IDK what even are years?

Long time no see man, hope you've been doing well!

I've been informed this is just playing D&D over the age of 30.

I wanted it to feel unique compared to projectile weapons. But it's just not right yet.

Going back to a longer charge time, and doing what you're suggesting might help fix the feel of it.

That's a good point! The laser is on its second iteration and I'm still not happy with it.

Right now it's just a rapid fire line renderer that deals fractions of a point of damage every frame that it detects a hit. When the damage adds up to a point it applies that point of damage.

If the player hesitates, or hits a wall at a bad angle those turrets will light them up pretty well already and I have the machine gun turrets rotating just barely too slow to keep up with the player well.

I've been thinking about that, but I'm not sure I want to yet? I'll probably save the decision until after the next round of playtesting. A lot of the dynamic I'm trying to create in the game (especially with the turrets) is a feeling of "Gotta keep moving!"

Plus some behind the scenes work like using object pooling so each time a bullet is fired it doesn't have to be created and then destroyed on impact. Instead they're pulled out of a pool of bullet objects, and just set to inactive on impact.

It makes a huge difference in the game's performance!

Having a lot of different playtesters helps me find issues and make my game project the best it can be. I appreciate anybody willing to help me out as I work on developing my game!

You need a PC to play it on and I'll send out an email with instructions. It should take between 5 and 10 minutes to play through both of the levels. Or 15 - 30 minutes if you decide to test all 3 ship designs for me. Then after you play I'll just need you to fill out a feedback form for me.

Playtest feedback helps give me perspective on what is working to make the game more fun for people, and what I should maybe reevaluate. So it's highly appreciated!

3/3

If you haven't already offered, but would like to participate let me know! I'm anticipating it taking 5-10 minutes to play through the game with a single ship design or 15-30 if you want to play both levels with all 3 ships. Then I'd just need you to fill out a survey to give me feedback.

Hey, I guess I can say that now, and people on bluesky DO actually have a way of messaging me privately. Wild! 😂

If you'd like to be a play tester and haven't already told me, let me know and I'll add you to my list!

Since I'm still focused on making sure the player's movement feels good and each of the 3 ship designs have their own strengths and weaknesses I'm not really messing with creating enemies yet. But I have a good idea of what I want to do with them.

Before sending it out to playtesters I still want to create some sort of scoring system (probably something like 10 points per target shot then subtract the number of seconds elapsed), then a stage complete screen, and a high scores page on the title screen.