It is a nice game. Visuals fit the concept, sfx give good feedback.
BUT
It's either way too hard or very unclear on the rules. I couldn only secure a window once because I would always run out of time. So a slight learning curve would be nice.
I loved the concept. Worked on a similar idea some time before, but your execution is much better! Art, music and sfx work great together, and overall it played like a solid game.
Visibility-wise, I'd prefere area of view right after picking up a battery to be larger, because there are a lot of jumps that go out of it. It would be nicer to see them ahead and at least memorise where are you going.
I did run into some bugs: from time to time D and Space keys suddenly stopped working, whitch made it impossiple do go right and up respectively, so I couldn't get past lvl 3. If it ever gets fixed, would love to finish the game!
Great game! Had a blast playing it! Controls took some getting used to, but ones I did - it way pure joy. I only realised you can do damage by bumping into enemies when a card told me so. May be you could put whole instructions for people who are really bad at gaming. And kinda curious, does engine fire do any damage?
Oh yes, a double negative in the theme! That've caused some confusion in my head, so I googled the hell out of it. Genuinely, it means "do not hurt anyone", but grammatically you are correct, so do whatever pleases you (if it's not against the law).
I think that it would feel more responsive with few more soundeffects. And I got a bit lost after a room with a key, but figured it out after a couple loops.
The story felt a bit distant from mechanics. Perhaps, you could give the exposition through dialogs or make more connected to the story characters.
Great experience nonetheless, movement feels good, art is nice, soundtrack is very fitting. Great job!
I have a fairly stupid question. I made my soundtrack using beepbox (because I could). Should I convert it to something more readable for more musically educated folk or it is ok to use their built-in song player and/or editor? It doesn't want to be exported as .mid, so I'm not even sure I can make it look any better.
There is a component on canvas called "canvas scaler". By default the scale mode in it is set to "constant pixel size". All you have to do is change it to "scale with screen size" and put the current screen size as a reference.
I'm not a very experienced game developer. I've only made 8 tiny games so far, so every new one is a whole lot of new techniques, mechanics and ideas I'm discovering while working on the easiest tasks. And this submission was no exception.
So, what did I learn?
Firstly, adding sounds to the buttons isn't that complicated, although a bit time-consuming. And buttons with sounds turned out to feel a lot more responsive. Surely keeping that skill for the future.
Secondly, vectors are cool! And you can make rays with them, and rays can do all your work for you. Such great little fellows!
Thirdly (is that a word?), you sould polish as much as possible before making a whole bunch of levels so you wouldn't have to change 15 scenes by hand. I should get a tattoo or something.
Fourthly (definitely not a word), if you make test builds after every questionable decision you won't have surprise malfunctions an hour before the deadline.
Fifthly, there is a way to make the UI work on any screen size and it's a pity I didn't know about it before. I probably should revisit my previous projects on that matter. That is probably the biggest thing I'm taking out of this experience.
And finally, a week - is a lot of time to work on a jam game. Sometimes it was hard to get to work because of no sense of urgency, but overall it was relaxing yet gave me a feeling of achievement. And for that, thank you, Brackeys Game Jam 2022.1!
I have a slight feeling no one will read it, but if you do, you might as well share what did you get from this week. And have a great day
