The main menu was all last second running after I got off work before the jam ended, so it’s one of the things I really wished I allocated better time to work with.
There’s a few bugs I found myself. In addition to the occasional error on death, there’s also a bug when you pause the game causing items to keep spawning forever. I’m currently working on a fully finished version of the game with an actual tutorial stage, right now if you go to the “help” page in the main menu it describes the mechanics. Honestly, I’m not a fan of this because it doesn’t encourage players to learn the game as they play.
A few of the planned features include telegraphing when enemies spawn and what to use, right now they just follow cooldowns with variations based on difficulty.
The art is very unique. However when I see the screenshots you have vs what I saw in game, I get the feeling the NPCs weren’t all supposed to be solid black and faceless? Maybe it was an issue on my end.
However reading how you intended the controls to work, I think that’s very creative and once you get used to the mouse movement, it works just fine!
The gravity mechanics were really well done and I didn’t feel disoriented from that, but the inverting camera and controls added what I feel is a cheap challenge. However, I’m not opposed to the idea, I just think that it could have been implemented in a way that didn’t feel so jarring.
This makes me think that if you took this concept and instead of circuitry it was code, you could make a game for children about the basics of programming. Also the prerendered backgrounds were very interesting to look at!
This is very good and clean. With your art style and how you presented this, I think if you added some more zones and some boss fights this could be a very fast paced RoR1 style game.
And I cannot stress this enough, I see what you did there with the chromatic aberration thing!
This definitely feels like one of those projects where you were experimenting with a very interesting concept, unfortunately I had a repeated bug where after dying I would fall through the map when the map reset :(
In my design documents I had planned on including a co-op scoring system that tracked the mouse actions separately from the arrow keys! So while it’s not in the game, it was definitely an idea that was on the table! :)
This is a really good start to something awesome!
Expanding the mutations, meta progression, enemy types, and procedural layouts could make this into a really fun game to just kill some time with!
Also I like the way it looks. 5/5 on the art direction!
Godot, I’ve heard a lot of good things. Also I’m coming from Unreal and Game Maker. My friends wanted to make games with me, but they didn’t want to commit to something like UE which has it’s own baggage, Godot is open source, and people are really hyping it up. I’m really excited to be learning a lot of new things.
