• Youtube Timestamped Link
• Graphics : Not my cuppa tea, but it's stylized and relatively consistent.
  • The trees and the fence might want to be redone to be more inline?
• Music / Sfx : Generally no complaints on either except for the 'live action' cutaways of yourself talking to [someone] , the VHS sound is extremely harsh on the ears.
• GUI : Fine , I assume a lot of this is stylized and is gonna be kept the way it is.
• Gameplay :
  
  • The movement is extremely slippery , like our dude's on ice and covered in oil.
  • The segments involving the rifle and walking around are much weaker/less enjoyable (and kind of jank) than the revolver segments.
    • The revolver segments remind me of a few old flash games, and is a little bit like a first person "Last Stand".
    • I'm not sure how "gamey" you're trying to make this, but wouldn't mind some upgrades or options, different guns, maybe an extra guy to help you shoot some zamboes.
• Notes :
  • Unsure if it was an intentional thing or what but the game has a strangely long loading time?
  • I imagine the cutaways about [you] talking about the game and trying to find people interested in it are not going to be in the full thing, it kind of takes away from the 'game'. [Is this going to be a "Developer Commentary" / Bonus option for new game +?]
  • I never played your other game(s) so I'm unsure how much is your 'style' and is intentional vs 'needing' / wanting feedback on.
  • The timer in the top right is VERY hard to pay attention to when everything else is going on, and I didn't even notice it being a thing until I got the revolver and felt like I had more time to relax/look around.

Overall I'm a little mixed on this one, but I am curious how this will end up and wouldn't mind checking out the full-release.

Wow! What a unique, interesting and well presented identity. This feels hand made, and has that special sauce that I crave in the indie world. Brilliant, right my my alley.

I really enjoyed the limitations of the control scheme, and I think it presents brilliantly as a horror/FPS/FMV situation. I think that the FMV additions are just so key to its feel, and I wonder if you could take this even further with some more animations/set dressings etc etc - All just more time in dev. 

I don't really have any specific critiques that are super helpful, as I think you are on the right track. If you meet the game on its terms and use the tools it gives you (the instant fast turn to keep checking your back) then it plays very well. I wonder if there is something you could sprinkle in early to show players just how important that fast turn is?

Likely one thing I would adjust is the acceleration/deceleration of the A and D component of the turning. I think there could be some 'feel' by having the A and D inputs decelerate and come to a SLIGHTLY slower stop, making it feel a bit more dynamic and human. Add some acceleration would also make it easier to make any micro adjustments to your aim. I thought the hit boxes were very generous and aiming was generally easy enough - this would be purely for *feel*. 

Thanks for a good play session, we have a game in the jam too to be found at /jam/feedback-quest-8-indiegames-x-indie-streamers/rate/3737789?b... if you wanted to drop by. 

Thanks mate, take it easy!

Hello! Welcome to Feedback Quest 8! My name's Hythrain, a co-host and one of the streamers for this event! This feedback is being written live as I stream your game! If you're interested in seeing my live reaction, let me know and I can send you a link to the VOD once it's posted to YouTube!

So my normal approach for any game in these events is simple: I get the game, make sure it's not a virus, then play it with as little information on how to play as possible. This way, I can judge how intuitively someone can figure out the game. Only if it's obvious that I need to read more will I do so. I note this so you can get a sense where some of these feedback comes from. In addition, I want to note that feedback and rating are different; don't use this feedback to gauge what I'll rate, nor should you view my rating as entirely indicative of my feedback.

When I was playing this, I found my enjoyment depended greatly on which mode of the game I was doing. When I had the more free-roam parts, it was a lot more frustrating to play. The character would slide around when doing any movement, and in general tank controls (where you only move if you're going forward or backward, while the side buttons just turn you) make it really challenging to aim. On top of this, I often had issues with the fast zombies coming up behind me and attacking me.

However, once I moved to the second part, where you're defending the barricades, it felt a LOT better. In this scenario, the slide was actually very nice and became predictable to rely on. I could run from one side of the area to the other and have a good sense for when to let go, making me slide right into the spot I wanted to be in.

Since I imagine there will eventually be a mix of free roam and barricade parts, it feels important to get the free roam movement down. Normally, a first person game would use the mouse for aiming and then use WASD for movement, with A and D being strafing. However, I have a feeling you don't want mouse aiming to be part of this so I'm unsure of any particular way that could help. Perhaps what may help is to slow down the speed of enemies in free roam. For example, make the fast enemies move as fast as the slow ones do now, and make the slow enemies even slower. This would give the player more time with aiming and would make it less frustrating.

This game has such a strong visual identity! I really love seeing FMV and I think the way it was implemented was really fun and cool.

I'm honestly really fascinated by the metastory... It liked how personal and specific it was. I love two narratives that inform each other and I think this could be really really interesting!

I agree with the other feedback about controls, in that it definitely felt non-standard compared to other FPS games. It DID make the game scarier, however... I didn't feel truly in control in a way that made the game more intense for me.

I played the game on stream here around 1:25:00

A pretty fun short demo with a very strong art style

+ The FMV-style graphics, with live-action recordings and photos as the sprites lend the game a really distinctive feel, it's not a style you see often and it works quite well here. The muted colors and short render distance fog really effectively convey an oppressive atmosphere.

+ New gameplay elements are introduced at a good pace, with the core loop even changing midway through, and new abelites and enemy types being introduced at a frequent rate.

+ The game presents dual stories pretty well, with the visual novel-style bits between the levels conveying the post-apocalyptic story the gameplay occurs in, while the short video segments are a bit more meta, showing the story of an indie dev trying to get the game you're playing published. It was a good choice to present both in different styles, this leaves both stories easily distinguishable where two narratives could have otherwise been confusing. While neither story has gotten very far yet, they grabbed me enough that I'm interested to see where they go next.

~ On mouse and keyboard it took a moment to get used to the controls, using the W and D keys to turn the camera instead of strafing. While mouselook is standard for first person shooters usually, the fairly simple nature of the FPS segments and the generous enemy hitboxes meant I could get used to it pretty quickly, so this probably isn't really an issue.

- While the sprites and animations look good, enemy death animations can be quite long, and I think they keep moving as they die. Due to this, and the occasional similarity of the death and hurt animations, it can often be hard to tell when you have killed an enemy, especially the ones that take numerous shots.

- In a similar vein, the kick animation was quite slow, leaving it hard to judge the timing on when it dealt damage.

Overall a really interesting and unique demo! It was quite short so it didn't overstay it's welcome, and the story and gameplay had me interested to see what you do with it next. Good work!