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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #279 | 3.348 | 3.909 |
| Gameplay | #292 | 3.270 | 3.818 |
| Enjoyment | #308 | 3.425 | 4.000 |
| Visuals | #421 | 3.503 | 4.091 |
| Overall | #468 | 3.192 | 3.727 |
| Theme | #573 | 3.114 | 3.636 |
| Innovation | #781 | 2.491 | 2.909 |
Ranked from 11 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
Environment is a amalgamation of movie genres that clash. Enemies that don't belong together team up against you.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
2 songs were old repurposed demos. Fonts were not made by us.
How many people worked on the game?3
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Music was good and so was the gameplay! It was sort of hard to tell when I was hitting an enemy, though I could tell there was a sound effect for it! Mixing it just a little higher would make it a lot better on that end.
Otherwise, gameplay was fun!
This was pretty fun! The art was great! I wish there was a way to tell if you were damaging enemies, especially because they had so much health. Good work!
I had a lot of fun with this one! Very heavy isaac vibes, its polished and the art style is really fun!
Use of the theme was a great way to make the re-use of enemy assets built within the lore of the game, very smart.
This artstyle is probably one of my favorites of the jam! Very coolio! You should check out our game as well!
I really like the theme of mismatched characters fighting it out, well done!
This was an entertaining game. The visuals were pretty fun to look at and I felt like some of the enemies gave a good level of challenge.
For a game jam this is super fun and impressive! The art and musics are all very well made and the difficulty felt pretty balanced.
The enemies are balanced so dying felt earned, if that makes sense. I really liked the color palette switch. It's pretty well developed for a gamejam, you guys should keep developing it.
Thank you!
I had no idea what to do. I don't think it would be fair to give you a rating.
There are controls and information in the game's description, we ran out of time to include an in-game help screen since this was our first time ever making a procedurally generated top-down shooter rogue-like, so most of our development type was spent doing things with rooms and enemies. Sorry that you had trouble, this is a very barebones prototype and assumes you are familiar with the genre.
Ok. I'll read the description and try again, but I should let you know, I tried all the typical buttons (E, LMB, RMB, ESC, TAB, SHIFT, SPACE) and nothing happened. I even pressed every letter on the keyboard. If I read it and see that the controls are buttons I already tried, I probably won't bother trying again. If you don't include in game instructions, at least make the controls what you would expect them to be.
Edit: just read the description. Arrow keys to shoot? That's the very last thing you'd expect controls to be. Extremely unconventional. It's really simple to type some text into a UI in your game. Takes like 2 minutes. You should know, people are going to rush through playing submissions so most people won't read your description.
Arrow keys to shoot is pretty standard for arcade-like shooters. It was popularized in top-down rogue-likes by the Binding of Isaac, an incredibly influential game in the genre that set a lot of conventions and inspired other rogue-likes, including this one. We started the jam late and barely submitted in time, we were too busy implementing our final changes before the jam ended. We can't add controls in a patch as it would go against the spirit of the jam, since the 48 hour file unlock period is only for bug fixes. I understand that most people are going to rush through submissions, this is not our first game jam. To put this kindly, this game is not for those people, we made something we're proud on a technical level and wanted to put it out for our friends and like-minded people to try, if this is too unconventional or weird for you you're welcome to leave a negative rating.
Well, like I said it wouldn't be fair to just leave a negative review without actually playing your game. I'll give it another chance in a bit. Nothing personal. But maybe next time you do a jam, keep in mind that most players haven't played every genre and almost no one reads the description. I personally have never played the binding of Isaac or any games like it. I think the control scheme is very unusual. I have played enter the gungeon which is similar but I used a controller. But like I said, it takes like 2 minutes to make a UI with text explaining controls. I didn't even join the jam myself until there was only 3 days left, and I have all that in my game. Including a settings menu. And I'm a solo dev. It doesn't take that long.
No problem! Thanks. It was an oversight on our part to not include a control scheme in-game, so thank you. We were overworked with art, level design, sound design, and programming. We submitted our final additions only a few minutes before the deadline and by then we were so sleep deprived that we just wanted to go to bed. If we weren't so tired, we would have remembered to implement one. The answer as to why we didn't is really that simple, we were sleepy and forgot, since our team usually prioritizes other things. Thank you for your criticism, hope you can still find some enjoyment in it!
Lastly: We did know the fact that a lot of people haven't played this genre, we weren't blind to that fact, it simply wasn't something we cared about. For this jam, we decided to primarily focus on developing our programming skills with the whole procedural world thing, but I appreciate your concern. We knew what we were getting into, but to avoid causing confusion we should probably prioritize the experience of unfamiliar players in the future.
No worries.
I thought it was super fun!!! I really love the artsyle/music, the amount of variety is super impressive.
I had so much fun playing this game! Great job! The boss riding the dragon was a delight. I also appreciated the overall design aesthetic and music.
Some things I think that could improve the game
Thanks! We actually do play a sound when your health is successful but it looks like we lowered the volume while testing and forgot to raise it back up. As for your other notes, I really appreciate them, we were going to add a game over screen and boss bars but ran out of time. The ghost boss's attack being impossible to dodge is unfortunate, her attack pattern bugs out sometimes so I'll see what I can do. I appreciate the kind words!
Cute game binding of isaac style!!!