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[Lazy Brain Games]

Description:
Use your diverse arsenal to battle robot plant hybrids! Features 8 unique actions and an online high score board. Manage your weapons while avoiding peril!

Feedback:
I'm interested to any feedback regarding the "drag & drop" attack system the game is built around. Is it too ackward? Just right? I'm interested in using a similiar mechanic for future games, but I'm not sure it's something players are really interested in

Screenshot:


Download:
http://lazybraingames.wordpress.com/factorium/

Thanks for playing!

-Johnny B.

[PleasingFungus]

Just played through it! My thoughts:

• The score-chits were slightly too hard to collect - you seemed to have to hit their center (the spinny thing, not the glowy aura) with the center of your body. Maybe make that more generous?
• The player's hitbox seemed slightly too large - most shmups have enemies / shots collide with a single pixel at the center of the player's body, but this seemed to have collision with the player sprite's entire bounding box. Tighten that up a little?
• Killing frozen enemies seemed to give a large points bonus. If I wasn't imagining that, it was a nice touch.
• The slow introduction of new abilities kept me from feeling too overwhelmed. Good design!
• The missile-launching eyeballs that show up in the top-left confused me briefly - I wasn't sure if they were UI or not until they started shooting. (I was wondering if I'd maybe gotten some new ability, a bomb...?) If they were in the bottom-left, not overlapping with your 'remaining lives', I think it'd be less confusing.
• After I beat what I think was the end-boss (the giant eyeball-tentacle guy), the framerate dropped to maybe 1 or 1/2 FPS. (I'm guessing this is an issue with loading high scores?)

Anyway, niggles aside, I really enjoyed the game! My rating: 8.5 out of green.

(Score: 31200.)

[Lazy Brain Games]

Thanks for the input PleasingFungus! Most of the issues you ran into (the masks, the teleporting missle shooter, framerate, etc) are just symptoms of me being overly ambitious in a 1 week time frame. This is good though, since I can fix all these issues next time around

Thanks for the honest input! I'm glad you liked it!

-Johnny B.

[edwood_grant]

Yay! It was a nice little game n_n.

What can I say, I'm a sucker for pixel graphics, so thats always good for me n_n.

As for the drag and drop system... I do like the concept, but I feel that it would be better better if making the timers a little short, and find a way no to distract yourself from viewing what its going on in the game. It could work by putting them surrounding the player maybe (in a semitransparent way possibly)?

Another problem I had is that when I panicked I naturally started just to click-click, instead of click and drag... and of course that made the power a little useless since they activated down the screen.
But I think it was just me, with a little practice and an internal reminder I might nail it n_n

Although its really just a nitpick n_n but I did liked the game and enjoyed :D

Cheers,
Italo F. Capasso B. AKA "Edwood Grant"

[Blodyavenger]

I did have problems with pickups bounding range. It's realy hard to collect but it's nice additctive game (me beign on the top of the highscores two days ago )