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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Fun | #1747 | 2.951 | 2.951 |
| Overall | #2679 | 2.732 | 2.732 |
| Presentation | #2889 | 2.610 | 2.610 |
| Originality | #3188 | 2.634 | 2.634 |
Ranked from 41 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?
The weapon wielded by the player is a gun and a shield fused togther. In addition, if we have time for a story, it will be about a brother and sister re-uniting.
Did your team create the vast majority of the art during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the art during the game jam
Did your team create the vast majority of the music during the 48 hours?
Yes
We created the vast majority of the music during the game jam
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I liked your game, it was a lot of fun! With more content and diversity I see potential for this to grow, good job!
Fun game with a nice story. Great work.
Really cool and fun game!
I really like how you added an example of the gun blocking bullets in the world as a tutorial, that was a really effective way of teaching the player how it worked naturally! I actually didn't realize at first that you could right click to flip the gun around, so I was just pointing the mouse in the opposite direction instead- so thanks for making the blocking function still work when using it like that! Overall, nice job, there were some pretty great design choices in here.
So, originally, I was going to have the gun and shield only work via just aiming the mouse differently.
Then I realized that would make the combat 110% more awkward. Maybe if I had set it up for controllers? But that is the root of the gameplay, and why things work the way they do.
I’m glad you liked that little level design flourish. Having Godot as a tool for building levels helped me do a lot with a few mechanics.
This is interesting. I found the dual gun and shield interesting. You can't shield and shoot in the same direction, which means you are always either defensive or offensive. I also like that the enemies have the same limitation, only being able to attack when they're vulnerable.
There are some technical things I noticed. The instructions (in game and on the page's text) say left button is shield and right button is fire, but it was the opposite for me. Maybe this was a left-handed mouse thing, but I think the instructions should be reversed. The Windows download version is also broken. You only uploaded the .EXE when it needs the .PCK as well. This can be worked around, though, since you uploaded a Mac version. For anybody trying to get the Windows download to work: Download the Mac version as well, copy the file in that ZIP under WISP_Mac.app/Contents/Resources/WISP_Mac.pck to the folder you have WISP.EXE, and rename the .PCK file to WISP.pck. Doing this makes the download work. Also, something I've learned working with Godot, having a "quit" button on the web version is weird because clicking on it kinda partly quits the game. I've gotten into the habit of removing the quit button on the HTML5 versions of my games (which I do in GDScript by removing the button from the scene if !OS.has_feature("pc") ).
I’ll have to try to clean up the windows/Mac builds after the jam.
There are definitely a lot of little technical polishes I didn’t quite have time for, I got started late, and was adding content to the last hour. I’ll try to make sure windows builds are better in the future.
I like the presentation and the small story there was but the audio mixing needed a little work. Explosions gave me a headache with how loud and frequent they were.
Gameplay was good and interesting though. Had fun crawling around and shooting things.
Gotcha. Do you happen to have any tips on avoiding audio mixing issues and/or heading them off at the pass? I happened to create the explosion sound I used in bfxr, which often needs finessing, but it didn’t sound like overkill for me when I was making it?
It sounded ok in my earbuds, and the musician was able, after the jam, to make/source some sounds that are less harsh, which I intend to use in a post-jam version.
What audio setup did you play it with?
The gun-shield switcharoo idea was cool. Being able to block backstabs while still pew pewing enemies is an interesting spin on it.
switching between shooting and the shield is fun
This is an interesting concept, but it is way too easy to dash through the levels, and making you have to repeat dialogue makes restarting a slog. Has a lot of potential!
Interesting weapon idea. Also it felt pretty satisfying to block rockets.
WOW very very impressive and fun. So much going on in this game! I really like how complete it feels, cutscenes and all! Just overall super impressive and very underrated game!
Nice One! Good Job Mate!
Really neat game! I think with a bit more polish it would be perfect!
Interesting idea.
Projectiles could use trail or more contrast, it's really hard to see them.
Yeah. An art/contrast pass will be a nice thing to do in the post-jam version.
I mean, I think the core mechanic is about more than just shooting backwards.
It’s a cool trick, but I don’t know if I have enough ideas for how to do that all the time.
For me, the core is the dance between you and the robots, and that final gun is a nice cherry on top.
I’ll try to keep that in mind, though.
Thinking about this more, I have a least one more idea for how it could be used (basically in a room that is a wall of rocket launchers, with some robots that need to die).
But yeah, I would call the shoot/block dance the core mechanic, and the protection from the rear more of a cherry on top, still.
I had fun playing this game! Very cool style
Cute sprites! Not sure if it fit the theme super well, but a fun action game either way.
I also thought it was neat that your shot backwards when your shield was up. Little things like that make games 10x better :)
Yeah, the “joined together” in my mind was the shield and the gun (and the fact that you have both at all times. The right-click isn’t anything special, just makes it easier to block effectively), and the fact that the story is about siblings re-uniting.
It’s not a super tight fit, granted, yeah.