Very enjoyable! You have a great base for further development here. With some more time in the oven, I could see myself playing something like this for way longer than I care to admit.
I'll be honest, I gave it way more time than I'm comfortable to admit and switched my keyboard into Rapid Trigger mode, but I still wasn't able to deliver that damn pizza.
Super enjoyable. At least, once I managed to turn off the CRT filter — can't see anything with that on.
Very complete experience. Coherent, easy enough to understand, a pretty fun game loop, unlockables, a tutorial, an option to save… it's all there. Stellar job all around.
If I were to nitpick, I'd say I was kind of missing something like a mini map. The reason being the following: after every trip to base, I found myself cycling through 1-5, so that I could see in which direction the objectives spawned. This way, I could at least awkwardly guess at the optimal route. Having to do this every time I went to get a reload got kind of tedious after a while. For me, having some kind of mechanism to at least gauge the distance to each of the targets would've been appreciated.
I was able to easily understand what the game was about and how to play it, which is always a big plus in my book.
After a short while, I was out of presents and had a pretty hard time getting more of them, so I'd suggest to at least up the rate of thieves a bit. Or, for example, implement regenerating presents / randomly spawning presents to pick up.
After a view loops, I found myself wanting for some more incentive to keep playing. Either, for example, through escalating production more quickly, or through feedback how I'm actually doing.
I found myself wondering: am I clicking fast enough to get the highest reward possible? Getting feedback on that front (or making it easier to see) would've been appreciated.
Man, I'm a sucker for this art style. Great job on that front.
The idea is certainly interesting and creative, I wouldn't even have dreamed of this.
Gameplay wise — you already know it — there's room for improvement. But the fantasy is definitely there! Imagine filling up the walker with more and more machinery, making it tear through bigger and bigger waves.
As it is right now, I'm also primarily craving a) a more fluent system for actually using the different guns of the walker and b) being informed of the end of the waves / my performance and having the ability to go again, preferably with an ever-increasing amount of enemies. I'd really dig a game loop where you fight some waves, and then get some downtime to upgrade the walker.
But all in all — I really like this one. Great job guys.
One of the few games where I got to the end without scratching my head at some point, asking myself what is probably expected from me. Good pacing and effective communication of what my options are and how to proceed.
The only (minor) inconvinience I had with the design was that I couldn't identify at a glance which type of atmosphere all the planets had.
But aside from that, this is an exceptionally round and enjoyable experience, really great job you guys! (:
Really interesting that you felt like there was missing feedback when the player gets hit (considering there's some player flicker, a hurt sound and screen shake). I guess it's all just a little too subtle, I'll keep that in mind!
So true with the boss, it was jammed in the last second :p.
Played it to the end, quite an enjoyable and complete experience! (:
I was a little confused at first when I actually take damage. Mainly because I didn't understand that the trails the purple goops leave behind damage me as well. Especially when they leave an item, my instinct was to immediatly rush over and pick it up, which led to me touching the still remaining trail and get damaged.
Aside from that, I had a smooth experience so really nice job!
Interesting point with the dash behaviour, we didn't think about that before. We envisioned a linear progression through the sections, so jumping walls and taking shortcuts didn't seem like the best idea. Maybe we shouldn't even have suggested the ability to dash to the other side by designing the sections differently for example?
In hindsight, you're probably right about the teleporters. We should've just deactivated them fully when you used them once. My line of thinking was, if the player gets a little lost and ends up at a teleporter he already visited, I'm not going to make him/her backtrack all the way back again. Initially we planned to make the colored "cross" at the spawn on the ground glow, to indicate which cardinal directions have already been cleared. Just one of the features we had to cut because of time constraints... :(
We held a 1 week "mini game jam" just for the two of us prior to this jam, so that's pretty much our experience with Unity and making games (we already had coding and art experience tho). I wish we would've been a little more seasoned, then the game could've been more like what we envisioned from the start. But oh well, we still jumped in and learned a ton, so I guess we got what we came for.
