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A jam submission

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Bullet hell style game. Create vortices to destroy your enemies!
Submitted by CerealGodGames (@god_cereal) — 7 minutes, 6 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#1033.5673.567
Innovation#1213.4003.400
Game Design#1293.4673.467
Graphics#1573.5003.500
Theme#2043.4003.400
Overall#2103.1783.178
Audio#5311.7331.733

Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

Really cool, but just sooo unbalanced, you should do something with that in post-jam version

Submitted(+1)

Interesting idea, also I have to say that enemies that spawns black hole after death reminded our game :D I liked it a lot my suggestion is to add sound effects, and balancing speeds, because some enemies was very fast and it was too hard to shoot them, also I think game becomes really chaotic, and because of fast bullets its nearly impossible too dodge them, but i enjoyed and it has potential!

Developer (1 edit)

Some of the problems were corrected for the next update, thanks for the feedback. Glad you enjoy it :D

(+1)

Nice game please check my too

Submitted(+1)

the game was pretty cool (loved the graphics)

but sometimes you can't dodge so it's actually impossible to win

but still a good game

Developer

Thanks for the feedback :v

Submitted(+1)

The basic Idea is good, Needs a bit of improvement in some sections but has potential! All the best, Keep working, all the best and do try out our game, feedback is always a BIG YES

Submitted(+1)

Very cool concept and game!
But some sound effects would have been really good and maybe some score System to motivate the player more.

Submitted(+1)

I really like the concept and the style you go with. It's hard but I feel like it's not impossible and that's good! Love it <3

Submitted(+1)

Very cool concept but after 1-2 minutes it becomes uniform! needs more NPCs and probs.

Submitted(+1)

True chaos, and I loved having multiple lives so I could mindlessly shoot things. For something so high energy though missing audio really makes me sad. If you end up adding it in let me know!

Developer

Sure, audio update coming soon,  thanks for playing :D

Submitted(+1)

Great take on the hole idea. There were a couple times I felt like I didn’t have much of a chance to avoid getting hit, but that didn’t happen a lot. I think it mostly happened when the ships got really close to mine. Besides that, I had a lot of fun and really loved the gameboy aesthetic.

Thanks for submitting! Please check out my game if you haven’t yet. https://ntwiles.itch.io/black-hole-flyer

Submitted(+1)

There is definitely a lot happening at once, A very hectic game, but fun none the less.

Submitted(+1)

20 lives definitely seemed like a lot but I figured out very quickly why there were so many! Cool idea that hitting one enemy can spawn such a huge chain reaction, took me a second to figure out and I kept making it worse lol. Love the retro aesthetic, really nice job!

Developer

Thank you :) Glad you enjoy the game!!!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

This is cool.  It's really manic, yet simple  I like your (4-bit?  2-bit?) graphics.  Obviously the major flaw is just how much chaos ensues, but I also think that's the charm.  Perhaps if you gave the player more freedom of movement Robotron-style, and slowed down the enemy bullet speed, then the chaos would be more fun than it already is.  Also, definitely needs audio.  I liked this though, very creative!

Developer

Thanks for the feedback :)

Submitted(+1)

The game looks really clean! The pixel art really brings out more from this game! Still I believe audio would have enhanced the experience! Well done with the game though

Submitted(+1)

At first I was thinking why did you give that many lives, I mean why would I need that many lives....... but when I started playing I thought why did you give so few😂😅. The art and the game view is clean and simple. Your skills are really showing up in this game as you made a fun game without fancy particle effects and visual effects. In other words it is a very fun game and I spent a good amount of time playing it. Well done. 

Developer

Thanks for playing !!! :) , and I'm glad you enjoy the game xD

Submitted(+1)

amazingly addictive!!

Developer

Glad you enjoy it, Thanks for playing :)

Submitted(+1)

This game escalated fast! Good job with Nokia vibes ;)

Submitted(+1)

Love this idea. Wish the difficulty didn't ramp up right so much at front.

Submitted(+1)

Pros:

  • Fun bullet hell kind of game
  • Fun to shoot multiple vortexes
  • Nice Nokia phone game aesthetic

Cons:

  • Bit too difficult: My suggestions to remedy this is by making it so you have invulnerability when you respaw for about 3 seconds
  • Sound: I don't think there was any, would have loved the classic nokia sounds while I played this

Overall: Not too bad for a game jam, one of the games that I recommend others to try this jam :)

Developer(+1)

I would keep it in mind for the next updates, thanks for the feedback :)

Submitted(+1)

Very cool ^^

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