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Snek1 year ago

This was genuinely engaging! I loved the different items and procedural level generation! How did you do that? The character design was also really cool and I loved that you had gamepad support and a second mechanically distinct character?? that's so overkill but was really epic to see

this could do with some polishing, especially in terms of enemy behavior because they are both very tanky and don't really communicate well when they're getting hit, and the explosion's aftershock / slowdown seemed to always just get me killed, but overall this was a surprising amount of fun and procedural content for a gamejam entry :3

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Falcon Nova1 year ago

Holy you actually beat the game and got the Bloodseeker skin? So cool, glad someone did it! Might have been overkill but overall it wasn't really hard nor time consuming to add in haha.

Yeah the enemies are quite tanky, I wanted the game to feel challenging, but perhaps they do have too much health. Do you have suggestions for how they could communicate when hit? The best I got in was a little particle explosion. As for the player's explosion, well 5x damage comes at a cost :p, and it's not meant to be the main damage dealer. There are some items that can mitigate the penalty though.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

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Snek1 year ago(+1)

You're welcome! The most basic form of hit feedback is just a bit of hitstun and flashing,

so when an enemy gets it, it temporarily slows down or gets stopped completely, and maybe even visually changes (with a sprite or by modulating the color to something brighter), until they get back up to speed. That also makes the attacks feel weightier because the enemies are physically affected by what you do to them, instead of having their internal health value decreased (which the player doesn't see)

Oh and btw, the bloodseeker was available from the start haha, I just navigated to the skin tab and could change that way, but it honestly felt way better that way (at least for a gamejam, where players are less likely to spend much time with your game!)

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Falcon Nova1 year ago

Makes a lot of sense! Took some notes for future updates. Also I checked the code and immediately knew why Bloodseeker was available from the start, but the game is more fun with that skin imo, so I guess it's a convenient coding mistake haha

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