The Last Spire

I really liked the fake 3D-aesthetic and the sprite art is great! Music and sound are also nice and the game feels very polished in general.

Seriously well done. I love the graphics and this is definitely the most fun entry I've played this jam. Would love to see this expanded on. Great job!

This is so cool! Such a fun way of doing pseudo-3d. The gameplay is pretty solid as well, I like the different types of enemies, and the shooting feels like a good amount of powerful. It would be nice if there was a faster way to turn around-- maybe holding shift or double-tapping the button would speed you up, or you could press down to do a quick 180 degree turn. It does a great job of feeling like an ambitious 16-bit era game, nice work!

I was just as bad at this as the turret minigames from Ratchet & Clank it reminded me of! 😄

Excellently polished lil game here. While it was fairly mechanically simple, I did really like eg. how clear the radar was, how responsively the game controlled, and how it looked generally - beautiful art and design work.

I love the fake-3D first person shooter design; reminds me of an old SNES game called Super Battletank. It's so much fun just to blast everything and watch those guns spin, so I appreciate that you can continue shooting on the Title and Game Over screens. Sprite work is fantastic and the rotating view works very well. Music is catchy and suits the game perfectly. As some have said, it could use some rebalancing here and there, as it's extremely difficult to ward off bombs flying at you from 2-3 different directions, but aside from that, this is super solid.

I feel like this is a really great entry with some wonderful art and a unique perspective that I've not seen before, but it can get tough very quickly when you have !'s at every angle, the way the enemies spawn it's really difficult to keep up - as much as I enjoyed this one, and I really did, a little balancing might make it tons better and I hope you do develop this further post-jam, nice entry :D

Game is actually super sick and I would have loved to see it more refined. The game feel is fantastic and I think it's real satisfying to play. If difficulty scaled better it would be goated, but you knew that already.

The guns were sick but I was hoping for some more things to shoot. I would like to see some bigger enemies with different damage points, such as shooting the tail off a helicopter vs the propellor and whatnot

Very good looking game. The presentation is excellent!

When I booted up the game, I was already quite taken with it. Main menu was awesome. Feels like I am at an arcade playing a rail shooter. Especially the way you have to shoot at the options. I love how immersive that makes the game.

Images are also really polished. Didn't look bad at all! Art direction was super cohesive and perfect for this kind of game.

Gameplay was really arcadey. Lots of fun. As others mentioned, a mouse control might have made the feel a lot smoother.

Gameplay is pretty straightforward and doesn't really need much more. Something nice to add could have been some pick ups like health and upgrades but with the limitation of time and all...

There's a lot of nice little details in your graphics that make the game exciting and pretty juicy. I love the warning signs on the left appearing and seeing the map on where enemies are coming from. I love you took the time to add that. Makes the player's life a lot easier. Even the transition and style of what wave you beat was cool.

Wouldn't mind a little bit more shooting feedback . The small white sprite when you hit something is a little small. Maybe if the "hit" animation was a little bigger.

Overall, it's a straightforward game that just doesn't really need much else. It's really good and you've taken the time and care to make sure it looks freaking awesome too.

Had a nice time with this one. Managed to make it to Wave 7. I really enjoyed the fast pace of spinning around in place shooting at targets. I think I would have preferred to aim with the mouse instead of arrow keys / joystick as that is my preference with aiming. I thought the idea of having to prioritize specific targets, while fending off the missiles made for a nice gameplay loop. Great work!

This was really good. I would've liked having the turn controls be separate from the aiming controls, but it worked alright. Definitely had that old arcade feel, and I really liked the design of all the enemies and how the game worked. The 360 degree view with the compass/radar was probably my favorite part of the game. Good job!

I played your game on my stream, heres a link if you want to watch it https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1091776398?t=02h08m46s

i did have fun, but I feel like I would have enjoyed the game more with a mouse movment to target vs arrow keys.

love the fow 3d perspective though.

Good audiovisual feedback. The radar I think should be bigger/have more audio or visual cues so I can tell where planes and bombs are. Turning with the same buttons you use to aim is intuitive but I just don't think it works. Having seperate aim and turn controls would be better, with easy access to the shooting key like space so you can simultaneously turn, aim, and shoot.

It was okay. This is probably not my kind of game, anyway, but it feels like it's desperately begging for mouse controls.