Hi Darius.
I am on Linux now and would have to break out my windows laptop to play and test it but the screenshots look good.
If you are willing to give me some pre release feedback on my game I will do the same for you.
https://mercstudios.itch.io/startalon?secret=m8ATWJJ9ZRNzxJTPUtq6Dy9ncs
Hi,
I just played your game. It's really catchy and fun. I really liked how varied the enemies are (both flying and ground variants). The boss battles are really well made, although they're a little too hard at times (though I do enjoy a good challenge). I also liked the ship customization options.
The first thing I would change is the main menu layout. It's a bit confusing at first, and I think the "Select Mission" tab should be the first one.
The second thing I would change is the music. I would remove the tracks with lyrics and keep only the instrumental ones. I know AI was involved, and keeping only the instrumental tracks would improve the quality.
One visual issue I came across (although it may be intentional) is that when picking up "Health" consumables, the "Health" text remains visible after picking them up.
Overall you did a really good job. Keep it up!
So I just want to say thank you very much for your feedback.
I have some bad news, I downloaded your game and launched it, the screen with the guy in the spacesuit by the door launched , then when I went to launch mission I just got a black screen with beeping. I exited the game with task manager 3 times and it was only on the 3rd load when I hit escape that another menu came up and I was able to get in to the game. (The Continue, main menu)
First impression, nice graphics but very dark in places.I found the beeping computer with the cryo logs, ate an apple. Found the hover flash light, turned on the radio.(Nice touch) Not sure what the E on the robot is for besides turning suck on and off,
Went into the dark room directly oposite the apple room, found an E switch there and clicked it, now I am stuck in the wall and cant move besides turning around. I have a hammer I can swing but I am stuck.
Reloaded, I got in again it just took a wait with the black screen and beeping.
Got the hammer the second time without getting jammed, just got gassed.
Woke up, found the door code, its not working, second time stuck, think I am going to call it quits.
Stubborn, tried again, same code finally worked, not sure why it didnt work before, possibly because I hit a few random digits first before I found the keypad. Keypad should auto reset when you exit out of it.
You need a save option so someone can save the game and come back to it.
So with regard the slow loading, that could be my windows laptop, its an old windows 10 laptop, Core i5, 7th gen with about 40 waterfox tabs open. I think you game has huge potential, it just needs more testing. It looks good, nice map ambience, get a save function added and I can test it some more. I am sort of invested now but it also feels like a bit of a grind.
Will do one more run until I get stuck again.
I did the drone pilot thing and saw the ghost figure.
Got to the find the hidden word part, tried cloud, nebula, ocean, ((the sirens got really annoying)).
Calling it quits. Really needs a save function.
