A well-made shmup! The gamefeel is good. The pickups could have clearer information visually what their effects are, and the "calm" mode wasn't understandable without reading the instructions - I thought it was gonna be something like bullet-time.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #68 | 3.846 | 3.846 |
| Game Design | #189 | 3.577 | 3.577 |
| Audio | #241 | 3.385 | 3.385 |
| Graphics | #255 | 3.731 | 3.731 |
| Overall | #320 | 3.327 | 3.327 |
| Theme | #671 | 2.808 | 2.808 |
| Innovation | #731 | 2.615 | 2.615 |
Ranked from 26 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?
Calm before the storm - The player gets to play the "calm" life of a space worker before things get chaotic.
My interpretation is that everything is calm for the main character, a peaceful job where they just recollect scrap and ores by destroying meteors and space trash to get money and live comfortably after long work days. Then one day the Storm group arrives at the zone where the MC works and now those calm days are gone until you repel the Storm group.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Most of them, I only used 4 pngs from a art pack and 2 google fonts, the other assets were made from scratch. :)
You can check the "Extra - Credits" part inside my game for more!
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84 days ago(+1)
Yeah, about the "calm" mode stuff I didn't explain it well for lack of a tutorial so I tried to explain it in the Intro part, which isn't the best to explain a thing like that in text. I'll try to add that if I patch the game haha
Thanks for playing ^^
93 days ago (+1)
Haha, thanks for playing and the feedback! :)
About the background, I ran out of time and energy to make it more creamy looking/put a white or black layer with opacity so it doesn't look too heavy on colors, and in the boss I forgot to turn off the animation to reinforce the endurance situation. (At times I think I put many stars in the background hahaha)
And about the Calm mode it’s ok, I think I couldn’t express well what it does and I put “press X” instead of “hold X”, also I think it’s a mechanic that is better explained in a tutorial than text, which I couldn’t make for lack of time, but I’m happy you tried to use it ^^
It’s supposed to be a slow down in the movement in case you want to cross between bullets and after some time, you get slower , which is a rare case in this game since those only aim at you and not like other shmups where you need to cross between close spaces of bullets. And also gives you a boost in the shoot speed, which is useful when you have bad RNG and get only green orbs
95 days ago (+1)
Thanks for your feedback on that part!
I went to see gameplay from some games I played to see better how they handle this and now I have a better understanding of how enemies go out of screen, for some reason I only could think that enemies always shoot when they leave but are just a few that do something like this haha. If I keep working on the game outside the post jam patch, I'll rework this part
And happy to see that you find it easy to understand and read the story. :)
Thanks for the comment! ^^
Some sprites were done in a hurry like the cloud generator at the end or the Warning sign, for that the cloud feels a bit out of place and the color of the sign isn't the best or like I imagined, between other choices I did for the other sprites haha.
I’ll have this in mind if I work more in the game. :D
96 days ago (+1)
Happy to see you find fun my game :)
About the enemies, I still need to balance it more for that reason, at the end the game can spawn too many enemies but the blue-white bullets from the ship that shoots a lot can be tank since it only do 5 damage.
And about the space cloud in space, I tried to explain it in the "introduction-tips" section (It's the only way I could think of to justify the electric storm hahaha, originally this wasn't planned so I had to improvise this boss.)
About the sound it's the thing I couldn't fix properly on time, originally sounded worse and I only put those sounds in an extra audio bus and lowered the volume haha
So I'll try to fix it for an update post jam :)
Also, about enemies and scenery change, maybe I'll do it. Originally the game was planned to be 3 missions but I only managed to do 1 and 1st I want to try to make a balance in the gameplay
Thanks for playing and the feedback! ^^
I understand what you are saying about the sfx. It's something I couldn't fix and I only lowered the volume in a audio bus hoping it didn't sound as before. I'll try to look at the audio stuff this 2 weeks :)
And the raybeam it is a bug that I decided to leave like that because in the 1st play test, I noticed that it helped to recover a good position after dying, but yesterday I decided that when you get destroyed, also the enemies explode. I'm still thinking if I leave it or not but I'll decide that when I fix the interaction between the enemy and the raybeam it's charging haha.
Thanks for playing :D
98 days ago(+1)
Ok, I'll have in mind the pause menu like that, I wanted to put it at the end but I felt maybe I'll break something for how tired I was yesterday.
Yeah, the sounds can be like that, I had to use some extra audio buses in the settings to lower some sounds that were quiet but in game sounded louder or more quiet than intended haha
And about the UI elements, I ran out of time, also for that I didn't put the lifes sprite but probably I'll try to do those in this 2 weeks where I can't modify the game and learn how to put those in the Godot controls, I felt those were janky but mostly because I didn't have too much time to properly learn how to use them
Also, I'll have in mind more shooting variations, 1st I have to balance the drop probability, health of enemies and damages from the game, sometimes I felt it was too hard or more easy than it should
Thanks for the feedback in the UX/UI, usually it's my weakest point in programming so I appreaciate it :D
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