Hell Diver

thanks and glad you liked it.

also it was stolen, I though that was clear.

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wow seems you really like a lot about this game. as for the stutter for the d-pad, its really easy to press it a lot and fast, unlike the stick that I didn't think it needed the stutter.

the events system is something I added because I thought it be fun. plus it helps the player stay invested if you reward them for progression. also it was new i never done before so I really wanted to make it.

yeah I think the controls for the basic game play could have been better, I didn't think it was that unwieldy myself though. I wanted to make its control like car driving, but give your more control over the turning when your not moving.

you can press it a little to move a little, then turn and press it again to move in the new direction.

and yeah you can just kinda tank things once you get enough upgrades, but that fine. you are maxed out on upgrades you should feel unstoppable.

you only really need to be good at the game to beat it in a few days at low percent. lol

I'm glad you enjoyed the game as much as you did, and question did you find your reference in the game?

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getting a little lost at the start is intended. I added the map and radar to make it easier to find things, but finding them by luck to kick start your improvement in to a trash finding master is the attended progression arc.

the hook was a fun little think to make, I wanted a death animation and being fished back out literally very funny to us.

glad you liked the game and thanks again!

Thank you for your comment about the music! :D I really try my best every jam and it feels super cool to hear it's "well-composed", as music is not my primary strength!

I'd like to point out that not all art was made by me, so most of the credit goes to Single Shot! I only did the character portraits in the shop menu (and the cover for the gm48 page)

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similar games happen all the time in jams. my game have more of a metroidvania style of progression, so there is an end and a goal at all times. this is not necessary better then an arcade style, each offer different experiences.

I am very much happy with how this game turned out, the type of story interaction as both a progression reward and a break from the game play loop was really fun to make.

I feel like I could have worked on the main game play a bit more, but I never make a style like this before so it was fun to just go with my first idea and try to make it work.

I'm really glad you liked my our game as much as you did, and thanks again for taking the time to play and give feed back! I hope you get a much out of this jam as you can!

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glad you liked the dialogs as mush as you did, I think it was some of the most fun I had working on this project.

yeah I think I should of have text pop up in game talking about the pause screen and its map like I did with the other controls.

yeah I guess you can say that the diagonal speed thing is intended. I knew about it in the first few hours of the jam, but as I was having fun using it as a speed tech during play testing I thought that its fine too keep in the game. I do this all the time in my different games, I like leaving secret movement tech in and seeing how people use and abuse it.

so happy you liked the game, and thanks again for the feedback!

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glad you liked the art as much as you did.

I guessing the lag was due to the poor optimizing of the map system, my pc is so powerful that it was never an issue for me. I guess I need to test for weaker cpus.

glad you enjoyed the game and thanks again!

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the goal is a little unsure until you find your first item but that was Kinda the idea.

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yeah the little events where really fun to make. plus it gave the game more meat on its bones.

I think I could have optimized the map a bit more. but I kinda just placed things around as they felt right lol.

i also wanted to do more to the background to smooth it out, but could not come up with a good idea for it.

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The salvaging idea was mine, then kwis though it was a bit to generic. he suggested many idea to spice it up, like what if you where diving in lava? then I was like, sure but it takes place in hell.

honestly I don't know how it ended up the way it did. I'm glad it was a positive experience though.

glad you enjoyed the game.

ueueue I like when people mention the music in their feedback :] thaanks

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Yeah I feel like I could have done more with the game play.

I mean that was the whole game play loop.

I think I hear happy kwis noises from somewhere?

thanks.

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I like details, they are fun to add and make.

the map was not a surface. it was a 2d array the same size of the map(the graphic no the room) and when you where in a area of the map, it switch the corresponding values from 0 to 1.

to render the map, I just drew it pixel by pixel and only drew the pixels that match the parts of the array that were true.

its a little brute forceish method, but its pretty easy to code.

No the writing was not based on real experience, I just though it was funny.

its funny you mention trophy-rush and valktrie, because I did not do the sprite art in them lol. kwis drew the character portraits used in the cut scenes. everything else was me.

I was planing to do a parallax scroll for the background, but I could not really think of what it would look like so I settled on the animated lava.

thanks again for the feed back. and glad you enjoyed the game.

"the controls settings and the " and the whaaaat ;-; You didn't finish the sentenceee

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surprised you liked it as much as you did.

the game play loop of get things to buy things to get even more things to buy, is a classic progression feed back loop that a lot of games I love use.

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Glad you liked it, I also feel like the map could have been more condensed.