Hey bro,
I finally managed to finish the demo, here's my feedback:
- The visuals are the highlight of course, very good work on that. The atmosphere is spot on.
- This happened very rarely but I swear to god I would point my shotgun directly at the golf ball and the pellets would avoid it completely at a very close range.
- It would be nice to have a way to cancel the shot after it has already been charged up so you don't waste ammo. Sometimes I would hold the left mouse button by accident or whatever and I didn't know how to just cancel it, if there was an input prompt to do that I didn't see it at least, disregard this if there was one.
- It would be nice to have a dedicated reload button, instead of looking at the shotgun and seeing if there are 1 or 2 shells left. I got used to it in the end though, if there was just one shell left in the shotgun I would press the right mouse button to reload. I'm guessing this is part of the planned gameplay though, but it does feel a little weird.
- This is just my opinion, but the default button to check your status should be the TAB key. Using Shift usually results in the Windows "activate sticky keys" prompt. I changed it myself to the TAB key, just a thought.
- When you are crouching pressing the space bar should make your character stand up (it's the common FPS control scheme, since it's usually the "jump" key).
- I know this is part of the gameplay difficulty mechanic, but holding the mouse button to charge up the shotgun to see how far the golf ball will go feels very weird, as in "guns don't work like that" kind of weird lol - you get used to it in the end, but I still wanted to mention it. I know having to change the power of your shot with the mouse scroll could make the game too easy, but maybe that would be a good option for an easy mode.
- By far the most important resource to buy is to save the game in my opinion, redoing the levels felt very frustrating, especially if you are 2 or more levels ahead from your last save point.
- This is just a thought but after seeing the mini golf courses patterns 1 or 2 times you get a good idea on how to beat them easily - after losing a few rounds of course.
Overall it's a nice game, streamer friendly since it's horror. Nice work!