So... I read these forums fairly religiously but I don't post very often, and have never posted any of my work... mostly because a lot of you guys do amazing work and I fear being critiqued by people so far above my skill. However, I have a very hard time finding any meaningful feedback from people I know IRL... and after spending so many hours working on something, I find myself completely unable to tell if it's any good or not. So I'm finally posting something for some feedback.
This is a game I've been working on for a little while. It's still very early on and lacking any meaningful gameplay, or permanent graphics, but the basic idea is there. It's sort of a platformer/shooter, I suppose. Anyway, there isn't anything to do but run around the world and kill enemies, which causes you to grow slowly. Also, if you just click play a level is randomly generated for now, and because I didn't want to spend much time on that, there are overlapping spores and such which occasionally results in some wonky behaviour such as big "gravity wells" where several are overlapping, making it very hard to jump away from the cluster, and sometimes some crappy looking rotation.
There aren't any instructions so- Use A and D to run around the "spores", W to jump, Left Mouse to fire. P pauses the game, U brings up a simple debug window. From the main menu you can also use the level editor (has instructions... and is very basic), which will let you build your own level.
Since there isn't any gameplay/balance to critique, I'm mostly looking for your thoughts on the controls and performance. Was it fun/smooth/easy to run around jumping form spore to spore? What did you get for FPS?
Anyway, thanks for checking it out and sorry for the big post you had to read through to find the controls.
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