Thank you for playing! I was heavily inspired by the Hotline Miami games so you're right on the money there, hehe.
Critique is always welcome by the way, it isn't rude at all, I don't know what I would do without it. I'm very glad you enjoyed the game, thank you for leaving feedback!
Of all the fixed camera PSX style games I've played so far this one I think nails it the most. The gameplay and visuals are top notch, the story is intriguing and honestly I can't wait for more! My only complaint really was that the ending monologue was a little difficult to understand.
When I read the title I wasn't sure how well Hotline Miami and Pacman would be able to mix but I'm glad I was wrong, game was pretty good! Gameplay was fun once I got the hang of it and the music choices were great! That last level took me quite a few attempts tho lol
Thank you for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it! A post jam update will be coming soon mostly to add some necessary features like a settings menu, fixes and so on, but I am definitely thinking of properly expanding the game with big features as well at some point, most likely under a different name.
My idea for the dash primarily was to help you put more distance between yourself and the zombies if they are getting too close and maybe also dodge a couple bullets.
Break was great outside of me having a pretty high fever for the last couple of days! How was yours?
As for updates, sadly school is gonna take up a lot of Q1 but you can expect a post jam update for SlavJank(settings menu, controller support, fixes for unintentional jank, more sounds and possibly a health pack to keep you going if you survive for long enough) and minor progress on Downlink.
I've used what I learned while making SlavJank to make a lot of internal improvements to Downlink and I think I am finally at the point where I can start doing levels for it and for such an occasion I thought of remaking the Matrix lobby shootout or maybe a layout of the first level of a boomer shooter done in the office setting.
Also you can always add me on discord if you'd like! I'm not very active in E1M1 server or really most servers I am in because I'm not good with crowds, love the people there but can't help but to feel a little intimidated sometimes y' know.
Thank you for playing and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Yeah I will definitely continue Downlink, I just needed a little break from it to break apart the monotony(which is ultimately how slavjank arena was born). It is taking extra time because when I made it I was still somewhat of a noob at Unity, so to fix it up and make it into what I believe it should be, I gotta rewrite what is already there first before I add any new content to it.
I'd honestly love to take it further with things such as more enemy variety, maybe a new map or two, maybe weapon combos you can pick out yourself and of course, my biggest regret that I couldn't secure in time, some metal tracks to accompany the action.
Thank you for playing! I wanted to leave the same tip here that I left on your video just in case!
The game is very punishing if you aren't moving a lot, so for the best results be very aggressive, breach the doors, shoot while sprinting and avoid enemy fire.
Thank you for the feedback and I'm glad you liked it! I will most definitely look into adding a proper options screen in the pause menu both for sound and graphics in a future update, as well as fixing the smaller bugs like the ones you mentioned, I think I have an idea of what might be causing those two in particular.
Also, believe it or not, I intentionally left the vending machines uncapped in hopes of someone doing exactly what you did, heheh.
I completed it today again and I wouldn't say it's horrible, I like the mix between the regular third person camera and the SH style camera and the exploration was fun.
I feel like player direction could be improved with text not only on the pause screen but maybe also making the protagonist stop and think to himself when he hits a trigger, or maybe how Yakuza does it if the player stands still for 10-ish seconds to display the text, or you can go full SH and circle the map.
It had slight freezes on my PC which is why I would look into either bringing back the Unity default launcher or making an options menu that can change the resolution and graphics settings, they aren't too hard to customize!
I feel like what's there is a pretty good base and doesn't need to be recreated completely from scratch, just needs stuff added onto it. Nevertheless, I wish you luck with whichever method you choose. Pozdrav!
The gas mask is just a tiny addition I wanted to put in there that you can interact with, you can read up on it here if you want: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1499
Thanks for playing, the version that you are playing wasn't made in 2 days though, this is the new and heavily updated version that adds more areas, fixes bugs, adds hardcore mode and a new alternate ending to the game!
I was worried of releasing the mac version because I really had no way of testing it, I apologize. But I hope you enjoy the game now that you can play it!
I can export it to mac if you'd like, but I have no way of knowing if it would actually work, neither I, nor do any of my friends own a mac so I could actually test the port out.
All comments below this one are about the old, glitchy version of the game that was made in just 2 days, the game doesn't look like that anymore, has a lot more content and all bugs have been fixed.
Oh, blame my mouse for that one, it's been acting kinda weird in the past few weeks, so when I was adjusting the sensitivity it seemed okay to me lol. But thank you for playing!
