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A jam submission

Phantom-ManView game page

Phantom-Man, Phantom-Man! Copies himself, goes where he began!
Submitted by gladgib
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Fun#583.9253.925
Innovation#2173.6003.600
Overall#2663.5503.550
Game Design#3463.5003.500
Theme#3653.6503.650
Graphics#4793.5003.500
Audio#5133.1253.125

Ranked from 40 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

In what way does your game fit the theme?
Phantom-Man, Phantom-Man! Copies himself, goes to where he began!

Phantom-Man is a game where you have the powers to create different types of phantoms that performs actions in a reverse timeline to aid in battle against the sand-ghosts! Beware of your phantom actions though, they may help or go AGAINST YOU!

-The Phantom creation mechanic fits the Rewind theme, in an unique way :)

Did you write most of the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
Code & art all made by GladGib (except particle effects, they are by Polygonal Stuff). Music assets are by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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Submitted(+1)

Fun game when you get going, I felt that it was a bit easy with the health coming back and there wasn't really any incentive to go towards the middle part of the map where it was actually dangerous.

The art is nice and who doesn't like synthwave!

I like the concept of the phantom mechanic, it was a nice idea but I barely noticed it as it was just free damage and then a corrupted phantom that shot away from me (I was always at the egde of the map). 

All my focus was put on avoiding the ghost bullets. 

If there is something I would change it would be switching the health regain for health pickups, adding some kind of boss enemy that appear every now and then to spice up the gameplay as it feels very samey now.

I got 8815 highscore :D

Developer

Glad you liked the game, & thanks for the feedback!

Definitely something to think about giving incentive for player movement to make the corrupted phantom bullets more prominent. Like your idea for the health pickups, it is 1 way to give incentive for player movement!

Submitted(+1)

A cool idea for the game, pretty hard too! Quickly turned into a bullet hell! (Thats not meant as a criticism as a lot of people love them). My only issue is that I would have liked to have some control over when the phantoms appeared

Developer

Glad you liked the game! Thanks for the feedback, could be something to look into :)

Submitted(+1)

Great mechanics and art! Nice idea for using the theme!
Overall, its a  fun game! 

Here's our game: https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-4/rate/721119

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it, & thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Very nice game, loved the art and the mechanics, good job!

Developer

Glad you enjoyed it & thanks for the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

Haha, this game is actually very fun, but sometimes it does get a bit busy on the screen. Other than that I think the models and the concept was executed very well and nice game! I can imagine people competing to get the best score :)

Developer

Thanks for the feedback, glad that you had fun!

Submitted(+1)

I wonder what the high score is on this game?

Developer

Many others were able to achieve 3k+ !

Submitted(+1)

Very cool game! I liked the mechanics and it certaintly was a lot of fun!

Streamed it here: 

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Hey, thanks a lot for playing, I'm glad that you've enjoyed it!

It was also really nice to watch some play-through with commentary. I've received some feedbacks from your commentary, it was helpful for me!

I will play & feedback yours too, later :)

Submitted(+1)

It was fun! Very nice take on the concept, nice sound effects and character design!!

Hope you had fun making it!! ^^

Developer(+1)

Hey, thanks for playing & glad that you had fun! I had fun making it too, especially the 1st challenging day of brainstorming all kinds of ideas :)

Submitted(+1)

hey the game is cool and nice

the controls are good. the take is also nice

may be the battle area could be wider. (this one is just fine) and may be 1 more type enemy would be very nice.

because when score increases so much may be like 3000 .

it becomes normal. with one more new enemy it would become very awesome and we can play for so much time.

the power up etc would be a great upgrade for after jam

Developer

Hey, thanks for the play & feedback!

I agree with the points you said. I've had several ideas in mind to expand on more interesting progression, enemies, etc Just only needed time to implement them.

Submitted(+1)

Imo there is too much going on on the screen and the ghost's bullet blends a little with the stage, so surviving it gets kinda hard... 馃槙

But, If you ignore those problems, the game is very fun, and the concept is kinda cool!! Good Job!! 馃槂

Developer

Thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it!

Noted on the messiness, could be something to improve upon :)

Submitted(+1)

I really like the idea, especially the corrupt phantom concept.  Keep at it and iterating on it!

Developer

Thanks for the feedback, glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

Very cool idea- spawning clones of yourself that can help or hurt you was interesting. Gameplay and music combo reminded me of Robotron 64; And the addition of the high score mechanic made it fun, given the endless survival style gameplay. Well done

Developer

Thanks, glad that you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

A very cool concept! Enjoyed the game a lot. Wasn鈥檛 sure what the best tactics is, ended up just relying on the ghost as a teammate - trying to cooperate with your own past was a very weird and fun experience! Extra plus for adding screenshots into the tutorial - makes learning the game easier. No bugs found, everything smooth and clean. Awesome job!

(btw check & rate my game - it鈥檚 a shooter as well)

Developer(+1)

Thanks, glad that you've enjoyed it! I will play your game soon!

Submitted(+1)

Your game is very fun, I had a great time trying it, really thanks !!

Developer

Thanks, I'm really glad that you had fun playing it!

Submitted

Great game, the phantoms doing your rewind actions are an amazing take on the theme. Few ideas though.

-Audio is a bit chaotic

-Health Regen seems to fast

Otherwise everything seems great!

Submitted

Great game, the phantoms doing your rewind actions are an amazing take on the theme. Few ideas though.

-Audio is a bit chaotic

-Health Regen seems to fast

Otherwise everything seems great!

Submitted(+1)

Great game, the phantoms doing your rewind actions are an amazing take on the theme. Few ideas though.

-Audio is a bit chaotic

-Health Regen seems to fast

Otherwise everything seems great!

Developer

Thanks on your feedbacks! 

  • Yea, I can somewhat agree with the chaotic audio, because there can be so many things appearing on screen, and many of those things can cause SFX. Furthermore, there is a bug where if you go back to main menu, the music duplicates, but I wasn't able to fix it before the deadline. 
  • I can agree with this too, there were several other feedbacks earlier that they are able to play the game forever if they try hard enough :) Definitely can improve on the difficulty
Submitted(+1)

This gmae is awesome, the timeline system reminded me of ekko from league of legends^^ Even tho it is mirrored. Well, Graphics and design are pretty simple but I had a lot of fun due to the mechanics :D

Developer

Thanks, glad that you liked the game!

Submitted(+1)

This game is so great!!! One of the I had most fun playing. Continue with the project and add some more types of enemies! Great job!

Developer

Thank you, glad that you had fun playing it! I have several ideas on more enemies that are definitely worth further exploring in the future :)

Submitted(+1)

One of the best game i've rated so far! I love how the corrupted phantom really forces you to strategize instead of just firing blindly, solid artstyle too. Would love to see more enemy types in the future!

Developer(+1)

Thank you, glad that you liked it! I have several ideas in mind that I can explore in the future :)

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