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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #10 | 3.074 | 3.286 |
| Aesthetics | #13 | 2.940 | 3.143 |
| Overall | #14 | 2.806 | 3.000 |
| Theme | #19 | 1.470 | 1.571 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Phobos001
Music provided by Newgrounds with appropriate licensing and attribution.
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I like the movement and gameplay idea behind this - but like gman003, I kept getting stuck when hitting surfaces at high speeds. Similarly, I had a little difficulty aiming and often found that the bots were able to move much faster abruptly and grapple the chest super far away from all the activity on the regular. The core premise is pretty fun and unique!
I like the movement and gameplay idea behind this - but like gman003, I kept getting stuck when hitting surfaces at high speeds. Similarly, I had a little difficulty aiming and often found that the bots were able to move much faster abruptly and grapple the chest super far away from all the activity on the regular. The core premise is pretty fun and unique!
I keep having problems where I hit a surface and get stuck. It seems like if you have thrusters on, it redirects you to face straight into it, and sometimes even when you kill thrust, you're stuck that way. I never made it through a match without it happening at least once.
I also seem to be way too slow and imprecise with my twitch shooting to be much good at this. I got a round to go to overtime, though I'm still not sure how. I usually didn't do much more than put a balloon on it and maybe pop one other with the shotgun, before it got yeeted away by someone's grapple beam. Perhaps I'm just getting old, but maybe tweaking some scales would help, make the objects we interact with bigger and make things move slower.
I think you've accidentally uploaded the Linux version twice instead of separate Windows/Linux builds.
Uh oh uhhhh, is there a way I can update the files without being disqualified?
I’ve added a Windows build to the games description to circumvent my mistake. Hope you come back to give it a try :)
I gave it a quick test, the flight controls are quite hard! There are a few niggling bugs, i.e. the effects volume slider doesn't work, and I haven't figured out how the bots seem to be able to go from an almost stand-still to mach-1 in the blink of an eye. I plan to put a bit more time in before rating to make sure it's not just a git-gud situation!
Right! I've tried it some more and have some feedback to give!
This is an extremely technically impressive game - a high-speed 6DoF flight controller arena with competent-seeming AI that actually works in 6DoF space. Add in that you made a fully functional gamemode and various weapons/tools that are all different, in two weeks, by yourself? Astounding work.
I do have a couple of points of feedback if you'd be open to it?
Thank you for your very kind words!
I agree that the Grapple Beam (But its absolutely a physgun lol) is annoying when used in competition with the other bots. Without a skill-based way to cancel the beam it ends up being a waiting game that kills the flow. I’ll probably save the beam for a different game mode and put a different tool in its place.
As for the level size I didn’t add a lot of clamping to the target moving positions of the bots. Combine that with the bots dropping treasure based on fuel or a timer - and how beamed objects can be thrown - and we end up with things going WAY far away from the action horizontally.
Originally I planned to have a finite set of objects strewn about the level to collect, but it created the problem with the best parts of the game being at the end when there’s only a few things left. After trying to create a weighted decision-making process for the bots, eventually I flipped the design so there’s always just one item to fight over, leading to very aggressive playing for a longer time, but with less stuff going on. I’ll probably populate the level better in future updates, but that’s why its so barren right now.
Thank you for playing my game! Good luck with your entry, and have a wonderful day :D