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Really cool game, definitely a lot of depth derived from the combination of the different mechanics.

One thing I noticed is that I think the camera zooms out a little too rapidly as the size of the ship increases, which makes it difficult to see the different entities on screen, especially the projectiles (which funnily enough is the opposite of the feedback you gave for my game haha)

Also very slight nitpick: I don't think it make sense to have a parallax effect on the stars - they should just be stationary in the background (unless of course the scale of the ship is comparable to that of a star lol)

Overall very well done :)

Hi, thanks for playing my game! I'll check out your one as well.

I should also note that the camera does gradually zoom out as the size of the ship increases, although it could definitely still be tweaked to scale slightly more rapidly.

Hey Firebelley, thanks for checking out my game and I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Just to answer some of your questions from the stream:

"I would prefer to have a definitive end to the game rather than just survive as long as possible" - I hadn't considered this at the time, but in hindsight that probably would have been a lot better because a lot of people had a similar issue of snowballing into an unkillable lag machine by the end.

"It would be cool to be able to rotate the ship" - This was one of the first things I implemented into the game, but when playtesting it, it just felt a bit janky and difficult to control. I also figured it'd be better for a game jam to keep the controls as simple as possible. But this could certainly be explored again in the future.

"Maybe the way you're trying to find the nearest enemy for each turret could be causing the lag" - This is almost certainly the biggest contributor to the lag, because you're were right in that I was doing it as inefficiently as possible haha. Your suggestion about using the collision system is really helpful, I'll have to give it a shot.

I thought it was a really interesting take on the theme the way it affects both player and enemy bullets. One thing that stood out was that it was kinda tricky to tell what mode the circle was on. I could see that the circle changed thickness a little bit but maybe if you had green for the growing mode and red for the shrinking mode it could be more clear.

Interesting mechanic, however I wasn't sure where I was supposed to go in the second level. Also, some of the art assets looked a little out of place as some of them were in a pixel art style whereas some of them were higher resolution.

The game had a really nice aesthetic going with the moody atmosphere. One thing that stood out to me was that the enemies did not visibly react when being shot, so I wasn't sure if I was actually doing damage. This could be improved by adding particles or a hitflash effect. Also the window was stuck in a super small resolution which made it hard to see what was going on.

Cute little game, the second form was really cool. I thought the player moved a bit too slowly when it was larger because it made it impossible to dodge the enemies.

The game is pretty good in the horror aspect, but it seems too hard to find batteries when the light is at the minimum size.

Cute little game, love the chill vibe of the music. One thing that stood out to me was that you have to wait a very long time between waves of enemies, which made me lose interest.

Very unique game, definitely had to make me think! I think one thing I found kinda confusing that I couldn't tell which side of the ship was forwards and which side was backwards so I ended up going the wrong way when shooting the forward button.

Cute little game, I really loved the shader you used to create the retro feel. I think the main thing that was confusing for me was that it was not immediately clear that the enemies, when in their smallest form, are supposed to be collected rather than avoided. It took me until about wave 5 to realise that haha.