As simple as it is, I enjoyed this a lot. At first I thought there was no AI at all so I was biding my time sending raiding parties to get some credits, when all of a sudden the entire enemy goose horde attacked. Once you get thousands of geese going, it looks really cool. Like fire burning away something.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme interpretation | #7 | 4.400 | 4.400 |
| Overall | #18 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Fun | #28 | 3.160 | 3.160 |
| Presentation | #31 | 3.240 | 3.240 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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This is, without a doubt, the most epic goose battle I have ever participated in. Really impressive tech demo with some mild but enjoyable gameplay.
Even in the web build, things felt super smooth with 40k geese in the game. I feel like for one particular obvious interpretation of the theme, you knocked it out of the park, so full marks there.
The controls were a little wonky for me -- ctrl click on my macbook is a right click. So zooming sort of worked, but was a bit messed up due to the right click menu taking focus. alt would have worked better, or +-, or scroll is fine if there's a way to go fullscreen.
The rest of this will probably get into "yeah, that's a bit obvious, if only we had time" territory:
Double-tap 1 to center on the hydra would have been nice, or camera movement from the minimap.
And I was thinking that a simple timer to display at the end would help this be more like a game, but there wasn't even a win/loss screen at the end.
I still had a good time with what was here though. The concept of a goose hydra is just great.
The promo/title images are fire (esp. the 2nd one), almost as fire as thousands of geese battling it out

Couldn't go to the city for a duck vacation, though, so 0/10.
While impressive in terms of the amount of entities, it's more of a sim than a game as the enemy hydra just kinda sits there like a - um - duck. I was kinda hoping there would more smaller battles instead of one super long one (those hydras are tanky).
Last of us, Geese edition

This game was really fun! I was a little confused at first, but once I figured it out, I enjoyed it a lot. I would love to see more :)
Very fun and impressive game! That’s definitely a LOT of entities. Loved watching the front light up as the two sides clashed, and it was very satisfying filling the screen with geese.










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