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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Concept | #27 | 3.412 | 3.412 |
| Enjoyment | #32 | 3.176 | 3.176 |
| Presentation | #52 | 3.059 | 3.059 |
| Overall | #52 | 3.059 | 3.059 |
| Use of the Limitation | #89 | 2.588 | 2.588 |
Ranked from 17 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
2
Software used
Unity, Procreate
Use of the limitation
Color theming
Cookies eaten
Many
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I played it through a wacom tablet and it worked pretty well! I didn't know how to use the upgrades, maybe I did something wrong, is there a difference between them? I just bought a lot of them and kept slicing away. As Panpukin, I experienced some degree of lag too for some reason, and the logs would destroy me after a while.
Really cool entry though, I like the samurai theme and the gameplay. The ability to scratch the main logo was a nice touch haha. Good job!
Gg for the entry!
I liked the fruit ninja gameplay :)
Really creative controls!
Thank you! It is going to be a mobile game in the near future so that is why we went with swipe controls!
Really creative concept, I like it! I don't know if it's purely the lagginess of my laptop or if this is an issue with the game, but more often than not logs flew further than I cut them and killed me. Makes it very difficult to play and progress unfortunately, but as I mentioned it is likely my hardware.
I own a screen tablet, which turns out to be perfect for this sort of game! First attempting it with my mouse was a bit of a pain though, so for people without access to a tablet I imagine it's far less intuitive.
All in all, wonderful game with a great concept, though an alternative to mouse gameplay would be nice
Oh that is interesting and should be concerning. Some enemies as time goes on they scale their HP which means that they require more than one hit to kill. I wish we had time to make this more noticeable but for now it just pops up with text whenever you level up. Our intentions were to release this game on mobile once it's ready so we are happy to hear that the concept translated all the way through and that you found it fun and enjoyable to play on your touch screen! Hope to see you when we release our build on the play/app store! :D
A mobile release would be the perfect route for this game, great idea!!! I will definitely check it out then, the mechanics would transfer really well :D
good game probably be a lot easier to play it on a tablet or phone the the pc I agree with Njama hard to buy upgrades when you can't get a breather of stuff flying at you. Either way good job to you and your team member and loved the epic music
Thank you so much for your kind review! The intended platform for the game is mobile so we are happy to see that it translated through our gameplay as well. If we had the time we would've prepared mobile builds for the game jam but instead we stuck to webgl and wanted to see what kind of feedback we would get on the control scheme. We greatly appreciate your review!
Good game! The idea is interesting and the controls too. I find it good that you didn't just use arrow keys or WASD but swiping, that makes it feel more original and suits the theme of the game better. Sometimes it felt like i got hit even after i cut through an object. The upgrade system is a good idea, but i found it pretty hard to buy upgrades while fighting. Also nice detail that you can interact with the menu title.
Thank you so much for your review Nojama! We are happy to hear that you liked the concept of the game and the control choices. We are making the game for mobile so we thought it would be good to stick to using touch controls instead of going for keyboard controls. Before publishing the game for the minijam we too noticed that it was difficult to purchase upgrades from the store while fighting especially as things got faster later on. We will make many design changes before releasing on the play/app store and hopefully we can see you there! :D
This was a pretty fun game! Though I wished there were keyboard alternatives. The gameplay reminds me a bit of Fruit Ninja, but with Samurai Cats and enemies. :)
Awesome presentation! Well done!
We are super happy that you enjoyed the game! We thought about adding keyboard controls but since we are making this for mobile we decided to keep it to touch controls only. Although it would've probably been much easier for everyone to play with keyboard controls. We really appreciate your feedback and trying out our game!
Nice game! I'd also love to see keyboard controls here as an alternative to swiping with the mouse.
Thank you! Yeah we thought about adding keyboard controls as they would've been an easy addition, we went against it as we are planning to release this on mobile. We wanted to see what people thought about the swiping controls but it makes sense to be against them when on PC.
Took me a minute to realize the enemies required to be hit multiple times but its a really fun game!
Great job!
Thank you so much for your kind words! :D Yeah I wish we had more time to include a tutorial or some kind of guide, for the release version we will include that along with more features. The enemies scale overtime requiring you to upgrade to increase your damage.
Don't worry it will play much better on the platform we intend to release on which is mobile. We knew it was going to be a little difficult to play on PC but we wanted to keep the swiping input controls in just so we can get some feedback on them before we move forward with developing the release version of the game. Thank you so much for trying our game and leaving some feedback.
Really unqiue visuals, and a fun ass game!
Thank you so much for the kind words! We are happy that you enjoyed playing the game and enjoyed the visuals :D
Fun game but the swiping makes it very difficult. I think the concept is strong if you wanted to make a full game, strong like cat samurai.
Thank you so much for the kind words! We decided to stick to swiping as we want to make this into a mobile game to be released. We will further expand on the concept and iron out some of the issues. We really appreciate your feedback!
cat samurai cool
Very cool! :D Thank you.
Good stuff. The game has neat visuals and fun gameplay, but it is very challenging. The bonus hearts being sliceable and requiring them to hit you to get them adds even more challenge since you can't just spam attacks. Would be nice if you can use keyboard keys to attack since swiping with the mouse is also difficult at least for me.
Cool game and very nice use of the palette. Well done.
We thought about adding keyboard controls but since we are porting it to mobile and planning to release it we decided to test the control scheme of having it be limited to swiping/mobile controls. Thank you so much for your feedback and we are happy to hear you enjoyed it!