Oh, is that the game from the organizers?

Very polished!

I’ve been looking at a few circle arena boss fights and in this one too, rotating the camera to track the player character is quite nice. It’s hard to counter to rotation to aim correctly while moving, fortunately it’s easy to stabilize and stop during boss 2, and to aim at the flying enemy while moving during boss 3. Boss 3 is probably easier than boss 2 but it’s actually nice to move more freely at the end!

The reload mechanic is a nice retake on the “perfectly timed reload” from some other shooter games, with a penalty of slow reload if failed. The tutorial page seems to miss some text “Reload” before it explains the reload mechanic so I didn’t understand it, but it was easy to understand by experimenting. Same thing for the boost description about the blue/yellow gauge area, it should state “Using the boost” somewhere.

Nice to have damage + damage confirm or recovery in player character health “bar”, to reduce punishment and reward player who pays attention after the first hit.

I had troubles with the enemies that explode sending bullets, but it forced me to manage them by killing them one by one (or several but only in safe times when there were no spikes), so it was manageable in the end (although unfortunately sometimes spikes would appear quite fast after I make my decision to kill them).

My issues:

• lack of feedback on damage, esp. for boss 1: no particular feedback FX/SFX on eyes when hit (about the same as when hitting a wall / non-vulnerable part). As a result, during phase 2 when it’s invincible I tried to shoot at the orange parts (thinking orange was color coding for weak spot). It did nothing but it wasn’t obvious since there was no clear feedback to start with. In the end I just looked at the boss health bar and deduced it was invulnerable while health bar was empty.
• some bullet patterns are really tight and player character hurtbox is quite big, matches the model (understandable, as it’s not a classic bullet hell either). I tried to play smart and zigzag between the bullets but always got punished for it (typically by double hit, confirming damage) so I gave up and tried to just avoid the tight patterns completely
• … but sometimes it’s not possible because you’re stuck between that and some other damaging entity (in boss 2, the “tail” and its spikes, or the small enemies projectiles on death and the large spike areas), and the best seems to run across the level away from them, taking one hit intentionally, and count on the timed recovery (didn’t try though as I kept trying to fit right between them, to no avail)
• boss 2 large spikes covering 1/4 of the circle: appear quite fast, esp. during phase 2 and you need very good reflexes to get away… if you happened to be near their middle it’s almost impossible to get away in time

Bugs

At the end, boss 1 timer was 0

The final button to go back to Main menu didn’t work, I had to Alt+F4

UI improvement suggestions

• pause menu item / shortcut to quick restart the current boss: after losing 1 HP near the beginning it will be too hard, may as well die to restart, but it’s cleaner to do it via menu or button shortcut (require holding it to avoid accidental press). And exiting the level would go back to main menu and you’d have to restart from boss 1.

My game opens to the menu, but it can’t run and gives an error both in the browser and when downloaded. From the images, the game looks very beautiful and detailed, and I would love to play, but this bug is preventing me.

Amazing art yo really loved it. The gameplay too is an interesting take on the theme.

Pretty hard though and unfortunately since there is not much time left I only play a little (died on the first boss 2 minutes in once those orange spikes come I said nope -.-)

Very, very good game! I really like how you implemented the spin theme in this game and it’s lots of fun. I love how the reloading is not just pressing ‘R’ and then forgetting about it, but rather something that you have to aim. This makes it so the player has to figure out a good time or moment to focus on reloading as part of the gameplay, which is pretty neat.

I also really like the implementation of the health in your game, when the hearts are in the tense state I start to lock in and avoid taking damage, but when it’s in the normal state it allows me to take more risks, which is part of the fun. I also tend to only reload when the heart is in the normal state because it’s less risky to do so then. So great work on this!

This is a very nice game. The graphics, music and overall polish are outstanding for a jam game. I ran into the same issue as the commenter below. The first boss weak spots were very obvious in the first phase but I didn’t know what to do in the second one and I died. When I wanted to retry I kept getting this error: Webgl context lost. I am on Chrome on Windows 10.

Very nice graphics, liked that a lot, the music and SFX are fitting and the game play has a lot spin.

If there is one thing I would like to be added, it would some sort of an boss healthbar or an indicator about the state of the boss.

really nice graphics! music SFX and bosses animations! R to recharge don't like to me, i would have preferred the RMB. funny game !

I got this error pop up while loading the game. Looks like I'm the only one having this issue. My browser is chrome.