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A jam submission

Scaler DefenderView game page

An arcade game for GMTK game jam 2024
Submitted by madmedus — 17 hours, 26 minutes before the deadline
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Scaler Defender's itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#38892.5912.591
Overall#43462.6212.621
Creativity#43562.7272.727
Style#45422.5452.545

Ranked from 22 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?
Humanity built a weapon to scale asteroids

Development Time

96 hours

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Simple and tricky, always a good combo.

Submitted(+1)

Super cute game. I like the simplicity here. It's kind of relaxing, even though it's a pretty stressful game. Does that make sense? Lol.

The art and sound effects are really cool.

The only criticism I have is that, at the beginning, I couldn't figure out how to shoot the different lasers. Maybe add a keybind section on the itch page. (For the people also wondering, it's LMB and SPACE).

Besides that, I think this is a wonderful small game. Good job, guys!

Submitted(+1)

It's kind of hard to aim with this one. And I'd love there to be more differences between the ammo types. But I like the minimalist art style!

Submitted(+1)

Kinda hardcore but pretty fun game!

Submitted(+1)

I guess I earn more scores by hitting them bigger? If so this would be so clever! A simple regulation like this can make the game so playful!

Scaling my view about regulation. I really need to learn from this work!

Developer (1 edit)

If you scale down an asteroid until it implodes you gain +1 score. Earth takes more dmg if is hit by a bigger asteroid.

Submitted(+1)

What orz. I think I play the wrong way lol

Submitted(+1)

Wooow, amazing art style and idea! The music fits the game perfectly! It’s pretty hard, though.But that’s the charm of it! Amazing job!

Submitted(+1)

Pretty tough but fun ^^

Submitted(+1)

Simple but nice space game :)

Submitted(+1)

I had fun going for a high score. The best I got was 39. I couldn't use the second weapon on the browser, but I still had a lot of fun.

Submitted(+1)

That's a good idea.

It feels a bit weird to have one control on the mouse and the other on the keyboard. Maybe make it work with right-click?
Anyways pretty fun! Let's go bevy!

Developer

Actually on the download version It works with the right click, on the browser It was opening the menu so i had to quickly change that

Submitted

Makes sense!

Submitted(+1)

It honestly borders on impressive how bad at this game I am lol. After several tries, finally got a score of 21, and I think I'll call it there :P

Super fun arcade game concept, and everything in the implementation seemed really well polished! Great job to both Alessandros on this one! :)

Submitted(+1)

Neat and simple,  perfect bite sized jam game, I like it! I just wish there was an option to control using the keyboard, my mouse setup isn't well suited for this kind of thing.

Submitted(+1)

Interesting concept. It took me a few tries to realize that the asteroids were allowed to hit the planet, and it's just you that is dodging.