Really quite fun little dungeon crawler, I made it to the boss but my weapons seemed to just bounce off it's armored hide and i did no damage with either the pistol or the machine gun I found - still, i had fun getting to the invulnerable might-be-a-puzzle boss.
Author Comments
Hey guys, looking for feedback to wrap up this demo of the game.
CRATER HOUNDS is a roguelite twinstick shooter that has you battle through a cosmic catastrophe, invoke mighty Mechs, and blast your way through hordes of alien monstrosities.
On Colony World MC-27 reality is collapsing, planes of existence are merging and dissolving again.
These phase shifts apply all sorts of gameplay mutators, while you gather ressources for upgrades and ability unlocks, and make sure no run is ever the same.
Discover new Mechs, steal alien Mechs, and loot all the guns & gadets!
This Demo ends after the first Boss fight. the full game will take you across 3 different chapters and contain more guns, mechs, enemies, bosses, mutators and mods. And whatever else you could ask for.
CONTROLS:
Gamepad:
- RStick - Aim
- LStick - Move (Click to Sprint)
- RTrigger - fire primary weapon
- LBumper - fire secondary weapon
- RBumper - melee attack
- DPad up/down - cycle primary weapons
- DPad left/right - cycle secondary weapons
- Y - call Mech
- X - interact
- START - open Modules panel
- BACK - open Map
Keyboard / Mouse:
- WASD/Arrow keys - Move
- Mouse - Aim
- LMB - fire primary weapon
- RMB - fire secondary weapon
- Space - melee attack
- MWheel Up - cycle primary weapon
- MWheel Down - cycle secondary weapon
- Number keys 0-9 - select weapon
- E - interact
- F - call Mech
- Shift - Sprint/Dash
- M - open Modules panel
- Tab - open Map
facecrime responds:
Yeah. you need to destroy the glowing weakspots first.
Trick is that the cover obstacles are the weakspots, and they only glow one at a time. Might have missed that at first glance
Thanks for the kind words!
Game completely froze when trying to summon the boss. I love the first pass, but it needs some polish and bug fixing. Keep working on it.
It needs some polish.The boss bugged out by getting too close to the pod and now i´m stuck. When you move the sprites aren´t close together and so there is flickering white space between them.Also maybe a short training stage so you get used to the controls? Maybe make the menu buttons more standout, they blend in a little.The enemy design works,and the atmosphere ain´t bad either
The game feels, smooth and it's easy to learn how to play. One problem is that I'm not really sure what I am supposed to be doing... but overall it's dope so far.
facecrime responds:
Thanks for playing!
The objective tracker in the upper right corner is supposed to tell you what you're looking for:
1. Find Control Room - which opens the Boss Gate
2. Reach and defeat the Boss
Along the way pick up credit (meta progression unlocks), weapons (unlock for next run) and mods (apply to weapons during run)
Hope that helps :P