Thanks for playing ! Glad you liked the artstyle ^^

Yeah movement seems to be the main issue everyone’s brought up the most, though believe it or not almost untill the final subbed build the movement was even slower :p but i’ll look into this if i get time post jam to work on it.

Weapon wise, yup can’t argue it needs re balancing so this will definitively be looked into like the movement issue if i get time post jam, i didn’t make a switching mechanic to keep things simple for the jam and ensure i could finished what i planned first, but its a good suggestion i’ll look into if i get post jam time as well ^^

Thanks for your kind words ! Glad you’ve liked it so much ^-^

Thank you ^^

Yeah fps view is a bit wonky on some aspects for one simple reason, it’s not a dedicated view with proper fps models rendered seperately etc… like it is when done well, i just slapped a second camera on the mech adjusted the view a bit so that the crosshairs would line up with the shots and Bam, fps view :p so that’s why the weapons are so chunky they’re the same models the mech has in its hand just seen closer to the camera.

Sorry about the difficulty :( I tried to have it as balanced as possible, though i’ll admit i might have made a bit too much “busy areas” with enemies and turrets but i tried to have at least 2 repair items per level in hope this would help ^^

Thanks for your feedback ! Happy that you liked it :D

Yeah the weapons are not the best on some regards can’t argue with that, my biggest mistake in that regard is that to save some time i made that every weapon and projectile in the game is in fact the same for ennemies and the player, so i had to not make the projectiles too fast so that when the enemies shoot you wouldn’t have to take damage from some ultra fast un dodgeable bullets, the shotgun being one that got the really short end of the stick because of that choice :p

For the aiming i had to put a limit angle somewhat but i might have settled for too low, it was a bit odd to balance cause of the 2 perspective so i’ll probably have to tweak things a bit here if i get the time post jam.

Yep, might have seen a bit too big for the levels, especially considering that for performance reasons i had to drastically reduce the number of enemies compared to how many there were at some point.

Really cool that you like the aesthetic and gamefeel still despite all the other issues XD I like retro so i aimed for more of a PS1 look, but wow i really take it as a big compliment if you felt it had also a 2000’s PC feel ^_^ gameplay wise i wanted to keep things a bit more arcade like and simple, plus i don’t think i could really manage to pull off something that’s more sim like :p

Thanks for giving it a shot, glad you’ve enjoyed it ^^

Yeah i was really happy that the engine made it possible to make scopes this way, i thought it made sense to have them work like that.

Well the textures were always planned to be pixelated cause i wanted to make something retro, but the render resolution of the game was scaled down the most i could to find the best balance between performance/visibility.

Also glad that it ran smoothly for you, i wanted it to be browser playable cause i fell everytime for jam that’s the best option to have the most people being able to play it, but it was quite an uphill battle for optimization O_o,

i’m not gonna bore you with the details but if you’re curious i’ve participated in a community post where people can share trivia about their entry and i explained a bit more about what i did with the performance issues etc…

Anyway thanks again for playing and your comment, cheers :)

Thanks for sharing your impressions ^^

Haha well with how blocky everything is not quite so PS2 :p

Cool ! Nice to see everybody seem to have found their favorite, the LMG ended up being a good all rounder for both targets and enemies XD

Yeah can’t argue that everything ended up a bit barren but long story short i had to emty a lot out of the levels for performance reasons, if you want the more detailed version, i told a bit more details into a community post started by PixelRunner where poeple could share trivia about their entry (where i hope my long post didn’t scare people off :p)

Thanks for the suggestion :) i like the idea of a minimap if i get time post jam i’ll try it, i’ve done some in past entries but they were 2D so i hope i can pull it off for 3D.

Haha thanks Dungeon glad you liked it :)

Thanks for your comment ^^

Yeah i did ammo systems on other games but since i still don’t have a clean and easy way to implement it quickly i decided to not bother doing so this time so as OP as it can be with all weapons Unlimited ammo it is XD

The AR/GL combo i wanted to be a sort of versatile 2 in 1 weapon but the grenade didn’t ended up as usefull as i thought it would be, especially since it has a bit of a slow gravity cause the 3D rigid body didn’t behave quite as i expected compared to it’s 2D counterpart, so once i got it sorta working i didn’t alter it any further to not risk breaking anything, but oh well at least you still get to use it like a regular AR and at worst there are a lot of other weapons in the levels :p

I had a lot of issues with performance througout developement so the level design got a lot simpler with less props etc… so that’s why the jumps doesn’t feel quite useful, i still kept it cause i wanted the levels to have some verticality and i didn’t want to limit player mobility too much as well.

Thanks a lot Lemi glad you liked the game :)

Yeah what a time it was especially when you see where 3D’s gone in such a short time all things considered, really happy that my game managed to invoke you some good memories from back in those days ^^

Controls wise i felt that WASD + mouse was the way to go to have the shooting feel right, and that that would be the modern tweak needed for a bit more precise gameplay. As for the SFX since i had so much to work on in some aspects, i simply just decided to re-use my Mech Jam 3 Sfx since they seemed to fit when testing and it made sense for a sequel anyway.

haha yeah it’s been a bit of a staple so far to have a chara select, but i just can’t help it, especially since this time around there was a secondary theme that would fit this perfectly :p and yep i’m trying to make good use of any new trick i learn every game. Likewise ^^ although i know i might miss a lot of updates from fellow jammers since i’m not always around itch in between jams, i try to keep up at least a bit and check out every now and then though !

Wow thanks for those kind words :o, as always for my jam entry i’m not sure in advance if i’ll have time to do some post jam work, but if i can i’ll try to add a bit, though i don’t know if i’m ready yet for some full fledged game yet cause there’s still somethings i’m learning (yes even after that long :p)

Thanks for giving my game a shot Crimson Bulb ^^

Haha yeah i gues gameplay wise it could be kind of a heavier goldeneye, though i didn’t have as much objectives variety for the missions sadly XD

Well like i said since it’s been the main issue so far, if i get time post jam, i’ll try tweaking the movement speed a bit to see how this goes.

Haha yeah the Beam gun was tons of fun to make so i’m glad you thought it was fun to use, and i’ll admit a little bit OP as well, though here i didn’t make the mistake of just giving it out in a default loadout, you gotta look for it when it’s available hehe è-é

Visually speaking that’s pretty much the idea but for a sequel to my Mech Jam 3 entry ^^

even if you’re not wrong mentioning Team Maverick cause my personal canon goes that so far most of the Sci-Fi games i made with character select are part of the same larger universe :p

Thanks a lot ! Really happy that you liked it :D

I wanted to try something different.

Cause i thought if i’m going for “big robot wields big robot sized guns” how practical and usable a scope weapon would be if you needed something long range ? So i thought why not have the scopes on mech weapons just be cameras that could send their feed directly in a window on the pilots interface.

So as i thought this made sense in universe, i played around with viewports in the engine to acheive a small window that would see from a different cam with a different zoom level etc… to apply this effect, with the additional idea being that you could scope in and not obstruct your main view to keep moving if you were doing so. And i also got inspired by some very old titles that made scopes this way (visually, cause technically i have no idea how they acheived this back then :o) before the more modern standard of full screen scope or ADS systems.

Glad you liked the variety as well ^^ I wanted to have the pilots visible in the UI even if it didn’t serve any gameplay purpose, especially since i chose one of the secondary themes which puts more emphasis on them, plus i felt that having the portraits + a loadout of choice + each their custom paintjob would really help convey their personality through and have players find each their favorites XD

Well the draw distance with a harsh cutoff is something the engine does by default since i didn’t use any kind of fog effect to mask it and i had to keep it rather short for performance’s sake in the end, i got lucky the scopes’s extra further reach didn’t tank performance even further :p

Haha glad you liked the stomping sounds cause funnily enough, every single SFX in the game are just the same re used SFX from my Mech Jam 3 entry last year XD

Thanks ! Really glad that you like the visuals :D

I allways try my best to have the retro stuff look as authentic as possible so it means a lot when people seem to like the effort ^^

The funny thing is that i’m not that big into horror so i was never gonna go along that specific route thematically cause it’s not really my thing. Haha well i tried to go for the kind of renders you’d see in the manuals and some covers back in the day but i wasn’t sure how it would turn out since i used the same low poly model as in the gameplay, juste spiced up a bit and rendered at a higher res XD

Happy that you liked the music as well, i tried to find the best sopunding possible guitar in LMMS cause i wanted to have the music be as close to Metal as i could, to further go for the Ps1 style with CD audio, plus can’t have an action game without fast paced music.

Yeah this is kind of a bug but out of necessity, in short, i was having a lot of trouble with performance when testing the first few builds, so i had to optimize the hell out of everything i could, one of these things ended up in enemies pooling from the same shader for their hit state, so when said shader changes it’s color every instance that uses it is affected. So it’s not supposed to look like that but when i had to optimize i went for the quick solutions cause i didn’t know how to do better sorry :(

Yep i didn’t think this through enough and make any kind of menu to choose to go back in case of a wrong choice, the only workaround there is in the game’s current state is that there’s a mini character select menu that pops up when the player dies that lets you go back to the menus, which sadly amplifies the issue you had in the tutorial since it’s th only map in the game where it’s impossible to die :p

Yeah can’t argue with this yet again it’s the main issue so far though if i get time post jam i’ll probably not go the dash route for this game but i’ll try to rebalance the speed by having the player move a bit faster to see if this makes it better.

Thanks for your detailed feedback, and taking the time to test my game out :)

Thanks for playing ! Glad you liked the variety on offer ^^

Haha yeah and i’m not surprised if it turns out as everybody’s favorite in the long run especially with how OP it is :p

Thanks for your kind words, i apreciate it ^^

Yeah i wanted to have as much variety as possible and to have the characters not just be a visual change, and still kept the fact to have collectable weapons in the levels themselves so that players wouldn’t be stuck with a weapon they didn’t like at the start :p

Anyway glad you liked as much as replaying it a bunch of times ! :D

Thanks for playing ! Glad that you liked it ^^

Thanks for giving my entry a try ^^

Glad you’ve enjoyed the artstyle ! I wasn’t sure how those busy textures would look considering how low res the game is actually rendered, so i’m glad it seems allright so far.

Yeah can’t argue with the speed, although like i said before i’m not sure about a dash for this particular setting for story reasons :( even if it would make sense gameplay wise to boost the pace up a little.

And yet again the funny thing is before the last upload i could make, the player mechs were moving even slower at some point :o but i think i’ll probably up the walk speed a little more if i get time to do some post jam updates in hopes this adresses the game speed issue a little.

Cool that you liked the game despite the speed issue though :)