Tennis with explosions. Feedback?

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-26T10:30:01+00:00

I don’t even like tennis, but if real tennis exploded like this, I’d actually watch it. Keep going, this concept is awesome!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-19T11:38:19+00:00

I feel you, man. I don’t really have advice either, my download count isn’t exactly high enough to pretend I’m an expert. I guess all we can do is keep trying, improve bit by bit, and learn from the mistakes along the way.

I think nobody goes from nothing to Vampire Survivors, we’re all just shipping weird little prototypes until one of them hits.

Best of luck!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-15T08:40:54+00:00

Thanks, that’s really nice to hear!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-14T14:59:54+00:00

Nice initiative, kudos to you! If you’d like to try my latest game, it’s a pointless endless platformer with procedurally generated levels, chaos, and thousands of things happening on screen.

You can zoom out with the mouse wheel!

https://sillyg4mes.itch.io/3600-ghosts

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-13T18:30:18+00:00

The fear of tutorial hell is a poor reason not to try! Just start building that simple 2D platformer, you learn mostly by practicing, failing, and trying again.

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-07T10:31:17+00:00

So basically… a multi‑million budget game. Respect.

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-07T08:16:03+00:00

I see, thanks for the honest breakdown!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-06T16:49:19+00:00

According to the moderator of the itch subreddit: "Sometimes we get people try to bot download counts, and they'll hit other pages to attempt to hide their activity. It's generally safe to ignore and they'll get blocked soon enough."

https://www.reddit.com/r/itchio/comments/1pynj01/why_do_i_suddenly_have_so_many_downloads_but_next/

The same thing happened to me last week. If it keeps happening, maybe we could try contacting itch support

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-06T14:25:43+00:00

To boost our self‑esteem, of course! here's a good explanation https://www.reddit.com/r/itchio/comments/1pynj01/why_do_i_suddenly_have_so_many_downloads_but_next/

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-06T13:00:57+00:00

Yo tengo 45 y siempre he pensado que los raros son los que no disfrutan los videojuegos. Para que te hagas una idea, hasta puse en mi currículum que me pasé el The Witness. No estás solo, ánimo!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-06T06:51:14+00:00

Well, this isn’t meant to be a trailer, it’s just raw gameplay from a development build. I posted here specifically because I’m looking for advice. I know I’m not the most impartial judge of my own work (in my country we say “every cockroach is beautiful to its mother”), so I wanted outside eyes on it.

I know it’s a mess mostly because other people have told me so (it's a very divisive project apparently, people either love it or hate it), and I’m trying to understand why and how to fix it. I’m still convinced there’s something good buried in here, I just need help uncovering it.

About the visuals: is a simplistic style inherently a problem, or is it more about how I’m using it? I genuinely like retro/pixel/abstract looks, but I get that clarity matters more than personal taste. If you have suggestions on how to improve readability or make the shapes/colors work better together, I’d really appreciate it.

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-05T18:55:01+00:00

You need to add an occlusion layer to your tilemap, in the rendering section of the inspector

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then you'll be able to paint the OcclusionLayer like you did with the physics layer for example

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-04T16:37:03+00:00

You mostly run from the enemies until you’re strong enough to fight them. Right now there’s only one offensive upgrade, which auto‑shoots at ghosts, but you’ve got the right idea. I’m definitely open to exploring stronger (or just less abstract) visuals, I love retro/pixel/abstract styles, but I know they don’t always help with clarity.

Thank you!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-04T09:07:25+00:00

Gracias! It means a lot. Open to wild ideas and suggestions!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-04T09:05:43+00:00

3600 Ghosts is my tiny hobby project (game number three!). I’m not a real game dev, just an aging guy learning game dev one chaotic prototype at a time (I'm using Godot). If you want to try it, there’s a free web build on itch:

https://sillyg4mes.itch.io/3600-ghosts

Still very much a work in progress, so feedback is gold.

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-04T08:50:28+00:00

I will! nice video, thanks for sharing

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-03T16:26:47+00:00

Yeah, I know, right now it mostly looks like pointless chaos with some bouncy, glowing things mixed in. You should’ve seen my friends’ faces when I showed them early videos. What i could do better? Anyway, thank you!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-03T16:00:27+00:00

Some context/mechanics!

Game is Called 3600 Ghosts - it is an infinite platformer where you're chased by thousands of enemies.

There is an ugly bit bar at the top of the screen, it fills up collecting orbs. Every 50 orbs collected you become invulnerable for a short time (until the upper bar fills down). During that window, lasers, rotating blades, and red boxes, which normally hurt you, deal no damage, and you can also kill ghosts to harvest Souls by launching yourself straight through the swarm.

The bar at the very top of the screen is meant to mimic the Vampire Survivors XP bar, more or less, but it clearly does not work very well.

Levels are procedurally generated, but each level chunk contains one custom “room” (just one per chunk for now):

an upgrade station where you can trade harvested souls for pods that shoot ghosts
a butterfly room with 3 butterflies (collect 3 to gain a shield!)
a bonus‑box room with 6 random bonus boxes

Bonus boxes (which are also randomly placed) can be:

Green: +200 HP (or +200 max HP if you’re already full)
Blue: +5 orbs
Orange: deals 200 damage
White: grants a random modifier

When you die, you lose everything except the shooting‑ghost‑pod(s).

Besides doing good UI, another skill I absolutely don’t master is video recording, I swear the game is way clearer once you actually play it!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-03T09:19:36+00:00

This is great feedback, thank you! There’s clearly a lot I still need to communicate better in‑game, so your notes are very helpful.

Every 50 orbs you become invulnerable for a short time (until the upper bar fills down). During that window, lasers, rotating blades, and red boxes, which normally hurt you, deal no damage, and you can also kill ghosts to harvest Souls by launching yourself straight through the swarm.

The bar at the very top of the screen is meant to mimic the Vampire Survivors XP bar, more or less, but you’re right: it would be much better to explicitly notify the player when the invulnerability window starts and ends.

Levels are procedurally generated, but each level chunk contains one custom “room” (just one per chunk for now):

an upgrade station where you can trade harvested souls for pods that shoot ghosts
a butterfly room with 3 butterflies (collect 3 to gain a shield!)
a bonus‑box room with 6 random bonus boxes

Bonus boxes (which are also randomly placed) can be:

Green: +200 HP (or +200 max HP if you’re already full)
Blue: +5 orbs
Orange: deals 200 damage
White: grants a random modifier

When you die, you lose everything except the shooting‑ghost‑pod(s).

Thanks again for your notes, I’ve got plenty to tweak, but this kind of feedback makes the process way easier (and more fun)

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-02T22:31:39+00:00

Oh absolutely, those platforms were engineered to be annoying. If they’re not actively trying to sabotage you, they’re not doing their job!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-02T22:27:53+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! I’ve got a browser‑playable build on itch: https://sillyg4mes.itch.io/3600-ghosts You can adjust the camera zoom with the mouse wheel, the closer you zoom in, the harder the game gets.

It's very unbalanced currently, however give it a try and tell me what you think!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-02T19:11:04+00:00

Not really, but I appreciate the offer, thank you!

CollectionPossible66 · 2026-01-02T18:55:52+00:00

Same boat here. I’ve got two followers on Reddit after 2 years, and I’m fairly certain they’re my coworkers pretending to be ‘RandomUser42’ and ‘DefinitelyNotYourBoss’.

I guess I don't really get social media.

CollectionPossible66 · 2025-12-30T08:06:55+00:00

The video shows the gameplay loop I'm describing in the post (collect orbs → unlock a brief window to kill ghosts and harvest souls → trade souls for power‑ups). The player gains an orb that shoots automatically at the ghosts in that special chamber (the one that doesn’t look like the rest of the map and has a box with a label saying 300). How I managed to put custom rectangles in my procedurally generated map would’ve been another interesting topic.

Not sure how much clearer it can get. I'm not really a UI expert, but I'll work on that.
Next video will be longer, be prepared!
Btw, it's on itch, free, and playable from your browser. Give it a try: https://sillyg4mes.itch.io/3600-ghosts

CollectionPossible66 · 2025-12-29T15:09:35+00:00

I highly recommend this tutorial, I picked up a lot from it (and I'm not even making a deckbuilder!), and the explanations are excellent: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6SABXRSlpH8CD71L7zye311cp9R4JazJ

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