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High Score Hunters's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| End-of-life plan | #3 | 4.267 | 4.267 |
| Graphics | #40 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Overall | #90 | 3.360 | 3.360 |
| Sounds | #147 | 2.867 | 2.867 |
| Theme relevance | #179 | 3.133 | 3.133 |
| Fun | #183 | 2.733 | 2.733 |
Ranked from 15 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Source Code URL
https://github.com/cewaite/high-score-hunters
End life plan
Downloadable, for a complete maintainable copy of the game. If unavailable on itch.io, the repository code will be available on my account.
Transparency note
Some AI was used for code refinement. Debugging, extracting code into helper functions and simplifying code structure for maintainability but all code was reviewed and HEAVILY edited my the developer. A few components used a similar pattern to previous projects, lending to some "copy and pasting" from work previously done outside the game jam.
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Nice gameplay!
Some feedback for hitting or missing a bullet!
Thanks for playing!
Agreed! Wish I had time to add more juice, but with the game jam coming to an end here soon, I’ll be able to upload new versions.
i like the gameplay, but i'm not sure if I hit an animal or missed.
Thank you for the feedback! I agree, it can be difficult to tell. Some obvious particles or hit SFX would help. I’ll look into adding them.
Great gameplay—I love how beautiful the forest and the animals look; I even feel sorry for them.
Thank you! Links to the artists in the game description!
Bears, this game need bears!
I completely agree! In fact, adding bears was one of my stretch goals! Alas, I could not get to it.
I think, it would add an interesting dynamic to the game if the bears fought back and the player could dodge too!
Perhaps in an update to come, post game jam.
Fun little game. The framerate seems to die at random for some reason. Also I could not kill a single deer, I think I'm hitting but those things just keep running away, ah the thrill of a hunt. This game surely gave me emotions. Nice one.
Working on fixing that performance issue and the deer definitely need some tweaks. Or maybe not, its quite satisfying when you pop one!
The fact it made you feel something is such amazing feedback, that's truly one of my main goals as a game developer.
Thank you for playing!
Game was very laggy and shooting felt very difficult. other than that a really cute game with very nice art!
Thanks for playing and for the feedback! credit to the artists in the game description!
Web version is so laggy, so I recomend to download it; but the desktop version starts to lag a lot also after start playing. It looks pretty, i loved the animations. When in pause menu, the hunter still can shoot, so when hiting the resume button i loose a bullet. Good work!
Yes, unfortunately the performance issues are very prevalent :( working to fix them
But thanks for playing anyways! And good find on being able to shoot while paused. I've patched it for the next verison.
Credits to the artists in the game description!
A nice game idea and nice art but the shot isnt really centert so it goes little more up then the mouse is and deers are
This made me chuckle, thank you! The deers are a little out of balance, for sure. Tweaks to come. I've already fixed the mouse to the best of my ability, will upload after the game jam :)
All the art was outsourced, check the game description for details on those amazing artists!
Loved the deer animation, but how many effing shots does it take to kill one?!
Yes, there is definitely a memory leak or something that yeah makes it hard to play the longer you run around.
Personally I felt like walking wasn't very useful. Deer run too far away to track them reliably without sprinting.
But good job with this one, I feel like the tracking system itself is really neat.
I appreciate the feedback! The deer's take 3 shots in this version, but I'll probably tweak it in a future version.
I'm actively debugging the performance issues, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Will upload a better version (hopefully solved) post game jam.
All the art was taken from free, usable content online. Credits to the artists in the game description!
Great game! The art is absolutely gorgeous. I love it. Great entry!
Such a positive response, thank you! All the art is outsourced. Credits to the artists in the game description if you wanted to check them out!
The art look fantastic, great job! I found that as the game progressed it became increasingly more laggy.
Thank you for playing! Yes, unfortunately I didn't realized the performance issues until after submission but I've made improvements already! Hopefully to the resolution of the issue. Also, the game art isn't mine, all credit to the amazing artists are in the game description :)