Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

• Ambitious scope, a lot of features, but would have benefited from more play-testing and balancing.  Islands are too big - takes ages to traverse them.  Couldn't get back on the ship via the ladder.

• I liked your use of 3rd party assets to build something fairly extensive in such a short time. I could have done with a health pickup on the island, I inevitably ran out of health and the respawn to the start was then quite frustrating. The scope was a good idea but didn't really work as I couldn't rotate. I think there was also an issue with aiming if there was a height difference between me and the enemy (I think I was shooting over their heads) so maybe automatically adjust the vertical gun position. The AI was OK, but once a few had spawned I just got overwhelmed because they bunched up and all attacked at once; a simple way to avoid this is a rule where the AI cannot go closer than a few metres from each other - that way you get them one at a time. I struggled with the ships ladder, I kept seeming to sink rather than jump onto it, so again maybe automatically get on the ladder when in range - it shouldn't be a significant game skill. I liked the large map, but could have done with a UI outline to mark my ship out. Finally if you have music, always have an on/off menu or key option.

  Simon Tomlinson, Independent Consultant.