Hi! I played your game just now and it was really fun! Here is some more detailed comments:
- I liked a lot both the visual Aesthetics and the musical atmosphere. The graphics were clear and looked nice. I especially liked the planets of the background. The music was really fitting and created a good atmosphere for playing.
- The game concept was clearly inspired by magnets. I feel this game follows the theme in a good and non-trivial way. Also, in many other games the magnets has been used to collect the rewards but here they are also used to kill enemies which I liked. Also, it made positioning super important as pulling enemies close in wrong circumstances leads to more harm than good. Player needs to take into account both enemy position and nearby asteroid positions to play well.
- The game difficulty was appropriate. It was easy at first but then quickly become more difficult. The good think is that playing well early in the game player can survive further in the game because the difficult parts later are easier when all the previous enemies are already taken care of when the new enemies arrive. Because of this, the easy beginning part did not feel uninteresting chore because how well I played there also greatly impact how well I could do further in the game. It was additionally a good thing that the game become challenging quickly because keeping the playtime short makes it more likely that the player wants to try the game again.
- After dying the game always prompts the me if I want to submit my score or not. This felt unnecessary extra step between multiple attempts. I would argue that the player either wants to use the leaderboard or not but it would really not make sense that the player would want to save some attempts but not others. The leader board seems to anyway only keep track of the players best score. It would make sense that the game would just automatically update the highscore for the player each time the player gets higher result than previously.
Great work! One of the best games in this jam I've tried so far!
Please consider checking out my game if you have time at some point. I would appreciate to hear your thoughts on it and could really use a rating too.