Really like the engine and the gun. Its fun to just shoot up the terrain!

Awesome engine, really well made. The game is fun too, although it becomes repetitive after some time :P
Oh, and I found a bug: after some time roaming to the right the graphics froze. I could still hear the audio being played on button press, but the screen was frozen.

i like it , but a bit frozen hmm

Really cool game, liked the destoryable terrain. EndBossDragon killed me though

Some pretty ambitious parts in this one. Shooting environment felt really good. Enemywise there could have been more variety.

Thank you all very much!
To be honest, I planned two more worlds and some comics telling a story, but you know, it was the usual routine:

1. plan game
2. think about how awesome your idea is
3. repeat
4. work a bit
5. realize, time is running really fast
6. panic a bit
7. lower quality standards
8. cur something out of your idea
9. submit 5 minutes before deadline

But hey, I really appreciate your critics. Thanks again!

Simple yet really fun! The terrain generation and destruction was very ambitious, nice job. I wanted to pause the game for a second and instinctively hit Esc which killed the app and I lost my progress.

Overall a good game. I like to play it!

Thanks for the comments!

Oops, forgot to kill the escape key :-[ sorry for that

If the boss is toot hard, I could put in a cheat to weaken him :) Please just tell me, if you want to see this, since acievements are only gettable by winning the game.

Spacedentist is like the most absurd thing ever, I like it!

Not, that you mentioned it, I realized, that I didn't explain the whole spacedentist thing :D

I'll put an explanation and a link into the description.

From what I've been told, destructible terrain is hard to do right, so kudos!

While the game was alright, it didn't have too much to itself. It was entertaining to say the least. The laser mechanic was entertaining, but I quickly found the sound effects to get a bit irritating. The graphics were really simple, but i cant complain about that so much. The trees gave me the feeling of some old C64 game, hehe.

Well yes, the trees are actually placeholders I have thrown in for testing, but did not have time to make nice :D

Overall a decent game. I loved that you could destroy the terrain, and it felt very good. The enemies were a bit repetitive, but they got the job done. The game froze on me the first time I came to the boss. Sounds still worked, but graphics froze. I liked the gun.

Thanks for the feedback.

The reported freezing at the boss is really strange. The screen actually locks onto the boss "arena" as soon as the bossfight starts, but the game should keep on playing... Keep in mind, that the boss is.. well... isn't animated :-[

If anyone could tell me if anything is printed to the console when the game freezes, that would be really helpful :)

I really like the engine, well done!

Good. Educational.

Haha oh wow. Dentists shouldn't be this crazy. This is the last thing I needed to play before going to a dentist appointment. xD
Very fun though!

Thanks for playing!

Educational? :D

@Venks:
Don't worry, he's a professionals. That is why they always say "Don't try dental treatment with lasers at home, kids" ;)

Damn, this is hard. I managed to get to the boss but died right away. Fun game!

I really liked this game. Thanks!

A decent and pretty finished game. Amazing for a jam. Nice mechanic and destructible terrain on a 72 hours jam. Bravo dev

Thank you guys so much for the kind words!
I really appreciate that :)

Spending more time to make holes in world than killing stuff. Well done :)

:D Thats actually the way its meant to be played ;)
Thx for playing!

Nice particle effects. Just shows that dentists aren't evil people after all... they fight evil aliens in space on their time off.

I like the design and character, really fun!

Really fun game.

I would have prefer that ennemies bullets collide with the landscape, it would have make battle more strategic.
The jetpack sfx is a bit too loud, it ruins the other sfx ambience.

I had 9-10 tries and could not reach the boss, I'm bit frustrated about it, but I had a lot of fun.

Very ambitious project! I think it would have been nice if I had some way to blast through terrain in an AOE fashion since it felt like I kept having to "stop" the momentum and cut my way through something (very slowly compared to how fast I wanted/could go if I flew over it, but also that felt like it took too long to do.)

Some sort of damage indicator would have been cool too for when killing enemies. I totally understand time limitations though, so, who knows - just reporting back on my experience with it. Very cool game though!

Thank you very much for playing!
I really appreciate any feedback, especially critical thoughts, that tell me, what I could have done better. Thx for that :)

The terrain destruction is such a nice feature, it's sad that you didn't put it into the focus, e.g. by letting collide and destruct the enemies' bullets the terrain or giving the player destruction methods with a bigger scale. Messing around with the terrain cood be quiet fun!

I like the way you made it in Java and the 'open' world :)

Thank you guys for the feedback!
I'm thinking about some games, that will use this engine and take the terrain destruction more into focus. Thank you for telling me that there still are people who just want to watch the world burn ;)

Haha that was funny and fun.
I really liked the destructible terrain and the randomness. Was it really possible to use multiple weapons? I thought that was a joke, but your instructions above suggest you can use more than just the laser.

Great game.

Well, in this game it is not possible to use another weapot than the laser. If you are really interested, I'd suggest, you look at the link mentioned in the description. It's another game from me, that uses a very similar engine and also features the spacedentist. In that game, you repair giant teeth and you can use the other two... I prefer to call them tools ;)

The first level I played was quite easy but suddenly got very hard - there were three of those flying shrimp things in a narrow corridor just past a huge stalagmite so the choke-point was full of projectiles ... which although it was tough little things like that make games with random generation kinda cool because everyone can take away their own personal experience from it!

Thanks for playing!
Yes, I haven't put much restriction on spawn-behaviour... I also sometimes had a similar situation, like the one, that you explained, but there were 3 more shrimps (thanks for the new name. shrimps are cooler than hornets:D) behind the first 3 ;) extremely hard, but possible.
These situations are very bad for the speedrun achievement, since the timelimit is extremely tight (2 minutes; its possible without upgrades, but especialy dmg+ is recomended).

I really like, that you pointed out, that everyone gets some kind of a personal experience from the game. That sums up procedural generation quite well in my point of view :D

I the destructible terrain was a nice feature, the game shows good potential.

That last boss is wicked difficult! I love bullet hell games but damn, that was a minefield, still had a ton of fun, well done! :)

Final boss, why, he can shoot loads of stuff at once!!!
I have the feeling you could get coins faster(I reached the final boss on second go, but still hadn't enough coins to buy an upgrade when I died...)

Watch out, you must not shoot the boss if his mouth is closed!
If you do it anyway, he will burst out massive waves of bullets! It is indeed hart to stay alive, once he spits out such a wave, so take some time and do is save and steady. Wait until he opens his mouth, then you have around ~2 seconds to attack. Stop attacking before he closes his mouth!

Annoying gun sounds! :)
Overall a solid entry. Cool effects and nice play area. Good job

yeah, may the SpaceDentist franchise prosper! Aesthetically it reminds me of a bunch of old-skool games..

I felt it was a little too slow to get interesting

@sandbaydev: yeeeah... honestly, I'm so sorry for the f***ing lasersound, but I wastrying to make one for ~1h and got really annoyed of it, because I wanted an ongoing sound, that was less annoying. The problem is, that lasers normally don't do much sound im real life and all previous choices drove me mad already, so I settled on this masterpiece :D sorry again for any eardamage and annoyance ;)

@postmodestie: Thank you so much! That comment is really cheering :) You seem to have at least a little bit of fun, what makes me happy.

@Jezzamon: Well, after replaying it some days after LD I thought the same. You can blaze through the level with a bit of luck, but the stalacmites(/-tites) in the underground areas are really annoying. However, with a bit of practice it's possible to get the 2 minute medal ;) For the next mission I will upgrade the SpaceDentist's jetpack acceleration :)


Thank you very much for playing, everyone! :)