My first impression is that the player ship moves too slowly. Some of the enemy attacks are quite fast.
That's a fair point I guess, a lot of the enemy bullets are fast and combined with the larger hit boxes, I guess the player ship can feel sluggish. Probably wouldn't have killed me to make different ships different speeds.
I also, like others have mentioned, felt like the hit detection seemed a little too unforgiving. And remember that the player hitbox is only half the picture; the enemy and bullet hitboxes are equally important.
Your right, I didn't really consider the enemy hit boxes too much, I'll consider that a lesson learnt and apply this to my next project.
With that being said I should also add that the package as a whole seems very solid. Pretty much everything seems well-made. Good job; I'm sure you've put a lot of work into this.
Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it.
There's no joystick support...
No I never did learn how to implement customisable controls. That's something I plan to fix but other people have been using joy2key.
It seems like the bullets are extremely unforgiving. I'm not sure if this is due to frame rate (Is this 60fps?) or collision bounding box sizes. Sometimes I couldn't even see what hit me, as the bullets seem to jump across large portions of the screen occasionally . (My monitor is set at 60hz). I'm curious if this was because game maker couldn't handle the game speed wise, or maybe my comp just can't handle it. -P4 2.6ghz integrated gfx.
Not sure why that is. Game runs at 30fps so it is a little jerky, but bullets shouldn't be jumping across the screen like you describe. Also GM should more than handle what's going on. See comments above about hit boxes.
It has a good amount of polish though, and just feels like a complete game and not a demo. Also some good level design and weaponry. A very good turnout if this was you first game indeed. Looking forward to some more.
Well it's not my first game, it is only the third I've finished however. Either way, thanks for trying it and I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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