Really fun game, I love the color changing idea so much, it really adds in a level of on-the-fly decision making that I'm all here for it. Altought I do suffer a bit from skill issue, I admit x)
My best was 43.
Also, it gets a little waaay too chaotic a little waaay to quickly xD
I think it would have been good if there were some kind of enemy limit, because once there are a lot of them, you really have no idea what even is happening anymore, and the several colorful bullets flying around everywhere makes it almost impossible to even see who is the little gremlin that is shooting them (And if there is a limit, it may be a little too high).
Also, something that felt like a weird balancing decision for me is that the most dangerous enemies are also the ones that need specific color combinations to deal with, so whenever one of those appear for the first time, it's already a hell of a difficulty spike, and even when you barely noticed there are a few green guys roaming around you're already surprised by purples and oranges almost immdiatelly and is bullied the hell out by them. (Of course, this could be solved by gitting gud, but still.)
The keybinds are a little unhelpful as well since I kinda need to take my hand out of position to properly change the shield color, it would have been better to cycle throught stuff with either the mouse wheel as I saw you guys mentioned on another comments, or by just cycling all colors with only Q for the gun and E for the shield, or a variation of that. (Altought my brother do use the number keys pretty easilly on Minecraft pvp so it can also totally be just a matter of getting used to as well lol)
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Thank you so much for playing our little game and your feedback!
The balancing is something that sure needs more love; the maximum enemy limit was something we planned to add and then forgot to realize in the heat of wrapping it up and submitting. Excellent suggestion with the color cycling idea, I think @Liioni is going to look into that after the jam is over, cause that is definitely an intuitive way to cycle through!
Thanks again and have fun with all the other games of this cool jam!
Thanks for playing the game! I'm glad you had fun with it!
I really really like the Q and E solutions for switching color, I will definitely try it out and see how it feels. I tried to do a shift 1,2 and 3 for the shields at first, but it didn't work on all keyboards and this was the only solution I could think of on top of my head. Note to self for next jam: Play test more! Really good input regarding the controls! Thanks!