AntiBucket

Cute and simple art with a nice taken on the theme ! Great work, cheers !

Is there any way you could package the game without an installer?

@william-bundy Yes. I will add a .zip

Nice art! Might have been nice to have a mute button for the music though ;)

@william-bundy Added it.

Great job! I really like that art and the theme works well!

Nice twist on the collect falling objects games. The screen shake effect when you hit a raindrop is very jarring though

@mruniverse I agree. It's meant to give a visual indication if you're not looking at your meter or have your computer muted, but I made it a little too powerful.

Interesting idea. I didn't read the instructions so at first, I didn't realise I was aiming to dodge everything!

Music is a bit repetitive but overall it's a solid compo entry.

Nice twist on the "try to collect everything" idea :)

@kieran-newland Thanks! I've never done game music before, and I'm not a great musician, so this was my first foray into the strangle land of Bosca Ceoil and LMMS.

A bit fast paced, might be good as a mobile game where the screen is longer in height than it is width to see what is coming easier

23 sec! my brain like a snail, game too fast for me)

Oh god this was super fast paced! I like it, though the bricks were unavoidable - if you were underneath it, you didn't have any time to avoid it. The music made me anxious, which was *very* good considering the theme! Thanks for the game!

@nysten Thanks so much for the positive feedback! Everyone I've talked to says that the bricks are unfair, and they're right. If I ever revise the game, I'll remove them.

Somehow got 36 once. Cute little game. The bricks are unfair, but I feel like it fits the overall feel of the game.

Pretty sure you forgot to use time-based movement (aka deltatime), because the game is running way too fast on my monitor (100Hz)

Thanks for adding the non-installer version!

This was a nice little game - not a to of complexity, but cute art, effective sound effects, and some music. Plus nice camera rumble for impacts!

Everything moved really fast - especially the bricks! My best time was 33 seconds, but I think I was kind of lucky not to get bricked.

Nice job.

@matmanasb Ah, you're right. I based movement off of the game speed of 60 FPS, not taking into account high refresh rates. Oops.

@pkenney Thanks! Bricks are terrible, I know.

This is fun! As a few other folks have said, it's super challenging on a fast machine - that's not a bad thing though, just means you have to be a lot quicker. The background music's pleasant and the art is cute - great job.

Moves way too fast. Maybe make the character can move slower (and also the rain and bricks). Good game though.

69 seconds!
Fun but tough little game. The high-speed bricks are really hard to dodge. Great entry!

Real cute little bucket, but I was so focused on the area around me I barely looked at anything, it's like a schmup dodging bullets, but man those bricks are brutal! Took me out at 43 seconds, and then they kept take me out on further attempts too. Nice simple use of the theme, really like it!

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