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[Skyrise]

Looks fun, though I'm not too sure about that yellow color in the levels. I think if the alien ship colors were a little more analogous, it would look more harmonious (color-wise). But perhaps the distinct colors signify something or make it more confusing, therefore more difficult. Looks cool though, will definitely try it out when I get on my PC at home.

Thank you.
We are considering a complete color (and maybe design too) revision for the final release of the game.

The original idea was to pay an homage (visually) to the classic arcade production of the '90, especially the first real-3d coin ops (I can still remember the sound of my jaw dropping the first time I've seen Virtua Racing).

At the same the games wants to be a tribute to  the classic home computer shooters from the eighties, in first istance Andrew Braybrook's Uridium, but also the psychedelic works of Jeff Minter.

Maybe the combination of the two things is too much :D and surely some color combination is not working so well... so, we are thinking to tone down a bit the colors, but at the same time, we are not sure that we like to get rid of the peculiar look of the game.

If you have tried the game, and have some feedback gameplay-side, it could be really helpful to us. 

PS
sorry for bad english.

[letsap]

Your english is fine, yo.

Keep the colors! I love the visual style, and the camera is so fantastic I find myself leaning with the turns of my ship. As far as visuals go, it's very distinct and you already have options (which I neglected to check out at first). My only complaint would be that it can be very hard to tell where you're aiming - I'm not sure if that's intentional or not. I know you can kind of gauge it by following that cool light trail you leave behind, but it brings you dangerously close to enemies. Those little turrets, for instance, are super tough to aim at, hit, and evade all at once.

If that's intentional then wow, that's a tough enemy. To better ease players into that, it might be fruitful to have some kind of visual means of telling what you're aiming at during practice only.

There's a very nice balance right now, though one feature that might be kind of cool is leaving a different colored trail each time you start a life? Lives are also a bit unforgiving, but that could just be design choices.

All in all, despite some nitpicky things I'm enjoying this a whole lot. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.  

[Skyrise]

Your english is fine, yo.

Keep the colors! I love the visual style, and the camera is so fantastic I find myself leaning with the turns of my ship. As far as visuals go, it's very distinct and you already have options (which I neglected to check out at first).

+1 for full colors then.

We have a little internal debate about the game colors, but personally I really dig the current visual style of the game.

BTW, the previous post was from mauz, the graphic designer on the project, he forgot to lot out before posting.

My only complaint would be that it can be very hard to tell where you're aiming - I'm not sure if that's intentional or not. I know you can kind of gauge it by following that cool light trail you leave behind, but it brings you dangerously close to enemies. Those little turrets, for instance, are super tough to aim at, hit, and evade all at once.

Yeah, we're thinkink of adding a crosshair or something alike to aid the player aim. We can always have an option to turn the crosshair off.
You actually fire always in a straight line, the basic idea is you need to perfectly align with the cubes and the enemies, taking risks doing so.

If that's intentional then wow, that's a tough enemy. To better ease players into that, it might be fruitful to have some kind of visual means of telling what you're aiming at during practice only.

Yeah, you can easily avoid their fire if you stay at a distance, but they're tough to kill since you need to align and then avoid the shot(s) at the last second.

The idea is that the enemies are pretty difficult to kill, but they reward you with a lot of points, especially if you put them in the middle of a blue cube chain. You can easily have a single chain with two millions points if you manage to chain some enemies in a 50+ blue cube chain in the fourth level... (hint hint!).

There's a very nice balance right now, though one feature that might be kind of cool is leaving a different colored trail each time you start a life? Lives are also a bit unforgiving, but that could just be design choices.

Yeah, cool idea. And easy to implement and test.

All in all, despite some nitpicky things I'm enjoying this a whole lot. Looking forward to seeing the finished product.  

Thanks for all the feedbacks, they're a gold mine.

We hope to have the final version ready soon...

[Netsu]

I couldn't control the ship in the Linux version. All the menus worked fine but when the game starts I can't do anything, I tried using the keyboard, the mouse, an xbox controller and I can't even trigger a pause menu or something :C The only thing working is alt+f4.
Pity, because the visuals and the music had me really pumped up to blow something up, the game is very pretty.

Edit: Now I read that there was supposed to be an initial setup screen or something. I didn't get any, the game goes to a Unity splash, then a message about drugs and then the main screen where I can enter my name.

[Skyrise]

I couldn't control the ship in the Linux version. All the menus worked fine but when the game starts I can't do anything, I tried using the keyboard, the mouse, an xbox controller and I can't even trigger a pause menu or something :C The only thing working is alt+f4.
Pity, because the visuals and the music had me really pumped up to blow something up, the game is very pretty.

Edit: Now I read that there was supposed to be an initial setup screen or something. I didn't get any, the game goes to a Unity splash, then a message about drugs and then the main screen where I can enter my name.

Yeah we know, there's a bug in Unity with the Linux version, the setup menu doesn't show up.

We'll try to have everything working fine on Linux for the final version.
Sorry for the inconvenient.

[mauz]

I couldn't control the ship in the Linux version. All the menus worked fine but when the game starts I can't do anything, I tried using the keyboard, the mouse, an xbox controller and I can't even trigger a pause menu or something :C The only thing working is alt+f4.
Pity, because the visuals and the music had me really pumped up to blow something up, the game is very pretty.

Edit: Now I read that there was supposed to be an initial setup screen or something. I didn't get any, the game goes to a Unity splash, then a message about drugs and then the main screen where I can enter my name.

Yep, sorry but Linux support in Unity is still in beta, so there are a lot of issues, one of them is the lack of the setup splash screen that -for now- is the only way to customize the controls. :|
We hope that this will be fixed quite soon by unity guys, anyway we are trying to put keyboard/pad customization directly in game.

Actually you can try to control the ship with arrow keys, shoot with Q key and perform the 180° with spacebar.

edit: anticipated.

[Netsu]

Great, I'll try the next version when it comes out