Oh, what a lovely experience that was.

I feel like the game somehow was able to perfectly capture a hybrid of dungeon crawler and a first person shooter (boomer shooter in this case). I felt at times that I’m playing Q3A and doing a flick shots with my raygun, although I was just doing a strafe shots!

Game played smoothly, the graphics were lovely, the music is spot on, even the non-queueing of inputs made sense in this game. I don’t have a specific thing I wanted this game to fix, except maybe adding more levels and weapons and you know, making a full game out of it? It feels like maybe a game with thematic levels (raygun on an asteroid, nail-gun in dark corridors of a facility, rocket launcher in an open arena of a martian coliseum) would be super cool.

Here’s my play-through:

This one played smooth as butter! As expected tbh. Looked fantastic. That curved shader and the bounce at the end of the movement. The music was also really good.

So if there’s any reason for me to complain really, then it would be that it is playing it a little safe. Which, I mean, it is fine, but I would have loved seeing some evolution on the spatial puzzles of last year, a bit of enemy variety and I guess more cool stuff.

Still a very, very well made game. About perfect in length, even if it leaves me wishing there was more.

Play-through with more thoughts:

Great entry, perfect game length for a jam!

I'm not sure if it was intentional but this game gave me Metroid Prime and Doom vibes. The visuals especially  reminded me of Metroid Prime Hunters on NDS. The shield generator and the weapon we use have strong resemblence to MP as well imo. 

The resolution is way too low for me and i didn't like that you can't change resolution or make it fullscreen. I mean i understand that you were going for a retro look but i don't like playing a game on a small window with  a 27" monitor. Other retro style games in the jam found ways around it. Also camera FOV is too low for me either. The map feels not flat but round,  i'm not sure if it is just a camera effect or the map is actually round shape but i noticed that we can't shoot enemies which are on lower or higher elevation than us on the same surface so i'm leaning towards the latter. I think it is a cool artistic choice. I like the graphics of the game in general especially the retro style bot enemies.

Music of the game is fantastic. This game has hands down the best music in this jam and probably in all of the DC Jams. It's incredible that you recorded the music in a studio with professional musicians for a jam game. I mean no one can top that:) I heard couple of tracks and the tracks change dynamically when you get in and out of combat with fade out effects and  stuff.  Amazing work on SFX and Audio.

I think game is a little short but i guess there's the replayibility factor. There is secret ending and hidden stuff which i haven't found in my playthrough so i think it's fine. I think it's excellent work overall. I enjoyed playing it and i'm very glad you enriched this year's jam with this cool and original entry. Thanks for sharing!

MARIO GALAXY LETS FUCKIN GOOO!!! But overall the art is GREAT! the recoil system not being literall recoil but the overheat is also great! Loved every single thang about this game

The game was super fun! The only issues I had was the ramp that went downwards in the beginning. It took me way too long to figure out that I could get down, since even when your right on top of it, you can't see the ramp. Also the curvature. I have seen other comments that are praising it, but personally it was very nauseating for me. Maybe an option to turn it on or off? 

Overall great submission! I did beat the final boss! Interested to know what the alternate ending was! :)

Played twice and beat the boss both times, best I got is 8/10 unlocks. I think the 2nd ending is a no-gun run??  I tried it a few times and gave up doing it lmao

Anyway, this is a phenomenal entry just like last year! The visuals and audio are absolutely gorgeous. The surface curvature mechanic is awesome, and a clever way to make a laser gun have a short range. The robots's shots appear to curve, though? Maybe just a visual issue.

I was wondering whether anybody would do a Dungeon Crawler FPS. You did and you did not disappoint. It looks very good. I love the old school aesthetic with the limited viewpoint. Almost makes it feel like a handheld title.

If I had to name one thing to add, it would be a (mini)map. Because the narrow FoV makes it kinda difficult to orient myself. Though this could be a 'me' problem.

I love the surface curvature.  For the raygun, I was confused as I couldn't tell if I have a maximum range, or if it's taking lots of hits to kill them.  My later conclusion was that it had a max range of around 4-5 tiles and it took 2 hits to kill them, and once I followed those rules it was a lot less frustrating =).  My only gripe was that it seemed I couldn't use the same save point twice, so when I reloaded, and then went exploring and found a bunch of upgrades, and then died to the boss, and came back, I was missing my upgrades, had to go find them again.  The music is lovely, really vibes with the game.  Had a lot of fun with this, the actiony real-time combat with very few HP worked really well.

Superb game! The last couple of games had me thinking a lot and solving tricky puzzles so thank you for not making me do that :P 

The game feel was awesome, the audio was great (so cool that you have live music!) and the visual aesthetic really worked for me. I loved how the moon was spherical and I could go around it.

The master AI took me maybe 4 tries to defeat and I was very satisfied at the end. But then I saw there are 2 endings and twice as many power ups as I found, wow that's so cool! I plan to go back and accomplish more. Really good stuff.

Just perfect…I wish it was longer :) Looks and plays like a demo of some lost N64 game. Movement was super nice and smooth, graphics were absolutely polished, music was great, sf fitting. The upgrades were satsifying and the shield safed my ass at the end. Very very nice entry!

This is an improvement in every way over last year's entry. The gunplay was super satisfying, the controls were snappy, the exploration was spot on and it was the perfect length with just right difficulty for a gamejam.

I enjoyed thinking a little in order to figure out what the second ending might be and that was a super fun rush when enacting it, hah, so well done on that!

Really loved this one

"You've chosen to reject your humanity" 

I found 9 upgrades in my first run, a few less when I reached for the second ending.

The game is thrilling. The visuals are great and the music is phenomenal. The game feels specially great to control, the gunplay is super satisfying and the use of the perspective a fun twist on it, the enemies dying in two hits is perfect. There's an upgrade in every corner and the alternative ending is the icing on the cake.

I guess the drawback to adding the second ending is that the game is easier than I would have preferred when playing the regular way, I can make it harder by rushing more but it feels forced. 

If I remember right last year you got only 4 stars from me because there was no combat, so this time you get the 5 ;) , thanks for sharing !

Nice Done!

It was a fast paced first person shooter.

The combat is a bit easy, since you can just strafe away from all shots, but anyway it was fun to play.

I got a bit dizzy in the beginning, but I think it settled after a while. The short game maybe also contributed to that not being an issue.

Would have been nice with a more interesting final battle. I sometimes felt like the motion was cut of sometimes if my input was to rapid. 

Overall very nice job!

What a joy to play this one! Thanks for sharing.

Keyboard controls were solid! Ambience was great. Really nice graphics (though someone in the chat reported it made them feel a little seasick watching someone play it).

Very few criticisms of this one. Not sure why the game had strange lag on my system but I had a great time with this one!

You can watch my playthrough here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=dXNeZb6tcJ_jsG-0&t=668&v=rAQHqcPamXY&feature=youtu.be

Oops I can't give a rating because I didn't submit but I'll just reiterate some of what I've already said and try be more detailed on feedback.

Overall a very polished project and seriously impressive for the amount of time allocated for the jam. Strong consistent visuals and audio worked really well with the retro-futuristic theme. 

Loved the enemy designs and I was surprised at how polished their behaviors were when I noticed they have an aggro radius or duration after fleeing where they'll stop their pursuit.

Only critique is the difficultly spike before the boss as before that point I mostly had to fight enemies one at a time with the benefit of cover and then for the boss, it's suddenly multiple enemies and in an open space.

My favourite part was definitely the combat, really interesting way of using the grid based movement and it reminds me of something like Mega Man Battle Network.

Super engaging and polished! I wanted more, but I really understand the time constraints and that’s a very good job on all fronts! Congratulations

The Big bad AI is dead and I found 7 out of 12 things.

This is really great. Like you mention on the game page, it's got the DNA of your entry last year, but has been built upon massively. The visuals, sound and gameplay are excellent. There was this (I assume deliberately placed) dead pixel on my screen that was driving me nuts, so thank you for that! :D

I am quite disappointed that there was no breakdancing in the game. There is only room for one Raygun in this solar system: