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[madcap]

I'm Justin Luk - a game developer from Calgary, Alberta (Canada Woo!). Since August last year I've embarked on making games.

Death Heap is a game that was created for LD31, I'd love to get some general feedback on it. How do you feel about the controls? Player feedback? Is it clear what you need to do to win?
 
Kill ninjas and climb a pile of their corpses to win! :D
http://madcapacity.itch.io/death-heap

[RichSG]

Fun game! Controls are really crisp, feedback/objective is clear. Nice work!

The only thing I would say is that each time I played I basically ended up filling most of the level with enemies, in order to jump  to the top. It didn't seem like there was any strategy  that would work reliably (I tried standing in the same place and killing enemies in the same way to try and get them to die in the same place, but a lot of them went to different areas, ie: it look pretty random how they died).

Obviously variety is nice too  - it would be good to see more enemy types etc. But I guess as a LD game you probably didn't have that much time 

Overall though fun and easy to play, and tight controls.

[phillipfoshee]

Only had time for one run right now. 1:45 and 44 deadies. Kinda started developing a better strategy at the end of the round, so I'll play a bit more later. Nice! Good music track too. Thank you for not using something with wobble-bass.   ;P

[madcap]

I've been away on vacation so I wasn't able to respond to you guys.

Thanks a lot for the feedback! I appreciate that you guys took the time to let me know your thoughts.

@RichSG: Yeah it isn't deterministic the when enemies get hit so you're right - it's difficult to build a strategy around when or how to hit ninjas. That's something I'll keep in mind for the next game I work on. Less randomness, more skill building.

Cheers!

[TjTownsend]

Nice start! I would be cool if there were different moves that can be performed that cause predictable results for where enemies will fall. Or something where strategy comes into play... maybe different colored enemies that die in different ways. Like one type of enemy would just crawl over the pile and die in the spot you hit him, and another type that will always fly 60 pixels to the left, and another that always falls on the mirror side of the screen, etc.

Just throwing out some ideas.

Cool game, thanks for sharing.

[madcap]

@TjTownsend: Thanks! Yeah enemy variety is a good idea! I really like the idea of the one that crawls over the heap and dies where it gets hit.

Cheers!

[TjTownsend]

Cool. Yeah I was thinking like in tetris when you see that long line coming and you are like "Yes!". That guy would be the same type of feeling. Like a freebie, but you still have to use it properly.