Unfortune Ammo

Thanks for playing and the detailed feedback!

Yeah, unfortunately I spent too much of the time available trying to get the projectile motion feeling good, which never actually happened, so things like level design, music and dialogue all got put together in the last two hours of the jam, and everything but the character sprites stayed as basically just programmer art. I personally like the basic idea of it, so I've been working on it some more here and there. Getting the collisions to work well is something of a nightmare, and the basic code I used initially really doesn't cut it.

Thanks a lot!

Yeah, it has a lot of issues, but I like the overall concept as well. Actually, those 'ghosts' were supposed to be statues, I just forgot to make them a child of the solid object. I've been doing a bit of work on it since, greatly improved the physics for the projectile, added a tracer to show where it will go, improved the collisions etc. Although I just broke something yesterday so that it always shoots at a 45 degree angle, something in the collision code I think.

Anyway, thanks for playing and the feedback!

Thanks a lot for playing and for the feedback!

If you could pass the third level I'd be surprised, as I finished making it just before the end of the jam with no time to test and I'm about 95% sure it's impossible to complete. I've been working on it some more since the jam finished, fixed that level, added in some guides to show how the shit will fire, changed the physics for the projectile etc., and I like the idea of the camera following the cursor while the left mouse is held - cheers!

Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback! I agree with all of those points, I've been doing a bit of work on it this week, including changes to the firing code, adding in a guideline for the shot path, and fixes to collisions. I realised after starting that although I've done some platformer projects before, I'd never done anything with directed shooting, so this was very much a learning project. I'll do something with the sounds as well, I haven't really tried anything but the absolute basics with sound functions yet, so maybe now is the time.

Yeah, I think actually the 3rd level is literally impossible to complete. If it makes you feel any better, there was only one more scripted sequence to end the game abruptly after that, so you didn't miss too much. I basically wasted hours on trying to make the projectile work better, so the level design was very much rushed.

Thanks again for the kind words on the writing!

Thanks for playing! Actually yeah, it doesn't make much sense, does it? I've been working on it a bit this week, changing the code behind the firing system and also added in a guide to show where the shot will head towards.

It's likely that the third level is impossible to finish. I put that one together in a few minutes just before the end of the jam, sorry about that.

Thanks for playing and leaving feedback! I totally agree, it was my first time trying to make a game using trajectories like that, and I spent hours that went nowhere, so I just went for a simple solution that is very imprecise, and same with the spawning; all quick fixes to get done in time. Glad you liked the humor!