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A jam submission

OctohuntersView game page

Escape ruthless hunters as a alien cephalopod in a quest for survival in a bleak, spacefaring future.
Submitted by Belfar & Finoli, Matheus (@theus_brz), Eduardo "mrtheduts" Souza (@mrtheduts), rurikido โ€” 1 hour, 11 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Enjoyment#113.6003.600
Overall#153.5003.500
Presentation#173.7003.700
Concept#203.4003.400
Use of the Limitation#243.3003.300

Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Team members
Lucas Nucci, Matheus Barbosa e Eduardo Souza

Software used
Godot 4.1.1

Use of the limitation
The player must control multiple cephalopods together

Cookies eaten
A burguer, only 2 lunches and 1 dinner, party snacks, cake, the amazing brazilian brigadeiro and Lays (chips)

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I like your game! My list of highlights:

  • Soundtrack is really cool!
  • SoundFX are equally great - especially the "voice-based" ones, recorded them yourself?
  • I love the themes space, dystopia and I am a huge fan of Octopodes - your combo comes very natural to me
  • I like the mechanic: You have to accept the danger to destroy the nasty shippies.

Pixel art is not my preferred style, but apart from that, you did really well with executing it.

Suggestions:

I missed the ink blobs completely in my first run (dark on dark). I thought the new octopodes are the "ink" and was trying to steer them into the ships.

One idea how to solve this: When players start flying around, and the first ink blobs are coming up, freeze the game and point with an arrow at one of them, saying something like "ink is destroying ships". Player sees it, can continue and that needs to be learned is learned :-)

What I don't like...

...is that others are much better with playing it - will try to get into the Top 10 later in the evening ;-)

Developer(+2)

Thanks for the input!

We're thinking about uploading a new version with your idea of showing the ink. If not it, at the very least highlighting it with white or something to make it more visible.

About the SFX, @Matheus is our guy for sound effects. He's really good at recording those stuff!

(+1)

Your game boasts fantastic audio and visuals, creating an immersive and visually stunning experience that enhances gameplay. Well done!

Developer

Thanks for the compliments, we love to hear that!

Submitted (1 edit)

Lol, sounds like it was written by Chatgpt or copied ๐Ÿ˜‚

Developer

๐Ÿค”

(+1)

I don't speak English, so I'm using Google Translate to help me. Sorry if it sounds strange jaja

Developer(+1)

Don't need to apologize bro, me and @rurikido are not native english speaker either and I often use Google Translate to ensure everything I wrote is fine ๐Ÿ˜

Submitted(+2)

The Visual  Presentation and Sounds are pretty good. I got the idea after 2-3 attempts. But for me it is a problem that the spaceships spawn in the visible player area. That makes it (almost) impossible to avoid there attack.  So even with a huge army of squidwards there can spawn a spaceship in front of you and rob all your valuable ink. But overall a fun experience! Just fix the thing with the spawn and it will make it a lot easier ๐Ÿ‘

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Hey there!

It was supposed to work that way, but we did some last minute adjustments to the camera/overall gameplay and ended up like this.

We just pushed a update that fix the issue, thanks for sharing!