Thanks for checking out my game. I just had a look at MadMan. I liked the pixelized bloodred aesthetics and how it feels like an old school boomer shooter where you go super fast after you get a few upgrades. I was basically superhuman by the end of it. I dig the drum & bass soundtrack too. My strategy was to play it very safe at the start of a wave, essentially just running around like a shepherd dog corralling the zombies into one big mass. Then I would take out the runners using my trusty boomstick. After that, it was basically mopping up, the rest of the enemies weren't much of a threat except when spawning in. Some critique points:
- May have been a bug, but I think the enemies should only spawn from the map's edges so they can't spawn on top of the player.
- Due to the franticness of learning the game and the beginning of the waves, I didn't actually pick up most of the weapons until about Wave 3. Maybe they could just be automatically grabbed by walking over them.
- It would have been cool to move between some different areas. That would also give a chance for more exploration and health pickups which eventually run out.
- The boss encounter was a bit buggy, he teleported around and clipped halfway into the floor for me, and my healthbar disappeared for some reason too
All in all, this is a pretty fun retro shooter! I imagine our hero is furious what his hometown has become and is just too angry to die.