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I was unfortunate to start my 1st and 3rd games with the invert control thing and it didn't felt that it got worst than that... In both cases I lost because I pressed the wrong direction and went into the wall and an enemy. Lower speed, lower fire rate... didn't make it that worse. It would have been nice to be able to jump with space.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":850886,"author_name":"smilewood","author_uid":"smilewood","epoch":1664851243,"text":"Cool take on theme, I liked the variety of thinks that the game was able to throw at me, it made it feel different each time that I dried it. I also liked that some of them were absolutely a lot less worse then others, just lining up with the message always hovering in the background. At first it seemed that the power of my player was quite high, but the sequential removal of that power quickly put me in my place. \n\n\nYou did a great job making an interesting environment and especially enemies using just cubes, I think that overall your art style worked very well for this game. I liked the subtle sound of the gun, it manages to not be overwhelming even with the initially very high fire rate, but the game could have used a couple more sound effects overall. The rain effect was also great. \n\n\nOverall I thought that this was quite a fun little game jam game, it had just enough replayability and an interesting take on the theme. Well done!\n\n(Although you did make this in Unity, why no web build? 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Nicely done.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":878416,"author_name":"LDJam user 302410","author_uid":"302410","epoch":1665184133,"text":"Very funny game with really smooth controls and interesting enemy design. Loved it.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":886574,"author_name":"LDJam user 250825","author_uid":"250825","epoch":1665585861,"text":"Fun take on the theme! I got up to 5855 with very good RNG on my second run and failed on a sudden inverted controls ramming me into a wall :D Good work on making each status effect feel meaningful, rather than -3% movement speed or something. I think hitting enemies could have had a bit more feedback but otherwise not much to complain about. Oh also the visual design is very neat, I especially like the \"main menu\", it's looks so good!\n\nAlso some eerie similarities to my game, solid reddish background with a timer in the distance and levels built out of boxes :D","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":887013,"author_name":"MaximeG","author_uid":"maximeg","epoch":1665614991,"text":"Really fun to play!\nThe enemies design is awesome\nI scored 8066! What is the best score so far?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":887745,"author_name":"Flightless","author_uid":"flightless","epoch":1665692552,"text":"I got 8763 - maybe to due to RNG :smile: It was stressfull that the enemies grew stronger and the gun got weaker. Good controls :thumbsup: ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":889799,"author_name":"Harmadillo","author_uid":"harmadillo","epoch":1665940308,"text":"The minimalist blocky design worked well and I though gave the world a bleak look that matched the increasing negative affects. 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