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Devlog #2 Early-Playtests

The Under-Tower
A downloadable Under-Tower for Windows and macOS

Early Play-Tests

In my very early play-tests i got myself some valuable feedback on the game, a lot of it helping to emphasize how the game feels to the player.

In the early tests, some of the common discussion lied around the movement of the character, it looked and  felt good according to the testers, with only a couple things holding it back, which is the speed of the character  combined with the more cramped space of the map being a bit incompatible, also the players jump not having a clearly defined limit.

Another big thing on movement was that , while mostly good looking, the controls themselves are more difficult and jarring , especially since it hasn't been properly explained beforehand as of yet in-game.

The other mechanics of the game in theory have been given a thumbs up, but as said, only  in theory because besides a door and key the rest of the features remain a bit broken.

Other than that, as touched upon earlier the map should become both wider and longer to create a better scale/scope for the player to properly maneuver in, and adding more content within the expanded map.

That's all for now :)

Files

  • Playtest_1 15 MB
    Sep 09, 2020
  • Playtest_1_Mac 17 MB
    Sep 09, 2020
  • Playtest_2 18 MB
    Sep 14, 2020
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