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A jam submission

Sinister SwarmView game page

Submitted by Sourdough Games — 3 hours, 18 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Overall Enjoyment#13.8463.846
Creativity#14.0004.000
Audio#13.3853.385
Overall#23.6793.679
Gameplay#23.4623.462
Visuals#33.3083.308
Use of Theme#44.0774.077

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

Amazing game! Utilizes the theme very well. Would be nice to have shortcut switches between weapon systems. Like 1,2,3 on the keyboard.

Submitted

This was a really good game with a solid idea! Music and more options for things to add would be nice, but of course because of limited time those might not have been possible. Still a really good game for the theme and the time limit, I enjoyed it!

Submitted (1 edit)

Wow! Amazing use of the theme! Really creative twist on a space shooter game! I like how it actually felt like the game got progressively harder as I progressed.  I would say I really only had fun with the asteroids and the ships as the mines very unpredictable. I would say if you plan on continuing development, I would say updating the space background would be a good idea (nitpick, I know). Very fun overall!

Developer

Thanks for the comment! The mines are tricky to use but if you can land them, they do a ton of damage!

Submitted

Ended up playing the game for a lot longer than I initially thought I would, and if that's not a sign of good gameplay, I don't know what is! As for what I'd improve, well, I'd change the "player money" label since I thought the "player" was my enemy. Also I got the ship down to exactly 0% health without it dying which I assume is because you checked if the health was <0 instead of <=0. Maybe some more variety to make the gameplay last longer, perhaps some rougelike elements, and you got yourself a high quality game!

Developer

I wanted to do a lot more but ended up getting busy and running out of time. Thanks for the comment :)

Submitted

Great use of theme! I wish there was more placeable units, I found it was more fun to place the ships than to spawn the obstacles.

Great submission :D

Submitted

good game was fun but needed more stuff. over all was pretty fun

Submitted

Really like the idea of spawning bad guys to stop the hero. The game could do with more challenge e.g the hero could kill the player over time.