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| Orbytor; Indie Puzzle Casual |
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| Extrude:
highscores Current Version - 1 - BlockLeg, with 1300 points 2 - Extrude, with 314 points Pre-Combo - 1 - Extrude, with 83 points logo info Orbytor is best described as round pong. It's a game where you protect an inner sphere from incoming pongs that imply destruction. It's a pretty simple concept, and I want it to be published on Steam eventually, but the reality is it's incredibly simple. It needs more content to be at the point where Steam would accept it. The categories I'm looking at are Indie, and Casual. The reason I posted it here, was because I legitimately need alpha/beta testing. Unlike the average blockhead's idea of it, where you join a server and drive some neat cars, I need you guys to find problems, with graphics or gameplay, and more importantly, give me ideas for other gameplay enhancers. controls space - progress menus escape - quit a - rotate counter-clockwise d - rotate clockwise screenshots download Update 2 Orbytor_Alpha.zip - 2.83MB bugs 1 - Near 0 degree, SEVERE ISSUE This bug is caused when you try and stop a pong near 0 degrees. It's cause is completely known, and fixable. 2 - Pong artifacting after stopping it, MINOR ISSUE Pong creates artifacts after stopping/missing it. This was not recreatable since many updates, although still exists I'd assume. |
| SpreadsPlague:
WORDS .. ON LOGO .. NOT CENTERED .. OCD .. KICKING IN .. MUST RESIST .. BREAKING MONITOR .. also what language is it programmed in? nvm read the info file. convenient. right away a complaint: the resolution is too tall for my screen. my desktop is 1360 x 768. I suggest resizing the game based on the persons resolution. |
| RedGajin:
It's good, but it needs more. I think if you made it more a music based game, where you could choose songs and the little pongs would come down in tune with the song or something similar. Then you would also have a freeplay mode or something of the like. And maybe the color of the whole thing would change occasionally so it doesn't get so boring. But I think you main problem is that this game has been remade in a lot of ways before so you're going to need something very different to actually get good results. Overall I like it though. |
| SpreadsPlague:
all of the following are individual points, not one paragraph awkwardly spread out. it's very repetitive. I suggest somewhat randomizing the speed of the pong thingies that are coming at you. it seems like you can always hit them way too easily. maybe 2 or 3 coming at you at once? increase rotation speed slightly to accomodate? I've only played for maybe 5 minutes so far so I'm not sure if multiple projectiles are introduced. I suggest the background should do something. not sure what. change colors maybe. perhaps add a combo system to give more points for hitting numerous pongs in a row? 1 point per pong is great and everything but maybe change it to base of 100 per pong so it feels like I'm accomplishing something, then giving me multipliers for every 5th or 10th pong I hit in a row after that. just an idea. make the lives more visible. it took me a while to realize where my lives were. maybe labeling them with 'lives' would do the trick. needs a mute button. I like the music but I'm sure some people won't. needs arrow key controls. A and D seem too spaced apart for whatever reason. must be a psychological thing. maybe make left arrow and down arrow rotate one direction, up arrow and right arrow the other? for such a small game it takes a while to load (10 seconds?) .. why is this? maybe add a loading bar with some flavor text? if you play a game and lose, you're taken to something that looks identical to the title screen however the title of the game isn't actually there. is this intentional? |
| Extrude:
I like all of that. Especially the combo system. I can add support for arrow keys as well. The loading screen is 5.9 seconds long, and it's simply to let the particlesystem cycle. I could lower it to about 1 second pretty easily. Thanks for the suggestions, those will certianly help make the game better. Also, the resolution is adjustable very easily in the code. |
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