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A jam submission

NeedlesongView game page

Twin stick needler
Submitted by Yongmin Park (@yongminparks) — 4 hours, 5 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Design#2453.9843.984
Overall#2834.0164.016
Originality#3794.0404.040
Adherence to the Theme#6004.0244.024

Ranked from 124 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted(+1)

Great you can also reroute the needle a bit. This good be even better as a randomized dungeon crawler. Anyway good entry one of my favs!

Submitted

Yondu would be proud. Aesthetic is fantastic, concept is brilliant. Controlling the needle is a bit finicky (it felt a bit better using a controller but still kinda difficult to control) but otherwise an excellent submission to the jam. Congrats!

Submitted(+2)

I feel legit shame at how good this game is. Awesome work. I would really like to play a long game of this on the switch with some story elements and some old school item progression.

Submitted(+2)

Wow! I think this is my favorite entry so far. You guys have done a great job!

Design [5/5]: The first 5/5 I've given for this jam. The design is brilliant. Throwing the needle is fun even when there are no enemies for you to hit. I love that you can keep walking around while your needle shoots out in the direction you sent it flying in. I love the enemy designs. The wizard especially is a worthy and engaging opponent to fight against. The level design is great, each battlefield offering something different. My only complaint is that in the fourth room with enemies, the game starts you immediately next to a sword guy who comes swinging at you, which felt a little unfair. Overall, well done! I'd love to see this game more polished and fleshed out.

Adherence to the Theme [5/5]: It's a twin-stick shooter with only one bullet. Nice job!

Originality [5/5]: I have never seen a combat mechanic like the needle in this game. It was a breath of fresh air.

I'd love to see you guys work more on this game. I don't know if this is the direction you're going with it, but I'd love to see puzzle-focused levels with non-lethal obstacles in addition to the combat encounters. I could see this game being a Zelda-like if you went that route. Overall, it's just so cool. Bravo!

Submitted

A really cool and fun idea. I have always wanted to know what Yondu from Guardians of the Galaxy feels like. I with the needle would also do some damage when returning. Otherwise the controls feel great especially when you have to attack and move at the same time.

Submitted

I loved it! I only criticism is that it might be more fun if the needle was a bit faster, maybe even a bit harder to control.

Submitted

This is so great!  Maybe make the main character a bit more visually distinct from the enemies, particularly when not whistling.

But man, really nice job. Great idea, great music, great art!

This is really good, the game and art go really well together and it was a blast to play. A small nitpick I have is I wish that the character was making some sort of noise when doing their equivalent of Yondu's whistling, though this is a game jam so I can understand why that may have been hard to implement in time.

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