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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Overall | #5 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Music | #5 | 3.273 | 3.273 |
| Artstyle | #5 | 3.909 | 3.909 |
| Fun | #8 | 3.455 | 3.455 |
| Creativity | #13 | 3.364 | 3.364 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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- The ukelele music effects are great haha! Awesome. I like the idea of rebirth with enemy weapon. The music is very cool and looks polished, maybe I would change the text font. Great game
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Wow wow wow, you are good crazy to have used your ukulele for the sound effect of the different shooting, they all fit very well with the specific weapon, I was having a smile all the time and died just to listen the sound effect. Congratulation. Some confusion on the screen sometimes trow me of but that part of this type of game and also like other have said the offscreen thing (and you already know about it) :D Thx for the fun
Awesome, glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the feedback!! :)
I did all the music and sound effects with my ukulele in another jam (though that one the music was literally just the ukulele without added drums), and it’s a lot of fun trying to record and tweak the sound to create new effects!
Great game! I really liked the face-paced action implementation of the rebirth theme. And also there are "broken" sprites of enemies that has been hit is interesting!
There are a few times I went out of screens and couldn't find myself back haha.
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, there’s been a few comments about being able to fly offscreen… I mean to fix that before the end, but got caught up in everything else during the last push and forgot about it!
Fun game! The different weapons are cool and I liked the some of the weird sound effects, I think they fit with the art style. Some of them sounded like they were clipping, not sure, maybe it was just happening on my browser.
Probably going offscreen should be disallowed (I once got lost and couldn't go back xD), and interestingly I think at least some of the enemy ships did not have collisions, but in general it was fun. Nice game!
Sometimes a bunch of the sound effects play at the same time and it sounds like clipping, but also I think I should have EQed the effects a bit more haha. Definitely need to prevent going offscreen though!
That’s weird with the ship collisions though: they’re all basically derivatives of the same enemy object, so they should have the same collision areas. Might need to add something to show when they get hit by the lowest power gun, because that one takes two hits to destroy an enemy and the only thing that happens is they change to a damaged sprite (which can be hard to see in the heat of battle haha)
Great game with cool mechanics , the sound effects are a bit "strange," and at times the moving background is quite distracting. maybe darkening the background could be really helpful.
Thanks!! Basically all the sound effects were made by recording sounds from my ukulele (playing strings or hitting/scratching it) and then processing them a bit (or a lot for the “explosion” sound). I need to keep working on my sound design skills haha
Good to know on the background… I darkened the moving bits at one point so I’ll try taking them even darker, or maybe even darkening it a bit more at the center and less at the edges so you’ll still get a sense of moving forward but with less distraction.
Really cool idea! the sound effects got a bit annoying, but everything else was great!
Having a single bullet sound gets old when there’s a lot of bullets, even with pitch shifting :D
Thanks!
The game feels like a Shoot ‘em up. It’s fun, but I don’t see how it fits the jam’s theme. Also, the player can move off-screen, which looks odd. Still, the game has spirit!
It’s not explained super well, but the core idea behind the game is that you gain the weapon of the ship that killed you, so it’s kinda like rebirth in that when your ship regenerates it is reborn with a new weapon. Now that I explain it it sounds like a bit of a stretch :)
Shoot, I forgot to fix the offscreen part!! I was trying to decide between allowing and showing an indicator to show where you are offscreen, or just blocking it (probably should just do the latter).
Thanks for the comments!
Rebirth with new weapons. Okay. Good luck!