Thanks for giving it a second look. Checked out the VOD, I think this was the first item I've seen a game of mine played on stream, wild experience lol.
Thanks for the review. The plan was to add more upgrades and abilities, but honestly ran out of steam on this game about a week or so into the jam. Just decided to put some finishing touches on it and upload.
Thanks for playing! The lag spikes are a result of the web build. I uploaded a Windows build as well, if you would like to give it another shot. I originally had manual turret placement, but it felt bad because it was hard to place a bunch of turrets and run around at the same time. I decided to go with the more survivors-like approach and have the only controls be WASD, with turrets just being placed randomly in a small area around the player.
The way the spider moved was actually a pure accident. It is actually programmed to move straight toward the player, but since it uses the same nav mesh as the taller, slower enemies I think it glitches out. It felt more like a skittering spider though, so decided to keep it :-)
Thanks for playing! The random generation was definitely the hardest part to do. Learning the right settings and how to bake the nav mesh at run time in Godot was interesting to say the least.
Thanks for taking the time out of your day for such an in-depth review, much appreciated! if was my first time making a 3D game in Godot, so it was a fun learning process, I wanted to do something like this to avoid those pesky boned based animations in a 3D model.
I was wondering if the enemies in the physical dimension would end up being tougher. I think this might partly depend on the play though and how much of the level you have to clear in order to advance to the next. I didn't get a lot of time to work on balancing, but when I did, it seemed like the orb would spawn further away, meaning more enemies to clear, which turns into more enemies in Pandemonium.
The goal with the hit scan weapons for the normal enemies was to give it a more retro feel, but maybe I should dial back their damage or the timer for their shot. I kinda struggled with scoop creep, my intention was to only have 1 enemy per dimension, but thought trying to dodge both the melee enemies and the projectiles would be more fun then trying to just dodge the 1 slow enemy. The enemies speed and health scale up as well per level you complete, but guessing I had that tuned too low as well. Lesson learned for next time though, in a game like this, leave some time for balancing at the end.
thanks I didn't notice that when I play tested in the browser, maybe because I just fullscreened from the main menu. I think I have code that runs in the levels that checks the mouse capture.mode and flips it if needed I'll try to upload a fix later tonight if I have time. Thanks for giving it a try!
