CycleWave

The aesthetic is really cool. I love the color palette, and the circling ammo is awesome. I know you're not done yet, but the ethos of this game  is pretty mature. I really hope you keep working on it. Thanks for sharing this with us!

Well, I liked what you were aiming for, with vibrant colors and the concept of keep shooting to receive less damage. But, I couldn't understand where I was supposed to shoot, as nothing seems to change when I do. I thought, given the "be always shooting, but be careful where to shoot" concept, that there would be places to try to hit. I think that this concept definitely has potential. Also, the music is really nice and fitting!

Oh, and I would suggest to use only keyboard input, as you can't aim with the mouse anyway.

The background is pretty, I'm not sure I get what's going on with the foreground circles; are those the "enemies"? I dodged them a lot but later realized they don't hurt me. A timer/score plus a ramping difficulty (perhaps speed) would've made this feel more like a game with minimal effort. ...And maybe have the health not cover so much of the play area, lol. "Bullets" for things that you "shoot" but that can't hit anything doesn't really read well, maybe they're allies or rescues or something.

I really like the aesthetic of this game and the concept and story you put around it really add a lot. I think the concept of the mechanics is really good, but I agree with some of the other comments about them not being communicated very well. It sounds like you're pretty aware of the rest of the issues and I'm interested to see a build of this where they are resolved :)

Having your ammunition rotate around you is a really cool mechanic, and given a little bit more development time, I think it could result in something really satisfying to play. I could see it going in a bunch of different ways. That said, I don't think there's going to be a really easy way to communicate to the player that they take more damage the more bullets they have. Maybe if it just increased the hitbox so it was riskier and had a global cooldown on how quickly you could get hurt?

I'd love to play it again if you have a bit more time to work on some of the rough edges.

I adore the aesthetic of the game (I'd definitely make the player and it's projectiles more pixelated though) however the game is really rough around the edges. For one I'd probably make it more clear that getting rid of your bullets makes you take less damage. Speaking of damage, the health bar is way too big. Lastly it be nice if you could actually attack, that would leave the player with a lot of moments where they have to. quickly dispose of their bullets on the enemies so they can rest a little.

This is a nice little game especially for it not being finished. Thanks for making it!

You have some interesting ideas for this game, and it would be cool to see them fully implemented, like being penalized for bullet collisions. If you continue working on this in the future, you might want to move the health bar, and maybe shrink it. I found myself hiding behind it too much, where I was blind to attacks.

I really like the aesthetic.  After reading the instructions and dying once, it quickly became so easy that I was wondering whether I was progressing or not by just always dodging.  You could take it in a few directions; it looks like others have mentioned destroying enemies.  You could also/alternatively ramp up the difficulty of dodging and make it a "how long can you survive?" objective, with a timer or wave count, possibly with slowly increasing difficulty.  There could also/alternatively be points for hitting targets, or something like that.  I like the way the player bullets come off the player, so it'd be a shame to lose that completely.  I hope you have fun trying out new mechanics in your future endeavours, whether it be expanding on this game, or making something else. :)

It is a good start, and there are a few things I'd like to add to the comments below. First, to make things more consistent, player has to gain damage from the enemy bodies as well (in this game pink could mean friendly, blue - unfriendly). Next, I think the background is moving too fast, as it is behind and farther away from the camera, it has to move much slower (in contrast to enemy ships). Also, the white dot in the center of the player makes it less obvious it is a buffer sign, so you may want to find a workaround. I'd enjoy playing more of this game in the future!

The first thing to acknowledge is that this itch page's styling is perfectly suited to your game's visuals. Nice touch. :D I also just love the pink/cyan color scheme in general.

The title screen music feels like disorientation or unease. Very neat. The bass-riffy main game music also suits the action.

I didn't really feel like my attacks were doing anything. I didn't read the description until afterwards, so I wasn't aware what the meter in the middle of the screen was: my health, or the enemies'. Having the player's bullets colliding with enemy bullets cause damage is an odd choice, but I think it has the potential to be interesting!

I can't say much else in fairness about a game that is admittedly incomplete, but what you managed to put together here is good and shows a lot of promise. Given more time, I bet you could really flesh out the unique ideas here.

Interesting concept, but still has some problems: The health bar is way too big, the player dot seems to move for a bit after I let go of the movement buttons (seems to be for as long as I held them down), and the enemies can't be damaged. But this could be interesting if polished and fleshed out. :o

Since you say is not finished is hard to give feeddback because i think most of the stuff you already know, but here it goes:

• Health bar is too big and too centered, it could be very tiny, or better, your remaining shots could be your health bar, so you don't have to have UI.
• Enemies should die when they receive shoots, or at least be pushed/react since right now it feels weird that nothing you do seems to have an impact.
• You should have feedback when you receive damage, and the enemies too (flashing, particles, shake...)
• More randomized enemies (position and patterns)

I think the base idea is really cool (have a limited number of bullets) and i think it could be worked to be awesome. Some ideas I had while playing

• What if the bullets are also like a shield, so if you receive damage while you have bullets in you, you lose a bullet, but if you receive damage without bullets, you lose. This would change the "bullets are evil" mechanic but It could be cool, dunno
• What if if you hit an enemy the bullet recharges faster than if you miss? Then players should be careful and aim better if they want to reload faster.

The art direction is very cool, liked it a lot.

I don't really get what the point of this game is. In my experience, there is no reason to shoot ever (shots don't seem to do anything but hurt yourself occasionally). Besides that, the enemy patterns are so predictable and repetitive that it gets boring fast.

I love the aesthetics, and the game is pretty fun! The rotating ammo is interesting. It's a little hard for me to tell what I can/can't touch and what i can/can't shoot, but other than that I enjoyed it a lot!

You have a nice Idea here! I would add a score, and maybe It would be cool to get health by shooting the bullets to hard targets, the player would have more room to risk and improve. Thanks for the game!