Even though the controls are super smooth, I'm so bad at piloting the ship lol. I couldn't get more than two planets cleared and sometimes got lost in space, idk if more distinguishing landmarks could have helped or not because I have horrible spatial awareness. Is there a way to gain more missiles if someone like me can't aim and shoots the whole load of them? Overall, I feel like this is a solid spaceship shooter. I don't really have much else to critique here.
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There currently isn't a way to acquire more missles. I thought about having the buildings drop them, and having the dropped missles tween to your ship, but I had a few people play test it and no one mentioned running out of missles. Bit of an oversight I suppose... oops xD
The spatial awareness is an issue I ran into personally. It can be difficult to reorient yourself. I thought about adding a 3D map in the cockpit. However I didn't account for that in my original time budget. I maybe could of pulled it off, but instead spent the extra unallocated time polishing up some things. Next time I'll consider game play over polish, should a similar situation present itself.
Thank you for your feedback. It's extremely valuable in learning to develop quality games!
Depending on the time constraints, if not a lot of other people have the same issues as I did with the missile count and the orientation, then maybe it would be better to spend the time on polish, which will make the game better for a lot of people, rather than adding/fixing something that only someone like me would find beneficial. Idk. It's up to you.
Fair point, however for me this is all a learning experience. I personally value any and all criticism. Even more-so if it has merit. I believe yours does.
I don't just want to learn to develop games, that's the easy part. I want to learn to develop GREAT games. Other gamers insight is extremely important for that to occur.
In hindsight, I feel the additional features would of helped more than the polish did in this case. Ultimately though, a great game needs both :)