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Quick Draw or Die Slow. Shoot your way through chaotic boss battles with precision and speed.

Submitted by Blink, mchapman24 — 1 day, 23 hours before the deadline

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Game's Take on the Theme
Semi Bullet-Hell Isometric Boss Rush

Did your team make the majority of the art and music during the jam?
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FezakSubmitted23 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

I love the Hades-like combat of this game and the controls are wonderful and so are the art and visuals, I love those glows and shaders. But, the second boss moves to fast, it barely lets me even land him a single hit, by the time he stops doing the flash step attack he goes straight to teleporting again, it doesn't let me time to breath. Like yeah, I like having quick reaction times, but that's pretty much near impossible. I think you should Raiju to have a moment in which he is stunned/exhausting or charging to have a little bit of breather and letting the player land some hits, and you could still have those quick combo attacks that you currently have in which he goes quickly between attacks very fast.

Besides that little rant, the game is really good, bosses are well designed and polished, the combat is really good, burst mode is a bit to OP for my liking, but I can see you've made it rewarding for how improbable it is to get.

If you plan on expanding this game, this could be a really good Roguelike/Roguelite. I'd really like to see what awaits this game in the future.

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BlinkDeveloper23 days ago(+1)

I agree. I want to somehow make a boss that forces players to make their bullets count but failed miserably lol. I didn't have much time feeling out the bosses as I started way too late and had to do almost everything for the game.

Anyways, thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you see a potential in it! <3

GameSupplyGuySubmitted24 days ago(+1)

Hey There!

I will primarily evaluate the graphic style, and it is fantastic!!! :O

Rated! ;) Thanks a lot if you check and rate my game too! ;)

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S P I N F I N I T Y (check the devlog info pease)

asdroninSubmitted24 days ago(+1)

I dont have a powerful machine to run at full speed, but it looks great really, the mechanics are nice, the revolver with the color bullets is a clever idea, also boss attacks are awesome and have nice bullet patterns, I rate graphics, fun, control and music the most, but all is great really, also, if you have some time, please, rate my game too, thanks!!!

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Metal Top Solid

Beag GardenSubmitted24 days ago(+1)

I couldn't get it working unfortunately, which is a shame because it looks great

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MegaMeloneSubmitted24 days ago(+1)

Despite Godot's best efforts to make this game damn near unplayable on web, I found this game to be absolutely awesome. It's a proper proper bullet hell, with an insane bombardment of projectiles running at you, while you're also trying to multitask with hitting the boss properly which makes for a very tough and very thrilling gameplay experience. The polish in the audio and visuals go without saying to, this is a gorgeous game

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An Ordinary Business Lunch

grapemaxSubmitted24 days ago(+1)

cool game, but it's TOO laggy!

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P.5.Submitted24 days ago(+1)

A very cool game! I'm amazed at how much effort went into polishing it – it plays incredibly well! Excellent work!

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Deep and Deeper

Capsule GamesSubmitted25 days ago(+1)

CoOl design with BGM. Overall Awesome. just a bit laggy. Congrats!

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ProGameWizard78Submitted25 days ago(+1)

The VFX are amazing! only pet peeves are the fact that I can't Fullscreen, or it just becomes a small square at the top left of my screen, and the lag without hardware acceleration on.

(PS: If you're willing to I'd love it if you can rate and leave some feedback on my game! This is my first ever jam and I'd love to see where I can improve for the future!)

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AlgilrodSubmitted26 days ago(+1)

Your game looks visually amazing, VFX really stand out and I like the quality of life that bosses telegraph their attacks. The shooting mechanic is pretty fun, it feels really rewarding to get the burst and destroy the bosses, though I think it depended too much on luck imo.

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PanduckSubmitted26 days ago(+1)

Somehow I love the cover of this game. It is the reason I check it out. Then you top it with a fun polished game. Well done.

Please check out mine duck game. A lot more chill and simple compare to yours.

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TornaDuck: The Heroic Adventure

MaesterSubmitted26 days ago(+1)

Got the performance issue, its so laggy when boss shot radial bullet.
Its a nice game overall, I would play longer if there is no performance issue..

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bryengxSubmitted26 days ago(+1)

Looks nice but has some performace issues even on windows build. game even froze on boss 3.

Bosses seemed difficult even when I understood bullets color mechanic. This might be because bosses are so agressive that there is little time to look at my bullets and collors still left on the boss.

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Incident at Station Delta

BlinkDeveloper26 days ago

Thank you for the feedback :)

Quoting from the comment I made on another post:
> "Apologies for the stutters on first playthrough, it was an oversight of the .remap Godot appends (I forgot to trim) to files on export builds hence causing the shader caching I did to not work lmao and I didn't really test it that much since I didn't want to clear cache on my browser for some reason."

IRKARSubmitted26 days ago

Nice job

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ITDeveloperSubmitted26 days ago(+1)

Cool graphics, i liked main menu and bosses attacks. Nice game!

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BlinkDeveloper26 days ago

Thank you!

impmjaSubmitted27 days ago(+1)

I tried the Webbuild but unfortunately it wont start as the window pops up and telling me to click outside of the window, which I did but it didn’t help :(

I will try the Linux build later tho..

PS: A question from Dev to Dev ;) as you using Godot, how did you implement these telegraphs on the ground to show the player that an attack is immanent? I wanted to add this to my game too, but hadn’t hat the time and Decals wont work in compatibility mode :/

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Monodrifter - Nutcracker Edition

BlinkDeveloper27 days ago

Hiya! I've implemented the decals by using the depth map to get the world position. You can find a snippet somewhere in shadertoy, then it's in world_space/model_space so multiplying it by inv model matrix and use that as uv. I'm also pretty sure someone made it in godot shaders and you can use that as well.

If you're using Firefox, my build for some reason doesn't run on firefox :(

impmjaSubmitted26 days ago

Thank you Blink for giving me some insights into the telegraph thingy. Did you build the projections out of meshes or are they rectangle and circle textures?

Yes, I tried Firefox at first, but it didn’t work. I just now tried Chrome and that works much better, so I actually could play the game.

Very nice menu with the parallax background, has a nice feel to it. So I started the Tutorial and played a little there. Very cool of you adding it so one can get a better hang of the mechanics.

After that I was ready to battle. The music changed and the battle started and boy did I get spanked. I almost immediately got rick rolled :p - But before that I hat a couple frame-lags (which my game also suffers from, and it also seems to come from dynamically loaded particles in your game) - So the Boss has these Boulder attacks and these Ring attacks, and I really struggled to dodge those, they hit me almost every time.. so maybe I timed it wrong.. but the wiped me quick. So I tried a couple times but couldn’t get far unfortunately.. so it might be a skill issue on my end ;)

Anyways it looks and feels really good. Maybe tune down the Boss attacks a bit and it will be just fine.

So overall a job very well done!

BlinkDeveloper26 days ago(+1)

The projections are just the Godot quad meshes. Since it will get projected, you won't really need a much more complex mesh. The shader also builds the shape, and the whole animation. Apologies for the stutters on first playthrough, it was an oversight of the .remap Godot appends (I forgot to trim) to files on export builds hence causing the shader caching I did to not work lmao and I didn't really test it that much since I didn't want to clear cache on my browser for some reason.

And yep, I'm hearing the game was quite challenging even after all the nerfs to the boss lol but I appreciate you playing and giving feedback <3

ShumzySubmitted27 days ago(+1)

Haha, I remember giving a bit of feedback on this game! (＾▽＾) So happy to see it turn out so well. I truly enjoyed every bit of it! The 3D visuals weren’t over the top, but they were really well done. (￣▽￣)b The VFX were nicely thought out and did a great job telegraphing boss attacks. The second boss is my favorite (because he’s just like my second boss~). (¬‿¬) I really hope you make it into the top 30 and take this game even further! ☆⌒(>_<)

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Spinbound: The Relics

BlinkDeveloper27 days ago

HIYA! Shumzy! I reaally appreciate the feedback btw, it helped me tons. Thank you so much :)

ShumzySubmitted27 days ago(+1)

Don't sweat it man. I just love seeing developer make things that they love. I'd also love it if you could give my game a try. I finished the third boss and really gave him a punch

BlinkDeveloper26 days ago

Oh for sure, no problem! Was actually planning to rate all games in this one list I made in like a day lmao

ShumzySubmitted26 days ago

great thank yo

ajgladden200727 days ago(+1)

Really cool game, 10/10

BlinkDeveloper27 days ago

Thank you :)

Dxe1102Submitted27 days ago(+1)

awesome game

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BlinkDeveloper27 days ago

Thank you :)

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