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A jam submission

Hyper LinkView game page

Merge and meld spaceships into a frenzied cluster
Submitted by Breon, British Banana — 57 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#74.1114.111
Overall#83.7503.750
Aesthetics#104.0564.056
Sound#143.4443.444
Gameplay#233.3893.389

Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Submitted

Nice game.

Pros:

The gameplay is simple and fun.

The idea is nice although I have seen similar games.

The sound and music are cool and fun.

Cons:

It would be nice if each ship had gotten It's own ability. 

The camera and background move with the player like They are a child so sometimes, it looks like I am not moving at all.

The player should be a bit faster.

Submitted

Ha this was wild!  I know for 3 days we could only do so much; but this inspired a lot of additional ideas; like if the different ships ya combined with had unique attributes added to your ship?  I was also wondering how ya worked out the logic of where a ship would get attached; I enjoyed how it was turning into like a monster!  This was a really cool idea; awesome implementation.  

Developer

Great idea, if we were to build upon this having unique attributes for each ship you merge with would be a cool addition. Each ship is 'tetris-ed'  onto a random side of the main ships using a grid data structure aligned to the cluster at the moment.  Could be worth exploring more strategic ways of building up your ship cluster.

Thanks for the kind feedback!

Submitted

As soon as the first ship clicked with me, I was hooked! Great game, it's really satisfying

Submitted

Awesome game, the idea of snapping ships together is very unique and is a fun mechanic to play with... I just think that if you could make the mothership symmetrical with every addition, the game would look even better than it already is.

Don't get me wrong tho this game is really fun and I enjoyed playing it : )

Submitted

The game is great, the cover image of the game is very nice. The visual  effects and sound effects are very good. Very good job.

Submitted

I really enjoyed it, it fits the theme and the visuals are great.

in the future you could definitely polish  a lot of aspects of it, and add in a lot of stuff especially for a game of this genre, but as a start this is a very solid concept.

Good luck!!

Submitted

I enjoyed it, had trouble merging ships, but overall pretty good

Submitted

This game is very good, the minimalistic style and smooth animation and the idea itself is very good, it would be great to implement it on a scale level! :3

Developer

Ahaha yeah i would love to do an infinite mode on it, thanks for the comment!

Submitted(+1)

It looks great! The ship merging is nice and the leader board is pretty cool. 

I found the movement a bit difficult to control. Also after playing it for my third attempt I realised that the shoot mechanic helps you meld the magnetic parts to your ship, but it wasn't 100% clear at first. I wasn't sure why it was there since you can't seem to do damage to anything.

Developer

Hey thanks for the compliments! Not sure what you mean about the shooting, the guns do damage and once you kill an enemy it melds to your ship. Hope that makes sense! Thanks again

Submitted(+1)

A very polished game, from sound to art and tight gameplay, also nailed merging. Very well done!

Developer

Thanks!

Submitted (1 edit)

Love the magnetic sound effects when you merge with a new ship :)

Animations, graphics and gameplay are topnotch! Every merge feels polished and even the final un-merge animation when your monster-ship gets split again into small ships feels fabulous! Great game!

-edit-

Any tips/tutorial on how to have a good online leaderboard like yours? It feels really well implemented.

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the kind words :)

For the leaderboard we used PlayFab and the client API for Unity, definitely took some tweaking to get working but seems to give a good result

Submitted

Nice Game ! The visuals are amazing, kudos to the artist !

Great work !

Submitted

Gotta catch them all! Cool graphics as well.

Submitted

The game looks super nice!

Submitted

Pretty fun game, I don't know if the enemy bullets do anything really but the sfx for attaching another ship to yourself is really fitting, and the gameplay is pretty fun