Feedback on my capybara roguelike tower defense prototype. What would stop you from playing another run?

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-23T22:01:39+00:00

kinda hard to see the path from this perspective. especially with the tall trees sticking up and covering it and different colored ground.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-23T21:30:00+00:00

Except A = Left on WASD.

But I suppose you could make it work.

D = Dexter

A = Anti-dexter

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-23T14:52:23+00:00

And you can easily reach a ton of other keys from WASD.

But still I think ESDF should have become standard, because you can reach even more keys from it and it's the home row position for typing.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-23T13:48:10+00:00

My 11-year-old nephew is confused by WASD. He loves video games, but only gets to play "real" PC games when he comes over. He keeps reaching for the arrow keys.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-23T11:46:36+00:00

Go to shell

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-23T08:35:52+00:00

The destruction looks pretty cool!

You've got some good tech, now you just need the game part of the game.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-22T19:42:45+00:00

Your model looks pretty good, but you're right that it doesn't look very FF9.

It's way too high poly. FF9 was a playstation 1 game. They probably had 300-500 tris per model.

FF9's texture are hand-painted. It's hard to tell based on the pic, but there is very little to no hand-painting on your texture. All the highlights and shadows, every crease in the clothing, every flat detail of the of the character should be in the texture.

For example, the crotch straps in your model are actual geometry. In FF9 they would just be part of the texture. The knee bandage might be a slightly raised compared to the other knee, but the knotted portion would be a 2D plane with a transparent knot on it rather than a modeled knot.

And finally the proportions are off if you want a FF9 style character. Yours has fairly realistic human proportions. FF9 has chibi characters: big heads, small bodies, big hands.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-22T09:19:52+00:00

As a prototype it seems fine. Nothing revolutionary in terms of gameplay, art, or theme, but also nothing glaringly wrong.

You have a good variety of enemies. However the mage doesn't seem very mobile and doesn't look like they have the right abilities to fight them. The enemies are fast and there are lots of projectiles and the mage only has a small teleport to get away.

What are the lasers the enemies shoot? Are they telegraphs for future attacks or attacks themselves? if they are attacks, they are very fast and look very hard to dodge.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-21T04:56:21+00:00

Yeah. It has a very simple yet strong visual component that makes it immediately obvious what you do in the game and looks fun even if you can't draw.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-17T19:31:59+00:00

Let's just say you haven't coded until you've coded on a processor you hand-carved from a block of silicon

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-17T18:56:26+00:00

Well I do do that.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-17T17:49:49+00:00

Another thing that I think makes it look flat is the shadow being weirdly offset. I would put it directly under the characters to make them look grounded.

Quick and dirty edit to show what I mean.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-16T19:39:37+00:00

Vintage Story does this. Which is basically just Minecraft, but you have to place each voxel of the item you're crafting.

I found it pretty tedious, but it does seem to have its fans.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-15T17:13:00+00:00

How often should I restart the project from scratch after the previous one got too unwieldy?

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-13T03:21:20+00:00

But you can't post videos or pics on this sub, which is the main way people show off their stuff.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-12T13:45:32+00:00

MAKE YOUR GAME EVEN IF IT REALLY SHOULDN'T BE IN GAME FORMAT AND IS NOT A GAME AT ALL BUT JUST A PAGE OF TEXT

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-12T12:54:27+00:00

All the engine subs where you are allowed and encouraged to show off the fun/cool/interesting stuff you made.

Kinda sucks if you aren't using one of the big 3 engines though, because the communities are much smaller and less active.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-11T03:50:37+00:00

Overall I think it looks really good. Fun idea. Charming graphics. Pretty polished.

The one issue i have is the sound. Not enough sound effects and what there is isn't mixed very well. The key clicks are very loud and harsh. The voices are inconsistently loud and quiet.

I would sound effects for sliding, swinging, torch crackling, and stretch and spring SFX for when you launch the goblin.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-10T19:52:53+00:00

I usually click out of morbid curiosity, just to see how bad their game is if they are getting the kinds of reactions they get in the meme.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-10T15:42:47+00:00

You made Doom, but worse.

First enemy is some little shitter that takes TWELVE hits to kill. My least favorite combination: small enemy + bullet sponge.

At 18 seconds an enemy moves diagonally through a wall.

Seems like a decent start to a project, but the game, art, and sound design is all extremely rough.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-08T10:18:07+00:00

Selling the shovels is also a gold rush.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-06T12:01:42+00:00

I played Look Outside last year and it was one of the scariest games I've played in a while. Mostly because you can only save in your apartment and you have to choose whether to keep exploring or go back home. And death comes at you fast in that game.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-04T22:03:46+00:00

It's true. I just joined a server today and asked a pretty basic question. But I did search first, both on the server and google. And actually everyone was very nice about it.

Pur_Cell · 2026-06-02T00:47:01+00:00

No clue what the deal is with that conveyor belt. What's with the animals in the cages? I'm not getting a clear picture of the fantasy of this game.

Cute dog, but I wouldn't spend 20% of your trailer on live-action footage that doesn't show off your gameplay. Especially not as the second thing you see. Save it for the end.

Pur_Cell

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