Thanks, appreciate it! Fun fact, that spark effect isn't a particle effect on account of I have no idea how to use Unreal's particle system, so it's actually a group of projectiles that spawn with a random rotator. That's probably not helping the performance much. Looks cool though. Anyways, thanks for playing and thanks for the feedback!

Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed!

Thank you so much! Yeah, I got to a point where I could either add more or stop and try to polish what I had. I'm glad I decided to polish it up. A finished game with colored rectangles is better than an unfinished game with character models would have been, I'm sure.

Thank you so much! The cancelled project that I reused ideas from was inspired by the Dark Forces series, that's the Star Wars Doom clone if you haven't heard of it. Using cubemin as placeholders was also inspired by a Doom mod called The Adventures of Square, but I haven't played that much of it, I just like the aesthetic. I tried to make the player's weapon as close as I could to the E-11 blaster rifle, minus the laser projectiles. Raycasts are quicker and I've had problems with fast moving projectiles going through enemies in the past. I know why, it's a tick thing, I just don't know how to fix it. Attack and damage feedback seems to be one of the areas that needs the most improvement. I think it'll be a lot of little touches to fix that, a lot of little polish things I neglected in my haste to get the game done. I'll see what I can do and I'll have to remember for next time how important that feedback is. 

...Speedrunning, eh? Hmm, maybe I could add a timer that starts when the player gains control after the opening cutscene and ends either when Zoroaster dies or when the screen finishes fading to black ('cause you can still finish off his guards before the screen fades out), and then display that on the results screen. Oh, and nice job with checking the friendly fire! I'm sure the innocent partygoing cubemin appreciate it!

Thanks! Yeah, I think the intro cutscene and the death animation are the 2 things I'm most proud of from this project, maybe more because they're hacked together than despite that. Enemy guns is a good idea, I could have them at their side so it's more obvious they're a threat and then add a short animation for raising the gun before they enter their firing logic for the first time. I'd probably want to make custom guns for the gunmen and the bosses rather than reuse the player's gun. That gun model just stops after it's offscreen. And no worries, if I'm making character models they'll be for my next project. I'm too fond of the cubemin too. Oh, and ah, font's another thing I totally spaced on. Typically using default assets makes a game look a little unfinished, though Roboto's not bad as default fonts go.  

Thank you so much! And thanks for the feedback. Lemme go over your suggestions...

I had planned on adding a damage flash, but the way I had it planned, it would only inform you that you were being hit, not where you were getting hit from. Hmm. I wouldn't want to add that circle in the middle of the screen because I usually find that distracting (and it might be beyond me to get working at my current skill level. I think it would just be to spawn a UI element and set its rotation based on the hit direction, but I'd have to mess around with it and try it out.) Another idea would be to have multiple flashes that would only flash part of the screen to indicate where you're being hit from. I could get the yaw from the look at rotation from the player toward the damage source and then divide it up into 90 degree chunks, so it flashes the whole screen if you get hit from the front (or no damage source in the case of fall damage), the right edge (with a gradient taper to transparent so it looks nice) for the right side, the left edge for the left side, or the bottom edge if you get hit from behind. I'd have to string these together so each flash cancels the other 3, otherwise they might stack in a weird way, or worse, get stuck. I could also add a different colored flash for item pickups, but I'm also a little concerned about photosensitivity, so I'll have to be careful. Messing with these in the past, I've found that having the flash be semi-transparent fixes that.

Yeah, they're raycasts, but they're called line traces in Unreal. You can also use different shapes like box traces, sphere traces, I think capsule traces, and multi-trace variants if you want to hit multiple things. The interaction and player shot raycasts are actually sphere traces so they don't have to be pixel perfect. Changing the length is a quick fix, I'll fiddle with it.

I tried to add movement bob on day 1 right after I added the weapon animations, but I couldn't get it to work quickly so I relegated it to the list of features to add for polish if I had time and then just never got to. (I tried to make it animate faster depending on how fast the player was going, but the velocity I got was divided into an x-y-z vector and I couldn't get the math right for a standard 2D speed. Fun thing from that was that I got the gun to jitter super fast when you run at a diagonal.) Now the right way to do this would be to add animations to a skeletal mesh, but the animations in this game are just hacked together with timelines adjusting the relative rotation and location of the gun's static mesh. What I could do is add a point or an invisible object to the hierarchy, make it the parent of the gun, and animate that so as not to have the walk animation interfere with the gun animations, and then add a nice curve to the object's position, but with the math right this time. And not gonna, lie, totally spaced on footsteps. I could add sound cues to the timeline so when it hits the bottom of the curve it plays.

The enemies actually do chase you, they just do it kinda poorly. If they don't have line of sight, they get a random location within range, and then if that location is closer to the player than their current position, they move there. They also have a random chance to move after firing, but they don't have flanking AI or anything. I'm pretty new at AI and did both the AIs real quick, they could definitely stand to improve.

And one more thing I don't think anyone who's played it has mentioned yet, the enemies are actually not hostile until the music change. The gunmen constantly track the player and only switch to alerted if they have line of sight and if one of 2 flags are set, one for "transgressed" which happens during the music change, and one for "weapon hot" which happens at the end of the raise gun animation and goes away with the lower gun animation (this also sets whether left click fires or raises the gun.) The music change happens when an event called "transgression" calls, which happens when the player fires their gun within radius of an enemy (so they can hear it,) or when they step into one of three trigger volumes a a little ways into the club. What this means is that the player can put their gun away, waltz right in the front door, and scope the place out. I probably should have introduced that feature somehow.

Anyways, thanks so much for playing, glad you enjoyed, and I really appreciate the feedback! Hope you don't mind my ramble. I like explaining things. Talking shop, you know?

I'm so glad you enjoyed! Yeah, what I'm definitely hearing is that the final boss is way too tough compared to the rest of the level. It's not just that he can take off a quarter of your health or more per shot, it's also that he has 100% accuracy, and that there's an unimplemented variable that was supposed to adjust their shot rate that I just forgot to do anything with, so he was supposed to be shooting way more slowly. Likewise, Lizaro is supposed to be shooting faster. I was originally planning on making character models, but I realized on Saturday when I didn't even have the AI done that there was no way in hell I was going to be able to model, skin, rig, and animate multiple character models in addition to making the level, scripting the level logic, and implementing the dialogue, so I just slapped a color-change material onto a placeholder model and called it good. Hmm. Maybe I could make the gunmen jump when they fire? Then I could just reduce their jump height so they only bounce a little bit compared to the civilians, more of a jitter.

Heh. Thanks!

Thanks! Yeah, the final boss is kinda tough. The trick is to hide in the side rooms, behind the pillars, or behind the side bar in the hallway with the drink on it.