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A jam submission

Gift ThiefView game page

New Year is coming soon, and all gifts are stolen! Catch the thief and bring them back before it's too late
Submitted by youlikeit, Black_Semka — 1 hour, 7 minutes before the deadline
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CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Vote on your favourite game!#493.0803.080

Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Excellent game.

Superb.

Submitted(+1)

Excellent use of music, sound, and art. Gameplay was quite simple in concept but challenging to play (though I discovered if you fly down to the bottom-right corner you can avoid all attacks). The surprise at the end was great!

Developer

Thanks, glad you enjoyed ;)

Submitted(+1)

Very fun to play ! Music was amaazing as hell, and I liked it a lot ! Art was good too ! Well done !

Submitted(+1)

Yeah, I just finished it! Really cool and stylish, and quite challenging too. Maybe it will be more fun if the player can slow down time to dodge the bullets. ^_^

Developer(+1)

Thanks for feedback ;) 

Idea with slowmo is really good, maybe I use it in the future :)

Submitted(+1)

Nice bullethell game! We enjoyed the choice of music and the pixel art city.

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

Nice work! :)

Visual

The game is so pleasing to look at, great job on the artwork, and the cutscenes! That's incredible work here :)

Audio

The soundtrack is really cool! I just miss a little SFX when I'm hit by a snowball, or when I win :)

Tutorials

Unfortunately no tutorials :( I struggled a lot to start my first game :c

Gameplay

  • The "adapt game to music" is not that uncommon, but I personally like that aspect a lot! Having you prototyping it during a game jam is incredible work :)
  • I liked that we have to survive only a certain amount of time!
  • Simple controls but challenging game!
  • Maybe a little too much snowballs? I often find myself unable to avoid them :(

Fun

The game is really fun! I liked that ambiance, the art, the music, the gameplay. I had a great time here :)

Bugs

The game gave me a hard start, with a few bugs that made it completely unplayable :(

  • During the cutscene, while in my ship, I thought the game started and tried to press multiple keys to understand how to move, what to do, how to shoot (until I realized I couldn't), etc. It made the game do hard resets (the cutscene appeared once again from the beginning).
  • The sound restarted too sometimes when I pressed keys during the cutscene
  • When I finally decided not to touch anything anymore, the game could play correctly, BUT the other instances of the game were still playing too. I had way too many snowballs from that moment and couldn't play anymore (I had like 5-6 games shooting at me at the same time), + the blizzard from the first instance)
  • I still managed to win, by staying on the bottom right (there are no snowballs there)
  • I launched the game once again to enjoy the game correctly (without 5 instances of the game). The only bug I perceived on this run is a glitch with the ending cutscene, the path of the enemy looks like teleports. And there are some parts without any snowballs, too.

Theme

GIVE ME MY SURPRISES BACK è.é In the theme, that's a yes for me :)

Developer(+1)

Wow *-* Thank you so much for full review!! I think, it will really help me in the future.

All bugs you found, were founded by me too, but I didn't know can I fix them or not after the jam ended. Sorry for that. 

From the other hand, I see the game brought positive emotions to you, and it means the 48 hours of develop weren't wasted :)

Thanks)

Submitted(+1)

Really cool, love the cutscene, the art, everything. Great work!


If you get a chance, please check out our entry https://itch.io/jam/yogscast-game-jam-2020/rate/844899

Developer

Ok, I'll check your project too ;) 

Thanks for feedback. Glad you enjoyed)

Submitted(+1)

Wow, really, an intro cutscene! That is so cool! It looks amazing, really good work. Though definitely do a lot of playtesting next time, since you can easily win the game by just standing in a corner haha.

Submitted
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Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for the review 😊 Your comments are valid. In fact, the snowball spawn is tied to the background music spectrum analyzer, the parameters of which were selected a little incorrectly.. So, there was not enough time for selection, and it was decided to create the safe zone for not-ultramegasuperhardcore bullethell players. 😌

Submitted(+1)

The presentation is absolutely top notch. I did find a way to cheese (hide in the bottom right corner), but I did stick around for a while just because of the sound and visuals. Overall very solid :D

Developer

Thanks for the detailed review, glad you enjoyed ;)

Submitted(+1)

The art and the music are SO good, nice job

Developer

Thanks for feedback :)

Submitted(+1)

Intro was amazing, you should add a timer to the game so people can try to beat highscores!

Developer (1 edit)

Thanks for feedback) This game is NOT infinite (try to stay alive just one track) :D

Submitted(+1)

The intro was so cool! Really set the stage for the game, enjoyed playing it

Developer(+1)

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it

It took all the first day of jam to create the intro :)