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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #831 | 3.906 | 3.906 |
| Overall | #1586 | 3.396 | 3.396 |
| Enjoyment | #1822 | 3.125 | 3.125 |
| Creativity | #2784 | 3.156 | 3.156 |
Ranked from 96 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?
**To avoid the gameplay bug and fight the Game's Boss, hug the top of the screen after the asteroid swam (at the end of the first level) other wise LVL 1 will loop** A space shooter where you play as a coward running away from danger as opposed to flying into danger.
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?
No
We used pre-existing audio
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Fun, quirky take on a shoot-em-up with a beautiful minimalist style. The one-hit defeat is a bit punishing, but understandable with a short level. Definitely a solid core mechanic that's worth fleshing out with some other complimentary ones (maybe a fuel management mechanic w/ fuel pickups... or having to abandon your ship in a space suit if it takes to much damage/need to commandeer another one in a set amount of time before oxygen runs out). Hope you keep fleshing it out! Well done :)
Very interesting take on the role reversed theme! The art is very well done and the gameplay is engaging. Nice!
clean game,
pardon?
I meant created finished and beautiful
What am I doing wrong? Cool game but I couldn't reach the boss :(
Sorry to here that, did you check the description?
I tried to stick to the top of the screen but it still looped me back every time.
how close do I have to be to advance to the next level?
The screen check gives you a bit of leeway so you can get almost a full ship's length off screen before you die so try this: stick to the left-ish hand side of the screen and try to keep your nose poking off the top of the screen broader after the asteroids.
The play button somehow didn't show up for me (looks like an itch.io problem), but the art looks great, I'd love to be able to play it sometime.
Sorry to hear that, what were you playing it on?
Update: Pressing enter progressed me to the first textbox of the game, but I could not progress past this point.
I had the same issue, playing embedded on both chrome and brave browsers. My laptop is a Windows 10 version. It ended up stuck on the below image. Hope this was helpful!
Pulling from the inspector I had the following settings:
thanks! We've been hearing about issues for a while now but it seems to be with itch. Have you tried on mobile?
it should start automatically now, at the "code monkeys" picture hit Z or X to get through the screen. This is a gameboy ROM and the A sbd B buttons are mapped to Z and X
Cool idea!
I think it looks good too, I like this style very much. It took me some time to understand how to start the game (tried different browsers, ended up spamming keys to make it work) but once it ran it was pretty cool. Nice :)
I really liked this game. There is 1 thing I would change, the planets (especially the ones that are cut in half) look like they are part of the background instead of obstacles. And also I realised how to beat the bos beacuse I hit a UFO by mistake, if I didn't I would not have beaten it becase it isn't very clear. Despite this i really liked it.
thanks for you comment and im glad you enjoyed the game. If you read the text at the begin of the game it tells you how to fight the boss.
The game won't load for me
I think there's something up wrong the servers, It loads for me but it loads an earlier submission while it loaded the correct version for someone in a different country
should work no
Works now. Updated my review to reflect this