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A jam submission

Lounge GameView game page

A lil' shooter for the Love game jam 2020. Theme: Frequency
Submitted by speak — 4 hours, 49 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Sound#162.8892.889
Graphics#173.1673.167
Overall#202.8752.875
Mood#242.7782.778
Gameplay#252.6672.667

Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Challenging game! I included it in my Love Jam compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :)

Submitted

I like that the character looks in the direction they're moving. Nice little game

Submitted

So anyway, I started blasting

The first few waves I dash in between boulders, taking the lives of my enemies without breaking a sweat. Then the heat ramps up as waves increase.. and as soon as I know it I begin descending a staircase of infinite bullets into a darkness which is my only freedom. I descend into a pitch black sky of 43 levels defeated.

Submitted

Nice and clean - i like the stylization you added - wish there were more sfx and cleaner mechanics, but regardless nice! Good job.

Submitted(+1)

I like the overall look. It's a solid twin stick shooter as long as the player plays along. There are also a few issues, so prepare for nitpicks:

  • The music sure fits the "Lounge" title, but I'm not sure about the rest of the game.
  • Bullets are a bit slow. While firing in the walking direction, bullets accumulate in front of the player.
  • The playable character faces the way it is moving, not shooting, so bullets end up coming out of its back and sides.
  • The frequency of the waves picks up quick and it seems kind of inevitable as the crystal thingies that work against it appear to be a bit rare.
  • There was one of the flying creatures stuck at the very start during multiple runs. Shooting it would make it drop endless amounts of stuff I couldn't get to without taking damage.
  • If the player is willing to leave the textured area, the game can be prolonged indefinitely. The Framerate will slow down to a crawl as the amount of bullets and opponents increases but the wave frequency will increase to one wave per two frames.
  • I got my high score of 94 by pressing "D" for a minute or so.
  • The seemingly infinite plain black area around the start offers no reference points that show how the player is moving.
Developer(+1)

Awesome comment, thank you! Yeah the music was supposed to be humorously contrasting to the shootin' part, but that may be a bit hard to catch.

Good point about where the player faces, in fact haha I can't believe I didn't think of that. I'll change it so that the player character faces the cursor position! :)

And yeah the frequency thing escalating so insanely was really just me not having time to balance things properly.

And ooh interesting, the stuck flying creature sounds like another bug that I've had happen, thanks for letting me know about that.


Regarding the non-textured area and the lag and the tactic of just running to the side, very sadly I just didn't have time to implement a proper play area. I guess I did some bad prioritization, oops!

Thanks again for the detailed feedback, much much appreaciated.

Submitted

As felipeViana said, it gets bit laggy, but fun until then! The bullets live a bit too long. Would have been nice to have a reason not to shoot all the time, but very respectable submission.

Developer

Heh yeah indeed, the lagginess is really a symptom of a fault in the game design, world borders would've helped stop the tactic of just running infinitely! :D Thanks for playing and commenting!

Submitted

Gets crazy quite quickly, might help if the view range was a little larger, and maybe if the enemies didn't shoot so much. Also some enemy variety (like attack patterns, etc) would bring this together nicely.

Developer

Absolutely, all good points and something I just ran out of time for. Thanks so much!

Submitted(+1)

reached level 34 but it was lagging a bit hehe

Developer

Yeah haha, the world really needs to have an outer boundary to make it much more interesting. Thanks for trying it out!