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[Alec S.]

Thanks for the feedback!

The demo level has a bit of a steeper difficulty curve than the actual first level of the game.  Hopefully it's not too so difficult as to prevent people from enjoying it.  I might go back and tweak the difficulty a bit.

Most enemies currently shouldn't shoot you if they're out of seeing range, but I guess there's a grey-area where they're barely visible but are still in shooting range, so I'll look into ways to fix that.

[Alec S.]

Jon Dagger is now the Proud Owner of a Face

[Alec S.]

Burrowing Ninja



Burrowing Ninjas have been a cut feature from so many games I've made.  I think I've been wanting to include them in a game since the original Cold Vengeance flash game, and they were in the design notes for Venusian Vengeance and Ninja Outbreak.  Glad I'm finally getting them in a game.

[Alec S.]

Cold Vengeance on Alpha Beta Gamer: http://www.alphabetagamer.com/cold-vengeance-alpha-demo/

[io3 creations]

Thanks for the feedback!

The demo level has a bit of a steeper difficulty curve than the actual first level of the game.  Hopefully it's not too so difficult as to prevent people from enjoying it.  I might go back and tweak the difficulty a bit.

Most enemies currently shouldn't shoot you if they're out of seeing range, but I guess there's a grey-area where they're barely visible but are still in shooting range, so I'll look into ways to fix that.

Sounds good.

Just remembered a few more things:
-After the first checkpoint I fell down to see if there was something there (appearantly only death).  As the character respawned near the checkpoint, an enemy (with rocket launcher) just before the checkpoint also respawned.  It was easy to kill it but in general it's better not to have those enemies appear (especially if they shoot at you without you seeing them).
-Maybe it's just my issue but I found it diffictult to avoid the bullets.  By that I mean, many times I thought I should've been hit - but wasn't.  Perhaps, I'm more used to top or top-down point of view where it's easier to see distances.  Plus, perhaps because more than one enemy was firing, that made it even more difficult.  As mentioned before, having a more gradual difficulty curve might work better (at least for me).

Jon Dagger is now the Proud Owner of a Face

Will there be cut-scenes to see his face or 360 no scope?

[Alec S.]

Thanks again for the feedback!

Yeah, there will be cutscenes, and that's where the face will be visible, since you can't really see it during gameplay.

Also, speaking of cutscenes, introducing the Barbarian Queen:

[saluk]

Feedback time baby!

 * Mouse sensitivity far too low
 * Having to press a key to pick up powerups was annoying
 * Couldn't get powerups from on top of the car when I spent so long killing those hard shooting enemies ("roll" the powerup down hill if it's not on the ground?)
 * I'm not sure about a fix, but moving backwards is kind of weird because you can't see where you are going. But you kind of need to go backwards when there are enemies that attack you and end up behind the camera

Played on a mac at work with no sound.

Like in general!

[Alec S.]

Thanks!

Unfortunately, there has to be a button prompt for the powerups since you've got two slots and you could replace one of the slots with a new powerup if you choose.  What I will do is make the hitbox larger for the powerups so they're easier to grab.


A couple models I've been working on:

[io3 creations]

Remembered a few more things after reading @saluk's post:
-Powerups getting stuck on top cars.  In one of the videos I remember seeing a jetpack scene and thought that might help to get those types of power-ups but my guess is that won't be always be available.
-Mouse sensitivity.  To me the mouse felt too sensitive but I'm assuming there will be an option in the final game to adjust sensitivity.
-Why is there a second crosshair?  I was thinking maybe to help aim but it didn't seem alinged with the direction (at least what I was expecting).

[Alec S.]

There will be an option for adjusting mouse sensitivity.

The second crosshair shows the mid-point of the trajectory.  I plan on making it a different graphic to make this less confusing.

[saluk]

Maybe if you have a free slot it could autoequip? With this kind of high action shooter it's really distracting. And it's not just one key you have to press to pick it up, but you have two keys to choose from. I prefer contra where you just get your secondary weapon replaced. Imagine having to press a key to pickup a gun in quake for example!

Maybe it's fine, I don't know. Again, don't want to try too hard to be proscriptive with my feedback. I was just frustrated that I kept dying while trying to remember how to get the powerup that could have saved me, especially when I had 2 free slots.

[Alec S.]

Some more let's plays:

[io3 creations]

Burrowing Ninja



Burrowing Ninjas have been a cut feature from so many games I've made.  I think I've been wanting to include them in a game since the original Cold Vengeance flash game, and they were in the design notes for Venusian Vengeance and Ninja Outbreak.  Glad I'm finally getting them in a game.

I wonder if it might be better to keep ninjas as "ninjas"  i.e. instead of burrowing, use smoke bombs and "teleport" themselves.  They show up anywhere in the air and won't be constrained to the ground.  Perhaps some other "moleman" creatures could be the digging.

[Alec S.]

Burrowing ninjas are a staple of the kind of 80s Hong Kong kung-fu movies that serve as a large part of my inspiration such as Duel to the Death, Ninja the Final Duel and the Ninja Death trilogy.  This game would be incomplete without them.

There will also be ninjas that teleport and throw smoke bombs, as well as ninjas who shoot fire out of the hilt of their swords a la Ninja Terminator.

[io3 creations]

Burrowing ninjas are a staple of the kind of 80s Hong Kong kung-fu movies that serve as a large part of my inspiration such as Duel to the Death, Ninja the Final Duel and the Ninja Death trilogy.  This game would be incomplete without them.

There will also be ninjas that teleport and throw smoke bombs, as well as ninjas who shoot fire out of the hilt of their swords a la Ninja Terminator.

Oh, I see.  I wasn't aware of those. 

As long as you give a somewhat distinctive look to each class of ninjas, then that could work.

[Alec S.]

Yeah, different ninja types will have significantly different color schemes.

[Alec S.]

Boomerang Barbarian

[thecolonygame]

Aussies finally have a cultural villain!

[Zorg]

Dance battle! scnr

[Alec S.]

 

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