Insect Invasion

Interesting game! I included it in my GM48: Collect! compilation video series, if you’d like to take a look. :) https://youtu.be/Lw5l602H5TY

Holy shit this game was hard. I slowly started to get the hang of it after a while, and started utilising the map more, but it really took a while to get used to. I wish the green dots on the map woudl disappear after you collect the associated bug, cause I would sometimes get confused whether I had or hadn't collected certain ones on the map...

It's neat that the level layout seems randomly assembled from pre-fab chunks, but it was often done in pretty awkward ways. Sometimes pickups were in essentially unreachable spots. And I felt like the game sometimes put me in very random places after dying on spikes - sometimes right next to where I died, and sometimes far away...

The opening as well as the ending text scrolls a bit too fast for my liking.

At one point the game crashed with this error message.

Interesting that your game still has the same janky jump-through platforms as your last game, makes me wonder if there was some code reuse going on 🤔

Overall not a terrible game, but it was a little frustrating at times :P

I like the music!

The player movement was programmed well, the level generation was interesting, and the art was unique and clear. The mini-map was a cool addition, and helped a lot. The problems I faced were with the pacing and difficulty of the game, as well as the player feedback the game gives you. I felt the game didn't get harder or easier, just more of the same, which became repetitive. Sometimes I would have an excess of ammo and health, other times I would have none, and it seemed arbitrary. Also the player could rarely see a spider outside the view that was coming down to attack them before it was too late. There weren't any death animations for the enemies, or any feedback besides a sound for when I picked up something, which kind of felt empty. I wanted to like the game more, it was just missing a layer of testing and polish that would have gone a long way. Good work on creating all that unique music for each area by the way!

I'm old fashioned and prefer human made levels to procedural generation but I thought the enemies were well designed and fit the levels really well. I thought Insect Invasion was fun and fit the theme perfectly

Great to see procedural generation done and done effectively in a game jam entry! I didn't encounter any issues with it either, although it didn't seem to be very difficulty curved 😅

This was fun, great work!

I've struggled a little on the levels, it seems that a couple places in them are unreachable. I like that you have to collect another gun in order to be able to shoot again (kinda similar to mine haha). Endless mode was a little bit clunky for me, I touched a spike and got shot into the walls lol.

Very nice art though, digging the music also!