Really solid first pass on the game! I enjoyed the art and theming. I really struggled with figuring out how to play at first. I assumed I had a way to fight back using left mouse button and I died several times before I managed to get my first upgrade and earn the slingshot.
Once I discovered the dash key and that the slingshot fired automatically on a cooldown (first time I got the slingshot I was still spamming left click trying to fight stuff, so I didn't get to read the description) it became quite a lot easier and fun to play.
I found that the game started hard but got easier the longer I was alive. I did notice that monsters would get stuck on objects, so maybe that made it easier than intended?
I would recommend starting the player with the slingshot and introducing higher health monsters the longer it goes on.
Also I see you wanted to have "start with weapon" as a permanent upgrade, if you start with a weapon by default I think it would be a smoother experience, but you could have "piercing shots" as that permanent upgrade instead, I think something like that would make a very interesting difference. 👍
Either way, great job!
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Thanks for the great feedback!
I can definitely see your point on starting with a weapon. Part of it was the theme idea, original original pass was you’d get extra campers and they’d be the ones auto-using weapons for you, then it was going to be like little item fairies, either way to start you off alone, isolated, and scared, then see how much easier surviving is (rather quickly) with a friend.
I think some more clear communication might make the idea still work - I still think as an in-built tutorial it’d be nice to have people learn moving around and tossing wood into the fire first, then learning to defend themselves isn’t a bad idea. Whatever direction I take it, this was definitely not the way I wanted to bring players in 😅
The slingshot starting with passthrough was an accidental bug, decided to leave it that way to keep things from getting too hard. Completely agree it makes a way better upgrade!