Meteor Crush - My first fully featured, finished game.

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I just finished my first complete game, Meteor Crush. It was a bumpy road going from "done" to "finished", in terms of getting feedback and fixing little bugs that hid until the last minute. No, it's not the greatest game ever made but it's far from the worst.

If anybody wants to check it out, I have it up on Kongregate.

Thanks for taking a peek, hopefully the next time I post a game it'll be something awesome.

 

I played your game, and I have to say I really liked it. I'm kinda a retro fan anyway, so this was right up my ally.

A few little critiques, the score rollup could be faster, I noticed it was continuing to roll for some time even after I completed a wave, also it could be intentional, but the volcano level, the background looked pink, maybe missing a texture in the material? Last thing, the bosses seemed a little easy, especially if I had weapon upgrades. Maybe throw in some random speeds? faster weapons?

Anywho, great job , I had fun playing your game.

-Raiden

 

Thanks, I've realized that shooting games are not easy to balance. I see why in the old days they had one hit deaths and why bullet hell has eclipsed the genre. It's this weird dynamic where if the normal weapon is strong enough, a special weapon is too strong... and inversely, if the special weapon is perfect, the standard weapon is underpowered. If they're the same, why put in special weapons? And so on.

Basically, the focus should be on dodging not shooting. I made a shooting game without dodging... If that makes sense. The bosses are just bags of HP, the only way they can be harder is more HP and dropping more stuff on you... which if they throw more than you can shoot, it breaks.

You can only move in 1 dimension, so the gameplay is 1.5D in a way. I dunno, I'm glad that people have said nice things about it because I can see all the flaws.

But I appreciate the kind words and the suggestions!