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A jam submission

Five Letter WordView game page

A short, scientifically-inaccurate tower defense game about running away from symbolic black holes
Submitted by Sephyrsan — 35 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Theme#113.9383.938
Fun#203.0623.062
Overall#202.9752.975
Mechanics#232.5622.562
Sound#232.5622.562
Art#242.7502.750

Ranked from 16 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?
Black hole

What Game Engine did you use to make this game?
Godot

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

I think it's great, I liked the subtle narrative hints and the overall atmosphere.

(Spoiler ish)

It's a simple game, balance resources to prevent imminent death and prevent asteroids to gain good economy while preserving the planet itself. The initial cutscenes of the scientists, and technology to try to get away from an ever-expanding singularity is nice. Then at the end were, after running away from the maws of death, well we are indeed... "insert title".

The mechanics are fine and simple, and I just wish there's a bit more (maybe certain asteroids requires the bombs to be shot at, but the if you are gonna die or need money now condition is also fine) but its solid and does the job well. The cut scenes were nice and general sound atmosphere and feeling had the right thing for immersion. The tutorial is solid and gets you on your feet quickly. There isn't an intro to the bombs but it's a bit clear at least with the RMB.

The shooters though are well... dumb (some shooting the same entity), but it's fine-ish just improvements to the AI, the effects and presentation is also nice.

Overall, thank you for submitting to the game jam!

Submitted(+1)

I reached the ending after died 1 time. Looks like a fun mini game. Nice inspiration and nice fun. Love the incremental system. Maybe use text besides every icon, there is still some space. Overall nice addition to this jam.

Submitted(+1)

Playtime: 5min (Not Completed)
Difficulty: Medium
Complexity: Low

Nice to see a similar one of my brainstorm ideas got made! Thanks! :D 

I like the approach you took with using the planet as the "spaceship" (isn't all planets basically that? XD ). Interesting story afterthought that exploitative capitalism for weapons and boosters are still very much in affect even when the world is in danger. XD 

The mechanics are simple and the tension is great. It was a fun 5 minutes.

Submitted(+1)

Really fun game!! Could use a short tutorial or how to play; I bought a ton of thrusters and wasted my money the first time I played lol. 

Submitted(+1)

This was really nice, the sounds were good, the art was good, the gameplay was super fun which is important and the pacing was tense and fine

It could use a bit more juice but honestly the game is good as it is, be proud of it

Submitted (1 edit) (+1)

Good work! The cut scenes are cute. For me, LMB didnt work to buy turrets or thrusters, but I found I was able to select them with the up/down arrow, and press enter to buy them. The pacing was just right to keep it intense, but not feel punishingly hard.

Submitted(+1)

yooo...