I’m really glad to read this 😊
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Hey Julian,
Thank you very much for that lovely feedback, and sorry for the delay in replying - I was attending the past few days.
You raise a good point about having some into somewhere which level this is currently - I think the pause panel would be a good place.
And a good point about the rotation!
Thank you!
Some visual changes were also points brought up by the play testers, also colouring the field requirements for easier distinction, and cloud shading.
It came at a point however where I had run out of time to still look into it for the jam, but I might add that in a later update. I also didn’t manage to still create all of the corner options that I wanted ^^
Love the idea, the visuals, the sound design… Just the jump is very hard to master, and for a platformer that’s a bit sad. I got stuck at a ledge that I couldn’t jump over no matter how hard I tried, combined with the shot 😅
And mixing control schemes (keyboard and mouse) in a platformer is a tad non-intuitive… I’d check how Contra and Metal Slug solved the shooting, maybe that would help here.
Definitely a lot of potential here though!
Hey David, once more a big thank you from me for your work! I’m building a cozy puzzle game for a gamejam and found a fitting track on this album of yours - attributed of course! Thank you so much for your amazing work!
If you want to check out the current WIP version of the game, it’s called Cloud Shepherd and you can find it at https://foosel.itch.io/cloud-shepherd
Oh hey, that would be awesome, especially since I’m a regular viewer 😄👋
Mine is a little shmup called “Pew Pew Pew: Danger Zone!” where you shoot more bullets the less health you have!
https://foosel.itch.io/pew-pew-pew-danger-zone
I’ve gotten some great feedback on it (which I did not expect on my first ever jam entry) and I do intend to develop it further 😊
Thank you for the feedback and the praise 😊
I intend to turn this into something more and any feedback helps for that! I like the idea of collecting health pickups but not immediately using them. Something that I had a lot of fun with during testing was using the gravity pull of my ship and its movements to gather points and other pickups but get the health pickups thrown away. But apparently that kind of gameplay didn’t emerge for most, so that could also need some look at.
In any case, thank you again, and I’m indeed quite happy with my contribution to this jam 😊
Ok, that was fun! I have to admit that I’m not sure about what is “less is more” here, apart from the fact that it is a quite minimalistic mechanic that causes a ton of fun frustration ^^
Nevertheless, this is well executed, the controls feel snappy (VERY important in a game that requires that much precision), the music matched the rhythm of the jumps nicely, allowing me to find a flow quite easily, and whatever you did with the camera there works great 👍
I could see myself playing this way too long 😅
I am an utter failure at this game, but I totally love the idea and the execution looks great as far as I can judge it, not having been able to get very far 😅
As such, I’m also refraining from rating it because it would feel unfair to rate a game which I cannot really play due to reasons beyond control of the creator, but I wanted to still give you the feedback that I really really like what you did here!
Thankfully I got the tip by Hot Cuddlecino to try it under Wine (I apparently didn’t read the comments close enough to spot this myself 🙈), and that worked 😊
Very nice game, great way to implement the theme, I love it! I just recently went through a decluttering phase in real life, so it might have felt easier for me than many others here, I quickly got into a flow 😂 It still had me sit there and stare at the screen and try to make heavy decisions a couple of times. Really great writing! Also nice nod to the Cosmere, currently re-reading the Mistborn series 😄
edit: Also would have loved some sound and calm music in there. Though maybe there was and me not hearing it was due to the slightly weird workarounds I took to make it work? 🤔
Great implementation of the theme! The randomness of the traps threw me off sadly, that was a bit too “random encounter” for my taste. A bit unexpected sound effects 😂
Side note, was a bit confused first when I ran the game on the embed page and the tutorial screen look like this:
Going full screen resolved this then, but maybe increasing the embed size so it works with that game would be a good idea here 😅
Omg I love this!
A lot has already been said about collision behaviour and possible frustration reduction, so I won’t repeat this here and just say, this is so adorable and I really love the minimalistic style you went with there. The choice of music was just perfect as well, and the title made me groan, but in a good way ^^
One other thing though, this is what greeted me when I ran your game on my 4k screen 😅
That’s a real shame for this gem of a game, so if you plan to continue working on this (and you should IMHO!) please make sure it scales up properly 😊
Consider me absolutely amazed that you managed to fit this into less than 500 characters! I just recently learned about the Tweet Jam and was in awe, but didn’t expect to be able to ever participate with Godot Engine (which wouldn’t have been that bad, I wanted to take a look at things like Love, TIC-80 and such anyhow). You just taught me that it IS possible, so my hat’s off to you!
Admittedly not my kind of game and I didn’t have time to sit down and start taking notes (which it recommends and which I feel it really deserves), so only played it for a few minutes.
BUT it’s visible how much you poured into this game, and if this was my type of game I certainly could myself sinking a bunch of hours into this, so great work!
One suggestion given that this is playing in space would be to go a bit deeper into physics here and give the ship some weight and impulse. Since the goal is to save up credits to save a planet, and flying costs game, I could see some fun optimization challenges by trying to shoot over to another planet with just one initial push and let the impulse and gravity by other planets do their thing. But that’s just one thing that came to mind while getting lost in space repeatedly 😅
I will admit, I didn’t really do anything with the card deck during the fights, I was just too busy to even register what cards I had out, yet alone try to optimize things by discarding and redrawing 😅
With that being said, after an initial feeling of being overwhelmed, in the second attempt I understood better what as going on and played it through. I loved the various enemy types and their distinct mechanics. Might also work great as a mobile game. Also, some really nice feedback there during the fights, and some juice, great work!
Very nice look and feel, the polka music chosen for this gives it a certain something that just makes squashing the bugs even more fun. Also they felt like they were teasing me with all that jumping around, very nicely done :D
Got annihilated in the third level, but had a blast until then, thank you!