Really nice game! I enjoyed the music!

I loved the narrrator/character! It would be nice to be able to adjust the sounds but other than that awesome job!

The game was really fun!

My favourite game so far. And you actually made me laugh with, “I’m so good at this I could only die in a cut scene”.

Brilliant entry.

Well crafted entry, and with no engine game engine behind, quite impressive!

The sprites and animations are very well made, I find specially good the death animation for zombies, it's both smooth and satisfying! 🤤

The game's a little buggy at parts. I guess that you had to write down many of the stuff that an engine already gives, and I value that, but you can easily get stuck inside Robert, or worse, between Robert and a tree (it happened more than once to me in my playthrough, damn my luck!). Also, there seems to be some kind of bug at the end, I entered the final zone but I didn't get the screen showing my time 🙁.

I have to admit that the playability did not click with me. It's a 100% design choice and totally subjective, but I totally prefer a Hotline Miami style playability in top-down-shooter games. I found myself fighting more times against the controls than the zombies hahaha! But as I say, it's just my POV, the game's fine as it is, and I understand why would you choose this control scheme for the game.

I don't fully understand why some zombies die in one hit. My guess is that it's just random, but sometimes it felt like it was because I was aiming directly on the zombie. If it's just by chance, I would like to suggest adding a mechanic where you instantly kill a zombie if your cursor is in the zombie, this way you reward players for their aiming skills, and it makes some parts more manageable!😛

Other than that, the game's quite well crafter, it shows quality and skill! Good job! 😁

nice little game. Am I detecting fellow Saffa accents there? I loved the audio in the game - very well executed, great voice overs, great music, fitting sFX. Encountered a minor glitch where if the dog and I are in the same space then I couldnt move, but somehow managed to get out of that predicament and continue on. I liked that the aiming was essentially point-and-click. Super fun, great job guys.

Easily the best I've played so far. Graphics, animations, voice acting, the feeling was top notch. Only bad thing is the movement, right and left direction are a bit confusing being tied to the mc and being top-down, I ended up only going forward and using the mouse for left and right. Other than that, good job!

This game surprised me. Initially I felt like it was a simple boring zombie shooter, but the fluid feeling, the strange emotion to actually save Rover, and the audio made it feel like a proper game! The voice acting is top-notch, tho a bit cliche (intended I expect?). 

It was very fun to play! GG! <3

This game was so much fun. I really loved the style and especially the narration. I wanted to keep playing it really had me hooked. It was a little buggy in parts, either the dog would get stuck near a wall, or at the blood drops and would not move from there. I'll be playing this again for sure, thanks for making it! 

Thank you for making the game!

I found out about it when you were posting the in-progress tweets. I think Hajime retwitted them and they ended up in my feed. :) But I digress.

I recorded my playthrough: https://youtu.be/awF7LN5cFIM

Let my copy some of the feedback here as well.

What I like:

• I enjoy this control scheme. I can even do some sidewalking (not to be confused with widewalking) with my dog!

• The shooting mechanics felt nice.

• It feels good to defeat zombies in this game. The sound and graphic effects contribute to that feeling.

• The graphics are simple, but fitting. Same with the music.

• Voice acting is great! It does make this game feel more complete.

• I would say that you nailed this cliche theme perfectly well. Although the companion could be more annoying. :D

• The game has checkpoints. Although there are some issues around them, it’s still better than going through everything again from the very beginning.

• This game is written in Go, with Ebitengine! I highly approve that. :)

• Even though the game level is relatively big, the wasm performance was quite good.

• Thank you for not throwing too many ghosts (?) at the player. xD

Some random thoughts:

• Walking backwards looks too slow to be useful. Perhaps the same speed as with strafing (or 10% slower) would make it more useful in some situations.

• I’m not a fan of crosshair (a cursor) disappearing from time to time (like when you reload). :( I don’t think that this mechanic serves any good. I doesn’t make the game harder or more realistic, it just makes you lose your cursor. Since this game disables the system cursor (?), I get really disoriented because of that.

• If you respawn, it could be really rough to survive. Enemies attack you way too aggressively. The spawning point should be relatively safe in my opinion.

A few technical issues I had with the game:

• The game hang after 100% progression while running in the browser. I don’t know if that’s a stable behavior or no. I only played it until that moment once using the wasm build. I managed to complete the game with a native Linux build.

• I had to recompile the game from the sources though. The version uploaded to the itch io page requires a newer version of glibc. So this is the message I get:

./escort-mission: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by ./escort-mission)
./escort-mission: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found (required by ./escort-mission)

My glibc version is 2.31

• I had some sound issues (voice clipping) with the wasm build.

Simple but effective mechanics that were nicely executed. And anyway, I'm a sucker for a game with a dog. Nice song loop, good feedback from the sound effects. The graphics made me nostalgic for early '90s games. 

The sound balance could use some tweaking. All of the sounds & music start off a little bit loud. Even with the volume turned down, the loudest tones in the music are as loud as the sound effects. Everything happening together is a little overwhelming.  In the visuals, some color differentiation between the impassable rubble at the bottom of the hills and the passable rubble strewn around on the ground would also be good.

Playing in browser, I  had a weird moment in which the MC suddenly shot forward into a zombie, his voice line glitched out like a skipping record, and I died. I'm assuming it was a glitch, but it gave me a good laugh. That *also* reminds me of old '90s game.

Overall a solid entry! Great job!

I loved the main character's quips, with the little call out to the game jam creators lol. Was fun to play.

This was amazing! The core gameplay was relatively simple but it was executed so well. Connecting shots was satisfying, reloading made me feel vulnerable, and I was very invested in the setting and the story. The voice acting and the dog barks were phenomenal, it really elevated the game and made it feel alive.

Two nitpicks to a game I already think is such high quality:

1. I would include the option to turn on subtitles.
2. Restarting from checkpoints is usually much harder than whatever killed you. There's just a swarm of zombies coming at you from all directions and it's difficult to recover.

Loved this entry, I wish there was more variety and more of it! Great job!

This was so cool! loved the music and voice over to build the depth of the story.  was fun running around and satisfying protecting your pup.  after a while i got stuck and couldn't move, but just refreshed and started over - great work!

Top down controls feel nice and exploring around shooting zombies is fun. I enjoyed listening to all the dialogue as well. Nice work!

Pretty good :D I liked the gameplay quite a lot, but the soundtrack and voice acting are really the star of this game.

Lol when I respawned after I  died, there were like a hundred zombies around me. No recovering from that! :P 
Really fun game!

Really cool art! Also wow, the voice it's amazing. Love that you put the Wilhelm scream when you die hahah, no way!

The feeling when we shot is very good! Kill zombies give a lot of satisfactions!

Good job for the voice!

I'm a bit frustating to be stopped with this bug, my player is lock with the dog, I can't move. I only can fire.

Super cool! I liked the feeling of exploding zombies in 1 shot! The voice acting is very well done!