your game is also one of the best entries I've played so far then! :D Thank you very much.
Tons of fun but the difficulty ramps up quick!
Very cool game but quite hard. although after 30 or so rounds I was unable to die somehow.
Thank you! Now that sounds a bit scary, what do you mean by unable to die? Did you find a bug?
At some point I couldn’t get hit anymore and even the spikes did no damage.
holy moly i am bad at the video game. anyway this one is really fun, the gameplay is super addicting and i love the art. great job!!
Amazing job! Saw the ghost mechanic in a couple other games but you bring it to a whole other level. Game is super smooth responsive and just makes me want to play more.
Really interesting gameplay! Good job!
This is possibly the best game in the jam
That means a lot, thanks!
It's amazing. You probably work in game industry. I didn't see something similar, to it's quite originally. I think it deserves highest marks in all themes. I noticed it's quite skill skill-dependent :)
That is so nice, thank you so much! I don't work in the game industry just yet but I sure hope I will! :D