Syringe Madness!

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I don't understand why it's so slow, it ran fine when I ran it in the project (it ran 60 fps). It's definitely not supposed to be that slow, and it wasn't that way when I was testing it. I did notice it was pretty slow when I downloaded it and tested that version of it though; seems a little strange. Anyways, thanks for playing!

I'm glad to know that I need to check the final project as well before uploading, and will DEFINITELY do that for the next jam, since it goes way slower than it should, not to mention that the spawns are wonky (There's around 6 materials, but I've only ever noticed 3 of them spawn in the compiled version).

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I didn't put much effort into the art, which I'm now starting to regret. I'm glad to hear that the reactions are satisfying, I spent some time trying to make them look neat. I probably should have made the character a little "thicker" before I uploaded the game, because you're right about it being a bit difficult to see.

Thanks for playing!

Thanks for the feedback!

There were 2 reasons why I didn't add sounds.

1. I was tired and thought, although irrationally, that I might accidently make the sounds too loud. Probably an excuse caused by...

2. Me getting lazy and starting to rush development because I just wanted to get it done.

I agree that the UI is pretty bad, I did try to combat the black on black by making the background lines a bit lighter, but not light enough. I also should have made the tutorial much more intuitive; probably would have been better off just making it a series of pictures with control labels / explanations.

The game over screen is a rushed mess, I also could have gotten a little more creative with it (I just tried mimicking what I did for another project).

To end this response, I'd like to add that I put a little bit too much time into secret / hard to find things as well, such as bacterial material. Anyways, thanks for reading these thoughts and for playing the game!

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, when I tested it I usually played by spraying the stuff as well, I just must have gotten used to pressing space. I tried making the right mouse attack useful in certain scenarios and with certain materials. For example, the blue material is used much more effectively by using the right mouse button attack than when shooting it, as it will spray blue material (which homes in on nearby enemies) all around the exploding ball in large quantities. I still should have added a setting in the (nonexistent) options to toggle how you wanted to handle using materials; I hadn't thought about that before.

The green material has some very specific uses, so it is a little weak; probably could have gone with a speed boost. The main purposes I could see it being useful for is for stopping bullets, and massively decreasing the size of bacterial material (which I made pop up way too far into the game, I believe after 100 kills you can start getting it).

Thanks for playing the game!

Thanks for the feedback! While the tutorial is definitely lacking, I have to say that it is definitely capable of explaining the player movement controls, as it's the first thing the tutorial goes over, and it's just WASD or the arrow keys. The syringe controls admittedly could be explained a little better on there, but the explanation of the controls on the game page should be capable of explaining how to control the syringe in more detail. Thanks for playing and for the feedback, although I believe you should try out the game again.