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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Playability | #12 | 3.900 | 3.900 |
| Aesthetic | #14 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Overall | #19 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Originality | #50 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Love love love the randomly generated map, and the aesthetic works well.
I had some problems with the playability of the game -- sometimes my controls would get mysteriously hijacked and my ship would move off in a direction I wasn't even intending to move to like I had controller drift. No idea what causes it.
If there are two areas that I'd recommend you focus on, it would be variety and flow. Since all enemies just appear from the right and shoot aimed bullets directly at the player, there isn't a lot of variety, and it would be neat if different randomly generated levels tested different skills. Maybe one level has fast moving enemies that attempt to ram into the player, or one has enemies that shoot at a distance and run away, etc.
In addition, there's no real sense of flow -- enemies just appear at constant intervals at random positions. My suggestion is that instead of randomly generating every enemy in a level, I'd think that if you had various pre-assembled "blocks" or formations of enemies and then randomly generated those in a sequence, you'd be cooking with oil. Think Galaga.
Finally, like the laser attack, however, your main spread attack feels too slow and the fact that it uses the same bullet type as enemies do hampers game readability.
Looking forward to the final build!
Hi! Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback!
Yes, playability is still a WIP, specially in web the controls got stuck from time to time.
Multiple enemies, waves and difficulties are planned in the roadmap. I want the game to feel a bit chaotic and bullet-hellish, so I'll need these for sure!
Weapons and stats will upgrade and change, adding also new ones, as you progress the game. Think about Binding of Isaac but with ships.
You got a point with the bullets, I need to think how to make them different from the ones shot by enemies.
I'm glad you liked it and thank you for playing!
I like the aesthetic. Only request I have based on what's here now is clear indication of when the laser is charged enough to fire.
This is in the todo list for sure, thanks for the feedback!
I really like the 1 bit color scheme and I also like the map! You've already got some really solid gameplay so I'm excited to see where this goes from here!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it! I'm adding soon the roguelike layer and fix all the
featuresbugs that appeared during prototype. Thanks for playing!pretty nice prototype!! that constellation map is sweet
Thanks! I wanted to feel every run different, and that's just one part of the random gameplay. Hope you'll enjoy the finished game soon!