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A jam submission

Silicon Scars (Demo)View game page

Running, Gunning, and Reading.
Submitted by KaadNet — 2 days, 23 hours before the deadline
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Submitted

Played it in normal, Ill be a bit harsh on the gameplay loop/fun. I think it was too repetitive, long hallways with the same three enemies on all levels, a big worry that I have is that this game is just another doomlike to the pile without anything interesting to make it stand out. 

Fighting the enemies isnt an issue either since all you have to do is keep moving and its really hard for you to get hit

I don't know what makes a doom-like be a fun game nowadays but I encourage you to investigate and try to implement changes into the core gameplay loop before you continue expanding.


Notes:

- The map is a bit confusing to follow and you cant interact with it, my character started to shoot as I clicked on it.

- Weapon animations forbid weapon change which can be pretty annoying, I tried to swap fast inbetween different weapons and it didnt let me.

- There's a lack of shooting feedback, it wasn't really clear at first that shooting the shields wasnt dealing damage, maybe some spark effect or dust dunno.
 

- I had to skip a level with debug tools because it was telling me to kill a hacker and I had no idea what that meant, I did kill all enemies and left alive the guys without weapons because they seemed like chill dudes who didnt want no trouble.

I got stuck in this level "longer than four hours", the elevator on the left side of the screenshot didnt work and I couldnt find any button to activate it

Submitted

Forgot to mention, the music bugs out sometimes and it stops playing when leaving a terminal

also at the level I got stuck I didnt use a terminal and the music kinda stopped too and never came back on

Submitted(+1)

winrar refused to extract the rar but 7zip worked fine. thought the audio was broke cuz no footstep or punching sound. i got lost cuz i didnt know i have to press E on two different things next to the revolver. tbqh im not sure i needed a block of text there to tell me that the revolver is a revolver that shoots things, especially when it says its kinda armor piercing yet all of the enemies have a shield i cant shoot through. these levels are very large and easy to get turned around in for a such a slow character and mostly just enemies i shoot in the legs 4 times. i played in the hula hoop difficulty and quit on the level that says "plus tip" on the map.

Developer

Firstly, thank you for playing! I don't know why winrar is being weird about extracting the files. The block of text actually isn't/wasn't for the revolver, but for the terminals and objective objects - the text can be turned off in the options menu.

Genuinely surprised that you played on the hardest difficulty and made it through 87% of the demo.