Dodger: Swirl

Love it! The music and sound effects were top notch and really nailed that NES feel. Gameplay was simple and fun. Awesome work!

Game rules. The music slaps and the main character sliding around is so fkin funny. It's very cozy in its aesthetic and the whole game flows together so seamlessly. Biggest issues are that the aoe for progressing/loading isn't clear, and I feel like the squares could be more numerous.

The art on this game is really nice! The idea was great and well executed, and the gameplay was satisfying. Nice job with this!

The visual style is lovely, with all the animations and transitions and stuff! The little player meeple with their scarf is precious. For the most part the game felt good to play but I think the threshold distance where you'd "touch" the eye from was a little unclear! So sometimes I would reach it earlier than I meant to, before I had collected the required number of squares. Cool little game, nice job!

I really like the art style of this game. It's simple, but very effective. The difficulty really caught me off-guard lol, it IS pretty challenging, don't get fooled by the visuals.
Pretty nice entry!
(P.S.: It may just be this crappy school PC I'm playing this right now but sometimes the game just gets really laggy and freezes when I try to close it. But then again it may just be this crappy PC)
Edit: WHY THE HELL DID I NOT PLAY THIS WITH AUDIO ITS SO GOOD

I didn't expect it to be this hard! 😅

There were I think a few confusing parts. Someone mentionned the background, and yeah I had the same issue at first. Looks cool though :D Another thing in the limit that completes the level. Took me a few try to understand what was happenning, and I wasn't always sure of how far I could go. I did miss a couple time because I thought I was still safe before collecting the last thing. And finally, I like that the square things act as an objective and as your life, but my issue is that sometimes if you get hit once you might as well be dead, because they aren't enough square left for you to complete the level. Some of them seem to disappear quite quickly, but I don't think any more can appear? So yeah, it's a balancing issue, which isn't rare in game jams, but I think just being killed in one shot would have been less frustrating in the end?

Anyway that a lot of words for some balance nuance, the game overall is pretty cool, and the art, gameplay and sounds make for a surprisingly coherent game for a jam!

This was a fantastically trippy lil experience, very unique gameplay! I'm terrible at bullet hells but this did feel approachable... well enough to get to 0/4 as a requirement before I got shot to bits again 😆

The game was well presented and bookended, it felt finished which is always a plus for a gm48 entry. The graphics were nice and mostly clear (although I didn't initially find it intuitive where the boundaries of the eye were, I sorta got it in the end), and well drawn.

Loved the music as well. Good, fitting music and SFX that were simple but completely fine. On the whole, yeah, my favourite thing about this is simply how complete and well-realised it is, nice work!

Cool game! I got a bit confused at first because I thought the shapes in the background were walls or something ahaha.

Pretty intresting game illdie, I liked the shooter twist of falling in to the center vs defeending the center.

also seemed a little violent if you know what I mean.

I like the unique concept of this one and the retro style! I wasn't especially good at it, maybe I needed more practice or there needs to be more blocks, but it definitely made me come back for more when I realised I was just one block short - good entry with a decent replay value to it!

This was a really interesting game and would have been a great entry into something like the Ludem Dare game jam last year "Stuck in a loop". Great job on everything in this game, it plays really well. I kept holding down to move away even though I knew I couldn't Best high-score so far is level 6. This is a wonderful entry into the game jam

If the game is nonviolent, why do I explode like megaman when I fail? Anyway, this one has nice art and music that fits the art well, but seems a bit difficult, and it felt a bit strange being hardly able to move inward and outward to get the pickups.