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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Use of the Limitation | #27 | 3.464 | 4.000 |
| Presentation | #62 | 2.598 | 3.000 |
| Overall | #63 | 2.778 | 3.208 |
| Enjoyment | #67 | 2.309 | 2.667 |
| Concept | #71 | 2.742 | 3.167 |
Ranked from 6 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Team members
1
Software used
Godot , krita to tweek artwork
Use of the limitation
The playercan only carry 1 , projectile at a time , and there is one enemy type
Cookies eaten
lol no time for cookies, but I did have some christmas cake :)
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it's a cool game but needs a little visual cohesion
Thanks for your feedback , that is something that I really struggle with, because I really do not have an artistic background. any tips you can offer? thanks for playing.
That's a lot of graphics work, looks nice, and it's great that you had functional story embedded in the game too. I like the idea of the very literal one resource, especially in stage one, theoretically you could have pushed that even further and done a 'companion' style resource, and even more thematic, a bounder of coal maybe, it's a very well themed game. and the music is fine if a bit generic-actiony. Would have been nice with a bit of Christmas flare. But it is really themed well in general, like needing to defeat 12 enemies to clear a level.
I feel like the weakest part of this is the gameplay. The arena is well designed to kill enemies, so much so that in no time I was prethrowing ice trying to catch zombies as they spawned in. For the most part, it's very easy. If you're ever on the ground for some reason, though, you have to get quite close to hit an enemy to hit them with your ice because of your fixed attack. I kept finding myself trying to run toward them in hopes of adding my own momentum into the throw so I could hit them from further away on the ground. An idea anyway.
Programatically, it looks like there is a great deal of inconsistancy about when an enemy counts as being dead. The game immediately counts up and lets you exit the level when you hit your 12th enemy, but their collision area isn't disabled when they're hit, blocking shots during their entire death animation (up to the explosion), and can actually still kill you. And that's consistant with the counter in the upper left that doesn't count them as dead until the explosion triggers. Personally, I'd count them as dead, and disable their hitboxes immediately when they were hit, but I understand that you wouldn't want to make the game any easier.
Oh, and I instinctively used some of the alnternative controls, it's nice that they're there.
thank you so much for taking the time to leave your comments, yes there was lot of inconsistency in the code LOL to say the least ! wow you got the 12 months 12 zombies reference. I thought about having the hit box be disabled when the Zombies got hit but I wanted the death to be dramatic . you know die play the animation and then explode. The whole thing played off really differently in my head hee hee .Also I almost did not upload a game I am making a video about my experience on my youtube channel @deeraghoogames. Thanks again for an honest review, much appreciated!
i really struggled with the controls, my brain couldn't process using the left and right mouse clicks at the right times lol !! once i got the hang of it, it was pretty fun though! i think the sizes of the zombies kinda going through the floor was distracting and a bit confusing, and the game concept was pretty simple, but overall i liked it!
Yeah, I pretty much immediately abandoned clicking in favor of the space key XD.
thanks for playing, I know that getting keyboard controls right can be hard that is why I tried to have multiple input options , for me it was the same I would click expecting to jump and instead shoot, sorry.
And the christmas is saved once again lol, nice game :)