Fair enough, maybe the game is just not for me. A puzzle element would make it more my thing, some level of guessing what you need to type for instance.
Weak internet connection is definitely not the issue, I've got 200mbps and it still takes forever to load, it's just stuck at the last bit of the progress bar.
Cool concept! Just a little bit annoying that there are no checkpoints. At the first quite long level I died pretty far in, forcing me to redo everything, which is a bit tedious.
It's perfectly ok if you lack the sense of humor, the patience and/or the skill to get through this game and I admit, it's immensely frustrating in some parts, but writing this long post just to express this seems a bit excessive to me.
Ferociter always makes solid games. Arguably this one has a completely different style, but the gameplay is impeccable as always. It's all about training yourself to get used to the controls and the 'unintuitive' hitbox, as you call it.
As long as you do things iteratively and do not lose yourself in details or endless finetuning you should be fine! Grant yourself small wins as well :-)
Do feel that the difficulty of the Chef's Knights or Knights' Chefs is a huge step upwards. Got a lot of trouble beating the, which at the same time makes the game less interesting, because you have to beat the same enemies every single time. Perhaps a bit of variation would alleviate this?
Yeah that is true as well. They seem to be able to fly a little bit higher than you at the top of the screen. This for me is part of the tactics though, get on top of them before they reach the top of the screen.
What do you mean, enemies can fly off-screen? Noone can fly off the top, and everyone can use wrap-around at the side edges. If anything, you have an advantage because you drop in from above when you died.
Edit: Ah yeah, you mean when the viewport is scrolling. That's a bit annoying indeed. Would be nice to have some sort of indicator at the top of the screen as well, similar to the sides.
Good game! Not much content, but this has a solid base. Gameplay is fluent, controls are good.
One improvement I suggest is to make the mouse cursor better visible, or indicate the direction of firing in another way. Especially when it's crowded it's annoying to have to search for the cursor.
Ok, I'm not cut out for this, it is indeed friggin' hard. Your game is really well-made and it plays perfectly. The idea is also well thought-through. However, the sheer difficulty and the lack of checkpoints is really putting me off. Everytime I made it through a pixel-perfect jump I felt happy, but then having to do it again and again and again feels unnecessarily frustrating.
Ugh and only now I read that you explicitly have to press the 'save' button to really save progress ... damnit. Ah well, will have to live without beating the last boss then :-(
Btw, even though it was a frustrating game for me, still like it, it did feel like an accomplishment beating bosses and levels. So, I think the balance is quite good. Nicely done!
Really cool, again ;-) But, I don't understand this level. How can I turn that corner? You can only do that when it's touching the outer grid, right? There's no way. Or am I that thick?
Just started browsing through all your games and they are all really good so far. Fluent controls, nice ideas. This one was kinda frustrating, but never too much. Well done!
Really cool! Unique concept and makes good use of mechanics related to water. Plays and looks really well also. There could be so much more ideas incorporated in here, including upgraded weather manipulations, different elemental effects, etc etc .. my mind goes wild ;-)
Haha yeah, not sure why I kept on going ... didn't have anything else to do, liked to be in the zone for a bit, I guess. Haha, my vision really kept moving sideways when I stopped the game, lol ...
Ok, played this for far longer than I should have. At some point I set myself a goal, which I reached ;-) Can tell I've been playing too long, because my screen is still moving sideways, for realz. Anyway, nice game, bit boring, but still well built.
Agree with some, it's a nice concept and looks nice, but the combination of controls makes it unnecessary hard to play, together with the really slow progression money-wise.
It's also hard to keep an eye on the screen and carefully pushing the upgrade buttons at the same time. My suggestions:
Implement autofire, that's pretty much what you do anyway
Pause the game when buying upgrades, or alternatively be able to upgrade with a keypress (1 through 6) so you don't have to look for the right button to press
Make it worthwhile to actually kill enemies (money?) instead of only do it to clear the screen
Random upgrade or health drops
Prevent enemies from appearing right on top of the player
Quality of life / bug:
You can easily get stuck between enemies and the barrier, perhaps make you unhittable for a few seconds whenever you get hit so you can escape through enemies?
This is one awesome game!!! Waaay too short, but really, really nice. The artwork, the gameplay, the cutscenes. Really well done. If anything, it might be a tad too easy. I blew through the levels quite quickly, with a bit of luck here and there, I'll give you that.
No clue what I should do. Space makes a firing sound, but I don't see any projectiles and can't destroy any ships, B releases a black hole but it doesn't do anything and the game froze after a short time, when I was close to the edge.
Really cool, again ;-) But, I don't understand this level. How can I turn that corner? You can only do that when it's touching the outer grid, right? There's no way. Or am I that thick?
