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Invaders from Amber Sol (shmup, shooter)

Shmup, Space 2D Shooter ship builder, liberate planets from invading aliens · By AddiekinStudio

Tried your game (after reddit post 12 hours ago)

A topic by Matt Lloyd created Jan 08, 2023 Views: 79 Replies: 1
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Hi - I tried your game after you commented about it on a reddit post about 12 hours ago (you'd commented on my games and asked for feedback on yours).

I'm not very good at it. I find the ship moves too slowly for me to able to dodge the enemy bullets and such easily. I'm sure there's upgrades you can probably get to make your ship more agile, but I'm not good at this game and so kept getting killed and having to repair the ship.

I like the concept.

The menus could be a little clearer. When I first played the game before I went out for breakfast this morning I died straight away, then I came back after lunch and tried again and I kept clicking Play Mission which did nothing because I didn't realise I had to repair the ship first. So it would have been beneficial to put maybe a little message on screen saying "Cannot play mission because ship must be repaired first" or something.

There's little things like that that make it a bit easier to know what to do. I didn't read all the 'how to play' as it was far too long for me to get into.

I do like the graphical style, but I feel the ship is too cumbersome to move at the beginning, and some of the menu prompts could be a little clearer at knowing what to do.

Developer

Thanks for trying the game out. I am definitely going to be working on a lot of those things you mention. Its a bit unapproachable and definitely not an easy thing for me at the moment though this is good experience and the feedback is really going to help me pay attention more during early design. Code always gets harder the more you have and the more you mangle it.