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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall Score | #77 | 2.435 | 2.435 |
| Originality of the Character | #78 | 2.391 | 2.391 |
| How unique was the ability | #85 | 2.391 | 2.391 |
Ranked from 23 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Cool ability! Could see adding different types of enemies or powerups/hazards
Thank You. Yeah, going to work on enemies and/or ability itself in future.
gaining energy from enemies you kill is an interesting concept, look forward to seeing more
Thank you bud.
I personally don't see how this would work in an actual game. It seems to remove challenge and strategy, not add it.
Yes it's not what you can put in an actual game but in game we can give same ability to enemies or a cooldown or disadvantage for using ability. That way game can be balanced and challanges can be made. And there will be responsive enemies ofcourse, not static like this prototype. I've some ideas about it and also got really nice suggestions from other jammers , So It can be better in future upgrades I guess. Thank You.
Fun concept and idea. The movement is fun, but I wish the screen was either wrapped or that I had a bigger play area, so I could really get to enjoy shooting and moving.
As a prototype it’s great, but going forward I would add more risk/reward in. Maybe make two firing options, one that kills the enemies and is an easier shot to land, but doesn’t give health and then one that doesn’t kill them, but drains health and is harder to land … like a beam that only goes out so far from the ship or something.
Enemies that were threatening would be good too, but I’m sure you know all that. As a concept, you’ve got a great base here and I can’t wait to see what you do next round! Good work. I played on stream if you want to see in-the-moment feedback.
I have seen your streaming. Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. I was gonna balance game later in diffrent way but I like the idea you suggested about two diffrent firing types. Also I've written down your feedbacks and gonna work on that in later stages like on movement and screen. Thank you for your time.
My pleasure. It’s got great movement and a solid foundation. Can’t wait to see where you go with it if that’s a future task in the rounds.
very nice game, i love your health system. what do you use ? scriptable objects? , do you use one canvas for all enemies or multiples canvas for each enemy. great concept.
Thank You. No I haven't used scriptables but can use that, thanks for idea. And for enemies, they are not in canvas, they are in gameplay scene and for health Text above them, I cheated a bit, It's not canvas items but a TMP text objects, LOL. I know it's not optimised but I finished this in rush so didn't got time to optimise it. But doing all the changes and optimisation part now for future use.
that 's good, i experiment on this on another game, i used multiples canvas and i saw some drops in fps. it's even more complex on 3d as the text need to be facing camera at all times.... never ending learning
The art style is really nice
Thank you. but it isn't mine, lol. It's Brackey's 2D mega asset pack. As I'm a programmer and not artist so it would be difficult for me to make art like that in such time.
I liked the ability to take the health from the enemies.
Thank You 🙌🏻
It was quite good but the ability wasn't unique.
Thank You, I will try to improve upon it in later stages or after the jam. Any suggestions are welcome 🤘🏻
Decent idea, but currently I don't see how this ability changes gameplay, because even if shooting wouldn't heal, the player would still just shoot the enemies all the time.
Thank you for the feedback. This is just a prototype for showing healing ability of character. If we apply this to game, enemies were attacking player also and in advance , we can give same ability to some of the enemy types too. I've some ideas in my mind how to balance a gameplay by using this type to ability. So if I get chance; would extend this furthur.
Cool idea, I feel like it's missing something though. Hitting the enemy and healing yourself is great, but I wonder if you should also take damage when you shoot? That way there's a penalty for missing and a reward for hitting. Could be a pretty cool push and pull!
Thank you for playing my submition and for feedback. You are right, it's missing balancing the game. I've some ideas about to furthur expand upon. Like as you suggest damage if not hit, or can damage in certain range and heal only if get perfect hit. And also can give enemies some of this abilities for making game interesting. I will be working on this in future if I get chance to upgrade it from prototype to a proper game.
not bad for this first round, the healing to attack could be interesting, but it depends on how you use it in a full game. we will see
Thank you for your feedback. for using this in a full game, balancing of this mechanic is required, like some anti-ability to this healing ability or any other disadvantage to player for aquairing this ability.