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A jam submission

Cannon KnightView game page

A retro launcher game
Submitted by Kotzwinkle, GottderFrucht (@GottderFrucht), devlin_wav (@devlin_wav), BoxonaCat (@BoxOnaCat) — 4 hours, 13 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Audio#143.7033.703
Graphics#144.1094.109
Gameplay#153.7343.734
Overall#173.6473.647
Innovation#433.2813.281
Theme#463.4063.406

Ranked from 64 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

GitHub repository URL
https://github.com/Kotzwinkle/Gamedev-js-jam-2023-Entry

Challenge

Open Source

Flash Revival

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Submitted(+1)

Brilliant game! Really sharp and perfectly fitting for the theme and genre for web games. I could easily see this on Miniclip or Agame back in the day. Everything worked so well. I was especially impressed by the cel shaded 2D sprites, which really made the characters pop in the environment. I'm definitely going to try something similar in one of our next games. I think it's really inspiring to see a game made by a huge team like this. How do you structure your work and coordinate building the game? Really curious to hear your experience as a team :-D

All in all, well done, really enjoyed playing your game a ton ! Hope you've had an awesome jam!

Developer(+1)

Thanks! We really appreciate that! We were inspired by the old Turtle Toss flash game. Our team was very distributed (different countries/timezones) so we opted to rely heavily on board software to coordinate (we chose Codecks). How about yourselves? How did you navigate coordinating a large team?

Submitted(+1)

That sounds awesome! I haven't heard about Codecks, but I'll check it out :-D For our coordination we used a kanban board in Trello to have a general overview of tasks to be developed. Most of our team were sitting together physically in the same location, and then we used Discord to share screens so we could follow along on what each person was working on, which was great :-D

Submitted(+1)

This game make me laugh so hard! Great job, good graphics, music, and well implemented time theme! Really loved it! But...the club monsters...really hated them! They always make me lose meters.

Developer(+1)

Thanks, we really really appreciate that! I personally had beef with the plane enemies lol

Submitted(+1)

This is an excellent entry to the jam, the concept reminds me a lot of games like Learn to Fly. I think it is a well-polished game in all its sections and, above all, very fun.

Developer(+1)

Thanks! We're glad you enjoyed it!

(+1)

i really liked that game idea . But I think it would be better if there restart button and some thing turbo when shoot . + Look I think I got best score heheh (it was a glitch, I'm not that pro) keep it up 🔥

Developer

Thanks! Yeah, XD a restart button would be extremely helpful

Submitted(+1)

Amazing, very cool implementation of the theme, coherent retro style and just right mix of skill vs luck. This type of game should definitely have scoreboard.

Developer

Thanks! We really appreciate you taking the time to play!

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

That was a fun game reminded me of the old mobile games :)

heres my score


Developer

Woah, nice! Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+1)

This is superb! Polished well, everything looks great and sounds retro. Very good on the use of theme too. I enjoyed the game, this is good in mobile. Here is my score to feel good about myself:

Developer

Thanks! we're glad you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

Very well put together and all around a great experience. If you are looking to expand this I think another motivator besides just getting a high score would be cool!

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for playing! Yeah, we were spitballing a few ideas during development (new levels, miniboss, etc...), but ran out of time XD

Submitted(+1)

I love these type of games. It was fun playing it, I played it several times, my best score was 282, is that good? I could play more if had more free time. Well done.

Developer

Awesome! We're glad you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

Both graphics and audio are great really. 

Took me a while to get used to the controls.

Got me a coupled of tries to get around 600

Those birds are awful lmao

Developer(+1)

Thanks for taking the time to play! We're glad you liked it! Also, yeah, those birds can wreck your run sometimes lol

Submitted(+1)

Top notch graphics! Really liked the music and sfx as well. Sometimes it wasn’t super clear when I could do a mid-air relaunch, like it let me pause time but wouldn’t let me click to launch. I also thought I’d be able to pop the balloon, but I guess the armor isn’t sharp enough hahaha. Overall great job!!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for checking it out! Yeah, slowing down and launching each cost hourglasses, so you could slow down with one hourglass, but not have enough to launch. We definitely could have used a tutorials screen

Submitted(+1)

Very fun game, I found myself spending quite a bit of time trying to find new tricks :p Congrats!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Simple but fun! i like the monster

Developer

Thanks! We appreciate you taking the time to play!

Submitted(+2)

I think there could be a reverse ranking additional to the normal ranking so I would be a top scorer lmao lmao 

Developer

XD Yeah, that would be a cool feature! Thanks for playing!

Submitted(+2)

lovely music and art! Took me a bit to learn the mechanics of the game, but at the end my high score was 1252!

I'm not too fond of A and S as keybinds for this game, since you have to use your mouse to launch the player. Maybe rework it to right click and spacebar or something?

Collectibles were incredibly generous, especially the blue ones. after I grabbed 2 or 3, I could abuse them to launch vertically and pull off a massive score. Maybe get punished for going too high?

I didn't really find a use for the rewind feature, since it made you still lose time. The mid-air launch was good tho and I abused the shit out of it :)

Great game overall, congrats on submitting!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, the control scheme, RNG, and power costs are definitely in need of tweaking. We're glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

Brilliant game. Loved it.

Please add a scoreboard so that I can see how good / terrible I am at the game!

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thanks!  XD Yeah, we were pushing to squeeze one in but ran out of time. We'll definitely add one post-jam

Submitted(+1)

One of my favourites so far. The mechanics are very enjoyable, good work ! 

Developer

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!

Submitted(+1)

Love the music and the sound effects. I get good feedback from the game (in terms of audio and visuals) based on my actions, which I really appreciate.

Developer

Thanks! We really appreciate the feedback!

Submitted(+1)

enjoyed it

good job guys!

Developer

Much appreciated! Thanks for checking it out!

Submitted(+1)

Cool entry, bring back flash memories, no doubt. My only complain is it could be frustrating to have so many enemies and so few boosters, there are as many enemies flying randomization needs a little tuning, overall: graphics, sounds and fun make this a solid entry.

Developer(+1)

We appreciate the feedback! Yeah, the difficulty can definitely spike due to RNG XD. Thanks for taking the time to play our game!

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