Thanks i'm glad you like the aesthetic ^^

Yeah the idea is that the view angle is kinda like being able to go wild on someone's rts map which is totally inspired by Brigador Mechwarrior 3050 and indeed a bit of old Dos games in the mix :p

Yeah the radar is probably what i'll add after a bit of rebalance for the weapons, said rebalance i just haven't pushed yet as i wasn't sure if it broke the jam's rules so i'll push it post jam.

Thanks for the recommended video :) 

I've checked out on youtube, i suppose it's the conference one with the guy from Vlambeer, and it was indeed pretty cool and informative, so that's probably some things i'll add with the weapon rebalance to see how they feel XD

Thanks again for playing and sharing your thoughts !

No problem :) since you put your more detailed feedback on the other comment i replied in detail there as well, thanks again for playing and commenting !

Thanks ! happy that you apreciate the efforts put into my entry despite its many rough spots  :)

No worries it's not a nitpick it's a legit issue and here it's not entirely due to the jam's time, the thing is, i wanted to try out real pathfinding this time, but i still did not quite understood how it all works, so seeing this while jamming i made a sort of very bad and dumb compromise of an AI where it kinda has some pathfinding elements which did not work all that well (and i still don't know why), and some basic "Player is here, go B-line towards, Wall what is this concept ? me no understand."

So hat's the best i could pull off given my current knowlege XD

Thanks for playing ! glad you found it fun ^^ 

Haha yeah the vulkan is definitively... subtle, at least that's what people have been saying so far :p 

Thanks happy that you liked it :)

Pretty big Megadrive fan so yeah, the influence tends to come from that for the pixel stuff XD even if here i mixed it between the old Mechwarrior game on that system, with more modern stuff like Brigador but aimed for something in between these 2 at least gameplay wise.

Cool to hear that you played it through the end !

I wanted the difficulty to be as accessible as possible to all skill levels with it still being a bit more versatile with the character stats system, originally i wanted the characters to have even more impact on gameplay like different movement speeds and all but then i came in front of the hurdle of having to figure out what minimum speed would still remain playable and considering the time for the jam plus all i had to do at this point i decided to scrap that and went for the more simplified system that's in the final release, and of course i didn't wanted to have such a system and have every character just pilot the same colored mecha so i took the hard way and decided to have a custom paint scheme for each character, and of course even in the select menu :p so i'm happy also that you like the extra effort ^^

Yeah that's the one thing i still have trouble with, at least in the short timespan of a jam, is to really fully integrate story elements to my games instead of them having just a quick blurb on the page to give context to the player, but i hope i'll eventually get there :p

Glad you like the art as well ^^ i wanted to have distinct target buildings from the map layout ones and i got lucky that they turned out okay.

Agreed from all the feedback i had so far that navigation is a big issue, i think i'll probably try to patch in a radar or something but i also like the point you have about the roads, i should probably try better signposting within the leveldesign itself.

The AI ended up as the best compromise i could acheive from what i learned since i started making games, and trying some new pathfinding stuff which i frankly still didn't understand all that well, so they are dumb as bricks, however they do have range, i just tried to keep them mobile when they shoot to have them seem a bit more agressive, but yeah long story short ai is trash because i still lack some programing skills to pull off a better one at the moment :p

Weapons balance is indeed completely off, mostly due to not playtesting enough before the final release to get the proper feel of all the weapon's traits, but i have already some fixes in the works just not published cause i wasn't sure if updating during judging would break the jam's rules.

Thanks for giving my entry a go, and for your feedback :)

Yeah this thing is almost a speedrun strat disguised as a weapon in its current state :p 

As for the boss, i added and tuned it a bit in the last hour or so so i didn't  really took as much time as i should to make more interesting patterns, with the fact that i cobbled a small room together instead of having a better level design which would have fit better for the boss.

So yeah you can just run behind him and he'll just live his life chosing randomly between his 4 available patterns :p

For the characters i wanted to have at least as much variety as i had in a previous jam game i made, especially since this time i wanted to have them selectable by players instead of chosen randomly at spawn, and since i'm always nervous about wether or not people are gonna like my designs, it's always nice to see that so far people do ^^

Anyway.

Thanks for playing, and glad you liked the game despite the many rough spots it still has :)

Thanks for giving my game a shot :) 

I'm a sucker for retro boxy looking tech so, that explains most of the designs :p

Also thanks again for allowing me to use the jam's logo for the splash screen  ^^ ! 

Haha yeah that thing ended up  quite OP but i already have some rebalance i worked on, i just didn't know if updates are allowed during judging period (cause these are not fixes on game breaking stuff) so i prefered not to push anything yet.

Glad you liked the game, and the character roster ^^ which i'm always a bit nervous about cause i always have this aprehention that people are not gonna like my designs, though i have been lucky to be wrong so far :p

Haha well i'm not sure if they have something special about the way they turn but i'm glad you like this as well :p

Yeah the biggest issue i've seen so far, and i totally agree with that, the lack of any kind of indication for objectives, which i feel may have understandably discouraged some people when level 2 jumps from 5 to 18, but mostly since my wonky system counts per building and thus doesn't reflect that they are just lumped together in just 3 different areas :/

Also yep the mortar is definitively underpowered, and the vulkan ultra OP (at the moment it's almost a speedrun weapon as it can melt most things in seconds) but also some of the structures have too much HP for just static buildings. I have been already tweaking some things a bit, but just didn't publish anything yet cause i don't know if the jam allows any updates to non game breaking issues during the judging period, so i'll see whenever i can push anything.

Thanks for playing and your feedback :)

Haha XD 

Cool to see you have found your favorite in Tanya !

(because of my poor difficulty balance, 4hp characters are not easy to play so also congrats :o)

Like i said, i did the best i could to have max polish on what content i managed to finish in time for the jam, so always nice to see people apreciate the effort ^^, now i wouldn't consider myself a good storyteller by any stretch of the word, so not sure on heavy lore but i do have some story bits in mind about this world and i want to maybe flesh this out more as i make potential future games to do so. 

But if i had to sum what's there at the moment quickly i'd say it's mostly based around the "used future" 70's/80's style aesthetic, so think ships mechas and just about everything looking very boxy with some inner workings appearant, mostly cause they have seen quite some use and different owners/repairs prior, and most of the electronics run like everything still used old comodores and stuff like that (been done to death i know, but i like this kind of setting and i'd like to have my shot at it :p)

If you're curious to see another snippet of it however i sorta intended this entry to be part of the same world as one a made previously for the bullet hell jam 

Anyway my rambling aside :p thanks for giving my game a shot and sharing your thoughts :)

Thanks for playing ! :)

I did the best i could to have max polish, though the game still has some rough spots, glad you've enjoyed and had fun regardless ^^

Glad you like the artstyle in general, as for the title screen i wanted to try something a bit less static then some of my previous games so happy to see i didn't put in the extra effort to waste XD

Same goes for the sfx wich i spent quite some time tinkering with, i tried to have a very chunky and impactful sound for everything weapons related, though for the enemy lasers i was afraid that it could get annoying in some of the more "crowded" scenarios players can encounter while stoping around the maps ^^

Thanks for trying my game out ! And for your feedback too :)

Thanks ^^ i gave it all and did my best, so happy to see people seem to like it

Like i said to @NeoAwesomeon, i'm a sucker for retro XD

and in regards to sound design, that's the magic of the SFXR stuff packed with LMMS cause you can really tweak and finetune the sound effects and so far i've never been dissapointed :p

Yeah i wanted to have a choice of characters but with some effect on gameplay for each, with this intent of it being kind of a discreet difficulty selection. 

And i thought this would be a bit more versatile than just standard difficulty levels, so that depending on playstyles some characters would not necessarily be harder to play than others, but would just depend on how the player enjoys a starter weapon's quirks or not, and the hp amount that varied so that players who like a challenge would have few hits and players who like it more laid back could have characters with more margin for error.

Yeah i'm a sucker for retro XD so i tend to make my games like either 8/16 bit titles, or sometimes arcade or 32 bit psx 2d style cause that's what i like :p which always comes with the challenge of trying to have it look as much authentic as possible.

Thanks for playing ! And your feedback, glad that you've enjoyed the art and the game :)

Thanks :) happy that you like the visuals and the little details, i wanted to try something more dynamic for menus this time to put more life to them.

To each their own taste, i tend to like both slower more grounded, and fast arcadey mechas so no problem :)

Thanks !  I put a lot of heart into it so glad you liked it ^^

Thanks for your feedback, glad you've enjoyed it ^^

Haha, i'm not sure if i'd call the game stress free  but i wanted to have sort of a wide range difficulty mainly through the character choice so that anybody could play through the end :)

Thanks happy to see that you liked it ^^

Yeah big fan of these 2 games as well, so in some way they were defeinitively an influence, especially Brigador since it is more full on mecha, but i wanted something a bit more arcad-ey so i went more action than sim :p

Thanks for playing and for your feedback :)

Thanks again dude :)

Yeah i don't know why i the ground texture ended up like that especially as it's the same low res as all the other assets, but seing how it clashes with the rest i'll probably redo it post jam tha have it fit more.

Haha thanks !  

well, glad to see the game seems fun for the whole family XD

I didn't really manage to find the right balance for the difficulty :( 

but i usually aim to not make my games all that hard.