I liked the concept of the game, a good representation of the jam's theme. Not being allowed to shoot at will adds a strategic layer to the genre, and is interesting that it forces you to use all your guns. As a suggestion, ammunition scarcity could make the game more entertaining and challenging, and I would add more weapons that depend on bullet bouncing. I liked the introduction animation. Visually, I think the tiles on the floor are noisy, and the character design could be better. Sound effects and music helped to set the hilarious mood of the game. The music remembers me of the movie Soul Kitchen.

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I loved Orbital Punch last year, and it's great to see you folks coming back with another good one. The concept is solid and works pretty well. I can't help but feel that you should either go all in on the weapon-swapping (like you can't control it at all) or just not even do the weapon roulette.

As it stands, it doesn't really do anything extra for the theme/gameplay, and it just kinda makes the gameplay a little bit more tedious. If weapon swapping was uncontrollable, it would at least be a fact of life and be something tactical that you have to plan around.

The graphics and sound are great, of course. I feels like the enemies could  use a little more feedback when they get hit, though. Also, while the ground looks great, it is super busy. It could do with looking a little more faded so the game seems a little less cluttered.

Great entry! Can't wait to see what ya'll do next year.

Nicely crafted game with a really impressive intro and story art! The multiple weapons were fun to time and use. Perhaps adding some level of weapon choice (if not picking individual weapons, at least choosing when they fire) would make the game a bit more tactical. Overall, well done!

First off, I really enjoyed this game. 
Having only little control over when your guns fire adds another dimension of planning to a top-down shooter and makes positioning even more important. I love the spin this mechanic takes on regular tds games, in which you often default to a single weapon once you find your favourite. 
The thematics are great and make for an interesting game world and enemy design.

The weapon design was very interesting as well. Some notes on that:
- I love the design of the minigun, impairing/speeding up your movement while dealing damage at a medium range made it the most fun weapon for me. 
- Having the ability to create escape/attack routes for yourself with the rocket launcher is also a great concept. However, I think it should not be the only weapon able to destroy smaller obstacles like crates/tables as right now it is necessary to always switch to the launcher and even damage yourself when in a tight spot. Having it be the only gun to tear down walls perfectly makes sense, though.
- The flamethrower works great when running away from a horde of enemies but it is useless as an offensive tool as you constantly run into your own flames. Maybe tweak it so that while the gun is firing, you push away the flames in front of you as you walk. 
- The shotgun works fine,  although it felt a little like an inferior version of the minigun. Maybe reduce its cooldown timer so that it can serve as a quickdraw close-range combat tool and/or make it further push away enemies hit.
- The only weapon I did not like at all was the poison grenade launcher. Most of the combat is close to medium range (except when you know the position of an enemy far away and decide to fire a rocket at them), so having a weapon that only works at a huge distance is problematic. Add in that the flask needs to bounce before it explodes & only creates a very little smoke cloud and you have an inferior weapon. This could be fixed in a number of ways e.g. making the flask explode once it hits an enemy, decreasing its range/bounces, increasing the cloud size or making the cloud interactable with your other guns e.g. the shotgun blast spreading it further, the flamethrower making it explode, etc.

I mentioned earlier that I like how the game encourages you to use all the weapons as it is too slow to cycle back to your favourite. This necessitates, however, that all weapons are (somewhat) equally useful. 
Tweaking the weaker ones a little bit would probably solve that, though. 


As the level structure and enemy spawns change every time you play, this never really gets boring and makes for a lot of replayability.

Tldr:
+ Great idea for a core mechanic, switching things up for a TDS game
+ Cool thematics
+ Great design on some weapons (e.g. the minigun, rocket launcher)
+ Fun and interesting gameplay
+ Replayability due to randomized levels

- Some weapons need to be improved to fully support the core mechanic of semi-controllability

Thanks for making this, I had a lot of fun trying it out!
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Due to this is being jam game, of course there were a few bugs/unintended features. I am just listing them in case they are not known. Therefore, they are not intended as criticism towards the design:
- Outer walls of the level can occasionally be destroyed with the rocket launcher. This allows the player to exit the level into the void. As the tight space is part of the game mechanics, this makes it very easy to win. 
- Corn projectiles are invisible from time to time, especially at close range.
- It happened several times that all enemies were dead but the victory screen did not appear. I searched the whole level multiple times but could not find any more. As enemies sometimes come in from outside the level it could be that that they spawned out of bounds and maybe wandered off.
- Enemies tend to walk through walls sometimes

Great idea, although maybe it would be even more fun if you could choose your weapon. But I love the idea of even your own weapons sort of turning against you(because they will always rotate and you get the weapons that you don´t really want to have in that situation).

The intro gave me a good laugh, too :D

This is definitely one of the best games at this gmtkjam.  I really like that the artwork and the levels always regenerate. So it is very diversified and funny.  Congratulations for this special game!!

I love the art style and the comics-like intro is really nice. The game itself has a fun concept too.

Good job!

I really loveeee this game! Especially the art design! very cute and adorable in all  designed! There are  some bugs in this game but still its amazing to make this game in several days!

A big fan of this art work!<3

I love how you not only made a great concept and idea, but also invented a theme and even a distinct comic graphic style. 5/5.

Cant do anything. mouse and keyboard just being ignored by this game

I'm a big fan of top-down shooters, and I like the direction. The automatic weapon-swap needs some getting used to at first, but adds a nice touch of tactics later on. However, when I died, I only did so because I grilled myself. :p On the other hand, I didn't kill anything with the gas grenade - at least not even myself

A couple of bugs here and there, but I guess that's ok, given it was a gamejam title. Couldn't restart, couldn't finish a level, but that was mentioned before.

Love the style and really dig the music. This type of sound easily becomes annoying, but not so far ^^ Keep it up, will gladly give it another shot! :)

I'm not really into enemy-wave shooters, but this put a small asterisk in it. Extremely fun to play and the art is GORGEOUS, but could have used more work in the audio department. More pros and cons for the weapons could have been nice, the only weapon I was aware it had them was the gas grenade.

LOVED the artwork, but either I had a bug or that there is no goal to get to? (at the end I just strolled outside of the screen, and couldn't find anything relevant to do).

At the end of the day, I think that "my weapons act out on their own" is a really cool thing to base a game on, but you could go further than that to make it shine, because I almost didn't care what weapon will shoot now as long as some kind of firepower was active. Give me more challenges that relates to the pro's and con's of each weapons, preferably both, so that it will have a greater effect on the experience (:

I love the comic book design of this game! You must either have a lot of talent being an artist, or be good at finding somebody to do it for you! The gameplay's pretty neat, although I wish that I was told I had to use my gamepad rather than being thrown in and shaved down to half health before trying it. Here's my submission: https://itch.io/jam/gmtk-2018/rate/300708

Amazing art style. Fun game play. The flamethrower is your worst enemy and your best weapon. I did get stuck after I died, as the game would not load when I hit start again.