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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Concept (gameplay) | #65 | 3.486 | 3.486 |
| Overall | #85 | 3.387 | 3.387 |
| Theme | #106 | 3.324 | 3.324 |
| Presentation (visuals) | #108 | 3.351 | 3.351 |
Ranked from 37 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Great! Shame you weren't able to fit everything in the limited timeframe
I feel like I should finish it out, but the thought of refactoring some of that spaghetti code I wrote towards the end late last night has me feeling hesitant xD
I liked the idea behind it. The cannons firing to a beat was a great concept. I rammed my boat into a line of ghosts for fun... then the retry button was broken. Very fun. Felt like Sid Meyer's Pirates.
Haha, it's funny because I built logic for a different game to make attacks occur on beat. But I did not implement that here because I was too concerned about time, so any on beat cannons were by pure chance! I think the BPM of the beat just happened to line up with the track xD
Ugh! Can't believe the Retry button broke, it was working at one point @_@
I loved the idea, only downside for me coming to my mind is rotating the ship being too hard and slow.
When you level up you can increase turn speed! Unfortunately I didn't have time to balance all the scaling and I feel like the result is a weird progression experience. I'd have liked early levels to come faster, but increasing Fire Rate a few times makes you super strong, and so last minute I watered the progression down to counter it. Because of that spending the level up points on turn speed early on isn't very viable. Increasing Fire Rate is just too good because it scales much faster than everything else. Everything needs a lot of tweaking. I may release a more complete version in the future! Thanks for playing!
I liked the idea, but it was too hard for me. The difficulty curve was too steep. I would love to have enemies taking only one hit, to reinforce the experience.
The visuals were great and the idea really nice, well done!
The progression definitely needs adjusting. If you spend your level up on Fire Rate the first few levels, the game becomes a lot easier lol. I slowed progression a little bit to counter that, but unfortunately that watered down everything else. What I really needed was separate scaling for every power up, but I ran out of time/brain cells before I could go back and implement that.