Yes!! I've been wanting to play your Crisp games on the Playdate for a long time. Thank you very much!!!
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This is honestly, the perfect playdate game, 10/10.
Amazing balance of humor, catchiness, production values, fun but simple gameplay, perfect to play on train rides for 20 minutes at a time but with an addicting gameplay loop so you always wanna keep coming back, upgrades that are so interesting you want ALL of them instead of 'just but the best thing.'
I also love the approach to the atmosphere of the game; The concept and items and characters are absurd, but it never goes 'haha look how silly this is' and instead goes for a moody atmosphere with chill and tense music.
I admit I was expecting the game to be a joke from the concept, but I was not expecting it to be this chill and relaxing. Highly recommended.
I love paint apps, and in particular use the hell out of MSPaint (I realize this is based on MacPaint), so I was really excited for this. I think it's fair to say I'm specifically the target audience!
....But I agree that the $20 pricetag is insulting. Especially considering that this is a version 0.2 early release that even declares it makes no guarantees to finish/implement missing features.
I think a substantially higher number of people would be willing to purchase this at a more reasonable $5.
This game is great! Definitely the best shmup on Playdate so far, and certainly the most complete. The graphics are top-notch. I would totally pay for a sequel/longer version with more stages and lives/checkpoints/powerups. (Like, $9.99 for a version with 5 levels or so)
I personally think the enemies have too much health -- I think with more enemies with less health each (and more firepower for the player) you could get some REALLY exciting action going on. Also, if you die during the boss, the boss music continues playing when you restart the game and the playdate crashes.
As it is it works great as a memorizer/puzzle kind of shooter, but I think you've got the framework for something amazing here.