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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Art | #32 | 2.353 | 3.000 |
| Fun | #33 | 2.157 | 2.750 |
| Theme | #33 | 2.550 | 3.250 |
| Overall | #33 | 2.118 | 2.700 |
| Mechanics | #35 | 2.059 | 2.625 |
| Sound | #36 | 1.471 | 1.875 |
Ranked from 8 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?
Well its space and neutron stars can form from supernovas similar to black holes idk i didnt have a lot of time to think it through
NOTE: I did not get time to implement a tutorial, please read the game page
What Game Engine did you use to make this game?
Gamemaker
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The art in this was cute and appealing! Leaning into the slime theme for the strange matter would be neat!
Even with the description, shooting the same things that can kill you was a bit confusing and I never figured out what the orbiting sword is for. Having enemies that try to stop you and make you risk cluttering up the play area with strange matter might be good as otherwise it made more sense to only shoot when on top of a planet.
I think there is a lot of potential here, especially with the idea of the balls growing bigger and harder to avoid, like a difficulty slider. A hard edge to the map or teleporting you to the opposite edge might be better than going off screen. Once I got into the swing of things it was fun -the momentum meant you could just about dodge out of the way of the matter balls if you are quick about it. Overall, I had fun with this -cool stuff and good work!
thank you!! thank you for the feedback!!! and yeah i am planning to try to get more creative with these mechanics but i was running out of time lol, ill probably make this into a bigger game though, thank you very much for the feedback and for playing my game i appreciate it!
I take it you are not a programmer (the art is nice but the game overall lacks) invest your time in understanding what a game needs and how to program it! the idea of this game is cool but it could've been made better things like random/endless world generation would be nice, enemies! as a first/beginner project this is good but you can make better!
(also does the game just kick you out when you finish it? because I am not sure what just happened! :D)
well im a fairly new programmer but no i would say i am a programmer ive been improving, i just cut a lot of corners because i had like a lot less time than most the people cause of my job and everything you know, and yeah lol I was like 10 minutes away from the deadline and didnt have time to really code a win screen so I just made it close the game, i explained it in the game page lol sorry, so you won!
and yeah im planning on adding a lot to it because i do think my idea has potential
Well that was indeed a strange game
first of all this is a small detail but my french ahhh must say it. Not having button remapping or button adapting to keyboard is a bit annoying as QWERTY isn't the only keyboard layout out there
Second of all the game is nice but probably too easy, no need to time you slingshot if you can enter the planets themselves, giving them collision and release strange matter when infected would have been great i think
overall nice game but some things can be improved
thank you! and yeah im very aware a lot could be improved lol I honestly wasnt fully happy with it when i submitted but i ran out of time, and I will take that into consideration yeah! normally i probably would implement that but yk time
and that is a great idea having it release strange matter when infected, and yeah i realized that i need to add collisions, i was also thinking of adding defenses to the planets so you cant get too close and maybe the defenses can launch the strange matter back at you
amazing idea, well if you plan to continue developpement it would make for a great experience i think. Good luck
Thanks! I'll probably upload a more improved version in about a month or less
Love that little guy swinging his little sword. Expecting some space trilobyte to punk with that sword. By turning the planet green means we saved the planet? Good luck with the game.
kind of the opposite that means you infected the planet lmao
which is the goal of the game so good job
Definitely a good start for a game. Would love to see like a scope or something, or green holes going in different direction rather than up or down. Actually pretty challenging. Like it)
Thank you! yeah I didnt get a lot of time to make it a full game so it is more of a start to a game thats a good description of it, and ill take those ideas into consideration! I plan on doing a full overhaul update to it after the jam has concluded
Good luck with that one)
Okay heres the all things about the game.
The Theme:
It is nice it has some theme matches like planets, but doesn’t fully matched.
The Fun:
It was not bad, but it did feel not that fun with just clicking the planets, but finding the planets was okay and give that little fun to it.
Art:
not bad, but there is improvements in art that could make it better.
Mechanics:
it’s alright, but would make it better with more unique then just clicking and movement are good.
Sound:
There was no music or sound effects in the game.
Overall:
Not bad game for the theme, but it needs improvements on it.
Feedback:
Make it more understandable what to do.
add new mechanics to it or make it more unique.
Add sound in your game.
Yeah theres a lot I wanted to do with this that I didnt get the time to do, I plan on making a big overhaul update to it after the jam is concluded, ill take that into consideration thank you for rating it!
Please read game page for more info! Thanks!