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Also, why I should have to pick up life and ammunitions at the start?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":731275,"author_name":"Ghostbit","author_uid":"ghostbit","epoch":1633458895,"text":"love the art style and music that gameboy art style seriously brought me back","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":742028,"author_name":"Louis-Victor O Hara","author_uid":"louis-victor-o-hara","epoch":1633548624,"text":"a very cool game with interesting game mechanics!\nOnly I regret that the music is so short ^^'","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":743374,"author_name":"Derlan Almeida","author_uid":"derlan-almeida","epoch":1633558486,"text":"I love the classic old school 8bit game art style. Music is simple but sounds cool. I enjoyed it a lot until i finished the 3min. \n\nOnly thing i would check is some hitbox like the path in the middle to change from reactors has some hitbox that strugled me sometimes and some monster pop too sudden. I died a few times just by having a monster spawned in the place i were.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":743422,"author_name":"Kora0h","author_uid":"kora0h","epoch":1633559029,"text":"Like the concept! Chance of enemy drop life is too low, I always die because of that. And enemy may spawn in front of my face, I had no time to react. It has a funny story and gameplay anyway!Good work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":743478,"author_name":"GingerNingerish","author_uid":"gingerningerish","epoch":1633559636,"text":"@kora0h\n@derlan-almeida\n\nYeah sorry about the random spawning on the player, there are dedicated spawnpoints around the map. Spent a few hours working on an algorithm to make enemies spawn outside of the camera that never worked so I ran out of time. Will be something I will learn to do after jam haha. ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":743581,"author_name":"Jon_Nova","author_uid":"jon-nova","epoch":1633560838,"text":"Nice use of theme! I liked how the player must move around the level all the time. the collisions were a little frustrating, but i really liked the game. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":746593,"author_name":"amkingTRP","author_uid":"amkingtrp","epoch":1633613861,"text":"Great graphic style, and it handled a lot like those old 80s\/90s games it's based on.\nThe mechanics worked well, forcing you to walk around scavenging from enemies in order to keep the correct engine topped up.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":746945,"author_name":"almightyzentaco","author_uid":"almightyzentaco","epoch":1633619351,"text":"I'm a sucker for well executed pixel art, so great work there. The Gameboy style was spot on. I found the gameplay itself interesting in concept, but I has trouble with the controls as they felt a little clunky. Your take on the theme, and balancing the engines was a cool one. Nice work overall!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":747260,"author_name":"namnam","author_uid":"namnam","epoch":1633624074,"text":"Very nice aestethic, a bit hard and rigid to my taste but it's a well done game :)","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":748438,"author_name":"GingerNingerish","author_uid":"gingerningerish","epoch":1633637393,"text":"@namnam @almightyzentaco\nHey thanks for playing! Sorry if the controlls somehow put you off. I actually wanted to make them authentic to the original GameBoy, if you remeber the very basic D-Pad input allowing one movement input at a time. ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":748599,"author_name":"haivron","author_uid":"haivron","epoch":1633639159,"text":"I really like the Game Boy style, this was a fun ride for me. The movement smoothing threw me off sometimes; I'd like more snappy and responsive movement but that's not a real problem at all. The Game Boy color palette, the pixel art, the music... everything feels so great. Congrats!","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":749479,"author_name":"Turquoise Moon","author_uid":"turquoise-moon","epoch":1633651051,"text":"That's pretty cool. The one problem I had was that sometimes an enemy would spawn right on top of me.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":749547,"author_name":"GingerNingerish","author_uid":"gingerningerish","epoch":1633652946,"text":"@turquoise-moon yeah sorry about that. Was not intended, spent too long trying to make the algorythm work to make them spawn off screen so I had to drop it an just never got it working. Something that will be fixed after I update it after the jam. Thanks for playign it though. ","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":757199,"author_name":"Shrillwhip","author_uid":"shrillwhip","epoch":1633863211,"text":"Cute game! I like the GB-style graphics, and the gameplay is fun. The music could be better and maybe a bit more varied. Other than that, good job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":763161,"author_name":"Emaigualmc2_art","author_uid":"emaigualmc2-art","epoch":1634156532,"text":"I loved that Game Boy vibe and that flair for art, good character design too. Good job!!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":763173,"author_name":"Iacopo","author_uid":"iacopo","epoch":1634156913,"text":"The game boy vibes were nice, the gameplay is a bit hard but fits my taste, the only thing I didn't enjoy were the movement controls that change the facing direction with a strange policy... It wasn't so comfortable combined with the shooting. 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