Get Your Hands Off My Banana

That was fun! The story setting is funny in its simplicity and needs no further explanation. You've got a banana in a tree and they want it.

The palette is certainly brave and striking but I'll have to admit that it's quite hard on the eyes. I couldn't play it fullscreen because my eyes would just overload immediately. It was good that you could resize the window to whatever scale you want, so I did that instead!

It was good that the camera followed your aim but I think it moved a bit too much because my aim would often be thrown off when I'd swing between left and right quickly. The indicators on the sides of the screens that pointed to incoming enemies was a good call! Very useful.

The funny ending cutscene really wraps up the experience neatly. Great job, I enjoyed the game!

Great game! Simple and fun gameplay, well polished, I like the music and overall style too.

I adore the vibe of this game! The colors and the music are fantastic, it feels so smooth and clean. Awesome job!

15250! 7th place! Finally made it to the highscore list! That was so intense...

Music + music effects as usual is amazing. Also the art style had something soooo pleasing and unique, loved it. Game design was very nice, I like the wacky characters and how the game progressed was really well done. The risk-reward boat was genius.

Idk if it was anywhere but it would've been nice to see when the grenade was ready again!

The text all ran together in the screen for entering your name, and the sfx was a bit too hot/loud. Other than that, not a bad game! Pink people are strange though.

7th on my first attemp, I'll take it :D The best score getting their name on every screen of the game is pretty cool :D

The thing I really liked, even if I took a while to notice, is the risk/reward mechanic of boats. At first I destoyed them almost instantly, but they're such a good source of points! It also solves an issue that's often there with endless game, where the start is always too slow, here you can decide to make it harder (at least I guess, I'll try again later 😅)

The molotov though... it's really loud compared to the rest? I only used it for boats (and one time near the end because there was too many crabs on my island 😡) because of it :(

I always love when gamepad support is implemented, big thumbs up for that. Very snappy and satisfying menu and UI. Leaderboards being so prominent got me a bit competitive, did a few runs but couldn't get better than 4th place. The limited yet bright color palette is very cool and for some reason reminds me of some old school games like dangerous dave. I didn't end up moving much I mostly just stood in the middle and aimed, but I enjoyed playing it, was really fun. Awesome job.

Wow this game is so stylish. I love the bright poppy palette and the music was really pleasant to listen to as well. It almost felt like the gun was syncing up well to the music too. Very satisfying. All the art and music elements seemed to work really well together. Despite the stress of only having one life, the whole presentation really put me in a jumpy happy mood. Real good looking game.

UI is also super nice. I love it. The typeface is bold, bright, very impactful and fitting.

I'm not too sure how I feel about the camera movement. I feel like I like it at points and other points I feel it made me a little motion sick. I love how it follows the cursor on how much range you see. Unfortunately, I can't quite put my finger on why I found it a little too "wavy". Sorry, not a great word description of it.

I personally liked holding the mouse button to shoot. Sometimes it just feels like a more tactile thing.

I like the flavouring of the molotov too, haha. The whole game is so cheerful and peppy with cute bullet sounds and bright fun colours and suddenly a molotov comes out and absolutely decimates the sound. Contrasted with the plot of protecting your banana, I just think it made the whole mood very fun.

I wish on the later waves the game varied a little more or maybe addition of some more variety like power ups or more enemy types. So I could learn more tactics instead of playing the same thing but faster. So the inclusion of the molotov is really nice as it did add some attack variety. Would love to see more of that!

I did also feel there wasn't much point in moving from your position. Maybe if the island was bigger I would feel like I could move. But because it wasn't, I really needed to keep my banan on screen as much as I could to keep the pesky birds away. Maybe there is a tactic where moving is very beneficial but due to the closeness of both sides, I didn't feel like I really needed to.

I liked the arrow indicators for enemies.

Overall, really fun game. Even the lose screen is fun. Really nice job at creating an absolutely blast. Fun music, fun art, whole art direction really is lovely. And the game is easy to jump into and satisfying to play.

Nice! The graphical style is unique and sets the game apart, and despite the limitations, it's a very pretty game. The 3-bit color reminds me a lot of the old Windows XP 'flowerbox' screensaver-- the shapeshifting one. Music is also very polished, especially for a 48 hour jam. The enemies were neat-- the idea of a fish flopping towards my banana from the ocean is especially funny, and the pirateship docking on the island distinctly and singlehandedly changes the flow of the game, which keeps things from getting too old. I wish there was a little more variety in terms of ways for me to attack the enemies, but it's a minor ask. Really nice job!

Somehow I scored 2nd place on the leaderboard on my second attempt. Really fun game! The graphics are very unique looking, and the music was cool too. The gameplay is fun, and I like the variety in enemy design. The game is very well polished, you've even got particle effects for firing at the sand! My one critique is that there's not really any incentive to move around at all (or maybe there is, and I was too scared of leaving the banana unguarded to experiment) I really liked this.

This was a pretty fun wave shooter, i like the dos style graphics.

don't know if it was intended, but the audio broke every time I used a Molotov. like glitched out broke, it got pretty wiggly and didn't sound normal again till a few seconds after the fire sound ended.

also, it would be nice to have some kinda of reticle instead of just the mouse as is. it would make it a bit harder to loss the mouse with the camera flipping around all the time.

also the enemy arrows are a nice touch. but I think you can improve them by having them flash a different color, to make it stand out more. as well have the flashing speed up as they get closer so it easy to judge how urgent I should treat them as a threat.

Ether way nice game allison.

I really enjoyed this as a snappy bit of arcade action, despite stupidly not understanding on my first go that defending the banana is the aim (my brain simply went, "run around and shoot everything, that's all I need to do"). The enemy variations ramp up nicely, and I like that the molotovs have a specific use. All in all, I thought it was grand for a short, frantic play session, and you don't hear Gecs-style Hyperpop in games every day, so that was a nice bonus!

This is just so fun to play. The music really gets you in a groove. It's the kind of game that gets you going "oh come on!... one more round" round after round lol

"Terrible graphics" my ass, it looks awesome. It's oozing style. Icon is so good I put it in my icon/description guide.

I mostly only have 2 complaints:

• Is there any downside to not be shooting constantly? Doesn't feel like there is, so why make me hold a button? Just make it autofire!
• Playing fullscreened with mouse made aiming slightly difficult. I'd lose track of my tiny cursor's position constantly, and had trouble sniping lone birds out of the sky unless I tried leading my shots, taking longer than needed to aim correctly at crabs, etc. Very troublesome once the difficulty started ramping up in a way that didn't feel intended.

And luckily I was able to fix both issues!

My first fix was to plug in a controller and hold down the trigger with a hair tie, while playing with mouse/keyboard. I didn't know if that'd work, depending on how you set up input management, but it did! The game didn't recognise my Dualshock 4 though (please check beyond slot 3 in the future >.<) so I had to dig deep in a drawer for a stinky 360 pad which worked.

My second fix, and this is some nextlevel galaxybrain lifehack shit, was to find the cursor size / colour settings in Windows and make it as big as possible lol. This made accurately aiming much easier and I was able to knock kat off the banana throne for now. All is right in the world again.

Well... that was weird. But in a good way! Very fast-paced, certainly an original premise, and great music. Sadly, I am terrible at it, and keep losing relatively early despite several attempts. XD

Loved it, the music, the art, the gameplay. Perfection.

I really love the art direction for this game, and the music makes me want to keep playing! The difficulty does take a while to ramp up, but once it does the game gets extremely hectic, and I love that.

91'000!

That was rather fun! I liked the flow of the game and how things spawned. I started panicking when there was suddenly attacks from the right while there was the boarding ship! I ended up getting overwhelmed.

The camera almost made me feel nauseous. I get that you wanted to make it so that looking to one side makes you unable to check the other (and btw the red arrows are really, really good to have), but the camera moves so quickly, I would have wished for it to smoothly move to let my eyes adjusting to the sudden movement. It doesn't help that moving the mouse quickly moves the camera as you aim; speaking of which, I really wish you had something to replace the cursor cause quite often, it's hard to keep track of it other than directing yourself by the shot pellets; I often ended up losing it and it didn't really help feeling comfortable with the movements. You know, something contrasting to always keep track of it!

The aesthetics work great (contrary to what someone sour might refer as "terrible graphics") with the game! Sound effects felt a tiny bit harsh?

I really love the different ways the enemies move as well! The fish most notably

Overall, pretty fun and cool!

Honestly, that was so fun. I loved the soundtrack and music too. That was great.

An incredible game! You have a certain flare and style that always stands out, the music, the design, the teletext graphics, the audio effects, everything and all the ways it fits together here are great! I couldn't put a fault to this one at all! Or, as AlexInCube puts it, terrible graphics 😜

The colors hurt my eyes. It didn't really feel like it got more interesting as it went on so I tended to die of lack of attention. It's an okay game. The music was pretty neat, though!

That aesthetic, though! It feels like a Hotline Miami set in japan. A Hotline Tokyo...

I really like the pacing of the waves and the ebbs and flows in the game with the boats coming in from the sides. And I really like some of the little touches, like how the music gets quieter for a moment after you use a molotov, to make it feel like it has more impact. Or how different enemy types have different audio cues.

My biggest complaint is that I am bad at it. Make me better at your game, please! Also I think it would be good to have some indicator of how long it'll be until your molotov is ready.

terrible graphics