Thanks for giving my entry a try ^^

Yeah the genesis made quite an impact on me back in the day and i've always liked its sound, so i was happy to have found a soundfont that would help me make the most legit sounding tunes as possible :p

The thing is that the very back of the background layer is indeed fixed except for the cloud that constantly move (but a bit too slowly to be noticable maybe) but there is a layer of parallax in front of that, it's just that because of how i made the levels and tuned the parallax layer node it doesn't seem to be all that visible appart at certain heights in certain stages :(

Thanks ^^ glad this reminded you of old PC games, hopefully some good ones XD

Haha well characters are supposed to aim all the same so i supposed you picked one with a starting weapon that has a lot of spread XD

Glad you liked the game still ^^

Thanks for giving it a shot :)

Yeah i've still not managed to make tilesets that don't look super repetitive, even if this time i tried to have a bit more than just 2 blocks and a single color per block :(

 The animations i sorta tried to calibrate for the player speed but couldn't find a speed that fitted exactly but i'll probably tweak it since if i get some time for post jam stuff i'll up the game's pace so that means the animations too, hopefully for the better :p and i hope this'll address the mobility isues as well, for the game feel/juice, that's something i didn't manage to have much for the jam build but i'll try to add a bit more oomph post jam.

The Cybernator/Valken series of games was a direct inspiration while making this ^^ Even the walk cycle is an attempt at doing a similar animation but with a bit more fluid "puppet" animation type instead of a set spritesheet animation.

Yep the slowdown is a bit of a headache cause i didn't manage to find what is causing it :/  but i'm almost sure it is still something about the html build i just don't know what, hopefully i can find the issue and fix this.

Glad you liked what's there anyway despite the tech issues, and no worries there's only one message from what i see plus double posts can happen on itch.io, i know i've had my fair share of double posts from time to time :p

Thanks ! Happy you liked the animations and music, i tried to have the retro style feel as authentic as i could :)

I'm sorry you didn't have a good experience trying out my entry due to technical issues.

I still lack experience on the optimization front, so i'm not sure what i could have done wrong that could be so taxing on the performance, i'll look into that to see if i can find what caused this. 

Not sure either but maybe this could ba a browser thing, cause i know sometimes some games seem to work better in some browsers than others.

Sorry again for the inconvenience :(

Thanks Liam !

Well i did get a bit of a workflow down since i started a few years back, so some things i learned how to do a bit faster, this particular time i managed to learn a tiny bit about shaders, to be able to code a small palette shader for the jam, so this helped me save a lot of time compared to last time where all my Mechs were recolored in Gimp and rendered as their own sprite sheets o_o, also this time there's also a lot of sprite recycling... so much recycling :p 

Yeah i've always liked the genesis and the energy in some of its games, and since i found a nice VST that could do decent genesis instruments in LMMS i've started using it a bit more often ^^ Though i must admit i didn't have Shadow dancer in mind when i made these tracks haha.

Levels were made a bit hastily and randomly, if you're curious i've explained a bit of the "process" to a fellow jammer who asked, plus i'm not that good at level design i've seen that along jams, though this time i still consider a personal victory that i managed to make a non convoluted and confusing level :p and a bit of the same for bosses, i haven't found a whole lot of good ways to make patterns that wouldn't require a lot of code and time so i've stiched some basic stuff together and made only one here for time's sake, and relied on the fact that i made a weapon system where i could just easily change the weapon even if the boss was the same, so pretty bad, but i rolled with it for the jam ^^'

Happy that you like the character choice, i've been having these rosters in a few past games and i always throw a few furs in there :)

Thanks a lot i'm glad you seemed to have enjoyed my game this much :)

It's been a few sci fi games i made where i wanted to keep having a character roster associated with the mechs/ships etc... of the game to help give it a bit more character, with also the intent of having players be able to choose their favorite from the roster, so i'm happy that you liked that aspect XD

For the weapons i wanted to have a bigger weapon variety than i did last Mech Jam especially since i wanted to have the Mechs to have a bit more humanoid stances.

Haha well the boss fights i did the best i could since i'm still not all that great at making decent enemy or pattern AI but the fact that i was able to have them use the same modular weapons kinda helped spicing things up and add variety i guess :p And yeah considering the volume of fire that weapon has, of course i was gonna give it to the last boss :D

Thanks for giving my game a shot, glad you like it ^^

Haha well it has robots so  that can compare in a way, though funnily enough, even if i like megaman games, here it wasn't one of the inspirations XD but i'm happy that it still managed to take you back to these classics!

Well thanks again ! I just tried to have some nice cover art every time a made a game so i didn't think it was anything much ^^' but i'm glad you think so highly of my page :)

Haha thanks ^^ glad you apreciate the efforts (though not sure if they deserve to be called spendid :p)

Well can't go wrong with some contra inspiration, as my avatar betrays that XD

When it comes to devlog i usually make some when i push post jam updates but i've never really went into all that much explainations on my dev process, usually cause i didn't have much time to document along the way while making cause i'm doing everything myself ^^'

What i can say for level design though is that it's not as focused and planned out as you might expect, in this case here it was even a bit random how i made them, main thing is that i set a sort of general size for the whole area of the level, then decide where are the start and end, then started making a sort of path between the start and end and decorate a bit randomly as the level making goes, and onece everything is in place i place enemies and powerups and adjust accordingly if some things don't go too well etc..

And that's pretty much it, not sure if it helps but yep that's how i kinda did it on this one :p

Thanks a lot really happy you like the music and spritework :)

Funny thing about the larger mechs that shoot over the shoulders, it is technically a bit of an unexpected glitch, but when i tested i also though it looked kinda cool and gave these enemy types a distinctive fun quirk, so i kept it in :p

The speed was something i wasn't really sure about so i made the game a bit slow (and i'll admit in retrospect too slow especially since everybody so farrequested a speed boost)

Difficulty wise i tend to make my games on the easy side but, concering the bosses this is totally on me for not being all that great yet at Boss AI, so here all bosses have the same AI pattern both due to my lacking knowlege and poor time management XD hopefully i just added a bit of variety thanks to the weapon systems, hopefully through perseverence i'll figure out more interesting ways to make bosses in my games down the line.

Thanks again for trying my entry, and your comment :)

Thanks Dungeon :) 

I had tons of fun last jam so i was really hyped to participate again this time ^^

Glad you liked the game, 16 bit is my jam so i'm glad i could deliver on that front XD

Thanks !

Glad you liked it, yeah from feedback so far speed has been requested quite a bit so if i get some time for post jam work i'll definitively up the pace a bit ^^ 

Glad you liked the level design as well, cause for jams i always make levels so randomly i'm always affraid they're going to be really boring and such, cause i know i've been making some very confusing levels in the past and i'm trying to change that even if old habits die hard as they say :p

Haha ! Yeah i tend to want a bit of detail in my sprites (and probably too much at times cause they do get a bit on the noisey side) so i tend to not be at ease if i go too low res ^^'

I wanted to have as much variety as i could to keep the weapons interesting so i'm glad people seem to like it so far :p and everything i indeed did myself, though there's a lot of sprite recycling and such as smoke and mirrors to make that variety happen or more accurately i should say duct tape and a lot of "nothing to see here please don't pay attention to these obviously recycled sprites" signs XD and also the fact i finally learned enough about shaders to actually try and use them in a jam (though i still find shader language way harder and nonsensical than the engine's language :p)

Yeah i sorta wanted since a few past jams to at least have one boss in game, though i still struggle to find a good way to do patterns, so that's why it's a bit on the easy side and not all that interesting to fight :(

I think i'll definitively try and up the gameplay pace post jam if i get the time to do so.

Thanks for giving my entry a try, and for your comment :)

Thanks  ^^ 

Well i'm starting to have a bit of a workflow down, so i can manage to do some things a bit faster by now (though i'd still consider myself a bit slow :p) so it helps to have time for more content.

While i haven't made it full bullet hell style i defenitively wanted to capture a bit of that intensity but without having that much of a brutal difficulty curve, hence the fact that most weapons have some fast firerates. fun thingh though the "slow projectiles" were intended to be slower at some point for the enemies, cause i wasn't sure how the difficulty would turn out, but apparently people seem to want faster bullers so i might try that post jam XD And i'll definitively boost player speed a bit as well.

Yeah the music kinda reflects the level of intensity i wanted the game to have, but that the gameplay doesn't quite reach just yet in the current state, but hopefully i'll get it there.

Thanks again for playing and for your kind words :)

Thanks for giving my game a shot, glad you liked it !

I think i'll probably add a bit to it post jam if i can ^^

Yeah the player speed seem to be a bit slow, i was affraid that if i made the mech too fast the game would be to hectic but i might try to change that just to see how it goes :)

Thanks ! Happy that you liked it ^^ 

i did the best i could, and that include the music, cause i know some jams i had a bit rougher tracks with shorter loops due to making them almost last minute, so i didn't wanted to make the same mistake XD

Thanks for playing ! 

Haha yeah that's just my artstyle, and the fact that i kinda consider any game i made so far with these various pilot rosters to be part of the same universe  :p

When it comes to sidescrolling i always try to have some parallax when possible to help give the environement a bit more depth, so i'm glad you appreciate the extra detail ^^

Whoops my bad :( 

gotta say i didn't think too much foward with the control scheme, and went for a basic WASD  or arrows layout without taking into account that yeah spacebar might be a bit far to reach in some cases. Although i can't really change anything during the voting period, i think i could fix that post jam by maybe having the up direction be it W or Up arrow to have closer keys that could accomodate for both lefties and righties.

Hey thanks Hawk :) nice to see fellow past jammers as well, as always.  

I couldn't participate to Kaiju jam but i made sure i wasn't gonna miss this one :p

Glad you found the game cool dude ^^ 

Haha thanks, glad you liked it !

still lacks some polish overall if i'm honest ^^' and i'm not sure i'll manage to update it again before the deadline.

Regardless thanks for your comment :)