Lovely Game with a very creative concept, great job
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Enjoyment | #60 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Video Pitch | #68 | 3.467 | 3.467 |
| Overall | #113 | 3.320 | 3.320 |
| Audio | #139 | 2.967 | 2.967 |
| Creativity | #145 | 3.433 | 3.433 |
| Artwork | #162 | 3.133 | 3.133 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does your game fit the theme?
All enemies spawn inside of the box, you can go outside of the box to visit the shop and buy upgrades and weapons. Whilst you shop, enemies continue spawning inside the box and faster than usual!
Video Submission
https://youtube.com/shorts/HKjxQUsyEW4
Comments
Really loved this one. Very enjoyable and creative use on the take. Found an exploit with the flamethrower that allowed me to hit the frozen enemies...until the boss spawned and I then got destroyed by a hundred enemies at once. It was funny. Did find however that the walls remain solid for the player after the boss spawns and the run resets, which left me unable to go to the shop on a new run. You have to actually exit the game to get it to work. Regardless though, fantastic game could not praise it enough.
Really simple yet really addictive! Love the concept of the play area being so easily exitable, at the cost of a larger wave when you go back in. Being able to touch grass in a game is always a bonus, too!
😀I love the game! I played it with my little brother and we had such a great time. I really like the art style and all the chaos😁
This game was super simple and fun! I really liked that the initial concept was built upon by the great art, many upgrade types, and many enemy types! I don't think this was intentional, but I did find it very easy to just shoot grenades from the very edge of the box and run back out before enemies could attack. That would be my only nitpick but well done overall!
It's a really decent game with a few issues. For example the timer should pause when you go outside the box I think, and the flamethrower can shoot throw which I don't think was intended lol. Other than that it's fun.
Yup that's on me for the flamethrower thing, I completely forgot to fix that. As for the timer suggestion, time actually speeds up when you leave the box, and the timer reacts appropriately to that. I do think I should have made it more obvious that time is sped up but that's for the post jam update. Thank you for playing!
Wanted to say that your game looks really cool and fun to play! Sadly I can't rate it properly as I couldn't run it on my pc, as it crashes every time, sorry!
It's probably not the problem of yours (sorry if it sounded like it is...), but the compatibility layer of wine/proton or how they work with unity. I am using Linux and Mac as the main systems, so I'm unable to run it properly. The error is "Unhandled exception: unimplemented function d3d11.dll.D3D11On12CreateDevice called in 64-bit code (0x006ffffffa2b40)."
As you said it isn't a direct issue with my game but with the compatibility layers. But this doesn't mean it isn't fixable, I just need to change some code and settings to get it working properly on those systems. So basically I should have it fixed for the post jam update, thank you for the reply!
Also quick suggestion if you do want to try the game out still (this also serves as a way to try out my fix), try running the game with "-force-d3d11"! So in steam it would be: Right-click game -> Properties -> Launch Options and then type in "-force-d3d11" without the quotation marks.
I liked this game, I think it was an original take on the classic top down shooter genre. I like the idea that enemies spawn over the time you are out of the box, so it adds a bit of chaos.
I unfortunately found a pretty easy cheese in this game where I got the rocket launcher and could camp out right by the shop and just fire my gun and poke back in. I think if you made it so the player had to be fully in the box to be recognized both by the enemies and to be able to shoot, that could potentially stop that cheese.
Overall I did enjoy this game
Umm I might be dense, but for the life of me, I could NOT figure out how to buy weapons. Still a great game but maybe tone the difficulty curve down just a little bit! Great Job and keep at it!
Yeah that's totally my fault, I was planning on adding a keybinds list in the game but totally forgot. So the only way to know all the buttons are through the itch page. A lot of other people also complained about the difficulty scaling, so I'll fix all of this the moment I get the chance to. Anyhow, thanks for playing!
Thanks for replying, this is a very creative game. Minor bug too. There is a small window in which you can shoot enemies when your partially in the box and they won't move. I'm not a coding expert, but i' m assuming that your creating the bullet in the gun(No problem with this) and that the box deletes bullets. You could probably just make a variable for this. Not a GAME breaking bug, just a little suggestion, thanks for replying to my thing!
unique premise and fun gameplay loop! only gripes are i wish you could hold on to more than 2 weapons, and difficulty scales little TOOO quickly
Game becomes impossible when the turrets spawn. Do you hate me?
Cool project! Amazing that is done by one person!
this is an excellent concept that executed nicely to make it a fun indie game! along with the retro art and audio that fits the game's aesthetic very well, my honourable mention is the fact that when you are outside the box, you are safe from enemies but more spawn the more time u spend there.
The effects in this game were wonderful! I feel like the pitch was pretty good but could have done with more of a hook to get people to stop scrolling and check it out. Overall really solid though! Good job!
Good game! I’m usually not a big fan of point-and-aim shooters without auto-fire, but this one was genuinely fun for a while. Love the game concept for the game jam theme, and the visuals, items, weapons, and map designs. The programming on the particle effects are cool, and I personally really like the dying sound effect too lmao. They all fit the game very well.






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