I’m a big fan of assault suit walken on super nes, and i finish it when i was child in the 90s, and i appreciate the lot of effort you put in every of your game in every mech jam.
I take time in my developpement to test your game (that make me a break), dont take bad my comments. It’s for a constructive only.
First i like the customisation of the mecha, changing color, add an icon is simple but very satisfiyng.
I can not test the 2 player mode, in a gamejam it’s difficult to test multiplayer game in general, but i like the effort.
Nothing to say about the control its simple and reactive, basic but efficient. The shooting direction with button remind total canage, smash tv, robotron and more recently binding of isaac, it work fine (at first time i try to play with the mouse).
i’ve experienced some lag on the html version when i catch item or changing level but nothing problematics.
The level design is really poor and basic, lot of ennemy by is position requier a face to face fight not very interesting. It’s shame when we have a 8 way firing. The jump is the only way to dodge no reator on mech to fly a few moment, no physical shield to guard like walken.
About the level design you can just make alternative way with different item or ennemy, to push exploration and break linearity, take exemple of level 1 of walken there is some passages under the level to skip ennemy keep at the end by turrels.
The game isn’t difficult, the most difficult thing is to jump over the item to keep the best weapon ^^, also it’s difficult to see what we collect, but they are a lot of different weapon that’s good. I suggest to put an interaction for example push up to collect items.
About the weapon which create bouncing bullet : unlike other game of is genre, the bullet take the exact inverse direction (+180 degre), this kind of weapon is basically use for shooting in impossible angle so here its useless.
The big mechas was really impressive but easy to kill when i place me just under (but i think it’s the strategy).
For a gamejam it’s good, and entertainement. The game will be better with shorter level but with more interesting situation.
I hope my comment can help you to make the game better.
