really great! Solid interconnected level design, great art style, and a great Metroid tribute
as I said in my other post, there’s a couple confusing things with the controls. Left shift booting to main menu when your looking at the map is the main one. Also, the map button isn’t noted in your readme!
the other one is when saving, it’s not clear which button selects and which cancels out. On the games main menu, space will select “start game, continue” etc. but it doesn’t work when saving. I then thought “x” was selecting it, but that actually cancels it. Finally stumbled on z selecting it since it started the animation (which I loved!) so I would just make its clear and consistent.
really hope you keep building, expanding, and fleshing it out! Really fun and absorbing
hello! I am loving the new demo so much! I will post here as I find bugs so I don’t forget. Overal having a blast!
- I died before my first save. When I respawned I was just in pure black and frozen.
- the one sided door u have to shoot the light right above a save room in the beginning- I had unlocked it and went to save, when I came back it was locked again . I don’t know if that’s intentional
- scrolling on the map with controller is inverted. Left goes right, etc
- the elevator and save machines take a long time to give the use prompt! I thought it was broken
Hey Sam!
Glad you're loving the new demo, as for the bugs:
If you the pure black and frozen state happened after you selected continue and haven't saved in Demo 3 yet, it likely tried to load an old save from Demo 2 then couldn't find the room to load and bugged out. I'm aware of the bug but haven't had time yet to fix it, it shouldn't happen as long as you either: haven't had a save of NiTL when you player OR have saved at least once in Demo 3.
One sided door: That's intentional, rooms reset after leaving. Bit of a troll, I know, but intentional.
About the scrolling on the map, that's intentional and also kind of an optical illusion of sorts because:
If you look at the grid, then yes it's inverted.
If you look at the map tiles, then it follows the input.
As for the save and elevator stations,
I plan on updating them to have an "charging" animation so players are aware things are happening, the actual delay is 1 second but it only counts down if you stay still. It's something I noticed over the weekend while I was presenting the game at the Cancer Society Games Fair in New Zealand.
There were some other bugs, one of which was game-breaking (resulted in not being able to shoot or drop bombs) but it's been fixed and the build got stealth updated about 20 hours ago with the fix and a couple others things. So if you run into that just redownload the demo.
Demo 3 isn't fully finished yet, but enough of it was there to make a release, planned are:
I was doing my first run through the demo just now, and after getting the (I'm assuming) second energy tank in the vibrant jungle area, I lost my Morph Ball. I also checked if it was disabled or something in the Status Menu, but it's just gone from there too. Is this a known bug or something?
Edit: I just realized I lost my missiles & expansion too. They're just G o n e now.
Hey Kiryhnn,
The first energy tank in the jungle area is actually the 4th in order in the demo, sounds like you did a sequence break to use the elevator to get to the jungle area earlier.
As for losing your morph mode and missiles, there's no bugs or mechanics in the game that disable them, you likely just hit the debug keys by accident. On the keyboard number row, you can press '1' to toggle the the missile ability on and off, enabling it this way maxes out the capacity to 255, if you press '2' on the keyboard, it toggles the morph mode ability. You can open the README.txt file included in the demo zip to view the rest of the debug commands.
Other than that I hope you're enjoying the demo, playing with a controller is highly recommended. You can rebind input for both keyboard and gamepad to your liking if you don't prefer the default control scheme.
There will be an update next month near the end of April with some level design changes, proper audio sound effects, and the actual name of the game. I hope you like it enough to check it out again then.
Feel free to post any other feedback you have with the demo!
