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A jam submission

CirkillView game page

Defend your rings with your inner circle. Created in 3 hours for Trijam 135.
Submitted by jhanson — 2 days, 4 hours before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
How well does the game fit the themes?#54.5004.500
Overall#63.9763.976
Did you make it in 3 hours (put 5 by default)#64.8574.857
How much do you enjoy the game overall?#63.7863.786
Visuals#83.8573.857
Audio#133.2143.214
Gameplay#133.6433.643

Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How long was your dev time?
a little less than 3 hours

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Comments

Submitted

Not bad and psychedelic! I liked the effects you did on rings! Sounds were repetitive but i had fun smashing those baddies :)

Developer

Thank you!

Submitted

You again ?! You participate to every trijam :D

I really love your game. It's simple, addictive ! Well done !

You even had time to make a menu, a tuto and a custom cursor. You spent well your time !

The only thing that bother me is the music loop, a little too short.

Developer

Thanks!  Yup, I’ve been in the last three with you (except the Giga Jam).

I agree on the music - I’m definitely no musician!

Submitted(+1)

I won’t have the time to make a full game next weekend. But if you want we team up, I could make the music and the sfx for your next production ;)

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

Really neat and addictive. Nice game !

At the end some projectiles where reeeeeeeally fast XD I like the curve of difficulty.

Developer(+1)

What in the world?  Everyone else is topping out at like 60-70.  Be honest - are you a ninja or a robot?

Submitted(+1)

To be honest...both (and from Pluton), but please don't reveal my secret.

More seriously perhaps I just had good RNG on the spawns. I reached this score only once after all.

Submitted

Could see this being in an old arcade cabinet somewhere. Super addicting.

Developer

Thank you for the kind words! That’s exactly the vibe I was aiming for. 😊

Submitted

Simple game, but very nice presentation!

Developer

Thank you!  I love old arcade games so I was looking for an excuse to fake some scanlines and make it look retro.

Submitted

Cool concept

Developer(+1)

Thank you!

Submitted

Beaufiul entry, really liked the visuals and gameplay. Now I sometimes lose track of the mouse as it ends up outside the window on fast movements, which is a bit annoying - maybe the Itch's default full screen button might help if it works well with your game?

Developer

Thanks!

Yeah, I haven't tried full screen mode on Itch.  I'll have to play around with that once the voting is done.  I made a Windows build just to see what happens and it doesn't have the same problem, so I think it has something to do with the HTML5 canvas not being able to track mouse movements outside of itself (whereas the Windows build can).

Submitted

I still haven't gotten out of the 40s, I am playing with a trackpad though. Great visuals, nice effects. Frustratingly addictive because I feel like I should be doing much better!

Developer

It is really tough on the trackpad!

Submitted

Really like the visuals, great job! One thing i found was that i lost track of my mouse, so maybe the curser could be a more contrasting colour. My highest score was 47 :)

Developer(+1)

Thanks!  Good call on the mouse cursor.  I think I'm going to do a post-jam update and that will be one of the fixes.

Submitted (1 edit)

I got 65 score in 2nd try fun concept and game I like it.

Developer(+1)

Wow!  You are the champion, I believe.  I've topped out at 60 since my original post (playing on a trackpad).

Submitted(+1)

Nice I am playing with mouse will score more at free time getting ready for other jams. :)

Developer(+2)

Here's my personal best score so far.  Can you beat it?

Submitted(+1)

44 so far. Gets a bit easier after your lose the first few circles, there's a sweet spot in the middle.

Developer(+1)

Your observation makes sense because the bulk of the little time I spent balancing it was actually with fewer circles in place.  I initially had two fewer circles, but I added a couple to sort of act as practice for the player, extend the play time a bit, and to make it look nicer.

If I had more time, I was planning to add a bonus circle for every 20 or so enemies that you kill.  The game still plays well with about 2-3 circles more than what you see now.  Anything above that and I’d have to re-jigger the distance between them to avoid it getting too cramped on the screen.

I finally topped my previous score and got 56, by the way.