This is amazing. Outstanding game. Loved it. Really liked the story at the start too.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme Implementation | #1 | 4.357 | 4.357 |
| Visuals | #1 | 4.786 | 4.786 |
| Audio | #1 | 4.571 | 4.571 |
| Polish | #1 | 4.857 | 4.857 |
| Overall | #1 | 4.583 | 4.583 |
| Gameplay | #1 | 4.500 | 4.500 |
| Special Object Implementation | #2 | 4.429 | 4.429 |
Ranked from 14 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Theme implementation
The enemies are overwhelming and unstoppable, in addition you are in a train that cannot stop.
Special Object addition
You are the Captain of an Engine, a defensive train orbiting a black hole.
What tools and 3rd party assets did you use?
Godot, Aseprite, FL Studio, JSFXR, A Palette from Lospec, a Font from itch.io, and a few various other sound effects. All have been credited in the description.
How did you use generative AI?
Last minute bug check before submission. Running on 24 hours without sleep lol. AI was not used in any fashion in the construction of the code, art, sound effects or music.
Comments
75 days ago(+1)
Thank you for the criticism!!! 1. Humanity healing was one of my most back and forth ideas. I wanted to add it, but I also wanted humanity health to feel critical. Like you should sacrifice your ship before letting it go down. 2. I 1000% agree. I actually wanted to add a few support ships, like shield cars, drone cars, and better ways of managing them. Alas, time crunch got me lol. 3. Yeah I noticed this as well when doing my test runs. I’ve tried thinking up ways to solve this, but without a revamp of UI I really don’t know. My best guess would be to zoom out slightly and move the train car UI to the side of the page instead of the bottom. Let me know if you had any ideas! Thank you again for the comment. I really appreciate criticism as it helps so much to hear your experience as opposed to my own and my wife’s 🤣. It’s really what I value most about these jams.
75 days ago(+1)
I did not lol! I've been making little projects for about 10 years now, except lately I've been pushing myself to actually make COMPLETE ones, if that makes sense? I'd work on something for months and it would just be a somewhat functional prototype. That's why I'm participating in jams, the time limitation really makes me think "WRAP IT UP. FINISH IT" If you know what I mean XD. Thank you so much for your kind feedback. I truly appreciate it.
HOLY SHIT BRO. This game was so well-made bro I had so much fun playing it. I love the art, music, and the story you've created. I was about to leave after playing for a while, but I was presently surprised by the abrupt ending :). The idea that even when you get an upgrade it also increases the chance of getting hit was also super clever, and the game got super hectic towards the end!
76 days ago(+1)
Thank you so much for playing!!! I think that was one thing I should have adjusted XD. 20 waves is quite a bit and it’s not really informed to the player when the ending is. I originally was going to have a simple little dialogue system for high command, “Captain be on alert, we are detecting a massive single gravitational distortion” etc. Who knows maybe I’ll update it! Again thank you so much!
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