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Great idea and visuals. It's unnerving and creepy expecially with headphones on. The gameplay is too tedious with how long it takes to reload.

It should stay a short game because I don't think I could stand it for too long. I only got to the second level and I don't think I will go any further - killing off the nests and bugs is way too slow, and tedious and there is way too many of them in such a cramped space for this to be engaging. 

I would love to see this expanded a bit and improved. Nothing too crazy  - a bit more content, some additional features like another weapon and partial reloading for example. 

Wwould also be great if bayer dithering worked with custom palettes and not only the built in ones

also a color counter would be nice to display the exact number of colors in the palette.

Some suggestions regarding quality of life improvements:

- ability to add and replace palettes to the built in selection - switching  between multiple custom palettes is a chore, especially when also importing different images. 

- while were at it - if we could import multiple images and then browse between them with a slider that would also be awesome - I often need to compare the palette against multiple images and this would be such a time saver 

- ability to move the colors around the palette or include different automatic color sorting methods. 

- ability to specify exact number of colors so the black is not icluded by default. or just make the unused slots disabled by default (right now the only way to exclude black is to either decrease the contrast of the image or fill every slot with color but you have to do this with all 192 slots). Many palettes rely on not including the black so this should be a basic functionality.

- undo option - to undo the changes to settings and colors

- have the dither effect scale along with zoom - right now it's very frustrating to use because the effect gets messed up when you zoom in and out.

- it would help if contrast, saturation, brightness and tint options were on the same tab as the palette. you could also utilise the space on the left side of the app as it's mostly empty and for example - put the palette over there so it would be always visible.

- option to disable the grid mesh on the palette window because it makes harder to see subtle color differences between color slots 

I know it's a lot to ask but with just a few more tweaks this tool could be so much more useful. I use it all the time in my work already and I would gladly pay for an upgrade.

This is awesome! I'm mostly interested in the per textel lighting - do you think it's possible to add this feature to built in pipeline's standard shader on unity 2019? Tried to convert my project but it's causing issues with some other assets. 

Hello, I couldn't find a way to send a DM, so asking here - would you accept commisions? I neeed a script that does a very speciffic set of operations to automate some of my work.

I haven't been checking updates for a while, I noticed that the color picker is finally implemented, that's great!

Unfortunately the dither preview is still broken - when zooming the image the dither is applayed to the screen pixels, not to the image pixels, meaning you get different results with different zoom levels, which is pretty terrible. And also with pixelisation turned off the dither effect doesn't show at all (it used to in previous versions). This means I can't apply dither to the image without changing it's resolution and I'm pretty sure I was able to this in the past. It was a very useful feature.

Aaahh this is where I can finally utilise my experience of dozens of hours spent in Getting Over It:)

Loved the game from first sight. It only took a minute of gameplay footage to make me want to try it myself. love the style and the little innuendos. 

This has a potential to be made into a bit bigger game. I think combat with this sword mechanic could be really cool.

oh and upun loading a savegame my super shotgun is now gone from arsenal

First time I played this game a while ago I was unable to finish the second level because I got lost. Tried to replay the demo today and I see some added roadsigning and the ladder in the first level was also adjusted but I'm stuck just the same going back and forth. after I got to the gate in prison that require the yellow key I wasn't even able to find my way back and I was running in circles for half an hour before I found a way to the start of the level. I rarely have this much problem finding my way in similar games. It doesn't help that elevators and seem to be designed to work only one way - especially the long one - when you're up and want to get down you will fall down the shaft and then it will lift you back up before you;re able to walk out... this needs to get fixed because it signals that going back is the wrong way to go.
I found bunch of new secrets but I was not able to find a way to progress - means that's something is wrong. replayed for the third time just to be sure. I scavenged every inch of the level and the underwater sections and when I get to the yellow gate I'm stuck with no way to go. 

I watched a playthrough and it looks like there's a door that looks like a regular metal wall with no indicator that it can be simply opened and it doesn't look like any other interactive object in the game. I think that's the culprit. also I saw a gate that can be opened only from one side - again no visual indicator that it's the case. You should make all interactive doors be visually obvious - unless it's a secret. Also there are certain levers in the level that when I flip them I have no idea what they did - this also should be addressed.

In other news - katana primary attack works much better now

also - rebinding keys has no effect

Look and feel of the game is perfect, I'll wait for the new demo before I give any more feedback as I supposed much of this will be outdated by now. Adding this to my shopping list, buying as soon as it's available

Really nice demo, guns feel good, enemies are creepy and combat is well made. Meatballs are a bit annoying - during the first encounter they spawn a bit too many for too long. They would work better if they were spawned and hurled by some kind of enemy.
A bit too much crawling through pipes - gets old after several attempts on higher difficulty.

Game needs checkpoints throughout the level - wouldn't have to repeat so many crawling sections. 

The blade could have a slightly longer reach.

SSG is great, although some kind of visual cue would help indicating when it's ready to fire again. Even as simple as just hiding it down for the duration of the cooldown, like in Dusk.

I would add something to indicate that player is down on health - maybe a heartbeat or slightly pulsating red vignette.

Option to rebind keys would also be nice.

ah ok now it works, thanks

ok I thought there is a preset where I can use keyboard only. It's much more smooth this way while turning and strafing in the same time as opposed using the mouse

one question - how do you attack, switch weapons or activate stuff with keyboard? nothing seems to work

at last! Thanks you very much!

Very good gunplay gun models and enemy designs. Very floaty controls when jumping and strafing. I love the splash screen art.

Tip - do not use default Unity Screenshake effect for gun recoil - the camera should simply go up and spring back to position not just shake in all directions - this effect is only suitable for earthquakes or standing close to an explosion for example. 

I hope that wave based arena gameplay is just for alpha testing and the game will have proper levels. I don't mind a horde mode survival mode as a bonus but these get really old if that's all what the game is.  

Very good impression overal. Gunplay and controls are already pretty nice, with some polish and refinement they should be perfect. Visuals are excellent and design is consistent. It's easy to tell one enemy from another, altough the tanky grey demon threw me off a bit the first time I encouneterd him. I took him for the regular melee guy. 

There's way too much ammo on normal mode - more limited resources might result in a more tactical approach and more interesting gameplay. But it depends what you're aiming for. 

The level design rewards exploration but it's perhaps a little too complex and confusing. I first stumbled right at the beginning because I didn't notice the ladder next to the gate. There were multiple times when I had problems noticing buttons and corridors. On second level I got so lost that I gave up. It's good that game lets you figure out stuff but I think finding a way through the level should be easier than finding secrets. 

I like the katana alt attack - the cooldown would be a good idea to use it strategically, if there wasn't so much ammo lying around at player's disposal. Also - since katana has an alt attack, are you planning on adding alt fires to other weapons?

I'm not entirely sold on the bullet time. It sounds cool but I don't actually feel the effect during combat. It feels very random when it happens, especially upon killing last enemy in a fight. It might make more sense to have it as a colldown ability under a hotkey. And maybe if it for example turned hitscans into slow moving projectiles for the duration of the effect. Then it would make sense to put high damage hitscan enemies into the game. 

I never once used dash in combat situation. I only used it for backtracking and obvious platforming segments. It could be a really good tool for quickly reaching high priority targets, especially combined with bullet time. If there were hitscan enemies dashing could be used to make them miss.

Enemy infighting is always a nice feature - something to consider:) 

Spiders - adding small, fast enemies with tiny hitboxes to the game is risky - people usually hate them with passion. So keep that in mind and make sure to give the player some good AOE weapon that would make them lot less annoying:) And since you already have spiders, add some giant buffed versions of them for the sake of variety!

There might be some optimisation issues as well - Game runs below 30fps on my PC - which is far from high end but in the same time game does not seem to have dynamic lights (aside from muzzle flashes), ssr or any other expensive effects that would explain this. 

is it possible to disable black color in a custom palette? 

Hi there! I'm sorry I keep coming to this thread again but the reuploaded second fix didn't resolve the issue either. The left image is a palette with some gradient and grey steps and the second one is what happens when I filter it through the pixatool c64 palette. The palette section should have the exact same colors but one of the greys is rendered as purple and there shuld be 3 very distinct shades of grey - two of them have almost the same tone - you can se them in the gradient sction - There's black, dark grey and a very slightly lighter dark grey. medium gray is missing. My guess is that the medium gray has wrong parameters and this is why it's being replaced by the color purple.
I don't know if it's just me or does it also happen on other systems. Anyway hope this helps!

Thanks for the reply! Yeah it makes sense that looping animations would have some limits. but the same RNG issue happens with single burst animations that don't loop at all.

Ah, You're right - increasing the particle number value works. I thought it works the other way around and I was increasing the burst particles instead, my bad!

the GPU fix did help, thanks!

Really nice tool in general! I have some problems though:

- Something is wrong with RNG in render mode. It looks good in preview but when it renders the animation most of the particles are going in the same few directions. 

- it feels like the burst doesn't work correctly - it should spawn all particles in the same time. Instead it spawns them one by one. Maybe I'm missing a feature. 

- The app starts lagging very heavily when the color tab is on.

- Setting up sprites as particles breaks the animation - basic options like rotation, scale, life don't apply anymore.

Doe this software support importing images and palettes by drag and dropping? Doesn't seem to work. 

pixa tool doesn't support all palette formats. if I want to make a custom palette I need to find a software that can export the palette in viable format first. It's a very annoying workaround. if it's possible to add the color picker then I would really insist on adding it. It's a crucial tool for this kind of software. Or make it compatible with all palette formats. I used krita to make my custom palettes and the .kpl format is not supported.

Thanks for the input! there will be a new reworked demo soon.

Hey that's pretty cool!  

Yeah, physics and control systems are still under development and we expect them to get better in time. The player speed and jump height was modified a lot during internal playtesting - this is why some parts of the level might feel off and feature unintended shortcuts - they were made when these setting were different. Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for the feedback!
Game will have a save system of some kind for sure. Either checkpoints or quicksaves. Maybe both. Altough we think about exprimenting with something more connected to the gameplay - something that would reward the player for using the save option more sparsly. 
floppy disks right now are sort of collectibles that indicate if you found all the secrets. Their function will probably change later in development.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! We're building the game around more tactical gameplay, where resource management is a thing and where every weapon would be useful in different situations. At least in the beginning phase. If we make parts of the game a power fantasy it will require some buildup so the player feels like he earned it. At least that 's the idea:). We have some pretty powerful and devastating weapons and powerups in the works. We're also thinking about including different game modes and mutators that can turn the game into a more trigger happy experience. 

Hi and thanks for the feedback! All of these issues should be addressed in the future one way or another. At this stage nothing is set in stone and a lot of things will change. Hopefully for the better. "Always Run" can be toggled with a hotkey and you can change key bindings in the options menu. propper save function is in the works. AI and movement physics are also under development.
Sword is tricky to ballance. if we make it more powerful it might reduce the usefulness of other weapons. The way it's designed right now is to make the player having to dodge bullets and attacks and not just stand in place when using it. We also plan od introducing some useful powerups that will make the sword more effective in certain situations. Player souldn't rely on th sword too much as this is a shooter game frst and foremost:) Altough there is a lot of playtesting ahead us. If it turns out to be fun enough we might make melee combat a bigger part of the game. 

I dig the easthetics. Beautifully unsettling. It's a shame that interactive horror is a big giant nope for me. Brings too many chills down my spine. 

Tested the new version and I got the exact same result as before. 

Windows 10 if that's what you're asking

Cool, but I got the tool with the asset pack bundle, can you upload it there as well? thanks!

Color picker would come in handy anyway. I sometimes need a pallete with exact colors from the image and now I have to tediously recreate them with color sliders.

This is the result I'm getting with c64 palette:

Does this version fetaure the color picker? the drag and drop image interface also doesn't seem to work anymore. Oh, and some of the effects like dithering and scanlines only have a correct preview on 1:1 zoom. But this was also an issue in older versions. The C64 palette still needs a fix. It has one grey tone too many and no purple. Aside form that the tool works perfect. 

Awesome! I wanted to be sure about that:) We want to properly credit all contributors to the game

Hi, do you think we could use the Matriax8c palette in our game? We would like to implement a palette swap option, and this would be one of the options. Sorry for asking here but I couldn't find a way to send a PM anywhere. You can message me  @DavidKayConrad on Twitter.