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Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
Enjoyment | #2494 | 2.667 | 2.667 |
Presentation | #2623 | 2.861 | 2.861 |
Overall | #2831 | 2.741 | 2.741 |
Creativity | #3185 | 2.694 | 2.694 |
Ranked from 36 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?
You play as a rolling dice shooting dice enemies while your stats are constantly randomized by dice RNG
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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Thanks for submitting your game to the stream, here's the interview;
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1541787359
Very cool fast paced little game. I really wish the new skills popup wouldn't interrupt the play or at least be dismissible by the jump button or some other button.
Overall it's a bit difficult to keep track of where I am in relation to bullets flying around and enemies moving but I think that's just a matter of playing it longer and getting used to it.
Presentation was really good, nice music, sfx and art was good!
Thanks for the feedback :D
I liked the laser effects and the potential of the stat system! I’d agree with the others that the “new stats” pause menu was a bit much and interrupted the flow of the game. It also wasn’t clear how important the different stats were overall. Good work! :)
Thanks for the feedback :D
very cool
Very cool laser shooting. Fun and simple gameplay! SFX for shooting is very satisfying, although would have like it more to add sfx on hitting the enemies, and taking damage. The gameplay end very abruptly a lot of the time when you did not notice you got hit before. Also player movement is very fast and floaty, very common with platformer game made with Unity D': One quick improvement I usually do is to mess around with that gravity & mass number in the ridgidbody. Guarantee for better jumping experience.
Overall, great job on this game!
Yep you’re right, thanks for the suggestion :D
Wish the pausing from the new randomized stats wasn't as abrupt, because the pauses i feel take away from the pacing of the gameplay! Played at https://twitch.tv/hedgein <3
Sorry about that, a lot of people had the same issue, definitely going to change that after the jam :)
I like the idea of randomized stats but I was interrupted after every 2 enemies to click the continue button for my new stats, and all I ever really looked at was health (when I rolled 1, I lost, that was basically it). The art was clean though, and it plays through as intended with progression and boss enemies, so good work!
A lot of people had the same issue, thanks for playing though :D
Nice idea! I do have some suggestions though - I think stat rerolls happen way too often, which interrupts the gameplay, especially since you need to use mouse to skip it. Often I don't feel a serious impact from a reroll. Usually it comes down to my speed and max health (suddenly dropping to 1 hp in a middle of a fight is stressful, but can probably be fun in some situations, though I'd prefer a min of 2 to have a window for at least one mistake). Even dropping to 1 attack doesn't actually change anything for, since I'm blasting non-stop anyway. Also, what's with the dash stat? Are the jumping platforms affected by it? Still, great job, I really like the concept.
Super fun game to play.
Nice mechanics, simple yet effective visuals.
Thank you :D
I like music and art, there are a lot of good ideas. More feedback would be nice and the popups break the flow :/ I find the game quite hard ^^’
Thanks for the feedback, I agree the popup is a bit annoying :(
This is a fun little game! I think you used dice in a creative way for sure. I agree with some of the other reviews that the interruption to gameplay might be unnecessary, but it didn't take too much away from the flow of things in my opinion. I think more feedback for game events and maybe some tighter ranges for the different stats will make the game have a nice core loop, and more mechanics maybe can be added! I like this game, great effort!
Thanks for the long and detailed feedback :)
Really fun shooter! Enjoyed it, great work!
Thanks so much!
Definitely a fun little high score game, there's a bit of strategy I could see here, though at the moment it does get interrupted quite a lot which is unfortunate. But there's something with the way the spawn and the different health bars based off sides as well as the multiple shots. I feel like a bit more difficulty in some ways and a bit more mixup in others could be interesting.
One main thing I will say is changing the stat reroll from a passive "here's a screen" to a background element, maybe with a actual die rolling or not, that slows the game down somewhat could act as a reward, as well as give you time to check the stats and avoid interrupting the flow of the game as much.
As well I do feel like the health and armor both rerolling essentially leads to them becoming less of a "oh no I have this much health" and more of a "oh look I regened _ health" essentially. Which led to me using it as a way to endlessly tank hits on the trampoline.
Also I will say, the jump stat, is absolutely crazy, It just goes insane at even level 3, which is surprising. So personally I feel like toning that done, if not possibly, changing how it works removing it could help. Cause currently when I did jump. There were a lot of situations where I would jump once, be fine, jump again after a reroll and fly to the sky then die on the way down. Maybe switching it up so it's more a "toggle" or "ability roll" maybe. That way it locks jumping possibly which would give the trampolines more use. As well as make it a little more understandable as to what's going on.
One final thing as well that's a little weird is the fact that bullets completely ignore terrain. Which sort of removes the point of the moving platforms at all. Since you're just going to move back and forth shooting from the other side of the map. Rather than having to move onto platforms and go from there. I feel like stopping everyone (you and the enemies) shooting through platforms or changing it so just the enemies can shoot through platforms could be interesting. Though if the enemy can shoot through I'd say some sort of limitation would help. Possibly some sort of shot cooldown, or slower moving projectile etc. To make it a little easier to deal with when there's multiple and you're having to move towards them to actually damage them.
Definitely going to be also leaving a book in your game comment section :)
Great game! I enjoy this game, Impressive game in such a short time. Great job!
Feel free to check my game if you want to challange your brain muscle!
Thanks :D
This is great.
I like the feel, visuals and the idea of the game.
Some feedback on being hit and an option to skip the undated stats with a spacebar pr smthng would help a lot.
also it would be such an insane bug if you could ZA WARUDO when in undated stats state. Kinda sad its fixed.
Overall very impressive work over limitations via lack of experience.
Keep it up! :)
(got 63)
Thanks for the feedback :) A lot of people had the same issue, I’m definitely going to fix them after the game jam.
This is an awesome 48h edition of a game. The only thing that i'd like to have as a player is feedback on being hit.
Thanks for the feedback :)
Nice ! Very fun ! I loved moving and the idea of the dice showing their life on their faces was really cool. The pop up is annoying a bit because it breaks the flow of the game, maybe instead of a bouton to close it it could simply be if just you click somewhere ? Otherwise this was really fun, well done !
Thanks for the feedback :) A lot of people felt the pop up was annoying so I’m gonna change it after the jam!
Controls well and blasting things is fun. Using the dice numbers as the health bar for the enemies is very smart. I don't think I really noticed the randomized stats, so that could probably be made to be more impactful.
The random stats were supposed to randomly slow you down, decimate your health, etc. Sometimes it isn't noticeably because of how little the time between each randomization is.
Fun game. Quick movement, ability to bumb enemies away and jumppads was reallty fun way to keep it moving. Even though at first iI got 185 point without even knowing that there was lava. Rerolling stats was fun idea, but didn't notice it that much and as they were rerolled couple second from last time, didnät have much time to get hang of what does what.
But simple look, nice quick gameplay and possibility to trasin in menu were great.
Nice work! :)
Thank you :)
This game is actually really fun! Some small things that I love are how the menu works. Always a great idea to have an interactive menu like that. Other than that it was extremely suprising to me how fun it was to just jump around shoot and especially just kick enemies into the lava. Having collision enabled was a really really great idea and it’s so much fun to zoom around and kick some dudes.
Great work!
Glad you liked it :)