I had a great time! Felt like a soulslike adventure but without the frustrating risk of losing resources. The upgrade screen seems broken though, as it doesn't update when I press the buttons. But it updates once I leave an area or I respawn from death. Also might be nice if there was an indicator or a clue what a powercell is, as I got confused and associated the blue pickup item as the energy and battery. Other than that, the game is just fun!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Game Design | #125 | 3.318 | 3.318 |
| Art Direction | #135 | 3.455 | 3.455 |
| Fun | #136 | 3.227 | 3.227 |
| Overall | #218 | 3.055 | 3.055 |
| Innovation | #315 | 2.591 | 2.591 |
| Theme | #320 | 2.682 | 2.682 |
Ranked from 22 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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2 years ago(+1)
Thank you! glad you enjoy it! I apreciate that you mention the level design xD
I'll make sure to check your game.
Thanks for playing! agree, It need some balancing, I did some but there is still a long way to go. The idea of this game is to be a little bit misterious and have the players explore and try stuff, with that said I didn't had time to add instructions that why I had them on a single screen haha. I liked the roaches too xD
Here are a couple more minor pieces of feedback. I think adding hit stop, camera shake, more pronounced particle effects and sound effects could go a long way to make combat feel more visceral. I'm assuming you are making this in Unity? (Sorry if this is too much info or you already know all this stuff, just trying to help)
In unity for hit stop effect, make a coroutine like so:
And you can call this with StartCoroutine(hitStop(x, y));
I would call this whenever a player bullet hits any object or enemy, I would make x = 0f, and y = 0.05f. Similarly, I would call this whenever the player gets hit by anything, with x = 0.2f and y = 0.2f.
Whenever an enemy dies, I would call it for longer: x = 0f, y = 0.3f to really emphasize it.
In unity for a camera shake, I would make a coroutine like the so: https://imgur.com/a/rWEMD0U
and again you can call it using StartCoroutine(cameraShake(...));
You can make your own functions for decideDuration() and decideStartingMagnitude() and magnitudeOverTime() and inside those functions return whatever numbers you would like for each type of camera shake. You most likely want to do a small camera shake each time that the player fires a bullet - if its a bullet the player charged up, then do a bigger camera shake. You also may want a camera shake each time a bullet hits an enemy or object, and whenever the player gets hurt. And lastly a big camera shake anytime anything explodes.
Again, sorry if this is too much info, and please don't take this as me not liking the game - I liked the game a lot and would like to see it get even better. I'd be happy to playtest if you make a new build.
2 years ago(+1)
THANK YOU! thanks so much for all the feed back. so much to talk about, I played your game and I was impresed of the level of polish I liked the details of the particles and the camera shake.
I definetly agree that the game needs some balance, I didn't have enough time and I'm planning to update that. Believe it or not the enemies used to respawn more quickly and you loose even more energy outside the light on earlier version jahaha.
About the effects a particles, yes! there are a LOT of things that I wanted to add (animations and particles effect, hit effects and more) but I didnt actually thought about the camera shake, thats a great addition to make it feel so much more satisfying, thanks a lot for including a way to make it because I haven't done that before :)
I really appreciate you taking the time to write all that, I'm going to make a version with some new stuff and without bugs, also I'll love to add more weapons and upgrades like movement and even shield, I have a lot of ideas for this.
2 years ago(+1)
Awesome! I'll follow you too and let you know when I get an update version for this! thanks a lot, I'll send you an invite on discord as well.
2 years ago(+1)
Thanks for playing! I agree, I made some adjustments to the respawn timers but did't had enough time to balance it, I'll make sure to revisit that, thanks for the feedback.
2 years ago(+1)
Haha the roaches, I messed up the rotation but the result is so fun! I wanted to add animation to the legs to made them extra creepy, probalby going to add that later, thank you!
2 years ago(+1)
Thank you very much! Yes I didn't polish the audio that much. Pause menu makes a lot of sense, I'll implement that for sure.
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