thank you, I really was trying to come up with a fun melee weapon that wasn’t a sword slash and I admit the hammer was fun to make, and if you put several hammers on the ship it’s a whole lot of hammering going on haha. Thanks for playing! and thanks for the feedback

thank you for playing. I really had fun doing this game jam

thank you for playing. Some upgrades actually worked at one point but then got broken after the game progressed and I unfortunately didn’t get to play the game properly to realize they were now broken. And I think there was a few I added but forgot to implement b/c I was really wanting the tree to be fun and have lots of things. But I think somewhere along the line I lost track of my todo list in the wee midnight hours trying to get the game finished haha. I actually have worked a bit to fix some of the bugs so I’ll be doing a post jam update just b/c I had so much fun making the game. I learned a lot about scope creep through this game, like as in what not to do haha. I played this one incremental game called calorie count for the jam and they made a very small upgrade tree and I went and tried to do similar to a full on incremental game. I’m just thankful the game wasn’t totally broken by the tiem of submission.

and thanks for the comment on the minimalistic style. I’ve been playing around with the idea of using basically no assets other than emojis, of course I found out the hard way that the web version that didn’t work, but microsoft has this fluentd emoji assets you can use for free, the game merge maestro uses them which is how I learned about it. I wanted to see what’s possible with emojis and doing the ui without any sprites other than emojis.

thank you for the feedback and playing the game. I think I have done mostly game jams with less time, so I’m thinking oh I have enough time to do this, but in reality I should have probably cut the scope down to fine tune things, but I’m happy with the turn out regardless of things being broken and not as balanced as I would like, but I think i wanna continue to work on this one. I already fixed some of the stuff that got broken during development.

thank you for the kind words. The best part of the gamejam I realized was I think I enjoy the development of incremental style games just as much if not more than I do playing them. I tried to make one in a previous jam but I spent so much time on the gameplay that I barely got to do an upgrade tree so this time I kinda went in reverse and made sure the tree was good ( or at least better than what I had in my last jam game )

yeah I guess I could have had at least some introductory controls to show you can move. That’s some good feedback but I’m glad you were able to figure it out because yeah the game would be much less fun without movement. Thanks for playing!!!

thank you for playing. And yeah I think that’s one of the fun design challenges of game jams is properly scoping. I think it’s my brains desire for creativity mixed with the motivation to get it done colliding haha. Two systems fighting each other. I’m just thankful I got something working at least for the jam. I had a ton of fun developing it

thank you for playing and such kind feedback. The funniest thing is that I always do this with gamejam games, it’s almost like a big gamble. I build the systems and I try to put it all together at the last hours and then I finally get to play the game like a player would after the jam haha. I had tons of fun making it, and honestly playing it myself. I was just bummed some of the pieces I made didn’t work in the final build, but I think I’m going to work on it b/c i had different ship sizes, a dash and all this stuff but some stuff was just placeholder and some stuff was broken, but at least for the most part the core loop worked.

oh so the xp is basically like vampire survivors when you get enough you get the 3 cards to upgrade your ship. then the loot you get in game is for the upgrade tree. it was me trying to blend two different genres an incremental game with a vampire survivors style gameplay

thanks for playing and for the feedback. Yeah it need some more tweaking and balancing to be really fun. I think that was part of the issue of combining an incremental style game with a survivors like game.

That’s a good suggestion actually. I seem to always do this in game jams. I make the game and the systems but I never have the time to play it properly like a real player would until post jam and then realize all these things haha. Like a lot of stuff worked at one point but then was broken in the final game but hey it was fun to make and I’m enjoying this game jam

Thank you for playing. Yeah I wish I had more time to test it. I only discovered some of the bugs with some progression tree upgrades being broken. But overall I was happy with what I got done and I want to continue working on the game post jam. Once I get back to my PC I’ll have to check out your game

Glad you enjoyed the game. I’m going to have to check out yours. I always love playing people’s games and seeing all the cool stuff people made