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[XSkulls]

Shotghun: Episode 1

Link: Here
or
YYG: Here

This game has taken me a year to make, and I feel i have finished it off pretty well.
Lmk, what you think. Comments are always appreciated.. Thanks!

Edited by XSkulls, 05 August 2010 - 03:52 PM.

[Zeddy]

I love shotguns, so I had to give this a try. Currently, I'm kind of disappointed.

-Your controls are way inconsistent. The main-menu is mouse-controlled even though the mouse is never used anywhere in the game and you use the arrow keys and Enter to change character and his clothing even though WASD and Space is used for controlling him in the game. Space to shoot seems kind of odd with the WASD controls, too. Personally I'd have used an arrow key or J (and K for jumping) but as I'm playing this with a gamepad anyhow I'm not gonna nag too much about that. And Escape to skip a single line in the intro? Usually Space would do that and Escape would skip the entire thing!

-When I think of shotguns, I usually think of them loaded with buckshots. Slugs are boring. Also, the sound effect is really weak. It seems pretty low-quality.

-The collision detection is crap. If a zombie is charging right at me, my shots might just pass straight through the zombie.

-I skipped the tutorial after just checking the controls in the menu. The grenade wasn't explained there so I didn't know I had them until after I checked the stat menu. Guessed my way to using Ctrl. Incidentally, the grenades are pretty lame (though I am aware more will be unlocked.) Usually a grenade will be either high-explosive (and thus have good range) or fragmented. Granted, frag grenades in most videogames don't actually disperse frags but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

-Room speed in tutorial is less than in the actual game.

-Why doesn't the tutorial explain what the flock the stat points do? What does strength do? Does it somehow increase the damage I can deal with my weapons even though it makes no sense for muscle mass to do that or does it increase my health? Shouldn't it be called vitality, then? What's the difference between Dexterity and Agility? Why do I need perception? Will it increase the light around me? It's pretty big already so I don't see the point. At which levels do I get new weapons? Do Blood Nova and Phun Mod do anything useful? Explain, game! Explain!

-It's nice to be able to use slowmo all the time. It's less nice that it's a cheap roomspeed hack. it looks pretty terrible.

-There's a lot of spelling and grammatical errors all around. They're way too plentiful to point out so I recommend you just go through every single line in the game and fix them.

-How come I don't seem to hurt zombies with grenades if I land one right on top of his head? Shouldn't that do extra damage?

-Every time you use show_message() an orphan kitten dies, cursing your name.

-Although increasing perception only uses 1 point, you need 2 points in order to do it. Also, I still don't understand what it did.

In conclusion: Kinda challenging, gets a bit on the tedious side. I have no idea what half the leveling system does. Graphics are okay-ish. I wish the game had shotguns in it.

Edited by zeddidragon, 31 May 2010 - 08:06 AM.

[XSkulls]

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All this time, so little response.

[mr.hey]

Hmm I kinda agree with zeddidragon. His idea is pretty pertinent.

[XSkulls]

mmk... we'll consider for next episode...

[Lbckf]

My character randomly freezes and won't do anything and then the zombies rush to eat me
also bullets sometimes goes through zombies without hurting them.

Edited by Lbckf, 24 June 2010 - 01:22 AM.

[XSkulls]

My character randomly freezes and won't do anything and then the zombies rush to eat me
also bullets sometimes goes through zombies without hurting them.

Really? are you sure your graphics card and CPU speed is good enough to play?
Minimum Requirements:
-1.6 Ghz Processor
-at least 16mb of video ram
-at least 1 gb on RAM

[XSkulls]

Yuppp

[yalmic]

broken link

[theg721]

My character randomly freezes and won't do anything and then the zombies rush to eat me
also bullets sometimes goes through zombies without hurting them.

Really? are you sure your graphics card and CPU speed is good enough to play?
Minimum Requirements:
-1.6 Ghz Processor
-at least 16mb of video ram
-at least 1 gb on RAM

A gigabyte of RAM? F*** that's a lot. Oh well, guess I'll need a trip to the hardware store!

Also, it's shotgun, not shotghun. And the link's broken.

[Jono20201]

I had a quick look around his site and found this download link: http://www.yoyogames...tghun-episode-1

[XSkulls]

I had a quick look around his site and found this download link: http://www.yoyogames...tghun-episode-1

Yuuup, that's the yoyogames post I did post!

[XSkulls]

My character randomly freezes and won't do anything and then the zombies rush to eat me
also bullets sometimes goes through zombies without hurting them.

Really? are you sure your graphics card and CPU speed is good enough to play?
Minimum Requirements:
-1.6 Ghz Processor
-at least 16mb of video ram
-at least 1 gb on RAM

A gigabyte of RAM? F*** that's a lot. Oh well, guess I'll need a trip to the hardware store!

Also, it's shotgun, not shotghun. And the link's broken.

I fixed it! And no that is NOT a spelling error. It's the game name. I decided that for some odd reason, perhaps something new or something (Don't really remember) but it's done and the game is finally complete!)

[Desert Dog]

decided that for some odd reason, perhaps something new or something (Don't really remember) but it's done and the game is finally complete!)

Easier to google?

Edited by Desert Dog, 05 August 2010 - 07:16 AM.

[yalmic]

There's other games that use that to catch your eye like.
Samurai shodown I can't remember any others right now but I know there's
a good amount.