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Stranded Trooper

By balgorode

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall1423.7321
Fun1303.7321
Innovation5692.5221
Theme3703.5021
Graphics1433.8921
Mood2053.4721

Comments

jcmonkey 2022-04-04 05:39

for some reason i got locked in the screen after the i died. couldnt get out of the window.

villfuk02 2022-04-04 12:21

Love the visuals, the darkness with only the glowing eyes of incoming enemies really adds to the atmosphere. All that's missing is some sounds. It also feels great to kill, great VFX.

thomas-higgins 2022-04-04 12:21

Good Fun, I do get some frame stutter though which then causes the bugs to bounce around and kill you, sound would make the game pop but overall awesome presentation, solid idea and good replay ability, would love to maybe see some levelling up mechanics like Vampire Survivors be awesome, overall great

wonz 2022-04-04 12:28

Game looks beautiful and I love the fast pace. I was able to really get into a flow state. Really fun game. Adding some crunchy sounds for those guns and the bugs would go a really long way to making this perfect

balgorode 2022-04-04 12:35

@thomas-higgins Thanks! But yeah if I'm not mistaken the stutter was actually to do with the movement not actually the FPS necessarily (which would be why it kills), could be wrong though. And yeah lack of sound is my biggest regret, but I really had no time xD. Then I would want to add proper a upgrade/gun system and bosses.

lomstfer 2022-04-04 15:31

I really enjoyed this game! Well done! (sounds)

jefvel 2022-04-04 15:43

Super fun! The gameplay is very satisfying even without sound. With sound it'd probably feel even better! I enjoyed playing this, got to the point the game started freezing, at around 6 minutes or so.

It'd be nice to have a kill counter/score display that goes up when killing aliens, seeing numbers go up on the screen feels good. Also I feel like the upgrades that drop randomly are a bit too weak, I got two reload speed upgrades and still couldn't really see a big difference.

It'd be cool if the grenade landed where the mouse pointer was aimed, instead of having collision and hitting the first alien in its path. That way grenades would feel more powerful by being able to be thrown right into the center of a crowd.

All in all I really liked this, great job!

m11 2022-04-04 17:06

Really nice pacing - genuinely fun to play! ^_^

damonwakes 2022-04-04 22:53

Really good game! I too would have loved to have some sound here, but I imagine to do the game justice it would have been a whole lot of extra work - I was impressed by the variety of weapons and characters and I expect you'd want a set of distinct noises for each of them to make the most of that. The graphics (particularly the glowing eyes) and the different enemy types were also great touches. All in all, it feels like there's a whole lot here to have been put together in such a short space of time, and ducking out of audio altogether strikes me as a reasonable trade-off: what it does, it does really well!

nenechico 2022-04-06 22:27

love the shootings effects

marumari 2022-04-08 17:21

Survived almost 3 min! :D Feels really good to play

zlitch 2022-04-08 17:37

wow the VFX was great. really liked the game. it would have been my best if it had some audio. but was very fun to play! great

subcreation 2022-04-12 16:48

Solid design and good game feel! The only audio I really missed was audio cues for reload, which would have been helpful since there were no obvious visual cues for when a reload had finished. I like the pacing of the enemy progression, and I like that there is a variety of player and weapon types to choose from. Solid entry!

timur-bahadir 2022-04-12 17:06

Very satisfying to play! I did get a bit motion sick from the camera tho ^^.

hammy0212 2022-04-12 18:34

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Really nice VFX :)! Survived for 15 mins; could've kept going but I think I was auto generating a grenade every time I got a kill, that paired with the heath of a billion dead aliens meant I was a little too OP xD. If u continue to develop it, I'd recommend reducing the drop rate or limiting the number of drops in the world. Additionally, rather than increasing the chance to gain a grenade on a kill, you could change it to a temporary power up or make it so grenade kills can't give grenades - to prevent grenade spamming. Fantastic game thou, had a blast playing it :D

zimny11 2022-04-12 22:10

Game looks super good! The graphics and lighting are awesome. The shooting feels satisfying (what I shame you did not have time to implement some sound effects). Even that there are few things missing, the games looks and feels great. Awesome job!