Diamond Divers
| Updated | 10 days ago |
| Published | 12 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5, Windows, Linux |
| Author | StraightUpGruntled |
| Genre | Action, Simulation |
| Made with | Godot |
| Tags | Arena Shooter, Roguelite |
Diamond Divers
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| Updated | 10 days ago |
| Published | 12 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5, Windows, Linux |
| Author | StraightUpGruntled |
| Genre | Action, Simulation |
| Made with | Godot |
| Tags | Arena Shooter, Roguelite |
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It's a good game! Only some small things (could be design choices you made)
Couldn't initially tell that pits were, well, pits. I assumed they were walls. Skill issue on my part? Also found out the hard way you can lose the cart in a pit, lol. But that's part of the challenge, I guess.
Occasionally an enemy spawned right next to me and got in a cheap shot. Not too big of a deal since it only happened like twice!
Pickaxe combat was cool. Got more exciting with the later levels with more pickaxes flying around.
Good stuff man.
Yay, thank you for trying it and the feedback!
The pits definitely are tricky. I'll definitely need to brainstorm how to make that more clear, since it's tricky with the top down perspective.
I thought initiallly about doing a typical 45 degree top down perspective like most top down games, but it made the cart aiming feel a bit weird. Maybe I need some sort of shader that can make them fade out from the edges in to give the illusion of depth.
I think my thought was setting up that the walls are lighter than the floor so it's clear that darker tiles are further down, but that probably didn't read as well as I thought.
I'll also make the gem loss less punishing when the cart falls. Maybe they only loose a quarter rather than half. That way when the player discovers it, they learn, but it's not rage inducing when it first happens LOL.
Makes sense that there are problems with the enemy spawning. Thank you for pointing it out so I don't forget to fix it.
I also really like the pickaxes! Excited to develop on that mechanic a bit further too.
Been working on the game post jam, and was able to solve the pit issue by adding parallax backgrounds! I think it helps a lot.
It’s good but quite challenging. Was a little bit confused about how to move the cart initially, but figured it out fairly quickly. I like the pickaxe throwing, it’s fun, and the bouncing can be used to hit multiple with one throw, which is nice. It would be nice to be able to move the cart with the pickaxe throw, but other than that it’s quite fun.
Thank you for the feedback and checking out the game! I decided against the pickaxe moving the cart, because there would then be no way to attack an enemy if the cart is in between you and that enemy, since throwing the pick would instead move the cart instead of going over it. I might play around with it though to see how it feels!
Fair point, I guess I didn’t think that through quite enough.
All good! I always appreciate suggestions! I have actually been playing with the vehicle movement way of moving the cart, and also having the stomp for when it gets to heavy, and that already feels great!
I'll brainstorm ways though to make it more clear that the pickaxe is being thrown over the cart in terms of layering. Maybe they can grow when thrown and then size back down after traveling a bit.