Well I did make it to the second place in the rankings using exactly the corac's style... Nice game though.
Reviews for "Humanoid Space Race"
A funny thing about this game is that I started out without realising that I can move horizontally, which resulted in a better experience because I had to balance clearing the screen with dodging bullets and stomping on enemies' heads at regular intervals. However, if we take out that restriction, we're left with a run-of-the-mill arcade game that happens to have good art direction (excluding the final boss as others have mentioned). If I was to improve in one area, that would be the balance. There is simply no need to ever take Lives or Grenades when you can get Gun and Stomp, which are the two most used abilities and flat damage increases, which is a pretty big deal in a game about killing things as efficently as possible. Fix that and you have on your hands a decent game that doesn't set out to do more than it has to.
Now this was weird. What happened was that I defeated the boss but then it said I got a score of 0. I don't see how that's possible. I guess my score went down when I kept dying? Anyway, this was a good game. Yes, all I did care about was the medals.
It motivates me, okay? I was surprised at how much was going on. I could barely keep up with it! I even tried putting it to the lowest quality and it still did little! It was still nice.
It's a shame that the stomping collision detection doesn't seem to work well; many times I feel that I've stomped correctly on an enemy, but I take damage. If it's not a bug, then it needs to be more forgiving somehow, such as having the player invulnerable to enemy collision while stomping.
There are also a few ways where the game could be more polished, such as having a transition between the end of a wave and the upgrade screen. Otherwise cool game!
decafpanda responds:
Thank you for the play and review. I'll will look into making some sort of invincibility during stomping. I never had any issues with it during testing so I wonder if it was some kind of lag on your browser. Even so it never hurts to give the player a few more I-frames!
Thanks again for your feedback
Flashing the whole screen white, hurts the eyes.
This game is a bit addictive, but I can't play this game for too long due to this visual noise.