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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Presentation | #56 | 4.377 | 4.377 |
| Overall | #163 | 3.788 | 3.788 |
| Fun | #184 | 3.610 | 3.610 |
| Creativity | #419 | 3.377 | 3.377 |
Ranked from 77 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Team: Crabware
Furkan, Bullstorm, Wade, Ryan
(+ Ethan & Azul playtested the game!)
Newbie?
Experienced
Nope - I've completed at least one game jam before.
How does your game fit the theme?
You are stranded on a dead planet that's been taken over by ancient technology. You must use your time and resources, and start working on getting something to help you **get started** in this foreign world.
The original plan was to "just get the golem-robot started so you can escape this world". We want to update the game after the jam even more so in that direction!
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Looks and sounds very pro, impressive. On the gameplay side I had a feeling of not enough control, things kinda happening without me, which got in the way of immersion. Good job anyhow
With further development I think you got a solid foundation for a full game. I with there was more!
Thank you! We’re definitely planning on it :)
Great game, the art and music are good. I wish there were more upgrades to spend that scrap on. Maybe more health for units or more damage, perhaps even another laser to spend. But overall good fun!
Great suggestions, thank you :) We’re glad you had fun!
Amazing game! The art style and music are great too, and I had a lot of fun playing it!
The hurtboxes are definitely something we wanna change after the jam! As for the music, we are aware of the issue, and it’s pretty much top priority on our list of things to fix. And yes, more upgrades are also something we want to do! We’re all extremely happy that the people want more!! :)
Thank you for the feedback, and for playing!
The artwork is just immaculate, the gameplay is fun but a little repetitive. Also friendly crabs can sometimes get stuck in each other.
Thank you for playing! We plan on spicing up the gameplay after the jam, with more upgrades, more unit/enemy types, etc. Wish we could include a couple more in the jam version, but we wanted to keep our scope small for this one :)
Regarding the crabs, I’m not sure about what the issue was. They’re supposed to follow your mouse and bunch up together, and they’re physics-based. We haven’t seen an issue with them getting stuck, but we’ll try to investigate the issue! It would be helpful if you could provide more context and maybe a screenshot, though!
Thank you for the feedback :)
i absolutely love this, maybe make it so there are different perks you can unlock (roguelike style) more crustaceans like lobsters and things idk, i would really like to see this as a full release with endless waves yk?
Absolutely love the art as well, did you do that yourself?
Congratulations, might be on my top 5 this jam, absolutely loved it
That is a delightful suggestion, thank you! For the endless waves, that would also really fit the game, so it’ll for sure be on our backlog of ideas to implement post-jam.
As for the art, our artist did indeed 3D model, texture, rig, and animate all assets from scratch, then turned them into pixel art!
Thank you for playing! Happy you enjoyed it :)
I love the art style! Go little crabbys go! I got sad whenever I couldn't save all the crabs :( would love to see more power-ups and maybe new abilities if your team chooses to expand upon this! Neat game :)
great game. Art reminds me of into the breach
That’s great praise, definitely an incredible inspiration source :) Thank you for playing!
Pretty fun game. Good joob.
Awesome game! would to see after more content is added :)
Cool game!
I loved the crabs! And the art style was really nice too! I was wishing for a few more upgrades/interactables to use my money on but it was cool to see my crab army multiply.
I had fun playing this! The art and sound are very nice, and the controls felt smooth. It would be nice to have more upgrades or types of enemies later on, but it’s already a solid game. Great job to the team!
Super super fun concept! It took me a couple of tries to understand how to not kill all my crabs but felt incredibly powerful conducting an army of crabs to fight for me. Felt super polished and had a great time trying to complete the level! Super impressed that you were able to make this in 10 days
Very very cool game, i liked the graphics and the sound effects which seemed very fitting and professional. Regarding gameplay, it was very smooth ,the abilities,the upgrades , everything
You can improve the UI a bit and and add more powerups if you want..
Amazing work anyway :)
This feels like way more than a week's worth of time, mostly because of the art! Very polished (everyone is saying it but that's the word to use aha).
I imagine it's because of the time constraint but a few more upgrades would have been nice
Also, a way to separate your frames into groups so that they don't all bunch up would be cool too.
Really impressive, good job!!
the music sucks
🤣
Cool game. I look forward to seeing it updated
The soundtrack is fire. It feels good to use the arm canon. The crab combat feels a bit like a coin toss though. Overall great game!