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It's a good start.

I'm really hoping you are planning on doing a complete overhaul of the UI though. It looks extremely cheap, doesn't scale well and feels bad to use. This really needs a better font, colors and UI sprites.

I also think the balloon needs a few animations. Like a lerp between HP levels, particle effects and a better looking color when being hit.

Aggroblakh33 days ago

I wasn't, but I will now based on this feedback. Thank you for the honest thoughts! You may have a point about the font, and the scaling is an issue I'll take a look at.

How does it feel bad to use? Is there a specific pain point I can address?

Zelos33 days ago

There are quite a few small things that add up to the UI feel for me. For example

The mouse dragging feels sluggish and like it lags behind. Also, when you reach the bottom of the screen, you can't go up anymore using the mouse for a good second.
There doesn't seem to be a way to drag to the left and right, have to use WASD for that.
Zooming makes the upgrade nodes jump around seemingly at random.
Feels like lots of sound effects are missing. And the ones that are there don't feel satisfying.
It's not nice to look at in general. It just seems like it's missing a lot of polish.

I would also suggest having a few nice backgrounds and playing around with the random color on the balloons a bit. A lot of them are very dark. Might want to use a higher minimum brightness value if you're using HSV color space.

Aggroblakh31 days ago

I've addressed most of your feedback. The backgrounds and general look I'll have to play around with, but at the very least the mouse controls and zoom have been fixed up so the UI should feel less broken. I really appreciate the detailed comments, thank you for trying out the game! It means a lot.

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