It's really hard !

The game seems fun and the music is catchy. Can't wait to see what comes out of this. ^_^

Wow the graphics are awesome, nice work on the game! :D ... "Im just going to push buttons randomly until something magical happens" FUNNY line XD

When I try to run it, it just says that the program has stopped working and refuses to open.

The game doesn't load, it just says that it stopped working. :(

@Tyro and ahm99 - that means you don't have the system requirements mentioned at the top. You need both the XNA redist and .NET framework installed on your machine for the game to run. If you have Windows 7, you should only need to download the XNA framework. If you're still having problems after that, I'd love for you to hit me up on twitter (@LordGarvar) so I can get it sorted out. Or, if you don't have twitter, through email: aw _at_ ppy _dot_ sh

BIGGEST LETDOWN IN THE HISTORY OF EVER!

Just kidding, I really enjoyed it. The controls were really finicky but hey just call it an "I wanna be the guy fangame" and you'll be golden :)

Wish there was more polish, a fullscreen mode, and yes, yes, actual boss battles!

I really loved some small details like the recoil, the mega-huge explosions, and the really snappy enemies. Great work!

Not too much minimal, but nice concept and nice game.

Great game, its reminds me Castlevania :D, but im really curious, why did you used XNA 3 instead of XNA 4? , also is a shame not provide the source code :(

@nddrylliod: those are all coming, but we didn't have time to get them in during the jam D:

@infinitedog: the idea behind the game was starting out with everything and working toward minimalism through the gameplay but it's not quite there yet

@hgouveia I originally got started on XNA 3.1 and haven't had incentive to update. I'll put the source code up as soon as I get it all in one place (working on that now). I've just been very, very busy lately. And tired.

Worked great with a 360 controller! Nice graphics, it seems like you have a cool little engine there.

Cool project! The platforming controls could use a little tightening up but it definitely has the feel of a great game in the making! I really hope it doesn't lose its sense of humor in the finishing process, I'd love to see this character's reaction to losing all his stuffs :)

Hey, first of all let me say: glad to hear you like our game (Funky Lincoln). We just uploaded the post-jam version of the game with many improvements.
Now to your game: I was really surprised by the game. Even though it is short you can see that a lot of work and polishing went into the title (I really liked the lighting by from the explosions)
Good work and good luck on your plans to further improve it.

@KilledByAPixel wow, I'm surprised you thought to give it a go with the 360 controller - I coded support for it but didn't document it anywhere except in the actual code, hah!

@Jyrkface Agreed; the movement and aiming controls need tightening - we made some decisions early on that were good on paper but didn't play well, so we'll be tweaking them as the game grows some more. I'm planning on uploading a new post-jam build containing tweaked controls and *actual sound effects* within a week or two, when I'm not busy with playing other LD26 games!

Maybe we'll even have a logo!

Ok, that was really hard, but I'm glad I went ahead and installed XNA (I thought I would never say that haha). Good job! Love the music! :)

Oh, didn know you joined again awp (Should have done a LD thread for this or something).

As said before it really is halfways there. Tons of stuff is missing, messy control and so on. It's a shame because from what I can see from the last room there could be done a lot of neat stuff with the light engine that's being shown of in the end.

Jumping on enemies seems more effective than trying to shoot them :P
Enjoyed what was present of this. The last room with the lighting made me really want to see more, would have been really good if you had had time to implement the thematic mechanics of losing upgrades :(

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This had a lot of polish for a Jam game! Very enjoyable and the last two rooms made me chuckle :)

Was there anything more to the game after the dark room with the ledges that light up when you shoot stuff near them? Cause I couldn't get past there. You had me wishing for a boss with that prior dialogue, lol.

I like the graphics, though I thought some things should have been more understandable. For example the gun randomly not having an explosion on impact -- It could have at least had a different impact animation so that it didn't feel like the graphic was simply glitching out and not showing. Also dead enemies could have looked less alive. I didn't realise I had killed those walky guys for a bit. I thought kicking around dead enemies was a plus, but I thought a smaller distance would have made more sense. Also, in the dark room, I feel like the platforms should have stayed alight for a bit more, or for there to have been torches on the wall that you could light, because I thought that part was a bit tedious. I also thought the sparks coming from your shots could have been smaller / subtler.

I liked the music, but some SFX would really have brought this to life. I would personally regard SFX to be more important to a game than music. Nevertheless, what you did have in regards to audio was pretty good.

I thought the opening screens didn't stay around long enough for me to read/understand them, so I just pushed buttons randomly until something magical happened. Also, I felt like the horizontal movement didn't match the vertical movement, in that it was unexpectedly slow at first. I mean, I got used to it, but it still felt kind of weird that I was jumping really fast, but moving sideways was really slow (or rather, the horizontal acceleration was low).

The concept you had about a metroidvania where you start with everything and gradually lose stuff is really interesting. I can imagine some of the types of re-understanding a solution that would come up. It's a shame you didn't realise that concept, because it would have made your game a lot more interesting. That's about all I can think to criticise. Otherwise, you did a pretty decent job. Well done.

Also, I'm sorry if I'm coming off as arrogant or whatever. I'm criticising with only good intentions in mind. :)