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[creators124]

3rd boss got me took too long to destroy and died at the end.

[TeamSteeve]

Graphics 11/20
Not bad. Maybe a bit of texture on the background would be good and I don't think the random colours fit together well sometimes.
The window stays the same size and doesn't stretch in fullscreen mode which is really bad for me as I like to play games on my TV and having a teeny tiny window in the middle of the screen just doesn't cut it when I'm sitting decently far away!

Gameplay 22/30
Pretty fun. I like the difficulty. The whole first part of the game has no hats!!! I was wondering when they'd show up. Needs more hats and less levels in between the hats I think. The levels where you had to use a combination of hats were my favourite. At the boss that spits faces out at you, I got stuck in the floor after being shot out of the chomping face. I think I shot myself into the floor accidentally, but there was no way to restart the level and I didn't want to play through the whole game again!

Music/Sound Effects 0/10
Definitely needs something here!

TOTAL SCORE 33/60
Above average (just). It's fun to play but until a bit more effort is put into it, I don't think I'll want to play it again..

[Koaske]

I'm dying in the third boss when I touch the face that's supposed to shoot you up even when I have the hat on. Is this a bug?

It might be related to the fact that I managed to shoot myself inside a block in a previous level:


Can you fix this? I really think the game is nice and would like to play it more=)

[Snail_Man]

@TeamSteeve
I was planning on adding a background to the game, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Same goes for the music, I just haven't had enough time to throw a few chiptunes together. As to the gameplay, I seem to have sort of written myself into a corner. I wan't to add a hat in sector one, but then I'd also need to edit a lot of the other levels in the game. Also I need to think of a hat which is interesting, but I can add into levels without much editing to the actual design. Also about the fullscreen thing, I don't like to use the default GM fullscreen, as the scaling really sinks the FPS, and looks not too good terrible.



@Koaske
Well, you didn't miss much. The third boss is the last thing in the current version. I've never encountered the bug that you mentioned, but I'll look into it. I'll also try to fix the "Shooting yourself into a block" bug.


Thanks to you both for giving the game a go, and taking the time to comment!

Edited by Snail_Man, 18 May 2012 - 11:14 PM.

[Snail_Man]

Version 0.30 is now out!!

Changelog:
-Added new hat!
-Added new sector!
-Added new boss!
-Fixed the no-blood munchie-eating bug
-Press R to restart a level!

[TeamSteeve]

Sweet, I'll have to replay this.

[Snail_Man]

Version 0.31 is now out!
Changelog:
-Some bug fixes
-Balanced the difficulty
-Many tiny adjustments

[creators124]

Version 0.31 is now out!
Changelog:
-Some bug fixes
-Balanced the difficulty
-Many tiny adjustments

holy molly guacamole!
I need to play it!
but after I finish some business.
might take a few hours, give or take.

[Tobias(NL)]

Didn't found it that hard. The bosses were tricky but doable. The level with the rising spikes was easy as well, but when I reached the yellow cage (several times) nothing happened and I just died. That part was a big vague and it was not clear what to do.

Graphics were simple but effective!
Adding some blippy cartoony sounds would do the game justice. Just don't add midi songs, those ruin games.

Good job!

Edited by Tobias(NL), 03 June 2012 - 01:14 PM.

[Snail_Man]

Sorry there hasn't been an update recently, I've been out of town. I'll resume working on it after I get back.
@TobiasNL: Thanks for the feedback! I've been trying to make the latest levels harder.

[Koaske]

I played through the new levels (no bugs in boss 3 this time ). I didn't really find the helmet upgrade as fun as the previous hats. The laser boss was quite nice, but I felt like there was a lot of waiting at times. In the end of that boss, it would have been helped to be able to do a small jump. Currently, the smallest jump you can make is still quite high. I know that you've designed the game so that in many places, very small jumps aren't required at all, which is good.

It took me a while to figure out that have to HOLD space to jump off the up/down stones. Even though the end of one level was supposed to teach this, I managed to get past this by just tapping space, so I thought this was how the system works. After all, you don't have to press jump key when wearing the helmet and bouncing off spikes. I had a bit of trouble figuring this out in another level (2nd last level, I think, the one where you go get the cannon hat and then go all the way to the beginning and have to jump on stones in the end).

Some things to mention:

*The screen appears to nudge a bit when you hit the ceiling with a jump. Not a big issue, but a little annoying.

*In the level where I encountered a bug last time, I triggered a new bug:


Jumping on the stone will make all the walking enemies get stuck at that spot (there are actually like 20 on top of each other at that spot).

[Snail_Man]

@Koaske: Gaah! I thought I'd fixed that bug! >_< Anyway, thanks for giving it another go


Version 0.40 is now out!
Changelog:
-New sector!
-New boss!
-New hat!