Thank you! I should indeed add an "exporation", not timer mode. Or maybe and easy mode with some more time, maybe a full minute. Thanks for the suggestion. 🙇
Great art and music and super smooth controls! The concept is simple but works nice. A really solid and polished entry even though you said you couldn't add everything you wanted to ! The cat sounds are just icing on the cake. The only "negative" feedback I can think of is maybe the camera: though its movement is very smooth, it sometimes lags behind the character, making it difficult to see far ahead. But again, besides that tiny thing, Whisker Void is a really great game!
Fantastic idea! I think it fits the theme very well. It's also very well executed, I love you graphics! It's very hard, though. I wonder what you could do to make it a little bit easier within the 2Os constraint. 🤔
Thanks Akzidenz, your always so thoughtfull! The game is clone of this one Half Minute Hero, so the concept has already been much expanded on (great game, you should give it a try). I thought about adding minigame (as usual), but than 20s was definitely not enough anymore.
As all other commenters before me, I can't praise enough the art and and the general ambiance. Everything is very poolished and feels professional. Also each new game is a step up in all departments and that adds a lot to how much I enjoy them.
Passed the initial frustration to not be able to actually read the story, re-reading the menu entries over and over again until i could finaly beat the game shaped an implicit story in my mind. I will now take my time to play without the timer and see how close it matches your words.
Great game! the action is intense and is very well served by the music! I like that there is a variety of enemies but also of actions, dodging, aiming shooting. Maybe I would have liked to have and indication of my time when i beat the game. That gives an incentive to play again and beat your previous time.
Also, thank you so much for adding arrow controls. My keyboard doesn't have a qwerty layout and there are many games I can't properly play because of the wasd only inputs.
Me and my son played more than a few times and we really enjoyed the game! Reading the other comments, I feel I missed a tone of subtleties. But even like that, the fear of getting caught was so present we got hooked and played over and over. Such a good laugh! Thank you for this! Now I'll have another game and try to spot what I missed.
Aaaah, Akzidenz! Your words go straight to my heart! You read my intentions 100%. I think it all comes from Shenmue. I own the 3 games but for whatever reason never played any of them. I think I want to recreate this "story told through quick time events" that I fantasize them to be. It's also a pretty manageable format for a jam.
I'm planing to post an updated version with sound effects. I collected some stadium crowd sounds during development but didn't have time to process and incorporate them.
Anyways, thanks for your kind words. They really mean a lot coming from you.
I imagined it as potential mobile game so one input only was the goal. The tackle phase has a bug: it detects pressing the space bar too late but not to early, hence spamming always win. You should press the space bar just as you hear the (not so obvious) audio cue. But as you noticed, I haven't had time to properly work on sound.
It always feel good hearing someone enjoyed your game. So thanks again!
I like that both the simplicity of the gameplay and the cute art (big plus for the voices) make this game so easy to instantly enjoy.
As I told you on the Discord, your game brought back memories of the Willow shield sliding scene. Maybe a lead for Akzidenz story suggestion. The game also reminded me of Toobin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT-hn4WnX_0)
Would it be difficult to add keyboard or controller controls? I play on a track pad and after a couple of games, my wrist hurts.
I have to confess I didn't even notice the bounce/s counter and plaid for sheer fun of watching the ball bounce. The attention to detail and the fact that this runs smoothly on my 2013 MacBook Air kept me playing even longer. I'd like to see where you can take this further. Congratulations on a job well done!
A nice take on the breakout genre indeed. I would love to see this developed with more gun/weapon types (bombs for area damage, flame thrower with fire flowing from one brick of a certain type to another, laser that would brake en entire column, etc) and maybe ammo/resources management. Like, Doom Eternal, but inside Arkanoïd.
First, thanks for giving the game a try and for the feedback. The game was indeed broken trying to load a level that did not exist yet. That is fixed now, with 3 more levels added.
Thank you phillip for a very detailed feedback and kind words, and sorry for the very late reply. That you gave the game a try not only once, but 4 times makes me super happy!
The game has very obvious balance issues that I sadly didn't find the time to fix them. I hope to fix them in a later iteration. As for the Alien Breach event not triggering game over when you have no soldiers left, that's probably a bug! Thanks for finding it!
A dead simple (haha) but very entertaining concept!!! It sometimes plays like an Arkanoïd clone. I like that I thought I could abuse the game by getting close to the walls but eventually, the skull always escapes. I got to 113.
I did notice some bias while play testing the game but never to that extent! I'll have to fix that once voting is over. Thanks for giving the game a try, though! Any other comment?
Thanks for playing it and many more thanks for the great feedback! I'm so happy the noosing direction monogame made sense to you. That was the one I felt would be the most confusing. I didn't plan that monogame to break the pace but it serves that purpose indeed, thanks for pointing it out, as that will help me when devising the other mini games I want to add.
Also good advice on the epilepsy warning. I'd hate for someone to get hurt because of my game...
Thanks a lot for the kind words and detailed review, as usual! It is indeed one of my goals to flesh out the minigame count and then turn this into a mobile game.
So simple but so efficient! It looks like nothing but there is gameplay, level design and art direction. Great job!!! (damn, those timings are thight!)
