Hi again. I have some thoughts I like to share with you.
- There’s no window mode. Fullscreen is nice, but not always the best. I like playing in smaller window.
- After enabling CRT shader the blur strenght can be set but it works only on the title screen. Even when I set blur to minimum, it is visible in the game and makes my eyes hurt
- The plane should tilt to left and right when turning, not turn like a car. I’ve seen some early video of the game and you had it there. I don’t know why you changed that but it was better.
- The animation of tank is too slow according to it’s speed when moving on the bridge
- Flat objects made of big pixels looks cool. But I would like to see them more 3D. It could be still made of pixels but in all 3 dimensions. For example, the baloon now is flat “pie” but it could be a pixelated sphere. Especially when I see the heicopters with rotating propeller, it’s in third dimension. Oh, just like you made zeppelins!
- Balloon moves to fast. Check the original River Raid. Balloons are the slowest obstacles.
- Also, the ships are a bit too fast. Maybe it could be faster on the further levels but at the beginning it should be slower.
- Fuel is running out too fast. When I slow down, it’s impossible to fly one level from bridge to bridge without refueling. It was possible on Atari game.
- Your bullet should move left/right along with the plane. It was the Atari mechanics and it should be here.
- Keyboard should be available to redefine. I don’t like shooting with space, rather would like to use ctrl key.
- Whole menu should be controlled by keyboard, not only mouse. I can pause game with escape key, but cannot unpause it with keyboard. When I play with keyboard, I don’t need to use mouse in the same time.
- Changing the camera view is very important, but you should add some more views. The most important is allowing to view the game from the top, giving you the feel and look closer to the original game. Or even an isometric view like in Blue Max game whould be nice.
- Like ‘puzzud’ wrote in an other comment, you should take care of some optimization because the game sometimes has hiccups
- Waves on the river could be more distinct. Water looks like clear blue but it would be a nice effect
This is not complaining. I hope you don’t take it like that. These are some thoughts from me after a short time of playing. I really like your game and would like to see it still developing.
- Extended objects are outstanding idea! I love the mines, shooting ships etc. Still more could be added but it’s great now.
- Also the bosses are great!
- The whole game is made very well and it’s the best RR remake I ever seen. Really good job!