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A jam submission

Making FriendsView game page

A game about making friends and not letting the bad vibes get to you.
Submitted by OptionalGames — 3 hours, 28 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovative Impact#303.5243.524
Relevant to the StaySave! Jam Theme#443.7623.762
Overall Creative Craze#523.5243.524
Player Engagement Power#543.2863.286
Best Mood Mojo#873.0483.048

Ranked from 21 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

Nice game. I liked gow big you group gets ;D You feel powerful

Developer

With a group of friends who support each other you are powerful :)
Glad you enjoyed it~

Submitted

Cool concept!, liked the way you used your friends as shields :)

Developer

Even the most difficult challenges can be overcome when you have friends that support you :)

Thank you for your feedback!

Submitted

In beginning it was difficult then I saw a down arrow!

Submitted

Very cool game! I really liked the music. The controls were weird at first because I wanted to dodge attacks by moving away, but also wanted to shoot at them at the same time. That problem kinda disappeared when you got more friends though.

Developer(+1)

Everything gets easier when you have friends to support you :)

Glad you liked it!

Submitted

It's awesome I love the challenge that's made out of this simplicity, It's just amazing Well done!

- Seifeddine Wassim HADDAR

Developer(+1)

Glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted

It's pretty fun and the message is very good! Maybe adding some way to gain health, since some of our team found frustrating the fact of getting hitted once and have no way but just evading everything.

Also, we found the fact of moving to the mouth position in x/y axis but also shooting in that direction made harder the mechanic of aiming/defending from the 'bullets' from multiple directions. 

We'll stay tunned for new updates!

Developer(+1)

Thanks for the feedback.

You can actually regain health if you (or your friends) touch a heart that was shot by someone else. But overall the balancing was pretty tough, since it's supposed to start out difficult and get easier with more friends while not getting boring.

Submitted

I see! Then it was the fact that we were playing in solo that we had that feeling. As a suggestion, maybe include a way to regain it if you're playing solo. 

Developer(+1)

Oh, we are talking past each other. The game is singleplayer. The enemies become your "friends" once you hit them with enough hearts. :)

Submitted

Its very fun to build up the unstoppable spinning circle of death love. Very cool game I only wish it was longer. Also good job on teasing the boss in the beginning.

Developer

Thank you for your feedback and I'm glad you enjoyed spreading death the love!

Submitted

This was pretty cool! I liked the way you expressed the theme through the gameplay a lot, and you did a great job making the progression feel good as you go along. The controls are really intuitive. I also loved the dynamic music, it was a nice touch.

Developer

Thanks so much for the kind words.

Submitted

amazing message, amazing engagement, brilliant! really enjoyed playing it! 

Developer

Thank you so much for the feedback. Glad you enjoyed it!

Submitted(+1)

This was amazing! It took me a few tries to realise it and the hints were helpful. But once I got into it it really felt distinctive. I would love to see this developed into a longer game with a story, slightly more interesting combat mechanics. It's my favourite I've played this jam

Developer

Aww, thank you so much for your kind words.

You would not want to expand on the existing code. Under the time pressure I cobbled everything together in what can only be described as "the opposite of best practices" ;)

But I also like much of what's here. Maybe some day I'll revisit this concept.

Submitted(+1)

The only way to overcome any crisis is with friends! Good message, fresh mechanics! Love it!

Developer

Thank you for the feedback. Exactly what I was going for.

Submitted

lol the faces