Thanks for the input baconation,
As background information, this is a game for a school project, so ripping off assets is "fine" since our intent is not to distribute a paid product. If ever we do continue iterating on this concept, we will for sure include original content and assets.
As for your feedback:
- The planning phase will increase in length as the game extends (1 additional second per completed round). We are aware though that the duration might seem a little short for new players, but this is part of our design philosophy, moment to moment action-packed gameplay. We will keep this in mind though and try out different values.
- The planning phase is skippable (Enter key), and awards the player a maximum of $20 (depending on how early it was skipped). However there is no visual indication anywhere so we will definitely add one in the future to avoid confusion.
- For the FPS building point, I think I see where you are coming from. In a normal tower defense game, the speed at which you can build is limited by the movement of your mouse, which is pretty fast. While in Project Enigma, your building speed is limited by the character speed, adding on top of that a time constraint increases the difficulty of building. While it is indeed far more easy to build in a top down perspective, we want to stay consistent to the FPS genre and keep everything uniform.
- However we can see some foreseeable issues with this, notably if we were to added more turret types / upgrade trees, then tower menu would get way to big and clumsy to use. So perhaps in a future iteration we would consider a camera transition between fps and top-down for the planning phase
- In addition to this, in the next update the mini-map will contain turret information (color coded towers with upgrade icons) so it will be easier to find where you built turrets and plan your next move.
- As for the UI and visuals feedback we think that all your points are valid and we will most likely incorporate them.
Regards,
- LarryV