Mailcall

Nice game! Good idea and nice executuion! The music and sound effects were great and the game was visually quite nice. Great job, solid entry :D

I love the idea of classic scrolling shooter mechanics turned non-violent!

I had only a couple of issues with the game, regarding the spawning of planes etc.: Sometimes nothing would spawn for probably a whole minute so you'd be just flying forward idly. On the other hand, sometimes there would be so many on-ground customers that you couldn't possibly deliver to all of them even if you spammed the button as fast as the game lets you.

A very fun entry, I enjoyed it! The voice acted "thank yous" were a funny touch!

Yep, another game that broke my expectations. It was pretty fun! Kudos to the audio feedback for what's happening on the screen because sometimes visual just wouldn't do it lol.

Got to level 3 with score 268100.
Edit: I just beat level 3 and gave up because it was too long and now I realized i should have written my score... Well at least I can say I got really powerful heh...

Ahah the level generation kinda gave up after the mid point of the second level :'D

I think my biggest issue with this game is the lack of variety, the way to deal with planes and blimps is the same, and I would have loved to see enemies with more "HP" or different flying patterns, even if that meant the game was a lot smaller overall.

But I understand there was a lot of different parts and graphics and sounds fit very nicely with the idea. I also liked that planes were still active after a successful delivery, it took some time to adapt to this (it's also why I think more patterns would have been exponentially more interesting). Also, out of all my deliveries, I think I only got 2 or 3 "you're my hero" 😋

Oh and... is that +1 life working? I'm pretty sure after the second level I had 4 times the score needed 😅

I don't know what it is, but I really found the idea of this funny - I was laughing throughout my entire playthrough. Just the idea of firing high-speed post at planes and dropping parcels onto people and them all getting exactly what they wanted - to the point of printing their thanks onto the top of zeppelins in mid-air - was a really entertaining twist on what would normally be extremely violent, but in this wasn't.

This was really fully formed, with good graphics, fitting music and sfx and fun "thank you!" voice lines, nicely wrapped, easy to get the hang of, and just flat-out fun to play, too.

This is basically Paperboy but good!

Excellent work, here.

Pretty hilarious concept. Unfortunately I kept on running into the planes after already delivering mail because I thought they wouldn't have a hitbox 😂. Overall it was a fun game. THANK YOU!

I appreciate this game's sillyness. The visual style and sound design works really well to sell the concept too. The powerups get a bit crazy at the end, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

I was reminded of the retro top-down plane shooters of early windows days and games like 1945 but parodied to be delivering mail - I like the parody style and concept and was pleased when the guy I was delivering to called me a hero (always thank your post workers!) - this was a fun game to play but I think there are a few small things to consider for your next jam. When it comes to the score and GUI, I always find it's better to try and integrate it in to your game rather than it be text on the side, it just makes it feel more involved and when you are focusing on the gameplay, it's easier to see these stats using iconography rather than words. That being said, the tutorial/introduction was done perfectly because it was not overly wordy - just "shoot this" and "avoid that", nicely done! The only other point I'd make to consider for improvement would be using two closer keys for shooting. Though that's an easy adjustment to make for future reference. Overall, a solid concept, a funny parody and a fun entry with just a few small quality-of-life upgrades that more time might have allowed you to make. I hope you continue to enter these jams in future :)

I have a strong soft spot for top-down shooters.

I’m not good at them but I do like them a bit. And I had a bit of fun with this game.

I think the controls where a bit of a mess, enters not the best shoot key, and my hands started to cramp from the strange placement.

Also the thank you’s while nice, need a few different variances to make it less grading on the ears. Maybe a bit of pitch shift or just 3 different recordings that randomly.

Either way, nice job on your first gm48.

Solid shmup gameplay, great art and sound. The voices added to it, it was fun.

Took me a while to work out you could move but had fun when I worked it out.

Things I liked: The music was very nostaligic. The movement was slick. The artwork was really fitting for the game and it was immersive.

Things I didn't like: Not much actually. All-round this was a decent entry!

Great job on all the sounds and visuals, the world below appears to be so full of life and detail.

I didn't know I was supposed to shoot at the planes at first but they seemed to add to score whenever you shot them mail.

It got really hard in the 2nd level with all the planes coming in, maybe I was just trying to hard to hit every delivery lol

I like the different elements of gameplay between the balloons, planes, people, and powerups that all provide gameplay that keeps you on your toes

Scratches a raiden itch I had completely forgotten about lol. I was a little confused at first but managed to piece it together. Sound effects generally pretty good, graphics pretty good, the game speeding up as you progress screams to me as an obvious next step (if it doesn't already, I died pretty early hehe). Was shooting away the power ups meant to prevent you from just holding down shoot? Was interesting either way. Nice job.