Just remember that even though the waffles look delicious, they are pixels on a screen, and as such, they taste like a screen.
Assassin Squid
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https://itch.io/jam/blackthornprod-game-jam-3/rate/900193
This one's mine. It's a top down shooter + factory building game
I enjoyed playing this and i love the visuals but (this may just be happening to me) when i full screened it had the left and right sides cut off. this made it pretty difficult to know where the end of the level was. I did end up playing the whole way through though. The implementation of the theme was very fun.
This game is amazing. it feels well balanced for the combat and the variety of enemies was good. i enjoyed the maze-like temple and your use of the theme was great. this is one of those game jam games that i might just play even after the jam ends if i need something to do. My only advice would be to add something to the ui. The health indicators looked nice but the text boxes and the objective box at the top just felt a little flat. if you created some pixel sprites to use as backdrops for the text that might work. all in all i loved the game and I'm very impressed with what you got done in the short amount of time.
Thanks for the feedback. We actually were thinking about adding to this game and most of the things you mentioned adding were part of the original idea. I was going to add the manual but ran out of time. I actually added a powerups menu but it was extremely buggy and needed to be reworked. My friend who made the art for the factory modules already made several more weapon types and different types of drills etc. but i didn't have time to implement those either. If we do continue working on it i hope to use A* pathfinding to allow for more interesting map design. right now the drones just fly straight toward the player.
I never considered adding armor upgrades but that's a great idea. same with having an end point. adding several different levels to be unlocked would be fun. i would probably allow the player to survive as long as they want and skip the end goal if they would like to.
If the game does get updates there will be devlogs on my youtube channel, code waffle.
Sorry about how long that message was. Thanks for playing the game, and I'll be sure to check out yours.
https://code-waffle.itch.io/lights-out
I thought the deadline was noon so I missed it by less than a minute. I'd love to hear your thoughts on my game though. It's my first complete game.
also I agree the game was very immersive