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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #309 | 3.722 | 3.722 |
| Overall | #915 | 3.389 | 3.389 |
| Originality | #981 | 3.556 | 3.556 |
| Presentation | #1714 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
In most SHUMP games, you have fine control over your movement and weaponry. Not here though, all you have is a space ship and a massive Uncontrollable Space Flail™ with a powerful spreadfiring cannon on it! Add to the fact that all enemies are physics-modeled and collide with each other, and you've got a tricky shooter that gets ever more chaotic as you make it deeper in!
Did your team create the art for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
We created all art during the game jam
Did your team create the audio for this game during the 48 hour time slot?
We created all audio during the game jam
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This game is very cool! i like the concept, please keep working on it even after the jam, i think that with a bit of polishing it will became amazing, good job! Please check out my game too :D
It was great that the flail can also block bullets. The overall game feel on the flail is great and it's a really neat mechanic to put in a shoot em up.
Definitely more enemy types and level variation would be cool as would audio. A really easy thing to implement but that would be nice is to flash the screen red (or just flash the screen corners red) when you get hit since right now there's no indication of it besides your healthbar decreasing.
I liked very much that you can take this ball thing i use it to shield yourself from bullets - very nice! I only feel that it should be somehow easier to throw it upwards - that's something that I couldn't do too well... Very fun
Got Hammerfight vibes - pretty fun! Wish I had a little more room to move around in and get the flail to do some big damage!
Nice little game. As others, I forgot about shooting, becuase using the flail is easier and more fun)
Would be better if there was a browser version and restart button (had to reopen game a few times:))
Very cool idea and cool graphics. At first I though you could only kill enemies by swinging the flail button because I forgot there was an actual fire button, and the game was still fun ! I could see this concept expanded to have a whole arsenal of wacky weaponry. Nice job !
Cute little shootemup... or rather flail em up! Felt like a Touhou very quickly, just one where the tricky bit was fighting back, of course. Ended up causing quite a few caramboulages. :D
This is pretty fun! You took a simple concept and focused in, and it came out great. The flail feels perfectly unwieldy, and I really never feel particularly in control!
I can't imagine what it would be like with a double pendulum, trying to wrestle it where you want to go would be absurd!
This is a cool idea. I found it was a lot easier to kill enemies using the flail instead of shooting them. I like that you can use the flail to attack enemies or block the bullets. The particle effects are a nice touch.