Gamejam games aren't supposed to be perfect, they're supposed to be games! You won because you made a great game, nobody can take that away from you brother
Don't worry, it's all for fun in the end despite seeming like being for competition. I made about 6 or 7 games in total for Ludum Dare game jam, and for two of them I realized at the end it would get bad reception for how bad they were, but making it was still a learning experience and did help improve what to avoid based on feedback. Also there are many game jams on there that also happen to be unfinished or crappily made, so making games for game jams is really for testing what we know and learn from it to do better in the next project, big or small, all for good fun. If a project gets uploaded, no matter if it's incomplete or bad (or both), is still a feat and learning experience in itself.
I played your game and had a good time! I really liked the idea of not being able to move after shooting, and ended up dying because I got too greedy and wanted to collect an extra coin before shooting. Keep in mind that making games is hard. Putting a game that you made out there for the world to see is even harder. And doing both of those after creating a game in a time crunch is even harder still. The fact that you've done that at all puts you ahead of most hobbyist game devs. Sure there are bugs, but there are bugs everywhere in every game, even ones that teams of people get paid millions of dollars to make. Good work Mike, keep it up! I subscribed, and hope to see you submit another game to a jam in the future!
For the feedback, take in the constructive stuff, ignore the toxic stuff. But dude, who cares if there's bugs. You completed a game jam! I'm a beginner game dev, and the idea of making a game work, let alone completing one in a few weeks (... Let alone completing one in general 😅) is so legendary to me. And probably many others like me. Don't be terrified of what people might say, celebrate thst you were able to make something for them to say something about. I think what you did is bad ass as fuck, man. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
You know everything wrong with this game. You are KEENLY AWARE of everything wrong with this game. But you made a fuckin' game, dude! Good job! I played it, I could write you a bunch of criticism, but why? There's the core of a good game here. You can't move and attack at the same time, you can't stay in attack mode because you have to collect the coins, you can't stay in move mode because you're being attacked. That is a good start. Subscribed, let me know what you do next.
Well done on finishing mike. Even just getting into the habit of seeing projects through to completion is a great practice.
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Gamejam games aren't supposed to be perfect, they're supposed to be games! You won because you made a great game, nobody can take that away from you brother
Don't worry, it's all for fun in the end despite seeming like being for competition. I made about 6 or 7 games in total for Ludum Dare game jam, and for two of them I realized at the end it would get bad reception for how bad they were, but making it was still a learning experience and did help improve what to avoid based on feedback. Also there are many game jams on there that also happen to be unfinished or crappily made, so making games for game jams is really for testing what we know and learn from it to do better in the next project, big or small, all for good fun.
If a project gets uploaded, no matter if it's incomplete or bad (or both), is still a feat and learning experience in itself.
I played your game and had a good time! I really liked the idea of not being able to move after shooting, and ended up dying because I got too greedy and wanted to collect an extra coin before shooting.
Keep in mind that making games is hard. Putting a game that you made out there for the world to see is even harder. And doing both of those after creating a game in a time crunch is even harder still. The fact that you've done that at all puts you ahead of most hobbyist game devs. Sure there are bugs, but there are bugs everywhere in every game, even ones that teams of people get paid millions of dollars to make. Good work Mike, keep it up! I subscribed, and hope to see you submit another game to a jam in the future!
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For the feedback, take in the constructive stuff, ignore the toxic stuff.
But dude, who cares if there's bugs. You completed a game jam! I'm a beginner game dev, and the idea of making a game work, let alone completing one in a few weeks (... Let alone completing one in general 😅) is so legendary to me. And probably many others like me. Don't be terrified of what people might say, celebrate thst you were able to make something for them to say something about. I think what you did is bad ass as fuck, man. And I'm sure I'm not the only one.
You know everything wrong with this game. You are KEENLY AWARE of everything wrong with this game.
But you made a fuckin' game, dude! Good job! I played it, I could write you a bunch of criticism, but why? There's the core of a good game here. You can't move and attack at the same time, you can't stay in attack mode because you have to collect the coins, you can't stay in move mode because you're being attacked. That is a good start. Subscribed, let me know what you do next.