Love the speedrun aspect of this game very good gameplay mechanics and overall a rage inducing game that keeps u coming back to beat the last part
Reviews for "DED GUY"
I gave up on marathon
I liked this game a lot. It's the type of game we love to hate: something like "I won't play this anymore!... well, just one more try" hahaha
The only thing I didn't like, and the big one, was the controls. Aiming with the mouse where the direction comes from a character in movement like in this game is hard. I mean not in a good way. You have to shoot towards here, and quickly shift the aim to shoot there - but as the character travels on the screen and get passed on your mouse cursor, your'e not aiming anymore where you intended before, resulting in failure. And when the big challenge of the game becomes fighting against a punitive control scheme, that "anti rage-quit replay factor" vanishes. In fact, I gave up on the "Mastery" level.
One good alternative that I saw in other games with this mechanics - directional propulsion coming from character - is fixed direction control. Maybe some button that when pressed locks the character in aiming mode. Maybe even keep the mouse, but making the gun point to where in the screen the mouse is, not directly at the mouse cursor.
I could give a great example of a game that uses this mechanic and a nice way to implement, but since it's a mid-game upgrade, I don't want to spoil.
Overall, nicely done.
I only missed the Criti-Cola. And the game also needs a button to make Bob do something. xD
(but seriously, reference speaking, I would save the name "Marathon" for the last level *wink* )
p cool simple platformer
graphics are hella and movement is nice
time: 13:37.10 (yes, actually)
deaths: 74
Awesome Job! I feel like the mouse isn't a bad choice for aiming, but the pivot point being based off the Ded Guy makes it that much more difficult since it is a moving target. Sometimes my mouse doesn't have a lot of room to move. I think it would be more intuitive if the pivot was locked to the center of the screen.