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Agent In Depth by Yigit Doruk

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made by Yigit Doruk for Ludum Dare 48 (JAM)

You are a combat specialist who works in an underground science company. When you were in Hawaii for your holiday, you receive a message from your scientist friends. Bad news! Your friends have been trapped in one of the levels of the underground facility and the turrets that once meant to protect the facility become hostile to everyone. You need to get back from your sweet holiday by your special jet and save the science team! To save them, you need to go deeper in the underground facility and clear the levels from hostile turrets by reflecting their bullets with your sword.

USE A and D to move and Space/W to jump, Left click to deflect bullets

Credits: Yigit Doruk - Developer, Game Designer / Semih Sevimli - Developer, Game Designer / Mustafa Ahmet Ozdemir - Developer / Fatih Gorguc - Animation, Graphical Design / Martín Bâtard - Composer, Sound Design / Ahmet Tarik Durmaz - Storyteller / Ömer Faruk Kalkınç - Social Support

https://youtu.be/L5XbG6pr7T0

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Link https://naturepixel-studios.itch.io/agentindepth
Download link in description! https://naturepixel-studios.itch.io/agentindepth
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/48/agent-in-depth

Ratings

Overall 49th 4.263⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Fun 31th 4.288⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 324th 3.768⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1236th 3.39⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 100th 4.463⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Audio 59th 4.293⭐ 43🧑‍⚖️
Humor 888th 2.704⭐ 29🧑‍⚖️
Mood 141th 4.2⭐ 42🧑‍⚖️
Given 12🗳️ 14🗨️

Feedback

Luizamuller
27. Apr 2021 · 01:51 UTC
It was very fun to clear all the levels!! great game
MasterProject
27. Apr 2021 · 01:57 UTC
Fun, engaging game. Reminds me a lot of Katana Zero. I'm just bummed that it lacks an ending...
🎤 Yigit Doruk
27. Apr 2021 · 02:06 UTC
@masterproject We'll post the new version ASAP, don't worry
alpharock6
27. Apr 2021 · 04:18 UTC
Super well polished mechanics! Very fun experience with a really nice difficulty ramp-up
yobiscus
27. Apr 2021 · 04:29 UTC
This game really pumped me up. The music and the sword animation are tight. Well done!
mahalis
27. Apr 2021 · 04:29 UTC
This is a lot of fun! I’m real bad at timing games, so I died a *lot* and eventually got stuck on the level where you start with two turrets directly to your left… but that’s just me being bad at timing. The music is really catchy and the sort of glowy effects really make the art pop. Great work.
Apos
27. Apr 2021 · 04:40 UTC
Cleared the whole game. Controls were a bit weird sometimes, but the deflect felt pretty good. Good job on the gameplay / music / art.
Chris Dirkis
27. Apr 2021 · 04:55 UTC
Fun game, good style. There's not much punishment to button spamming. Since you need to be able to spam to hit some shots, maybe have the slice have a ~1s cooldown, but refund it if you deflect a projectile with it?
SemiHuller
27. Apr 2021 · 07:10 UTC
That's a wonderful idea @chris-dirkis, I'm gonna write that down :D
batiali
27. Apr 2021 · 07:52 UTC
I'm always surprised to see so polished games in such a short amount of time. kudos! hope to see this game evolve after the jam. it can totally be a short little steam game.
SaranBaran
27. Apr 2021 · 11:28 UTC
pretty fun game, katana zero vibes :D
Barisc
27. Apr 2021 · 14:58 UTC
Like a polished game. I really like gameplay and music :)
Eugenik
27. Apr 2021 · 16:09 UTC
Great music a gameplay.
bufuak
27. Apr 2021 · 19:45 UTC
Nice idea, great game mechanic. If you had more time, I bet this would be more actionish game. I hope you will continue to work on it!
GreyVan
27. Apr 2021 · 21:07 UTC
Fantastic game! I'd love to play more of it.
🎤 Yigit Doruk
27. Apr 2021 · 21:39 UTC
@batiali @saranbaran @barisc @eugenik @bufuak @greyvan thank you all for your beautiful comments <3
Adrianejro
27. Apr 2021 · 21:51 UTC
Great game! Simple concept, but well executed. The only thing I could complain about is colliders, which could give the player a slight advantage.
Regards ;)
🎤 Yigit Doruk
27. Apr 2021 · 21:59 UTC
@adrianejro are you talking about the player's collider? or the sword's collider? Maybe we could post an update after we change the colliders. Thank you for your precious feedback
nyanpierre
27. Apr 2021 · 23:44 UTC
I really love the gampelay ! the music and sfx was cool, the freeze effect when returning fire really adds a cool effect to the game!
gord10ahmet
27. Apr 2021 · 23:52 UTC
Great game!

All I didn't like is the restart part not being instant and executed with any key. I think it's an important thing to consider in a game where we keep dying.

I loved the music and visuals, it gives a great 80's vibe.
ezgoodnight
28. Apr 2021 · 01:40 UTC
Absolutely killer. I want to play more. I'll just have to have my eardrums rebuilt before I do it...

I kid, but depending on how somebody is listening the audio could really blow someone's butt out.

I will be coming back and finishing this game. It's quite good.
FearinS
28. Apr 2021 · 04:44 UTC
It would be better if there was a mosque in the game but i like it KEKW
Adrianejro
28. Apr 2021 · 10:09 UTC
@yigit-doruk I was talking about sword collider. Sometimes i felt like i've done everything right, but then i died. It's like in platformers You should have possibility to jump little bit before touch the ground 😉
🎤 Yigit Doruk
28. Apr 2021 · 11:04 UTC
@adrianejro I understand what you mean, I think we fixed that collider issue in new version that we published yesterday. I think there should be no problem with the colliders now (I hope haha). Thank you for your feedback again.
Scienitive
28. Apr 2021 · 14:41 UTC
Best LD48 game I've ever played so far. In every way it's awesome. The only and only one thing I can complain is easiness of the reflect bullets. I'd like to see a hard mode that reflection of the bullets fully depends on our mouse control. But again it's a really little complain. Amazing game.
🎤 Yigit Doruk
28. Apr 2021 · 14:49 UTC
@scienitive Thank you for your beautiful comment and feedback, the difficulty curve was the most difficult thing that we tried to adjust :) For some players, the game was hard, but for others it was easy. We published some updates after the release to alter difficulty, but we're still trying to find the "sweet spot" ;) But as you mentioned, it would be nice to have different modes for different players (also a speedrun mode!). If we had more time, we would definitely add those options, but that's what we got for this jam ;)
eusekerci
28. Apr 2021 · 23:09 UTC
I cannot believe I finished it! It is soo polished, feels really good and great mechanic. The relation with the theme is only weak point, but I don't care. My strategy was to going back from the bullet and spamming the attack, it helps to avoid mistakes.
Really enjoyed it!
Billnotic
29. Apr 2021 · 01:24 UTC
HUGE Katana Zero vibes, which is a great thing because I love KZero so much I learned to speedrun it. Maybe because of that the game felt a little quick? I noticed some hitbox inconsistencies, such as the player's injury collision box being larger than the sprite. Other hitbox inconsistencies, like a larger blade hitbox are actually a nice inclusion, but they don't last the entire time the animation is up. Lighting is great, you use normalmapping on the pixel art to support proper 2d realtime shading, which I can appreciate. A lot of work went into this, and with a little more polish it could really be something! Great entry!
SemiHuller
30. Apr 2021 · 05:20 UTC
@billnotic We used 2D URP lights and pixel perfect for the Lighting, And I'm also a KZero speedrunner hahaha that's why there is a lot of katana zero vibes. Thanks for your feedback!
obrunomarques
01. May 2021 · 05:23 UTC
Great game, good idea, very simple to play and addictive
MiltonNH25
01. May 2021 · 05:50 UTC
Great job with the game. It had a nice visual style, good music and the delefection mechanic felt very statifiying especially with the bit of slowdown when you hit. I also though there was a nice difficulty progression as you continued downwards. Two things that could improved the feel slightly is having some feedback when you get hit and reducing the amount of time you spend in the elevator between levels since you spend a decent amount of time just waiting in between each floor. Overall very fun.
allov
01. May 2021 · 15:05 UTC
Visuals and audio are pretty up there. Sometimes the hitbox would feel weird but overall I feel like I should have moved more.
DoctorTM
01. May 2021 · 15:18 UTC
Nice work guys! The game is challenging and fun. Great work on the graphics and audio!
Juliestrator
01. May 2021 · 15:21 UTC
Boy this was fun! I felt like a super powerful ninja! Thank you! It plays like a very polished game made by a professional studio! Music, visuals, level design, premise, vibe everything was impeccable!
Suggestions: I guess the death animation could happen a bit faster, cause i understood that i'm dead through text (r to restart) first and animation after.
JoeDev
01. May 2021 · 15:22 UTC
Hey! Played while watching Julie play it on stream, it was very fun! The mechanic was very satisfying and the juice of hitting them back was done right with the little pause. The graphics are great and the music was dope too! The level layouts were mostly challenging, although the last two levels seemed easier than some of the earlier ones with more tracking turrets haha.

My only criticism would be the animation thing, sometimes it seemed like I got hit even though my slash anim was directly over the bullet, but it was easy to adapt to and was still fun :) Good job team, keep at it!
🎤 Yigit Doruk
01. May 2021 · 15:39 UTC
@juliestrator Thank you for playing our game on stream, it was a huge blast to watch you playing our little game, we're glad you enjoyed your time :) @joedev thank you for your precious feedback, we'll work on the indicators for bullets and fix colliders asap (also the death anim speed). @doctortm Thanks mate! @allov you know, Agents gotta move ;) @miltonnh25 we'll work on feedbacks, thank you for your insight! @obrunomarques We're glad you enjoyed <3
b0n5a1
01. May 2021 · 15:50 UTC
Really great game, I enjoyed it ! Sometimes it seems that bullet pass through the katana and player is killed, perhaps a collider to tweak a little bit.
AssertFailure
01. May 2021 · 16:49 UTC
Awesome game! Art style is great and the sounds and music work very well. I'd prefer more instant feedback when you die and also I think player hitbox is slightly too big. Also, there's really no downside to just spamming attack (I don't know if there even should be, just an observation). Also, when you have only one turret left, it sometimes takes a very long time for it to shoot. The gameplay in general is very satisfying. Liked it a lot, great job :)
Tom Robson
01. May 2021 · 21:04 UTC
I didn't think this was my kind of thing at first, but I got through a good chunk of it! Pulling off the reflections is just that satisfying, I love it. It did feel a bit inconsistent, but that might have just been me being bad at it though - I'm willing to admit that. I think the difficulty curve was a little off, though - swapping a few levels around in the middle may help make it a more gradual progression, imo.

Nice entry though!
Fansesi
02. May 2021 · 13:23 UTC
It was very fun to play! I loved lightning and pixel art. Dying animation was a little bit rough and the reviving time was long for a this type of "die-and-revieve" game. It's good to see how the team is improving day by day!
SemiHuller
04. May 2021 · 15:03 UTC
@b0n5a1 @assertfailure @tom-robson @fansesi Thank you all for your comments, We are glad you all liked the game!
felo07
11. May 2021 · 00:13 UTC
The idea and concept its very cool. Music and art are brillian. Two things to suggest, character physics and level design. Maybe to add different types of enemies and layouts. The game is too repetitive. Buts a very good game, comgrats for the team.