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A jam submission

Can you beat the square?View game page

Are you ready to beat the square? Grab a friend and try it! Or try it alone!
Submitted by TheSmetter — 1 hour, 44 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
FUN | Was this game satisfying to play or did it bring you joy?#503.9173.917
AUDIO | Did this game have great music or sound design?#723.5003.500
Overall#883.4503.450
IDEA | Was this game innovative, or did it use interesting mechanics?#1063.3333.333
VISUAL | Did this game have nice graphics, art or design?#1143.5003.500
MOOD | Did this game have atmosphere, or did it make you feel something?#1393.0003.000

Ranked from 12 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Let people know how long this project has been going, or share a bit of its history.
I started this project a few month ago. Started as a little sideproject, so I wanted to finish it already!

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Submitted

Great game. The mechanic feel fine tuned and the design is very clean. I think the main thing the game needs is just more glamour. I want to really feel like I'm bullet hell. So more pumped music, cooler visuals, and snappier sound effects could really pump it up a notch. One small thing that could also help is replacing the cursor. The generic mouse cursor covers things up, it's pretty easy to just replace it with some crosshairs.

Developer(+1)

Hey! Thanks for the feedback! The cursor should be a crosshair, I think it's just buggy in WebGl.

Submitted

This game was really fun ! I love the visuals and the gameplay was fun! I think the square has too much health in the early levels. It’s not as fun to spend 15 seconds just shooting at a square that does nothing or shoots once every 3 seconds. Then, as you ramp up the difficulty, you can also increase the health. Great job !

Please check out my game ! :D Escape Path Beta

Submitted

Wow! This game is really funny and challenging. Good Work!

Submitted

Really great game! Got to level 24 so far. I have to say that I was amazed how each level is unique and difficult in its own way. So many different attacks and strategies, each level feels like fighting a boss.

Great job! Now I'm off to try level 24 again...

Developer(+1)

Cool! Thanks for playing!

Submitted

Really good game! Thank you for creating it and I enjoyed playing! Find y review below:

00:40 Can You Beat The Square?

Developer(+1)

thanks for playing it! Really enjoyed watching it! Also you can not buy chasing bullets since you already got the 3 bullets.

Submitted

Simple but fun game. I really love the upgrade system great job!

Submitted

For me personally, I would prefer to have a design similar to the health bar. I want to know the current state of the monster, but the way you develop it is very interesting and well done!

Submitted (1 edit)

I love the concept of this game! I was stuck on Level 9 for so long! I just couldn't figure out the strategy. Nonetheless, I thought it was extremely creative and fun. The powerups were a nice touch. Each addition to the square's difficulty was very fair and a nice transition from the previous.  Cheers!

Submitted

I really liked this game! Building on a single enemy in a single level over and over again is a really cool idea, and I think the ways you expanded on it were super creative and fun. The upgrade system also adds a nice amount of variety. Nice work!

Developer

Thanks for the nice words! Really appreciate it! Will check out your entry later! :)