Congrats on another genius concept with great execution! Curious how you implemented the window movement, did you have to do anything special to make it smooth? Nice job!
cool game, original idea and great implementation, had some trouble with accidentally clicking on the desktop instead of the window but other than that, i enjoyed it. 14 yellow triangles/14
For some reason, I cannot start the game in any capacity. I run the exe and bat, I get the loading spinner on my cursor, and... nothing. Nothing pops up.
I'm not sure if it has anything to do with it, but I am running Windows 11.
WHOA, this is easily one of the most unique games ever! I wasn't great at it lol but I enjoyed every moment, and the tension that the shrinking window brought with it was lovely. Plus adding the other pop-ups and such was brilliant. This is so polished, which is wild for such a unique idea in such a short time frame.
As a tech demo, its awesome, as a game, it's issues begin to show quite early. Firstly, there's not much reason to revisit the game other than getting a new high score, which for some is plenty of reason, but for others, it isn't enough incentive to keep playing, many roguelikes introduce random new assets into each run as a way of keeping the game fresh, perhaps elements of that idea could be implemented here to prevent the game from becoming stale. Another thing I disliked was the lack of communication, Wall Punch was one upgrade I didn't really understand, and since there's no real descriptions like in most roguelikes, I still don't quite understand what its supposed to do, it seems like it's meant to make it easier to resize the window by shooting its borders but I didn't really feel like it was doing that, and without a second guess I found myself rarely purchasing it, even a little description underneath the upgrade in the shop would be nice. Another thing I found was that many aspects of the game weren't too well thought out, one example of this is the homing upgrade, I would often try to shoot the border to expand in one direction but an enemy in the complete opposite direction of where I was firing would attract my bullets towards it and as I got more homing upgrades would eventually violently curve my bullets to the point I had to hug the wall I wanted to expand. This could've been solved by simply having a dot product check in place to see if an enemy is even loosely in the direction a bullet is moving, and having this get more lenient as you get better homing upgrades, but having it cap at 90 degrees left and right to prevent the violent 180 degree curving I talked about earlier. And since I spent so much time hugging the wall to expand it, it helped me notice another issue, since enemies rarely if ever spawn within the bounds of the main window's border, it led to many frustrating moments where I would get hit by something right offscreen when hugging the wall. Of course this wouldn't happen too often, and could probably be mitigated by solving issues that force me to hug the wall anyway, but it's a frustrating issue nonetheless, maybe there could be some sort of faint color-coded glow coming from the border of the window that indicates the direction an active enemy is in, with more "important" or objectively dangerous enemies having a stronger glow, and the laser star enemy having no glow, obviously. Speaking of that laser enemy, I noticed that it decreases spawn rates when one is active, this became a massive issue late game as the lack of enemies, and subsequently the lack of coins forced me into a monetary drought throughout the endgame, and made it too difficult to survive long enough to even get the money for a heal, much less find it with the growing price of shop rerolls draining my wallet before I could even purchase one. I could probably bring up many more issues but I think you get the idea, the gameplay is fairly flawed in many aspects, and since this was a game jam project, I'm not sure if you would be willing to update the game or if the intricacies of the gameplay loop's design were even that deeply considered, but its nonetheless an interesting project that shows off the idea of a multi-window and completely window based game quite nicely, I wonder if other games will do anything with this idea, maybe they already have.
Been playing this game for a few minutes, and I had to congratulate your work, as I can clearly see how good this game is!
The idea of using the ENTIRE SCREEN as a map is flat out genius, and something we've rarely even seen before, which is a shame. The last time game I saw which used multiple windows as a mechanic so effectively was OneShot, which used it for the end-game puzzle.
Last but not the least, I can't help but feel like this game has great potential to be able to modded, although I don't know if this is possible to do with Godot Engine.
Also had the idea to make myself a soundtrack for the game, or at least try.
Really cool game, have been playing it everyday for the past week since I downloaded it! An annoying bug the game has tho, sometimes it just forces me to move upwards. If I try to move downwards, ofcourse my character freezes. This costs me some runs sometimes, so if you could check that out, I'd appreciate it.
this is so awesome!!!! i'm not sure right click was working with me tho? i chose the 'freeze' option which I think is an ability and it never did anything and right click never did anything? but besides that, INCREDIBLE love it
thanks! freeze is not an ability, there is only one ability that uses right click and it doesn’t come from the shop. freeze makes enemies stop moving for a short time after being hit
very cool game! There are a few bugs/weird mechanics like the boss laser being able to snipe you when it moves or how all boss projectiles disappear when you kill the boss. Also, the hidden thing I'm not going to mention further kinda ruins a few upgrades and in result made me lose my first run. Other than that this game is pretty solid.
I got 87 bosses but this is insane, does the game get more difficult the longer it goes? When I died I had gotten lazy and had enough money for a heal I just didn't pay attention.
bosses spawn faster over time, upgrades get more expensive, and more enemies spawn. i think the basic enemies have a cap early on for their spawnrate tho. late reply lol
Sorta it's not when I click outside the window but when the window pushes me when I'm touching the wall. Then yea one key moves forever until I click and unclick it.
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Very nice game, would waste 33.6 minutes my time again :D you get the special privilege of staying in my doodads folder
i highly recommend.
Congrats on another genius concept with great execution! Curious how you implemented the window movement, did you have to do anything special to make it smooth? Nice job!
cool game, original idea and great implementation, had some trouble with accidentally clicking on the desktop instead of the window but other than that, i enjoyed it. 14 yellow triangles/14
what does the peer do?
Cool game, very original
For some reason, I cannot start the game in any capacity. I run the exe and bat, I get the loading spinner on my cursor, and... nothing. Nothing pops up.
I'm not sure if it has anything to do with it, but I am running Windows 11.
WHOA, this is easily one of the most unique games ever! I wasn't great at it lol but I enjoyed every moment, and the tension that the shrinking window brought with it was lovely. Plus adding the other pop-ups and such was brilliant. This is so polished, which is wild for such a unique idea in such a short time frame.
- ✨Beth
fun
couldve gone longer but it was starting to get boring so i just decideed to die
I don't know why, but when I opened the .exe file, it said that i was missing the .pck when it's still there.
please extract the contents of the .zip somewhere before opening
As a tech demo, its awesome, as a game, it's issues begin to show quite early. Firstly, there's not much reason to revisit the game other than getting a new high score, which for some is plenty of reason, but for others, it isn't enough incentive to keep playing, many roguelikes introduce random new assets into each run as a way of keeping the game fresh, perhaps elements of that idea could be implemented here to prevent the game from becoming stale. Another thing I disliked was the lack of communication, Wall Punch was one upgrade I didn't really understand, and since there's no real descriptions like in most roguelikes, I still don't quite understand what its supposed to do, it seems like it's meant to make it easier to resize the window by shooting its borders but I didn't really feel like it was doing that, and without a second guess I found myself rarely purchasing it, even a little description underneath the upgrade in the shop would be nice. Another thing I found was that many aspects of the game weren't too well thought out, one example of this is the homing upgrade, I would often try to shoot the border to expand in one direction but an enemy in the complete opposite direction of where I was firing would attract my bullets towards it and as I got more homing upgrades would eventually violently curve my bullets to the point I had to hug the wall I wanted to expand. This could've been solved by simply having a dot product check in place to see if an enemy is even loosely in the direction a bullet is moving, and having this get more lenient as you get better homing upgrades, but having it cap at 90 degrees left and right to prevent the violent 180 degree curving I talked about earlier. And since I spent so much time hugging the wall to expand it, it helped me notice another issue, since enemies rarely if ever spawn within the bounds of the main window's border, it led to many frustrating moments where I would get hit by something right offscreen when hugging the wall. Of course this wouldn't happen too often, and could probably be mitigated by solving issues that force me to hug the wall anyway, but it's a frustrating issue nonetheless, maybe there could be some sort of faint color-coded glow coming from the border of the window that indicates the direction an active enemy is in, with more "important" or objectively dangerous enemies having a stronger glow, and the laser star enemy having no glow, obviously. Speaking of that laser enemy, I noticed that it decreases spawn rates when one is active, this became a massive issue late game as the lack of enemies, and subsequently the lack of coins forced me into a monetary drought throughout the endgame, and made it too difficult to survive long enough to even get the money for a heal, much less find it with the growing price of shop rerolls draining my wallet before I could even purchase one. I could probably bring up many more issues but I think you get the idea, the gameplay is fairly flawed in many aspects, and since this was a game jam project, I'm not sure if you would be willing to update the game or if the intricacies of the gameplay loop's design were even that deeply considered, but its nonetheless an interesting project that shows off the idea of a multi-window and completely window based game quite nicely, I wonder if other games will do anything with this idea, maybe they already have.
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I don't know why, but when I opened the .exe file, it said that i was missing the .pck when it's still there.
I really enjoyed the idea of my entire desktop becoming a shooting game battlefield.
The idea of a boss that shoots lasers that penetrate the screen was especially amazing!
Been playing this game for a few minutes, and I had to congratulate your work, as I can clearly see how good this game is!
The idea of using the ENTIRE SCREEN as a map is flat out genius, and something we've rarely even seen before, which is a shame.
The last time game I saw which used multiple windows as a mechanic so effectively was OneShot, which used it for the end-game puzzle.
Last but not the least, I can't help but feel like this game has great potential to be able to modded, although I don't know if this is possible to do with Godot Engine.
Also had the idea to make myself a soundtrack for the game, or at least try.
if you haven't already, i suggest trying out windowframe by Daniel Linssen for more window-bending fun
(is this allowed? can i suggest other games in some game's comments?)Really cool game, have been playing it everyday for the past week since I downloaded it! An annoying bug the game has tho, sometimes it just forces me to move upwards. If I try to move downwards, ofcourse my character freezes. This costs me some runs sometimes, so if you could check that out, I'd appreciate it.
hi, i’ve fixed this issue with version 1.6
this is so awesome!!!! i'm not sure right click was working with me tho? i chose the 'freeze' option which I think is an ability and it never did anything and right click never did anything? but besides that, INCREDIBLE love it
thanks! freeze is not an ability, there is only one ability that uses right click and it doesn’t come from the shop. freeze makes enemies stop moving for a short time after being hit
got it, thank you!
try to play that on 21:9
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very cool game! There are a few bugs/weird mechanics like the boss laser being able to snipe you when it moves or how all boss projectiles disappear when you kill the boss. Also, the hidden thing I'm not going to mention further kinda ruins a few upgrades and in result made me lose my first run. Other than that this game is pretty solid.
I got 87 bosses but this is insane, does the game get more difficult the longer it goes? When I died I had gotten lazy and had enough money for a heal I just didn't pay attention.
bosses spawn faster over time, upgrades get more expensive, and more enemies spawn. i think the basic enemies have a cap early on for their spawnrate tho. late reply lol
i like the game and concept. would love to play more but my computer is trash and this gives it a heart attack.
What did you code this in, its crazy!
Im sure its made with godot, you can see it for a brief second upon opening the game
Fun game, but once the other window appears frame rate massively drops and makes bullets unable to hit enemies or hit the window border.
it works on linux thx :)
never knew a game could run like this, like im fighting a war on my desktop. well done!
3591 coins collected, 2180 seconds, 46927 bullets fired, 790 enemies killed, and 87 bosses.
a rly good game
That`s a cool time killer i never meet before
Is getting stuck to the side a feature or a bug? Is it a black hole or weird wall physics?
mb u just click somewhere outside the game window and the key "stuck" and u move forever
Sorta it's not when I click outside the window but when the window pushes me when I'm touching the wall. Then yea one key moves forever until I click and unclick it.
I really like this game, however for some reason this game freezes up when I kill the first boss.
modding support for this game would go CRAZY
if you just hold the button then you can drag your mouse anywhere and it'll still shoot
Wow, this is amazing, I’ve never seen a game like this before. Such a clever idea and you’ve executed it really well.
please keep updating this game or make a sequel, this is too good of an idea not to
I love this. I have a feeling I'll be keeping it on my hard drive for a long long time :)
GOOD!
Cool idea!!!
I had so much fun and an interesting experience!
honestly I could go on forever but it did get a bit tedious and just died on purpose
I guess it does have some limitation because it was made in 72 hours and I really wish for more contents!
for those who need some tips:
bosses dies after 3 teleport and get stronger after time so keep track of the teleport and kill as soon as possible
after killing first boss, pick drain and put it on the second boss, it makes killing the second boss easy
screen size management is key, so make sure to shoot each side repeatedly because they have some delay before collapsing on the player
Very funny game.
32 or 64 bits?