Beta Testers Needed !!

[Hi5er]

Well in my last game a lot of people claimed that it was under tested. It was not, but it was only tested by me and I didnt quite find anything. That is why before I release my next game to the public I would like someof you to test it please :) (your name will also be mentioned in the ending credits)

The game can be found here

Now unfortunatley my laptop is fairly shite so I can't run the game very well and it slows down massively, people with faster laptops / pcs comments are very welcome as I would like to know how it runs for you guys.

See notes below before playing.

All comments appreciated, many thanks.

Notes:

The game is in its early stages, IT IS A BETA and I am aware it has no sound or music. The coding is done, the graphics are not. The instructions page is going to be scraped and re-made because I hate the way it looks now. If you finish the last level nothing happens. If you keep clicking the particle off / on button the amount of particles produced doubles each time when you turn them back on, I cant seem to fix this.

[Logidude]

It was an ok game, but the bullet coming from the ship came out of the back of the ship. Check that out. Maybe move the registation point of the ship to the middle of it.

[Ahnimal]

And it's annoying to use two parts of the keyboard to control and shoot AND the mouse to aim

[Hi5er]

SORRY POSTED WRONG LINK

CLICK HERE FOR CORRECT VERSION

[CloudEater]

You need to fix the bullet and make it so that when you hit an enemy it flashes red or something so you know you've done damage.
The bullet is probably a bit too big.

[Ngdudeman12]

And why the fuck do I have to watch a video tutorial to learn how to play this game? Why can't you just say what the instructions are instead of leaving players guessing??

[Hi5er]

At 10/23/09 07:00 PM, Ngdudeman12 wrote: And why the fuck do I have to watch a video tutorial to learn how to play this game? Why can't you just say what the instructions are instead of leaving players guessing??

Thats what the tutorial is... It does tell you what to do. Its not a link to another site or whatever.

Please ignore this post and visit the other one for the correct link also >.<

I hate that newgrounds doesn't have a post edit system.

[Deano10]

i needs better controls its awkward ad bosses and if u go to the bottom of the screen and u try to shoot straight up with ur primary bullets it gots blocked and make the bullets smaller

[cool154]

I would suggest using the mouse to fire, rather than space, and dropping the rotation ability. It would also be helpful to have some way of showing us that an enemy is taking damage, such as them changing from white to red.

[hdxmike]

At 10/23/09 07:56 PM, cool154 wrote: I would suggest using the mouse to fire, rather than space, and dropping the rotation ability. It would also be helpful to have some way of showing us that an enemy is taking damage, such as them changing from white to red.

All this and the bullets are too damn big. The controls are awful , click to shoot or full keyboard control
In thes kind of games rotation isnt very good because it makes the game far to easy

The layout is all wrong sorry, its a vertical shooter, so... the play area should at least be 3:4 and the HUD is bulky and ugly , trim it down and remove the BG 'floating' HUDS are usually much better for this stuff. the menu is not clear enough , you dont need to have stars on the menu aswell .

I wouldnt say the code is finished, pretty good , but not finished , some optimizations would be nice because it lags quite a lot when imma firin ma lahzor and moving AND the stars are moving.

Did you generate the stars dynamically ?
Nice effect but it can yank the CPUs dick quite a bit so an animated sequence with a bitmap file should be too bad if done right.But what you have is ok too

Good work Hi5er just needs some polishing.

Also do you have an artist for this because i really dont think thats required , just saying.

[billowillo]

Why are the bullets so big? and the HUD seems big also, leaves very little room for the actual game. id consider making the HUD smaller, or the stage bigger, or even both.

but not too bad, good luck.

[TheWanderingBard]

Well, like everyone else has said already, bullets are too big and it would probably be for the best to move half of the controls to mouse. Also, if you move to the bottom of the screen and try to fire, it looks like the status bar is blocking the bullets - you might want to move that to a non-reachable section of the screen.

As for the rotation, I think it's OK, but you're going about it wrong. I would crank out the multi-direction attacks sooner and spawn more enemies in general. It's too slow right now, and the rotation does make things a lot easier.

[funbie]

it's a good game, i like it a lot. i would play it. uuummm, I'd give it a 3/5 maybe? 4/5.
the bullet thing needs to be fixed, i like the power up setting thing, that was good.
umm, maybe just have the controls displayed instead of watching the video and fix the bullet problem and I'd call it good. <I :D (Ahoy, Sailor!)

[ProfessorFlash]

I think you are about 20 years too late with this game. People used to enjoy these kind of simplistic games back in the late 80s.