Game's Take on the Theme
Mechanically I can only argue that the many luck based gambling gimmicks are akin to spinning a roulette. Thematically I incorporated as many spin-related concepts as I could imagine: the main battle system and much of the plot includes drills and the golden rectangle, your damage output is based on your drill's RPM. The library part of the game with the bosses stories was meant to represent "spinning a tale." originally the story was much more confusing because I wanted to make heads spin, but i ended up putting too much logic into it and may have lost that. There are still plenty of unexplained things that I dont plan on explaining either to keep that part of my intent in it. these were my spins on spin as a literary device, rather than a gameplay mechanic.
Did your team make the majority of the art and music during the jam?
100% during the jam
I'm not just anyone, I AM the CIA! xD
Bro... there were like 600 filtering options on the submissions page, take a look around and you can be "anyone" too:
https://itch.io/jam/boss-rush-jam-2025/entries (just take a closer look at the left side ;)
I very much share that feeling, I wanted to see everyone's works, and have everyone feel their work was seen. Sadly there's not enough time in a day to look at every entry, I found myself exhausted already nearing the 400 mark and now it's almost over. At least I could go over pretty much every browser entry and a few of the download-only ones. To me it's an art fair, and missing out on seeing everyone's art is wasting an opportunity.
Thank you for the praising the game and me! Didn't expect the latter to go noticed, it's a bit embarrassing.
There's some fixes and improvements to do, and also some more stuff (music, story and art) to add, so give me a while before you come back and the experience will be even better, I guarantee it!
It makes me really happy to know it hooked you enough to make you want to go back in, and also a really big motivator to start walking the path to finish it properly.
Thank you very much!
Had to put a pause on all my other hobbies to get through it, but it paid off because I got lots of feedback on how to improve, things to fix, issues in my design and techniques to use going forward. I'm glad to have put my all into it, but seeing I'm behind some 70 episodes on shows is... a bit astounding to go back to.
My limit as a composer is pretty much two tracks, and due to the time I really only composed with one for this game, so it really is very simple. I want to learn how to be a bit deeper (and especially learn how to use the drums), so it's my lifetime homework honestly.
There were things I was still drawing up to the day of release, it really was a close job (and I compromised on a bunch of things which looking at now bother me a bit, thinking I shouldn't have. "If enemy attacks had illustrations, it'd probably have better fights..." and so on)
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