At the moment, this game has only 4 ratings, which is absolutely preposterous.
OH MY GOD THIS GAME IS SO GOOD
The artstyle is based. The GTFO command terminal is really unique and brings a lot of tension to the game. The power system has a lot of ins and outs you can take advantage of (pulling out the battery doesn't stop the scanning or issue fixing). I was literally on the edge of my seat the entire time wondering if my efforts were enough. And the ending really gets me wondering what was on the ship.
This game's aura is immaculate, which is why I want to give a few suggestions to make it as streamlined as possible for the players.
For one, the manual on the observatory wall was heavily obscured by the lighting. This was a little frustrating since I had to squint to make the text out.
Secondly, I know the game was meant to be played as a windows exe, but the browser port is full of bugs. Namely, I couldn't see what I was typing in the terminal (camera off positioned), which completely destroyed the game. I had to download the game to actually play it, which is a big handicap in game jams. My advice for this in later jams is to export your game for HTML5 as soon as possible and test it often using the Remote Debug option (top right corner of Godot window).
In fact, the web export issues are probably why your game isn't getting many ratings. Since it's essentially unplayable in browser, no one wants to play it, which is a bummer. This game is really good.
Those are the only problems I had. Otherwise, all of you are very experienced game developers.
Yep, the item descriptions were a little hard to read. The upgrade UI was the most "afterthought" part of this project, which is kinda a bad thing. 5 am coding does wonders man.
I'll be sure to improve on it in my next game! Thank you!
Yeah, I definitely should've made the upgrade text larger in a tooltip or something similar. It was 5 am though so I couldn't go any further with it. UI is hard.
It's surprising how effective it is to use a bunch of household objects for raw sound, throw them in the Audacity blender, and have them sound so futuristic. I've looked at a few videos of professional sound design, and their main way of recording the sound is by using regular objects!
Everything I saw in this game made me like it more and more. The blocking mechanics are simple in concept yet complex in practice, the player feedback with sound design is high quality, and the inspiration is goated.
An interesting part of this game I liked was predicting when the towers will shoot the bullets, and whether the bullets would overwhelm me due to them clumping up in many different directions. I would then have to jitter the shield around to catch all the bullets, or take damage. In fact, it reminds me of a certain fight in Undertale ;)
In fact, literally the only gripe I have about this game is that there are only two levels. That is a complement. I had so much fun that I was disappointed when there wasn't more.
One thing I liked was the feeling of relief when I encounter a group of goblins, essentially acting as a health pack in a time of need. Were one of you inspired by Ultrakill by chance?
The one problem I keep on encountering is how powerless I am against ranged weapons. I could use the missile, but it costs mana, and I have so little mana at the start that I am forced a bombardment of arrows. The player feels powerless in that way, which deson't fit the feel of the game. That's just a small nitpick though.
I'm looking at the player's ship right now and I'm thinking you based it off of those plastic disk shooters, but in this case you lost the 4 other discs in the couch and you only have one left (good times).
Anyway, this game looks really good! The music slaps, the art is great, the player and enemy designs are concise and yet still detailed, and overall this game screams polish.
But is there a tradeoff for gameplay? Well, actually, no, the gameplay of your game is really solid! The disc impacting with the enemies is quite satisfying, and I can guarantee a hit by getting close to the enemies.
The one very small gripe I have is the timer at the end of each wave. Usually, this timer exists to allow the player to upgrade their character, but here, it just kinda stalls the fun.
One thing I liked was the pretty dang goofy artstyle you came up with. Everything feels like a fever dream an I'm all for it. The Dani reference was a good one ;) I like the concept of milk being your health and ammunition, requiring you to conserve your ammo.
However, I could not enjoy the game to its fullest because of its wonky balancing. I might just have a skill issue, but I couldn't even get past wave 3, since the enemies were coming from multiple directions and I had no way of defending both sides. The bullet hitboxes (or enemy hitboxes?) felt a bit wonky as well.
Despite that, this game has very solid inspiration and very good meme play. If you worked on the balancing a bit (maybe just by playing like a casual gamer), it could be peak.
This is an awesome game. I'm just leaving a tip for others to enjoy it more.
For those who have a part of the screen cut off and can't see the map, use "ctrl" + "-" to zoom out in your browser and decrease the size of the game window.
