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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #46 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Fun | #63 | 3.639 | 3.639 |
| Overall | #89 | 3.495 | 3.495 |
| Graphics | #122 | 3.667 | 3.667 |
| Audio | #146 | 3.306 | 3.306 |
| Game Design | #148 | 3.417 | 3.417 |
| Innovation | #188 | 3.111 | 3.111 |
Ranked from 36 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?
Every time the player dies they come back stronger and faster.
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
I wrote all of the code with the exception of one script. Everything else that was used is credited on the games page.
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good game
Thanks!
Very fun game well done
Thank you!
Really cool game. Loved the art. I agree with some others that the the bullets should despawn making it a little easier. Overall great game!
Thanks for playing!
Super cool!!! I feel like adding lifetime to projectiles would be good, so they don't follow you for ever.
Thank you! The red bullets do have a life time but the yellow and blue ones dont.
Cool game! This was very similar to the first idea I had before I changed my mind so it was fun to see someone who had the same idea but followed through on it :). A pretty tough game but it was fun. Great work!
Thank you! I wanted the game to be a bit challenging but still beatable lol. Also loved your game the two character mechanic is very clever.
Really cool art and sounds but the game is to hard.
Thanks for playing! I tried my best to mix difficulty and powerfulness in the game but I do agree that the game needs some tweaking.
Nice and enjoyable topdown shooter. I had fun with it. Good job.
Here is my (first) game jam entry. Check it out if you like:
https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-9/rate/1932821
Thanks for playing! I really liked your game as well it was nice to see what other people came up with in the top down shooter genre.
Bullet hells aren't my genre but I still had a good time; enemy variety seems pretty important to this kind of game and Renatus delivers, with the enemies looking and feeling different and having different roles on their "team" against the player.
All the audio was there, and I enjoyed it; I do wish in an entry with so much of one act so fast (shooting in a bullet hell for example) that there was >1 piece of SFX for it. pewpewpewpewPEWPEWPEWPEWPEW will be in my dreams tonight.
The core mechanic of "you get *significantly* better after each death, but you have finite lives" is awesome, I love a good 'shoot the moon' mechanic in games and this definitely fits the bill. You can stay weak but preserve lives, or get risky but be as strong as you want, as fast as you want. This is a much more fun way to allow a player to choose difficulty for themselves than, say, a menu setting! However, I could not tell how you were supposed to know how many lives were remaining (except having played before).
This might just be that I'm not used to bullet hells, but I kept trying to get the environmental kitsch to do stuff. Oh, a green carpet, I wonder what that does vs. a blue one! Oh, an open chest, I wonder if that's got something in it for me? Ultimately no, the game is you and the enemies - which is fine, but I wish I'd figured it out sooner!
Overall: easy to pick up and play, not so easy to beat. That's how it's meant to be IMO!
Thank you for such a detailed response! I am really glad to hear you enjoyed playing my game! I really wanted to make a challenging bullet hell like game so I am very happy I nailed that part. I also really should have added a pause menu so that people can tweak the audio to their preferences but I got really burnt out towards the end of the game jam haha. As for the environment originally I had plans to add powerups/traps there but I had to crunch and decided that those needed to be cut out. Thanks again for playing really appreciate it!
This is a really fun game. I was sad when I permanently died because I really wanted to see what the weapon upgrade would be! It felt really good to get those upgrades, they made a huge difference...but got you one step closer to your end. I really enjoyed the game concept and your execution was really good. I like the in game instructions, though, somehow I missed the 'stand on the blue carpet' until I was in the first room walking all over wondering what to do.
Great submission and a lot of fun!
Thanks for playing! I tried my best to blend between risk/reward with the heart system but it might need some tweaking.
Cool game! Really enjoyed the art style, would love to see what you do next!
Thanks for playing!
I had a lot of fun playing your game! The music complemented the gameplay very well and the controls were easy to use. I also really liked the way you included the theme in your game :)
Thank you!
Pretty fun bullet hell. The mechanic of dying making your weapon stronger worked well and gave some nice risk reward to the gameplay with being stronger but having a lot more risk of losing. In my first run through I struggled a bit since I was just aiming for the front liners and then in the second run through was way easier when I started targeting the back line first. Music complimented the game well and loved the addition of being able to fire at enemy bullets
Thanks for playing! I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed it. I also really liked your game as well, the art style is amazing!
Great, fun little bullet-hell / rogue-lite! Would agree with other commentators that music / SFX are a bit on the loud side.
Overall: good use of the theme, fun gameplay, and good looking graphics. Great job! (PS: the “burst fire” that you get when you have 2 or fewer hearts is a bit OP!)
Thanks for playing! I really should have added a pause menu but towards the end of the game jam I got so tired lol. Changing the volume is on my list of things to do. I agree with you about the burst it needs a little bit of fine tuning haha. I'll be sure to check out your game!
Nice Game, really enjoyed playing this one, fun although it did have a bit of a difficulty curve, I think maybe in the first few rooms a few fewer enemies would have made it a bit easier as I struggled to get past them. Otherwise an excellent game :).
Thank you so much! I really need to fine tune the game more after the jam is over haha.
Beating this was satisfying, bit of a learning curve. Nice!
Thank you!
Very fun and challenging! I love the cute pixel characters and floaty magic wand. The controls feel really good. I wish there was a way to make permanent progress. To get stronger I had to die, but that also decreased my health/number of lives which made it much easier to get a game over. It was easy to get overwhelmed with the number of bullets on screen too and I kept getting cornered, even when I was fully upgraded and trying to shoot the bullets to kill them.
Thanks so much for playing! Sorry if the game is too difficult I didn't have any time to fine tune towards the end. Also I really enjoyed playing your game definitely one of my favorites in this game jam!
Music was a tab too loud and I did experience a couple of sprite layering issues, but, I really enjoyed the art style and the game was really fun to play! Beat it on my first try so I'm really happy with that :)
Thanks so much for playing! Towards the end of the game jam I basically scrambled to finish the game haha. I didn't have enough time to play test hence the music being loud and some of the sprite not layering correctly lol. I am really glad you enjoyed playing it!
Great gam and really addicting, but the music is a bit loud.
Thanks for playing. Sorry about the music!
Fun game. Fits the theme and the music is fun.
Only thing i would change is the enemy health. They feel a little too tanky at times and it would make the gameplay alot more fluid and fun.
Thanks for playing! I agree with you about changing some of the enemies health. Originally the plan was for the tanker enemies to swarm up close to the player but I wasn't able to finish the AI script completely.
Really nice game, fits perfectly with the theme! Compliments
Thanks!