Very bare bones, but it's already fun to boss around your minions and plunder the island. Main bug I saw was how after combat a minion would freeze, and I thought he could be dead since recall did nothing, but ordering to pick up a crate seems to fix it, sometimes.
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Heart of Evil 3D (Boatgame prototype) jam comments · Posted in Heart of Evil 3D (Boatgame prototype) jam comments
Glad to see this back, though I'm a little disappointed since I like roguelikes more.
-Interesting choice to let you control the boat from anywhere on it. Controls are ok I suppose.
-Instead of boating I jump into the drink, but I seem to breath underwater. Swimming feels odd, and despite not knowing the key I just intuited that pressing E would climb me back onto the boat, which also works on the shore ledge somewhat surprisingly. We now have a way out.
-Nevermind I can actually drown, good to know. And a piece of thought, I notice that it's ctrl to go down in water, space to go up. Though, I wonder if it's better to map up to shift since it then mirrors the boat controls? idk
-Jumped onto a shark thing and shanked it like a proper fisherman, not sure why since I can't do anything with it it seems.
-Beating up Hawaiians is more fun than I imagined. Gun feels alright. Also, it seems like you can stand on the shore angled wall/ledge and walk along it, but can't jump or press E, so you have to be awkward and go into the water to then get back on land. (And one time the E to get on land didn't work and I was teleported onto the shore wall/ledge as described.)
-Having to backtrack to my boat after slaying some guys, I almost wish I could control the boat from land for the heck of it, so I could maneuver it to me faster.
-Your anti slope climbing is too aggressive, I'm going up the mountain and I'm getting stuck on small slopes! See pic, also you can see the inside face of the grass from this low angle.
-I realize the gun is odd, since it takes so many shots to kill, but you can one-shot with melee. Why can't I head shot them like I can head chop? Maybe the bullets aren't going where I think. [later] Yeah it's less accurate than I thought.
-Blowdarts are annoying, but manageable. No rewards for killing them though. Also, I only now realized there's glass in the cabin that prevents shots! Don't make that literally invisible, it's gameplay.
-Died of crabs when getting rifle, but I kept it after respawn. I assume it's so forgiving since it's intended for testing.
-I kind of just played the demo until the end after that point, here's some thoughts.
Blunderbuss only takes one ammo per shot, which seems odd given the ammo icon being 4 pellets. You could group the pellets into a circle of the pellets, which would better get the point across. Though I must say this feels like a really weak shotgun, since most of your shot misses, and when it does hit it isn't the headshot which is so effective it's almost necessary to focus on it to conserve ammo. Though most of my time using it was when I ran out of ammo and had to finish off the stragglers. Not the intended use case!
Combat and by extension the enemy variety is there, but it doesn't feel like much yet. It's your standard strafe and shoot, and the enemies do different attacks but are otherwise very similar to one another. I suppose there are the monkeys, but they're more like natural hazards you 'dodge' by walking in a straight line.
Boss was mediocre, but did the job of soaking up damage. Due to the arena doing nothing special and the boss doing ranged attacks, it wasn't much different to what I had done up to that point.
The boat doesn't seem to really mean much right now, besides as a mean to travel between locations. I would like it more incorporated, like you upgrade it with materials and you now have a mini turret you can supply with darts or whatever to shoot at your enemies. Or being able to find treasure spots in the water with it, maybe boat battles where you can ram the enemy vessel. Something to spice it up. But, if it stayed as is it isn't the end of the world, it just feels like a not so great gimmick to go between FPS arenas.
Suppose that's it, keep up the good work.
-Colored text isn't colored until the keyword is fully revealed.
-Decided to play on my 4:3 CRT since the game is that old aesthetic, it looks like the UI scales correctly, good job. [later] oh I guess it's actually 4:3 native? Anyways, it looks way better with CRT vs LED.
-Mouse based camera is insane looking, I don't know why it rotates like that vertically. Also, the controller can't even change said vertical angle. Guess I'll use KB&M. [later] After some time I got used to the camera, it isn't bad exactly. It didn't help that my initial sensitivity was too high.
-Odd how first person interact button differs from 3rd person.
-The parent's(?) bathroom toilet and toilet roll in not interactive for some reason.
-Climbing animation(treehouse) is a little too slow I think.
-Random lever near death pit(to notebook) does nothing?
-After faffing around for some time, I finally got the magic notebook. I'll take this moment to say that the art direction is fairly solid, reminds me of Psychonauts with the children's nightmares type thing going on.
-Map is too zoomed in, and I can't change said zoom level. Also, the menu is a little awkward being keyboard only input, considering you say(game page) you are targeting KB&M. Would be nice to also have a cursor. The top tab bar of the menu is inconsistent. Sometimes the current tab keeps the yellow cursor when doing things in the sub menu, but other times it goes away and focuses on another UI element.
-Guitar is alright, but if I'm being honest ripping off zelda is kind of boring and played out. Why is this here, when it was only interesting in OOT since it was the mc guffin for that game. If it's just a temporary thing, then whatever.
-Equipped icon being a small E could be easier to read at a glance, maybe make it an outliney texture around the entire icon too, or change the background slot.
-Went into the pirate ship, I couldn't grab onto the ladder after giving the spatula, and then I (while spaming buttons)teleported on top and got stuck; too bad, I forgot to save for like 20 minutes... Oh, looks like it was smart and saved anyways, phew. I thought the computer was the only way.
-I can open the tab menu while in the dream transition, which is a bit silly.
-Neat, now I'm in a wooded dreamloop area, instead of the pirate ship.
-I got a quest and got a dash ability, but I seem to have gotten it before hand? I was dashing around with shift all of a sudden, maybe the ability was added too early? I also now have a double jump. Also, these ghosts move way too slow, especially after getting the dash. Also, they seem to get slightly stuck sometimes, which is ironic considering their incorporeal-ness.
-A ghost said it would give me the closet key(which I already have) and then it gave me a slab, I assume that's some rework you did and forgot about retouching the dialogue.
-In first person, the illusion is broken if you have the flashlight on, it will rotate the light around and behind you if you walk around as you keep the look direction forward. [later] This includes the pirate sword, or anything else in the hands I would guess.
-Third time doing the dream tunnel, it's cool but should really be skipable after the first time.
-Bug that happened when talking to both bowling alley Barth and the kitchen menu(doesn't happen in normal world, I don't want to test it anymore): if you press tab or esc while in a dialogue, it will open that menu, and it will break the dialogue and get you stuck. Seems to be a softlock. If you quit to menu you can continue the game, but the softlock persists and this time you can't access the menus, making it a hardlock.
-AhhaHhhhhHHHHasdfsadf, got softlocked again when leaving the inner ship, I double jumped since I couldn't grab the ladder, then it teleported me and I'm frozen. And for some reason it won't let me quit to menu, so it's a hard exit. I will now never go inside the ship again.
-Going on the island, why are these bridges so ungodly long? Even with dash it's taking forever to traverse one branch of this. Also, I got magic but I can't seem to do anything with it. -- After a lot of wandering I found out there was a sword if I just walked into the center 10 meters, woops. Also, bloody hell there was nothing of value in those side paths.
-Floating torch on right side of hedge maze on witch island.
-At this sign an enemy on the other side of a wall can attack -- intentional?
-My inventory has a scrollbar, but I can't scroll it. Items are out of view. It seems to scroll down all the way each time the inventory is opened.
-I get to the area with the mushroom guy and the checkered floor. Think I should stop playing now. I let myself die, and it kind of got weird. I started pressing buttons since it looked like it may not automatically restart, then it put me on the main menu and the UI was going nuts, flickering and I had to spam spacebar to select continue. However, now I can't sleep anymore(it's red again). Doing a hard reset fixes it. Since none of my witch island progress is saved, idk if I have to normally exit the dream to save, or if I'm at a point where the data for that area isn't serialized.
Besides the crippling bugs and lack of polish, it's a fairly fun adventure game thing. Keep up the good work.
-Mech is pretty darn cool, I like the backpack thing and the transforming feet. No IK on the feet though, oh well.
-Bullets are really bad looking, and I wonder why the bullet shader would get all stretched like that.
-When the camera is on the left side, the gun no longer shoots in the center of the screen(reticle), lol.
-I would like the be able to open my inventory/equipment while in wheel mode(it forces it into leg mode). In real gameplay, it would be nice to move fast while doing such management.
-Shader causes awful aliasing, is this intended? Both the outline and the dotted inline. I think it detracts from your mech model as is.
-I realize you can quickly toggle feet, so you can actually just use the wheels all the time, since you can double toggle and turn instantly instead of doing a big turn radius. Not sure you want that. Besides, I'm not sure the turn radius is even that good of a dilemma compared to slow legs. Maybe you could balance it with better recoil/spread while in leg mode? Or, speeding up the legs.
-The scale seems a bit small, it looks like our mech is only slightly bigger than a man, compared to all the rocks and trees.
-Almost quit before I found the anchor. It's a bit ridiculous, but I like the idea of using a space elevator in place of portals in the Risk of Rain formula. I do wish the glass floor was more obvious, I was worried I would fall through. Too bad I couldn't pick any items up.
Not much to it, but keep up the good work.
Not my preferred platformer, but I can see how it's a good game. I beat the available levels, the main thing I had trouble with was understanding how far away until I can or cannot hook into a dotted line. Besides that, just beating the levels with 1 or 2 stars wasn't that hard. I found it odd how I couldn't enter the race at the end though, maybe I needed more stars? But it didn't state an unlock requirement, and I couldn't use any input to press the begin button.
Also, the player sprite doesn't really look like a rabbit, more like a humanoid with antenna. Not that it matters really. And, I just noticed that the reticle shrinks with available energy, nice touch.
Guess that's it. Keep up the good work.
-I like the mesh independent texturing of the girl's clothes, it's a neat visual effect.
-If you move the camera at a moderate speed into a wall, it will clip though the geometry very easily and obviously.
-There's some random triangles at the start?:
-Having no drop shadow is annoying. Particularly bad when in a shadowed area, since there is no normal character shadow.
-When riding a fast platform up, she will phase into the platform for the duration. aka visual position lag from interpolation or something.
-You can walk through this door(?) despite looking solid:
-Messed around a bit more, doesn't seem like there's an objective. Slide move is ok I guess, besides a small speedboost and falling down slopes it doesn't seem that interesting. And in general, there is nothing unique about this 3D platformer so far, I've seen it done to death. Character at least looks good though.
Keep up the good work.
-Controller support would be really nice, given how the melee works.
-Melee weapon can easily visually vibrate and phase through walls.
-Hat based health is fun.
-If I set relative melee to false, then die, it won't save my preference.
- I seem to be stuck behind an iron bar? Guess I'll restart. Also this started happening out in the void(maybe he needs to die to get past?):
-Beat first level. Fairly fun gameplay so far, reminiscent of Hotline Miami but more forgiving. Making the environmental hazards common encourages me to experiment with them more outright, compared to some other games.
-Mouse cursor is too small for menuing, at least when you don't have a gun. A small white dot gets easily lost in the noise.
-Train track crossing was a little annoying, I died the first time because the blue didn't look like a wall, but just some trim color on the ground. It wasn't until I hit it that I saw there was a break in the blue that I was supposed to cross. (And why is this wall only on one side of the subway tracks?) To best communicate this, put some of that wall on the other side so the player can know what it is. Not that it is a huge deal in this case, since it's only 20s away from the start of the level. But still.
-3rd level is fun so far. Both amused and somewhat annoyed when the train railed me, thought I was being smart by avoiding the fire by walking on it. On another note, fire damage over time is kind of strange. I suppose the idea is that if you get hit by fire you need to get your hat in quick fashion before you're scot free. It's a decent way to discourage walking into it, but you're screwed when it falls onto the other/in side of a fire wall. As for the boss, I've gotten to it several times but it's a pain because it's a slew of respawning turrets and I have no clue how far along I am.
-Beat train boss and I don't get it. I killed all the turrets before getting to the 'locked in by fire' section, then when I got to that section I didn't know what to do. My gun wasn't doing any damage to the fire pipes, but melee does? Only sometimes when swinging at it does it hurt it, and only the middle pipe. After a while the train door opened, but I don't know if it was a timer or if I did enough damage. Boss just sucks from this experience. Might have helped to have a checkpoint just before it.
-Mario style level select is pretty meh, doesn't fit the game I think. Doesn't help it's just a normal scale level with portals instead of a zoomed out map.
Minute to minute gameplay and visuals are good fun, keep it up.
-Controls(using controller) work great, no issues.
-The camera needs some work, like it clips into the floor and wall all the time as it touches the geometry, but at least it pops out to outside it after a second.
-If you grab onto the side of the first yellow slope, you can shimmy past the corner and down to the sides, which looks wrong, probably unintended at such an angle.
-If you wall climb onto the second part of the slope at the top just right, it can teleport you to the top most slope for some reason?
-Since the collider is a capsule, you can stand on a ledge and slide off, which I don't particularly like.
-At this spot, if you shimmy left you will teleport to the left a decent distance.
-Sliding on a wall feels loose, personally I would change the acceleration around. Also, it'd be cute if the dog had an animation of trying to paw the wall while sliding instead of being static.
-Swimming seems fine, it doesn't suck which is already better than most games. Though, there's nothing to do underwater right now so it's kind of moot.
-You can get stuck on these corners walking near parallel to the edge. The right(from this gif) corner happens less often.
-In general, if you hug a wall and walk by a corner, the dog with do a twitch of the head and body that doesn't look that great.
Beat the game. Overall, it's a very basic, boring if you will, 3D platformer. There is no spice, there is no interesting game ideas here so far. That said, the animation and model is cute, I like it. Hope to see more to this later, keep up the good work.
-Don't particularly care for the wait between pressing a menu button and it actually doing the thing, though I understand it's intentional to set a tone or what have you.
-If you recharge your mana then walk back to where you spawn on game start, it will set the mana to 1 bar again, which is pretty funny.
-Doesn't look like there is coyote jump time, or if it's there it's very subtle. Not that your game has to have it(but I'm used to it since so many platformers use it). Controls for controller seem fine so far(got to first checkpoint).
-Interesting that checkpoints and save points are different.
-Random invisible floor/wall
-I can't understand how to make this jump, maybe it needs a powerup? I don't get extra height from changing character mid trampoline jump.
-The only annoyance so far is that if you slide against a wall, you don't bounce on the snail. So it's a little annoying to move to close and then accidentally stick to the wall. Also, it would be nice if you could reset the trial and its timer in the pause menu while inside the trial, instead of exiting and reentering.
-Got to the 'end of demo' area, the boss preceding it was ok, but I hardly got to see what he did since I only had 3 hp, and he stopped after hitting him once with a blue fire ball.
New direction for the game seems alright, more of a world with challenges sprinkled around. Having each trial be fairly short(and told the par up front) helps make me want to give it a shot. Also, making mana rechargeable, and lowered cost of transformation, really helps me not feel like I am 'wasting it' as I move around. Art and music is charming, so that's good. Had a fun time, keep up the good work.
-I like how the fog encroaches on the main menu.
-Game can go fullscreen, but the top dither effect looks wrong on 16:10.
-Looks like debug bindings are still there, I can spawn infinite items and teleport the van, etc. If I do the item spawn with f, I can draw on the screen. Fun bug/feature.
-You can also do inventory management while paused. Not sure if intended.
-If you quit the game then start again, you will be in the clouds and have a constant screech sound in your ear. If you press pause then resume it will send you down to Earth like nothing happened.
-I really quite like the zoom into a cutout of the van when looking inside, it's fun when 3D games go the extra mile for no screen transitions.
-Finally getting out of spawn, I find it odd that there are white boxes I can't interact with, since the first thing I did was talk to a white wall to get a quest. I was hoping they would be item pickups or something.
-Took me awhile, but I guess I found some fuel, neat. Also, the driving is too loose, though I don't play many car games.
-Snow falling in front/behind of radar is slightly annoying, since it kind of looks like white blips and is distracting if you're using it.
-Looting a truck and running from a giant spider was fun. Also, it seems like the wind (black streaks) seem to aid in finding my way to the waypoint, or at least it feels like it so far. It's convenient, I like how it only becomes apparent when you slow down/stop.
-Beat the first mission. Don't think this game is really for me, I'm not feeling very fulfilled. But I imagine someone liking this as a Euro Truck Simulator but with more gameplay beyond the driving as you deliver cargo. It could also be the case that when more systems are in place I could appreciate it.
-After the delivery I was playing with the customization, and for some reason it's sometimes jittering like the below gif, it's probably float imprecision? It was more severe when it was at 60 fps.
-The visuals are the best looking part, it has a style and runs with it. Dithering is more than I like, but I got used to it. I think making all 3 maps visible is a bit much. For example, have a button to switch the 200 Band and 50 Scan, since it's rather redundant info. Though, if icons are added to the map maybe it becomes more useful to have both up. On the other hand, it also makes the UI feel more clunky/messy, which could be intentional since the vibe is very much retro inspired.
Keep up the good work.