Great idea, I really enjoyed playing it!
As feedback: did you consider making the Moon sharp go through enemies? It's kind of hard to kill them aiming to intercept their future position.
Keep working on it, it has a lot of potential!
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Secret Moon Shards's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Innovation | #43 | 3.593 | 3.593 |
| Gameplay | #60 | 3.481 | 3.481 |
| Overall | #109 | 3.259 | 3.259 |
| Graphics | #148 | 3.185 | 3.185 |
| Theme interpretation | #180 | 2.963 | 2.963 |
| Audio | #180 | 2.852 | 2.852 |
Ranked from 27 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/johnedvard/SecretMoonShards
Theme interpretation
Shooting a moon shard, and gain the ability to teleport to it, killing all enemies in the path.
Comments
Great realization of mechanic, really liked to use this throwing-teleporting feature :D
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Light AgainThe game play and controls are really nice. Surprisingly intuitive.
A few things I would upgrade (and you might already be planning):
- Some indication that/where you can fall down.
- Adding health that is decreased whenever you run into one of the enemies.
- Add some objective (e.g. things to find, like the "sectet")
Keep at it and this will become a great game.
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Golfing GodsOuch my ears :( The sound effects are so much louder than the background, I had my volume turned way up with headphone to listen to the background track, would be nice if you balanced it a little better.
The visuals are fantastic! I loved the 1 bit art and the character seemed to have personality just by the way they looked. That's a sign of really good character design in my opinion, great work!
The shoot and teleport mechanic was fun as well. Would love to see more levels and challenges with this mechanic. And maybe a story for our main character too! Hope you keep working on this, there's a lot of potential here for a really good and popular game.
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The First WaveThank you for playing. Yes, the sound balance is very much off, thanks for the feedback. I definitely need to fix that.
The graphics are not mine (except for the shard and trails), so I cannot take credit for that. It was made by CanariGames
I am happy you like the mechanic. With feedback like yours, I get more motivated to work on the game and make it better. Thanks for the kind words.
Agree with everyone here, I really like the fluid animations and minimalistic art. Despite it being WIP, the game itself has a lot of its core identity. I never realized that my trailing effect could damage enemies until the level where the enemy was blocking my path. That was a very good design choice. I think it can be refined a bit as the enemy vibrates back and forth between the walls. Otherwise, great job! I look forward to seeing where you will take these mechanics.
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LUNAR=N0XIt took me a few tries to learn the controls, but once I found left-click places the teleportation target then moving the character became a lot fun and it's really cool how you can knock out enemies as you teleport!
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Moonshot BingoVery, very intriguing weapon-throw to teleport and kill game mechanic! Lots of potential here.
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Billy's RocketI wish there was more to the game, although I understand that the game is still in progress. I think the mechanic of defeating enemies by lining up yourself and the shard between them and then teleporting is pretty cool and unique. Not sure I've ever seen something like that before so I'd love to see this game expand more on that. Nice job!
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Jet SpaceI LOVE the minimal design! The gameplay is fun and now I want more and more challenging levels :D Good Work.
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Granny's Great EscapeI like the way to attack&move! very innovative and simple yet fun! Though my game get stuck after certain levels(I don't know which one, the one with a bunch of walls.) I'd love to see more levels of it!
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moonshot shotCould not hear music (Mac Catalina 10.15.17). Teleporation neat idea, took me a few times to get it down. Ended up the void but certainly enjoyed trying it:)
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Saving DreamlandCool mechanic! A bit easy since you can sometimes just teleport to the end, and I did manage to get stuck in a wall.
I like the feel of the grapichs and music, they fit nicley with each other. A bit of an eerie feeling!
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