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A jam submission

Escape from Area 51View game page

Procedurally-generated top-down bullet hell shooter!
Submitted by PhaRogue — 6 hours, 36 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#1783.0003.000
Theme interpretation#1803.1003.100
Overall#1983.0003.000
Graphics#2392.9002.900
Gameplay#2412.6002.600
Innovation#2692.5002.500

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/TomJanse/GameJam

Game description
Procedurally-generated top-down bullet hell shooter! You play as an alien trying to escape from Area 51.

Theme interpretation
We were thinking of some conspiracy theories, like bird-with-hidden-camera simulator or something with the great ice wall that surrounds the world. Eventually we settled on playing an alien that can escape from area 51!

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

This game has a lot of potential. When I click the Play button the first/entry type level appears to be exceptionally small in the top left corner. Then when I get to the next/first proper level is sizes up correctly. Not sure why thats happening. Then when playing the actual game, how do I restart/respawn after I died? The game seemed to continue but I was most certainly very dead lol. But the actual gameplay and premise is cool. I love this kind of art and the levels are cool. I thought the control scheme was fine and actually is my preference. I like that the dead bodies block bullets which is a cool mechanic. Overall I had fun playing. It needs a few tweaks here and there but its the base of something really cool that if you polish a bit you could upload to a web-games platform if you wanted. Good job!

Submitted

Cool game! I like the art. The gameplay is interesting. I was surprised that dead bodies block bullets, but it makes sense and adds an interesting element to the gameplay.

Submitted(+1)

Interesting gam.

The control keys are qwerty: using the arrow keys would be more practical and usable by everyone

Submitted(+1)

Fun idea, I got my butt handed to me though. Poor alien never had a chance lol.

Developer

Thanks for playing! Yes, the difficulty *might* be a bit too high from the feedback we've gotten :p

Submitted(+1)

This was a really creative idea for secrets! The gameplay felt good, but it was a little difficult especially when the enemies were right by the door when you walk in. Also, there seemed to be an issue when I died, I wasn't able to respawn or there wasn't an end screen so my player was just frozen. Art was really cute! Great work and very creative!

Developer

Thanks for playing and your feedback! I've shared it with the team. Unfortunately, there is no respawn screen, we didn't have time for implementing one :(