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Not sure if you didn't have time for this or what's the reason, but in case you're new to this and are looking to explore cool enemy AI that would fit your gameplay, I suggest looking up steering behavior guides! Just learned about them myself recently and was shocked how simple yet effective this thing is! (But I didn't get to implement it in my game haha).\n\nThank you for the nice game!  ","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1005864,"author_name":"tomrijnbeek","author_uid":"tomrijnbeek","epoch":1696434800,"text":"Such a fun little game. Love the trade-off between upgrades and losing space to play around in. I could definitely see some cool expansions on this idea. One thing that could be improved was that the orthographic perspective made it a bit hard to see enemies or the character sometimes, but otherwise, super creative interpretation of the theme!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1009937,"author_name":"pauljs","author_uid":"pauljs","epoch":1696498934,"text":"Nice cute little game! AI pathfinder could be improve but great for a first version!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1010248,"author_name":"Nazorus","author_uid":"nazorus","epoch":1696505970,"text":"Neat concept, I like how you handled the limited space theme. I think you could push it even further by making upgrades change the level differently (adding water instead of walls for example, or maybe dividing the level in sections with teleporters).\n\nOverall this is a solid entry with nice pixel art and a clean gameplay loop. Good job!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1011688,"author_name":"UsagiTsukino","author_uid":"usagitsukino","epoch":1696534632,"text":"yeah, didn'n get what's powerup after level for. but graphics are cute","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1011754,"author_name":"NIrlandec","author_uid":"nirlandec","epoch":1696535616,"text":"I love the concept , some weird things happen with AI though but still I loved it and had fun playing it the art rly got me in <3, Nice work","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1014744,"author_name":"cheesepencil","author_uid":"cheesepencil","epoch":1696620895,"text":"This was cute and fun and it's a shame I can't rate it :,-)","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"}],"format":"md","images":["ld54\/wayback-placeholder.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/astrayrae.itch.io\/ludumdare54","text":"Link"},{"url":"https:\/\/astrayrae.itch.io\/ludumdare54","text":"Link"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"91999","g_author":"1300825","g_event":"LD54","g_eventkey":"117","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"435908","g_title":"Boris Hard 4: Boris Harder","g_status":"WAYBACK","g_place":"99999","g_commentcount":"7","g_site2_node_id":"377190","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"377190","n_urlkey":"435908","n_parent":"371459","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/54\/boris-hard-4-boris-harder","n_slug":"boris-hard-4-boris-harder","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"compo","n_author":"300825","n_created":"1696035968","n_modified":"1765482413","n_version":"1165098","n_status":"WAYBACK"},"node":{"_collation":{"body_sanitizer":"TextUtils::SanitizeHTML via existing importer","event":"LD54","removed_author":false},"_superparent":9,"_trust":1,"author":300825,"body":"![Boris1600NN.png](\/\/\/raw\/917\/94\/z\/5cda0.png)\n\n## Overview\n\nYou are Boris, Pet-Butler of General Geega ([twitch.tv\/GEEGA](twitch.tv\/GEEGA)). 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