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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #4 | 3.935 | 3.935 |
| Aesthetics | #6 | 4.161 | 4.161 |
| Overall | #7 | 3.919 | 3.919 |
| Theme | #8 | 3.968 | 3.968 |
| Sound | #8 | 3.613 | 3.613 |
Ranked from 31 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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I really enjoyed the game! The art is super solid and the game feels polished. This would be something you see made from Nitrome in the days of flash games. Fantastic work and I love the variety of enemy types!
Pretty nice game and aesthetics!
Only addition i may add is how "uncomfortable" it is to have to roll onto the upgrades to efficiently pick them up, but i loved having different kinds of enemies to face and whatnot!
This game is great! It's a pretty standard top-down shooter, but the level of polish and the dodge roll coup de grace mechanic kept it fun to play. I kinda wish that the shooting and dodge roll weren't locked to the 8 directions (have you tried having your mouse position decide the direction you roll in?) so that I had more control. Now that I think about it, I imagine the mouse controlling the dodge wouldn't feel great, but it still feels a bit off regardless. Anyway, great game, thanks for making it!
I really liked it, its fun to play.
The theme, gameplay sound and aesthetic of the game are all very spot-on. Played it a couple of times, almost felt like I was playing etg, nice work! :D
oh and I got a score of 1200!
Thanks, that's a pretty good score! in hindsight I would have liked to adjust the way the difficulty scales up throughout the game as I feel it ramps up a little too quickly.
Great game. Very polished and fun mechanics. Amazing job.
I Liked this game, The gameplay is great, art style is good, it fits both the themes, overall good and fun game to play.
Amazing game! Super polished with a lot of variety. It was challenging but not too frustrating, well done!
Nice aesthetics, nice sound. Pretty good idea. I just don't really get the idea of finishing using "dodge roll", it's kinda unobvious.
I would have liked to provide a bit more clarity regarding that mechanic but unfortunately I ended up running out of time for a more in depth tutorial. I did my best to concisely explain in the instructions page. Thank you for the feedback.
This game is super polished and makes a great first impression; it's even a little addicting once you get into it. My biggest issue is the balancing of audio - I feel like it would be easier on the ears if the music and the sound effects were the same volume.
Can I have a rate in return?
Thank you for the feedback. I will rate your game. My intention is to rate every game in the jam as long as I have time to try them all in the next few days.
The cool game would like an option to shoot other than LMB because I am using a touchpad but I like the aesthetics and sound.
I have it set so if you press R it will auto-fire continously if that helps.
Yeah, it helped a lot. I did not notice it the first time, sorry about that. I got 155 which is better than 15 with the touchpad. I really like the game and it is so much fun. The only changes I would suggest is adding an indicator that the enemy is going to spawn at a certain point like enter the gungeon and have an arrow to indicate where the nearest enemy to the player to located to give me a sense of where I dodge to so I have as much open space to fight back
The second Best Game I have Seen in this Jam ! I personally loved it playing full of gamejuice!
pls rate my game also : https://itch.io/jam/scorejam13/rate/1045688
what's the best?
Cool game! It fits the theme perfectly. The difficulty ramps up nicely so you can get used to the movement and all. I really like the artstyle and the overall esthetics. I would have loved to see some kind of upgrade as time goes on!
Congrats for your entry!
Solid game! Enter the Gungeon style! Movement was smooth :D
overall a pretty solid game the best one i’ve play so far good stuff man great job!
I would make the bullets a bit bigger but this is a really great game
Both visually well done and fun to play, this game does a good job of encouraging the player to utilize all the mechanics offered by having the squids taken down only by dodging through them. Far too often can twin-stick shooters be played sufficiently just by shooting, so hats off to you.
Great work, and good luck! :D
Its not to easy not to hard love! it the music and sound are amazing!
Good job!
Very fun! Love the art