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Thank you for the video and for playing! :D

Actually not being able to use my tools well (I'm referring to the blur effect) is one of the reason I lost time :P

I can't remove that frustration I feel, although I gotta say I felt a lot more sour when I wrote the description.

This is an usual process for me:

1. game progresses well, I get too confident
2. I get distracted by cool features to add in detriment of MVP
3. Submission time... got nothing actually meaningless in aside cool effects cause it's cool
4. I get super frustrated as the game is published. As usual it's 2am, I work on the description and a quick image for the icon until 4am. I go to sleep feeling sad. I usually tell it's my last gm48
5. The rest of the 2 rating weeks, I keep regretting my choices and promise to control myself better instead of just doing things for fun

Repeat this every gm48

Anyway, thanks a lot for these words! ♥

Yeah! I guess it's at least an interesting prototype.

Thanks a lot for playing! :D

Thanks a lot for the video!

Also about the headbanging uhhhh I guess it would be a cool useless feature to add xD As for doing things with the beat, it seems like a hard thing to code but still, it's not planned for that game. I do however want to emphasize the player's rise in power as the music progress

Yes, made the game end when you die as a last minute way to make your health relevant

Also yes i wanted to add sounds and more visual feedback but obviously ran out of time :P

(also there is only 1 metal track what did you mean 2?)

Thanks a lot for playing and for the feedback! :)

Thanks Baku! :D

Yeah, I hope to do better next time

Demons shoot pellets that eventually drain your health down! That's the only thing that closes the game, you dying

The dumb thing is, your health IS displayed, but I had lots of issues with the GUI layer because of surfaces and stuff, so I found no way to display it on the actual visible screen space before the 48 hours ended :(

Also because there is no knockback and that shooting shakes the screen, it's harder to notice when you get hit!

Also thanks for your feedback havik ♥

Thank you ♡

I've been making music for years, but it never was very interesting cause I sucked at it. It's been 8 months I started playing the guitar and learning it with music theory helped a lot!

I really should have made K a toggle :c and I guess make the game a bit easier ( i didn't test it lol)

Thank you ♥

Thanks a lot Chris ♥

"That must have been longer than a regular pop-song. It's a bit sad that most people only will hear the first seconds of it." Yes T_T i could have made a simple thing to get player to hear more of it: making the shooting a toggpe instead of a hold. My old shooting habits blinded me there I only realized people wouldn't be holding the button when I saw someone play. I anticipated it, hence why the intros of both songs aren't too "in your nose", but I thiught it wouldn't be a common occurrence and that people would want to see more of the sprite changing and the music.

But i also made the intro in one note; so if a player hears like 4 seconds of it they would just figure it repeats itself... i don't regret that choice but it didn't help lol

I wish i just was more clever cause i am really proud of these songs (they are 3 minutes each)

Also yes i kept polishing the game instead of adding content. I also didn't use an autotile because i figured i'd just stop losing time by always planning ahead (most games i made have base stuff ready to add content, but no content, so i figured i'd get more monsters done by stopping to make them flexible and in that way it worked) but the time it took me to make the room was the time i could have used to make that autotile.

Also i had unexpected issues with several visual things, a lot of messy stuff. I mean i am not surprised, haven't done anything solo for like a year

Thanks for the goof comment that's exactly why i made that head thing(idea i took from my main project)

Thank you for your feedback

Thanks a lot! It always warms my heart when people reference the music!

To be fair, the more i think about it the more i'm not sure how to make my vision adequate in relation of what I want for the player; if i am making a post-jam version it's gonna be effortful lol

Yes, it's a shader! Although I did not make it myself (it's a free asset from the marketplace, you could have used it too) but that said shaders aren't as obscure as they seem. I recommend checking on them, there are tutorials for simple stuff out there!

That said, at what cost? Trying to make it work with the way I handle things caused a lot of graphic issues (stuff i would draw wouldn't draw as intended) that i had to adapt to and it cost me a lot of precious time for an effect that is good, but not worth the lack of content. :(

So now I need to really get a better understanding of all these viewing/drawing/surfaces options to avoid the same issue

Also yeah i guess i made something that was technically good but since the ascension, i never finished a game alone and the scope for this one was doable... i just had a lot more issues than anticipated and onve again focuses kn the wrong stuff. I was doing well at the beginning and got too confident :<

Also thank you for the love for the nether music. It took quite some time to make (being still under 1 year of playing the guitar) and I was really proud of it, but realized afterward most people won't get to hear the more complex parts as they wouldn't hold K for long enough... no one's gonna hear my solo aha

Either way I'm touched that you look forward to my submissions! Aldo thank you for playing :)

Controls should be the exact same from a world to the other, could you tell me what made you feel wrong about the controls/what I could improve?

In any case, thank you for playing!

Thank you! I hope you still had some sort of fun while playing :)