This game looks and plays excellent! Love all of the variation of upgrades and weapons. Animations look awesome. I had fun playing this. Some sound effects would take it to the next level.
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Keep your child's soul (and your tongue !)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #57 | 3.565 | 3.565 |
| Theme interpretation | #89 | 3.609 | 3.609 |
| Overall | #103 | 3.522 | 3.522 |
| Audio | #206 | 2.870 | 2.870 |
| Graphics | #210 | 3.087 | 3.087 |
| Innovation | #238 | 2.609 | 2.609 |
Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
GitHub repository
https://github.com/PixTrick/GameOff2022
Comments
2 years ago(+1)
Wow well done ! Thanks a lot for playing !
I wanted to add more types of enemies and even a boss fight, as well as a bit more balanced spawning system but i didn't have the time for that ... Maybe in a next update ? Stay tuned ! ;)
No, your score is submitted no worries, this is just an interface bug that i already solved but i cannot fix before the end of the jam sorry :/
I just checked and yes indeed you're in the leaderboard, at the 13th exactly with a score of 472, so it is normal is you don't see your name in the leaderboard since it displays only the ten first ones.
Anyways, thank you for playing and sorry again for this bug, i'm aware of the issue !
Edit : if you want to play the game again, you have to quit it and relaunch it, i know this is not very convenient :/
Giving it few more tries made it to "End game" which is more about how much cats on screen my PC can take before all starts lagging into slide show :D
Obviosly this would need more complex spawning system that would spawn more powerful versions of cats (and dogs) but in lesser numbers. I'm sure you already might have ideas for that.
When leveling up I've run out of perks that I wanted. Would be great if there was a skip button in case I don't want to take anything.
Not sure how intended it was but when I got camel perk my damage at full life didn't just decrease. It was gone. I couldn't break even coins crate until I lost some HP
Yeah you managed to spot every issue the game currently has xD
I ran into that problem too, when maxed out you cannot play anymore and this was absolutely not intended ... Another bug to fix i guess x)
And yes, i will balance the game a lot for next updates, while fixing all issues, no worries. I will also implement some additionnal enemies/weapons/bonus, so stay tuned to try them ;)
Thanks again for your playtesting it means a lot to me ! And congrats for the first place on the leaderboard !!
2 years ago(+1)
Wow i'm so proud to read your comment, thank you so much !
I'm aware that the game is indeed still VERY unbalanced but i'm currently working on it, no worries ! By the way one of the bonus is extremly unbalanced too, i mean OP, just saying ... ;)
Actually the game was also supposed to have a boss fight, 2 other types of enemies and 2 or 3 more weapons and bonus, but i didn't have the time to make a proper version of the game with them so they will probably be implemented in the next update, after the jam !
I will fix some bugs and balance the game a bit more not to be overwhelmed by swarms of enemies too quickly
I have to say, you made my day with this comment ... Thanks a lot for your kindness !
No problem, I'm glad to hear that I'm not just incredibly bad at the game, but it is actually a bit unbalanced :D
I think I know what upgrade you're talking about, I went from doing about 50 damage a shot to doing 800 damage a shot out of the blue... That took me by surprise. Also, by wave 7, something strange happened. I don't know exactly why, but suddenly, everything disappeared. All the monsters, my upgrades, everything. Then they started raining down again, only now I wasn't doing damage at all... My elephant was also gone, and the only thing doing damage now was my flames and my missiles (and they were only doing like 1-3 damage?) Maybe too many monsters had spawned and it basically soft-crashed?
I could see some boss fights being a really cool addition! I hope you keep iterating on this, you're off to such a great start. One of the best games I've played this jam for sure! :D
2 years ago(+1)
Yes this is exactly THIS upgrade ;) but actually it was not necessary since the first of the leaderboard made his score without it
By the way yes, you're absolutely right, the spawning rate is too high at some point and this is why the game looks so weird after some time. I will definitely check out how to fix that ! I will also see how to make the difficulty a bit less brutal because basically after the third wave this is almost impossible if you do not have a decent build
Thanks again for your comments ! This is the first time I make a 2D game and this is such motivating to have honest and detailed reviews like that. I will never thank you enough for that :D
2 years ago(+1)
You are perfectly right actually : the game is hard, even for me xD I didn't have much time to do the balancing unfortunately
Isaac was indeed a source of inspiration by the way, i had a great time putting these references in the game !
And yeah, i'm aware of the menu bugs and i already fixed those, but i cannot change the game for the moment so this will be for the next update ;)
Thanks again for playing !
2 years ago(+1)
Thank you so much for that detailed review ! And yes, i'm aware some things in the game are misleading, sorry for that :/
Thanks again for playing !
2 years ago(+1)
That's a great score actually congrats !
Yeah it was planned to give players more informations on the upgrades, the level of the upgrade ... But we didn't have time for that :/
Thanks a lot for the review !
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