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Bugbear Bowsmen's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Use of the Limitation | #140 | 3.031 | 3.500 |
| Presentation | #151 | 3.175 | 3.667 |
| Overall | #206 | 2.815 | 3.250 |
| Enjoyment | #237 | 2.454 | 2.833 |
| Concept | #254 | 2.598 | 3.000 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
I created all of the art, code, and sound effects. My friend created the music.
Software used
Godot, Procreate, and Gimp
Use of the limitation
When enemies take damage, you take damage too. You are also a bugbear/goblin creature, and they are usually enemies in video games.
Cookies eaten
None actually, I'll go do that
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Comments
The mechanic of you taking damage when enemies take damage seemed a bit odd to me at first, and in the first couple of levels, it didn't seem to have much of an impact on how the game plays, especially with the very generous number of healing items lying around.
It's not until the last level when the potential of the concept became clear: there are so many enemies and so many spike balls that the gameplay stops just being about shooting enemies and healing afterwards, and morphs into the mad dash to kill enemies, avoid getting shot, and keeping your health up. My usual strategy of chipping them away from as far as possible just couldn't work -- the system you made forced me to go running into the chaos to keep myself alive, which I thought was an interesting interaction. I would have liked to see more of the levels lean into this.
Otherwise, cute graphics and fitting somewhat-too-cheery-for-the-amount-of-murder-happening music. Good work!
Wow, that’s a lot of feedback! Thank you :)
The level design is awful.
I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy it, but I did not have too much time to work on level design
Really, really, really great game. Visuals are cute, music is the one to vibe to XD. Idea and the execution of the limitation are great. What a surprise to me was, when in the last level my health almost instantly went down to half XD. Only then did I realise, that dying enemies deal damage to me even when they die to spike balls. Once again, really enjoyable game to play. Well enjoyed :>
Oh yeah, I probably should have made that more clear. Thank you so much for playing and for the amazing feedback!
It's not anything bad. Description of the limitations is good, I just didn't think about it. Don't worry ^^
The art looks cute!
Thanks!