Excellent, merciless game! I appreciate the choice of the core mechanic with projectile motion, requiring precision launching and positioning. Restless skeleton indeed.
femto
Creator of
Recent community posts
Excellent entry, light hearted with comical ending, each palette gave me different feel, beautiful.
The broom closet is profound, one of the coolest soundtrack I heard during the Jam. This unique dedication, reminded me of the Stanley Parable.
In terms of gameplay, I think the camera could have a smaller bounding box to make the exploration easier, without having to reach the screen edge to scroll the scene.
Great effort, keep improving, and hope you guys realize the complete escape room!
Thank you for the feedback, glad you find it interesting! Yes, you are correct, right in the details! haha;
For the particle rendering, I truncated the particle floating point position to the nearest grid position, to emulate and respect the pixel constraint, but did not applied neither to the character, nor to the eye rendering.
I implemented the pixel constraint to the character and eye, will experiment with the parameters.
I'll update after the Jam to increase the low-res representation coherence, together with more polish that I wanted to make, but could not due to the jam time constraint.
Very atmospheric, beautiful color palette and soundtrack, makes it immersive. I felt isolated in the vastness. Somewhat reminded me of Axiom Verge.
I appreciate the choice of jump as core mechanic that shooting mechanic revolves around. You have to plan and make calculated jumps, while shooting to eliminate the enemies/obstacles. Would be an interesting challenge when there are bunch of enemies trying to kill you, while you have to make precision movement and jumps, at the same time hitting the enemies.
What a lovely parasite, I wanted him to evolve into a full blown parasite and navigate inside the flesh labyrinth becoming one entity.
Great effort, good work!
I enjoyed slaying and thrusting the goblins! The color palette, background forest parallax, and lighting effect blend in a really beautiful immersive, subtle yet deep aesthetics.
On the constructive feedback side, given that the action rhythm of hack and slash gameplay is high, an edge move camera with damping would fit very well, making the scene a bit more static, it helps maintaining the surrounding awareness to plan the action sequence, while appreciating the beautiful landscape. (Blasphemous is a great reference)
Great effort, well done!
I enjoyed decimating and collecting heads while serving as the god's hand. Well done given the time constraints.
In terms of aesthetics, I appreciate the choice of the hollow atmosphere, the lifeless desaturated color palette. When it comes to isometric, there are particular challenge for rendering, figuring out the transformation between screen space to world space, depth sorting, but I think 2.5D is really beautiful.
In terms of gameplay, the turn-based combat is a classic, instantly becomes tactical because of action planning, it would be nice if there are:
- Visual feedback of the attack range, like a high light of the adjacent cells to indicate the current attack intention.
- Directional commitment, when moving input is in the same direction as previous input, move to the cell, otherwise, require another input to move to the other direction, indicating with some visual feedback the intended direction with animation on the first input. This will avoid the unintended movement, be able to adjust the attack direction.
- Wait Action, to ambush the enemy
On the game balance aspect, well, loved the jam balance! We have so much time to do everything by ourselves, we have to make choices.
Oh, maybe you already know this, but I'll leave it here anyway, if you want to delve deeper into the depth: https://www.roguebasin.com
Keep it up with the good work!
A beautiful contrast between black and blue , with a cartoon style graphics and jazzy rhythm and melody that reminds me of an innocent times, simply fun.
Loved the sudden appearance of the frenzy eye in the fifth puzzle, and the challenging difficulty of the last with mildly humiliating splash in between the restarts made me smile haha!
You clearly have identified your aesthetics, keep it up with the good art and good game!
Thank you for the kind words!
Yes, the idea was to experiment with the concept of pixel physics engine, but due to the time limitation it became more of a tech demo than an actual game.
After the Jam, I'll do a proper level design, enemy design, combat design, and progression, with some music and sound effects.
The giant eye monster is a cute buddy that will help you devour more souls along the descent into the darkness.
Thank you kindly for the note too! I'll update the page and add as a known issue as soon as possible.
Thank you for playing the game, and for the kind words!
Yes, it is inspired by several classic arcade shmups that I played for sometime. I had to make the level and game balance in quite a hurry, but fortunately, you had some fun!
I intend to polish and extend this game to be a full-fledged complete modern take on classic shmups, hopefully, there are more fun to be engineered =).