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A jam submission

Shanghai GoldView game page

A boomer shooter set in 1930's Shanghai
Submitted by TempestSoftworks (@tempestsftwrks) — 2 days, 10 hours before the deadline
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I like the commitment to being a doom-like and removing head shots.

The basic shooting enemy is completely broken and does no damage, so sadly I can't judge much about the gameplay in the end.

The city level is sprawling way too much. At least add a map if you are doing that. I gave up after searching for the green door for god know how long. It also lacks visual clarity with all the darkness and countless small point lights. The hospital is a step in a good direction though, as it's recognizable from a distance. Some collisions are broken i.e. with stairs (one can be clipped through into the side, another makes you stuck). Level design has a lot of good shit going on though, so I believe you have the most important stuff figured out.

I think being able to shoot the pistol by holding left click is a mistake, although I'd have to retest it with fixed enemies.

How the hell does it run so slow? My gpu might not be an rtx, but below 50 in the tutorial is a bit... Thankfully the visual style still works with lower resolution.

Played it a bit, discovered no bugs. Took me a while to realize that the shooters are not sinking into the ground as a bug, but laying down firing at you. I like the principle of the style, but there is just something in in that gives me motion sickness. That's just my experience though.

Developer

Cheers for playing. Will improve the lying down animations to make them more readable. Interesting that you felt motion sickness, do you have any thoughts on what could be causing it?

Upon playing some more, I think the whole style. The retro textures just have enough detail, but it is also blurry that my brain is yelling at my eyes to focus more to get some sharpness, but there is none. Combined with the muzzle flare, and the very high movement speed just gives me a headache, but that's just me personally. I don't think there is a "fix" for it.

Developer(+1)

No updates sadly. Stuff I'm working on is still too early to be played.