Good game to play for those who are looking for reaction time challenges.
My recommendation is that:
There should be indicators on where the player should move the spacecraft on the map in the beginning levels of the game. I got confused by the "What?" and "Start" squares. As a new player, I thought that the Start square was the beginning of the level so I tried hovering towards the left to see the other levels.
Also, there should be an indicator in choosing the upgrades. I suggest changing the colors or other creative methods for the color-blind people to determine if the upgrades worked or not.
It is a fun and challenging game with a few tweaks it is going to be a huge hit. 5/5
Hey! Thank you very much for the feedback and your ideas! We will definitely take those into account, and we will definitely think of how to best tackle color-blindness for the final release
I dig how much mileage you got out of such a simple premise! The mechanic of increasing fire rate if you go in one direction for a long enough time is great.
I sometimes go to the itch.io "latest games", and I just play whatever free game I happen to see. I normally find some pretty bad games, some are slightly better than bad, but I have not found a good game. This is great!
First things first, my complaints I don't like the way the attacks look when they overlap while they are not dealing damage(i call that anticipating). You are changing the alpha, which by itself is fine, but when the attacks overlap, it doesn't look very good imo. My solution would be to change its color instead or maybe apply some dithering. There aren't many indicators. When an attack is about to spin, please have an indicator of which direction it is going. The attacks still hit, even when they aren't there. When the attacks fade away, even though they are nearly invisible I would still get hit. I get that there is an outline, but that is not what I'm paying attention to when I'm trying to survive. As soon as something starts fading away, it shouldn't do damage anymore. Also, sometimes an anticipating block would stop on me, and immediately start attacking. I had no time to react to it... Finally, the instant kill attack is cheap.
Now for things I like! I love the way the enemy colors contrast the player's colors, that is a nice touch. These particles look so great! The way the background particles move away from the boss emphasizes the circle. I'm really happy with how forgiving the player's hitbox is. Most people just make it as large as possible lol I like the way the game slows down when you change direction, and speeds up the less you turn. It helps new players trying to stay in one place, and for more experienced players, they will try to hold a direction as long as possible to beat the boss faster! I love the way the music is timed with the first attack. It teaches you how attacks and damage work, in just a second.
4/5, very well done, I can't wait to see what comes out of this.
Edit New complaint: I beat the game and unlocked dashing, but I can't go back to normal. :/
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Good game to play for those who are looking for reaction time challenges.
My recommendation is that:
There should be indicators on where the player should move the spacecraft on the map in the beginning levels of the game. I got confused by the "What?" and "Start" squares. As a new player, I thought that the Start square was the beginning of the level so I tried hovering towards the left to see the other levels.
Also, there should be an indicator in choosing the upgrades. I suggest changing the colors or other creative methods for the color-blind people to determine if the upgrades worked or not.
It is a fun and challenging game with a few tweaks it is going to be a huge hit. 5/5
Hey! Thank you very much for the feedback and your ideas! We will definitely take those into account, and we will definitely think of how to best tackle color-blindness for the final release
Cool Game Dont know how to change the equempint do they have to be blue to equip it?
They should appear as dark blue if you have unlocked them! A small black bar will appear to the left side of the ability you have selected :)
cool game I feel like there should be an arrow pointing to the rotating square saying "this is you" as I was a little confused at the start
This would be the perfect mobile game!
Amazing graphics, simple but fun gameplay, just overall good :)
Edit:
Also the dash is so cool
Nice!!
Nice 1st place on "the obstacle" (level 3)! Brilliant game that I am maybe only partially biased towards due to my ranking
It's incredible
Super fun! This game reminds me that simple is hard :)
Lessss Goooooo #1 on first lvl!
hdfhf
A fun fun and simple game; But there should be a direction indicator on the obstacles so I'm not playing a guessing game.
Great that you can create such an interesting and challenging game with just one player input. Fun!
Fun!
Very good! A little hard but very good!
NOICE!
Top notch game! Well done.
This is surprisingly hard
Interesting concept, well-executed, though if i had to gripe, i wish there was a way to tell which way objects move once they spawn in
hey! we have a version on newgrounds that's a lot newer and implements a lot of feedback we got on this one. you can try it here: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/793986
As a UX designer, I love everything about this.
the game got a lot easier once I realized you shoot faster if you stop switching directions. Very cool mechanic
great game! love the risk vs reward gameplay. absolutely wonderful.
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The rotating bars attack is impossible to predict.
I dig how much mileage you got out of such a simple premise! The mechanic of increasing fire rate if you go in one direction for a long enough time is great.
My best time is 39.39
Make that 34.36
Alright review time
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I sometimes go to the itch.io "latest games", and I just play whatever free game I happen to see. I normally find some pretty bad games, some are slightly better than bad, but I have not found a good game.
This is great!
First things first, my complaints
I don't like the way the attacks look when they overlap while they are not dealing damage(i call that anticipating). You are changing the alpha, which by itself is fine, but when the attacks overlap, it doesn't look very good imo. My solution would be to change its color instead or maybe apply some dithering.
There aren't many indicators. When an attack is about to spin, please have an indicator of which direction it is going.
The attacks still hit, even when they aren't there. When the attacks fade away, even though they are nearly invisible I would still get hit. I get that there is an outline, but that is not what I'm paying attention to when I'm trying to survive. As soon as something starts fading away, it shouldn't do damage anymore. Also, sometimes an anticipating block would stop on me, and immediately start attacking. I had no time to react to it...
Finally, the instant kill attack is cheap.
Now for things I like!
I love the way the enemy colors contrast the player's colors, that is a nice touch.
These particles look so great! The way the background particles move away from the boss emphasizes the circle.
I'm really happy with how forgiving the player's hitbox is. Most people just make it as large as possible lol
I like the way the game slows down when you change direction, and speeds up the less you turn. It helps new players trying to stay in one place, and for more experienced players, they will try to hold a direction as long as possible to beat the boss faster!
I love the way the music is timed with the first attack. It teaches you how attacks and damage work, in just a second.
4/5, very well done, I can't wait to see what comes out of this.
Edit
New complaint: I beat the game and unlocked dashing, but I can't go back to normal. :/