Great game! Cool mechanics and optimization. Well-chosen musical effects)
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Whomst 2: Diving Deeper's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #66 | 3.970 | 3.970 |
| Audio | #75 | 3.606 | 3.606 |
| Overall | #98 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Innovation | #111 | 3.364 | 3.364 |
| Game Design | #145 | 3.424 | 3.424 |
| Fun | #174 | 3.333 | 3.333 |
| Theme | #337 | 3.303 | 3.303 |
Ranked from 33 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
The player needs to go skydive deeper underground. On the way, they encounter harder and harder bossfights.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes, except the sound effects which are from zapsplat.com
Comments
1 year ago(+1)
When the player gets hit there's like a 10 frame long hitstop, alongside a huge vignette, a lowpass filter, a decently loud sound effect, screen distortion etc. Not sure how else would I make it more obvious for getting hit.
When the player hits the boss, there's a ~3 frame hitstop, a sound effect, decently visible spark/explosion particles and the UI pulses, indicating you dealt damage. Again, not sure how I would make it EVEN MORE obvious.
For the cluttered screen thing, 3rd person would make aiming hell but ok, top down is not really an option for 3D, and I don't want to make 2D. I raised the FOV to 90 to make the arena more visible and less disorienting, not sure which part you say is cluttered in a bullethell game.
Terraria calls their swords swords even tho they shoot projectiles, so why can't I do it? What name would you give it then?
Sorry if you took my comment the wrong way, though it sounded mostly negative, there was a lot of good things in the game, I just find it easier to tell people about feedback than other stuff,
I'm not sure how the hit indicators weren't more obvious to us, though my friend who played the game shared my original thoughts on this, though we might just both be stupid.
Wanting to keep the game first person makes sense. I think our main issue was not clearly being able to see if we were a spot that would be attacked without looking down the whole time. This point may be a skill issue, but also seems like something that could be implemented somehow. Not sure exactly how.
Edit: See Risk of Rain 2 for third person aiming, it does work.
Didn't say you can't call it a sword, but it seems like other people have also been confused about it being called a sword. You also see the projectile in Terraria due to the 2Dness of the game, whereas in this it looked more like melee particles to me. If there was somewhere stating it shot a projectile, calling it a sword would be fine. Name ideas I thought of while typing this are: Projectile sword, short ranged attack, something gun. They're not great names, but I also only spent about 15 seconds thinking of them.
There were plans on adding leaderboards for damage dealt, so that way the negative health would have made sense, but time issues lol. Another issue with just skipping to the next boss, is that the phases are time based, not health based. This would make the game incredibly easy, because you could just charge hit the bosses a couple of times and skip to the next boss.
It was happening even in the tutorial area, but became more pronounced in the transition and then at the boss fight. So It may be that I am lagging or maybe my mouse is too sensitive and it jitters, not sure, again it could just be a skill issue or lack of sleep.
Litterally got 3 hours of sleep last night. XD
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