Post by Crevlorne in One Voice - Canvas Defense jam comments

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Wow! One of the best I've played so far! The only thing keeping me from a perfect score on this one is the difficulty. Goodness, even with the slower enemy setting on I barely scrapped through. Perhaps there is less of a mouse lag if it's not in the browser, maybe that's a factor, but it is extremely difficult pretty much immediately, which could push some more casual players away from the very unique experience.

Bonus: It is pretty neat to be able to play this using a Wacom tablet, or a similar tool. That is how I started out since I saw it was a Paint layout!

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PixelDrake1 year ago

Thanks so much! I just uploaded a full playthrough of it being played on the itch.io page in-browser. Does this look like a similar cursor speed to what you were experiencing? It's my first time using a WebGL build so there's a good chance it might not be working as well on some browsers/PCs. Thanks again for giving it a shot and providing feedback!

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Crevlorne1 year ago

It does seem visually to be dragging a bit behind the cursor, though I'm unsure by watching the video how it felt while playing. I will say I did get more proficient with time, and I love a game with a difficulty curve, don't get me wrong. I did finish the game with perseverance. My hope is merely that any difficulty your players face is the difficulty that was intended, if that makes sense.

If I didn't mention before, the soundtrack was also awesome btw.

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PixelDrake1 year ago (1 edit)

Thanks for having a look! There is definitely intended to be a smoothing effect to the cursor speed that behaves a bit like a stroke stabilizer / lazy mouse. I wanted it to even the playing field a bit for players with vastly different mouse DPIs and also so the colliders could keep up :D

I've actually had it confirmed by someone else that their cursor was lagging significantly more, and increasingly so. So there's definitely a bug for some people. I've been working on an alternative movement system but its a bit late now!

ty! I listened to pages and pages of different tracks while I was coding trying to find some good fits. I wish I'd had time to do some fading/cross fading too. Sometimes the transition is a bit jarring atm!

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