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Hi Dustin- yes, falling through the world does happen occasionally, due to the way the level generation works it's possible that rooms may spawn in overlapping. We hope to have this refined in the final game. As for the way aiming/interacting works with the camera position, this should also work better in the future, as we plan on implementing a "zoom" feature when right-clicking.
An update planned for this weekend should hopefully fix the controls and make them feel tighter and less slippery.
Just incredible. The MML visual style is nearly 1 to 1, yet the game as a whole has it's own charm and identity that separates itself from being too much of a direct clone. The movement feels great, although I feel like the mid-air dash should launch me horizontally, instead of downwards. Dashing is also smooth and works well, but I found myself constantly holding shift thinking it would put me in dash mode (old habit). Everything else is simply perfect, from the character models and textures, to the environments and enemy design.
One other thing I want to mention is that if you press 7 on the keyboard, it launches the character into the air (a debug function I assume) and you can bypass a lot of content. I just wasn't sure if that's something you intended to leave in the current demo!
Just played through and I love the foundation you guys have started. The first thing that catches my eye the most are the visuals. Very atmospheric, hopeless, dreadful. It works well with the cold environments and dim lighting. The intro text looks like it's inspired by MacReady's message from The Thing (I love it)! Other than that, I wrote up a few points of feedback I hope you find useful:
- Looks like the music on the main menu doesn't loop.
- There's some overlapping with the character's light and the environment lights. You could solve this issue mostly by baking your environment lights.
- Character's light illumination doesn't extend out far enough (very dim), feels more like a lighter than a flashlight.
- Strange dialogue on discovering the first dismembered leg: "looks like it's missing its sister". It's feels a little out of place. Might be more impactful if the character says something like "have the [dinos] been through here?" Which eludes to an evil presence that you'll encounter soon.
- Dialogue line cutoff when outside "I won't walk away from the path, I can't risk getti-"
- Dinosaur animation is very rough (I imagine there will be more development on this).
- In regards to the dinosaur concept: I'm not super sold on plain looking raptor breeds being found in an arctic climate. It's a cool concept (no pun intended), but dinosaurs that may have ever existed in that type of environment would have had feathers or fur to cover near their head, neck, and body. It might be more believable once the dinosaur enemy design is fleshed out more, or made to look more "arctic". Take a look at some images of "polar dinosaurs", they may help the design a bit.
That's all I was able to come up with. I look forward to seeing more development on the game and best of luck to you guys!
Hey gucci- it looks like you are trying to run the game using the built-in Intel HD graphics of your PC/laptop. The game currently doesn't support running on dedicated graphics, so that's why you're seeing a black screen after loading it up (it's not rendering any of the visuals). You will need an Nvidia or AMD graphics card in order to run Pathogen-X.
Hi Beef - I wish I could tell you for certain there would be, but I don't have any way to properly test Mac builds (or Linux) without a machine or going through the process of setting up parallels. I hope to get a hold of an actual machine I can do most of this on in the near future, so I won't say never. Sorry!
Absolutely fantastic. I adore everything about this, from the perfectly emulated PSX palette to the crispy smooth music to the unique set of mushroom characters.
One thing I'll say about the gameplay is it's like if you took the difficulty of Stormy Ascent and multiplied by 5 or 6. The checkpoints are a bit more forgiving here than in Crash though so it's not as noticeable how often I die (and I died a lot). If anything maybe the hitboxes on some of the spike traps need slight adjusting.
This game's a true gem in the huge sea of PSX-like titles out there right now, and I'm very excited to see what comes of later development.
Hi Llamabetes, thanks so much for supporting the project! We're still in the "drawing board" state of development for the story part of the game, but we'd like to have at least one other scenario that gives you an entirely different playthrough with a different character (similar to RE2). Controller support will hopefully be in sometime this month!
Hey, thanks for playing the demo!! I really appreciate your feedback. The demo is going through a ton of iterations right now, so I'm not surprised you played the first version. The scoring is a bit more lenient in the updated version (less penalty for taking your time), there's now an aiming reticle, and the rocket launcher also has better hit detection and is less underwhelming. As for your comments, there is indeed a lot of adjustments that need to be made as development continues, including the roll, which is definitely crucial. The player controls in general need a lot of work. The enemies currently have a body part-specific hitbox, so headshots for the zombies and boss do more damage (it can be hard to tell with lack of hit feedback). If you have any other suggestions feel free to let us know. Thanks again for checking it out, cheers!