Artifficient, demo out! (previously Unnamed Shooter)

Basically, all I wanted is to mix Gauntlet with Geometry Wars. The gameplay is top-down, you shoot stuff, you solve puzzles, you collect stuff.

Screenshot:


Here's a WIP video(outdated)

If anybody's interested, I'll whip up a demo by the end of this week.

Demo is out! Download:
Mirror 1
Mirror 2

Please report bugs!

This post has been edited by Outrage on Oct 17 2009, 08:56 PM

Hey, that looks pretty awesome.

Fairly professional too.

Ugh, default particles. Looks pretty good, although not really all that special.

I don't use default particles what are you talking about

Awesome stuff. Looks like something I want to play.

This is beautiful.

Glad to have support from your guys. I'm working hard to finish the demo, hopefully it'll be up tonight.

Uploaded the demo version. Please try it out!

Pretty nice game!

It may just be me for using a touchpad to aim, but 3 lives is a bit hard to go on.

Yeah, I'm on a laptop myself. Tested it with both mouse and touchpad, and using the mouse is alot easier.

Just played it, it looks really good, but there's a few things I dislike:

* It seems a bit slow to me, I think you might want to raise either the FPS or everyone's speed.

* The camera movement's not too good, I think it'd be better if you were always in the center of the screen.

*It shouldn't fade between rooms, no games with inbuilt cursors should, as it freezes it until it's finished fading.

Also if you had a healthbar, that'd be cool.

This post has been edited by Thingy on Oct 18 2009, 06:10 AM

- The game run s at 60 fps as of now, and some people pointed out that it's hard as it is already. Maybe the game just lags on your PC?...

- Tried it. Wouldn't work since you'll have limited vision, and you'll run into things by accident.

- I don't see why that's a problem.

- You'll have a shield powerup, which will give you 2 additional hitpoints. It's just not implemented yet.

Also, Flame Man. You can get a 1-up is the first level, if you think 3 is not enough. Try to find it

-Hmm, okay.

-Actually you have more limited vision now, since the camera only moves when you're closer to the side you want to go.

-It's not really, it just looks a bit wierd.

-Okay, that sounds good.

Hey Outrage I love the game and I hate it when people critique things not even related to the game in its topic, but that file hosting site is AWFUL. I had to wait a minute for it to load, a minute for my download to be valid, then the stupid speed limit it puts on free uploaded files somehow made a 4mb download take ANOTHER minute.

So just saying, try a site like www.willhostforfood.com or www.host-a.net

And keep working on this game, inspired concept and great graphical style.

I'd say it's really good. I love the polish you have, and the graphical design, while a bit overused, is still pretty nice.

Though, I think the blue spinner guys could probably use a bit less health. Also, there were a lot of times where I lost the mouse, because the white bars kinda blend in with the backgrounds a bit too much. Maybe have the white bars smaller, and use a reticule that will attract more attention (animated, a VERY different color, etc.)