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A jam submission

Battle HiveView game page

Submitted by Shovelwares, Rooilo0 — 6 hours, 45 minutes before the deadline

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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Art#303.6323.769
Music#373.2613.385
Overall#622.8762.985
Gameplay#692.5942.692
Fun#692.5942.692
Theme#852.2982.385

Ranked from 13 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

Love the artstyle and colors! The gameplay was very confusing at first due to how often I was dying. Having to manually fly was a little difficult to pick up when so much is happening onscreen. I like it tho, nice work.

Submitted(+1)

fun bullet hell game XD

I really like the enemy variations 

and to twist the bullet hell design where we usually just automatically fly around to do the flying manually is interesting concept XD

Jam Judge(+1)

The music was nice, and those little bees are adorable! But the game didn’t feel too challenging since there’s no real consequence for losing. Had a couple glitches when the boss appeared, and I think I slipped through the walls once or twice? The dithering around the sides is fine, but the extra pixels in the middle just felt a bit unnecessary and distracting. Also, the theme wasn’t as strong as I expected—it could’ve been integrated a bit more.

Submitted(+1)

Fun game! Nice retro art and sound. Sometimes it feels a bit clunky and hard to understand what’s going on. I glitched out of the screen on the boss fight but still managed to win :D

Submitted(+1)

I did not quite get the game mechanic at first and also don't understand why the character basically drops down the screen. It's a bit unfortunate that you cannot die as well, as there is no motivation to do something...you just can run the game and eventually win it :D Other than that: Really nice artwork and retro vibe and overall very good game, although I did not get the BEAT connection that well^^

Submitted(+1)

Loved the retro style, but timing in gameplay - had me struggling. 

Submitted(+1)

Great retro style, and the boss fight was awesome! The only thing I’d point out is that there’s a bit too much going on on the screen, and the feedback from hits gets a little lost.

Submitted(+1)

It was really weird to play at first... until I realized.. I can JUMP hahahaha.
Not much feedback I have, other mechanics is done really well:

  • Movement controls for W and S key , doesn't seem like doing anything. Since jumping controls Up/Down, you can replaced the Q key to W key for using thunder caw.
  •  Difficulty progression, try starting slower with lesser and simpler enemy so player can have a feel of how the controls work.

Developer(+1)

Thank you for the feedback - You are right, no need for W/S, Up/Down controls.   I've updated the instructions for clarity!

Submitted(+1)

nice game!

Submitted(+1)

this music is truly fantastic! I'm very new as a composer for games and have been digging into this style for this jam in particular (I did the music in Cardiovascular Witcher for this jam), so hearing such well made tunes for this is so inspiring/rewarding after working with it myself!  I also love the game and was impressed by the art style but I'm just a bit biased hehe great work guys :)

Developer

Hi!  Music was done by: https://johnoestmannmusic.com