the visuals are awesome, mechanics work nice and the bullet pattern are awesome, I like the overal feel of the game, the overal funky style is great!!
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Endless Cycle's itch.io pageGame's Take on the Theme
Spin Class + some spinning boundaries + mouse scroll to attack (also health bar accidentally spins around player, oops)
Did your team make the majority of the art and music during the jam?
I made all the art, none of the music
If not, please link to any asset packs or resources used here.
Where i got most of the music https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html
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This is truly a great game! I'm surprised that so few people have rated it. It was tough — really tough. But that's expected for the bullet hell genre. The visuals are fantastic, and the comedic narrative adds a lot of charm. I really enjoyed it!
Trackpad user's worst nightmare... (Only made to the second boss)
Jokes aside, from what I've seen, the visuals are well made and perfectly encapsulate the 80's using a low poly style. This is complemented very well with a music selection that sounds like the 80's as well as sound effects giving feedback for certain event occurring. Also, the intro cutscene is the stuff of gold.
The theme is basically baked into the game's design as the game revolves around exercise bikes and having the bosses defeated by spinning the scroll wheel while avoiding projectiles within a rotating bounding area. The controls are fairly intuitive and are easy to get a grasp on (If you have a proper mouse that is)
Overall, despite the curse of the trackpad, I enjoyed this game quite a bit! This is a solid game!
This was a delightful playthrough, excellent job!! The art style is stunning and captures 80s exercise video perfectly. The character models are great and each boss has a distinct personality with captivating introductions/dialogues. I especially loved hydration man and his surfing backflip on the exercise bike. The different spinning border things in containing your player sphere thing were a nice touch and added to the individuality of each boss nicely. The writing is solid and does a good job of being silly/satirical without stepping into cringe territory. I laughed a handful of times. The intro cutscene is fun and introduces the player's scenario without overstaying it's welcome, nice job.
I found the gameplay itself a bit frustrating for a few reasons. The biggest one was the lack of visual contrast between the player, the bullets, and the environment. It can be quite difficult to follow all moving objects on screen at certain points. I also wish the bullets had a consistent style throughout the levels; sometimes they are outlined, sometimes they are brightly colored, sometimes they are spheres in the same shape as the health powerups. It makes for a confusing experience at times, and a more consistent bullet scheme (e.g. always outlined, always a certain color scheme, etc) across each level would help imo. There were some other gameplay bugs as well, such as glitching out of the player boundary on the second level. I really appreciate the auto-scroll feature, and likely would have stopped playing during the second boss without it. That being said I had a great time playing through this game and really enjoyed some of the humourous moments, the NL animations in the title screen and the easter egg bosses in the last level are some standouts.
Overall, this is a beautiful entry with lots of fun moments and a super cool take on the theme, that maybe could have benefited from more visual clarity and some fine tuning of the gameplay. Awesome entry!!
the game is so funny a i had good time playing it try to play my game and rate it
I first saw your project when you shared your development progress on Discord! I was immediately excited about your game - it looked so unique and interesting. The final result is really fun, and I love how you included that short story at the beginning - it totally hooked me! Well done!
Very interesting game, the cutscene was cool, the game looked great and I like the idea of attacking with the scroll wheel to attack. Additionally, I think it was neat that the boss arena was also spinning during the boss fights. Unfortunately, I was only able to defeat the first bosses because the second boss kept beating me up (skill issue) but great work on the game!
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