Sorry for the delay in posting this review!  I'm behind in posting these, so I'll keep the text portion short.  I really like that enemies actually attack the player rather than simply (and especially not additionally) do touch damage.  The core gameplay mechanics are good, but the player choices in gameplay and progression path seem limited.  I would recommend researching how other games in the Bullet Heaven genre do progression and player choices (such as Death Must Die and Deep Rock Galactic: Survivors).

The VOD for the review is linked below, and will be available for 60 days  from the day of broadcast (as a note, the game was only muted in the VOD specifically to prevent any DMCA issues):
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2887760711?t=0h10m34s

Hi KidChaos!

This was a pretty fun and good start to a game in the genre, Overload is a bit of an understatement with these games, especially with the disco floor you have going and my colorblindness! I appreciate that you have the feature to be able to change colors, as a reminder, I recommended having the ability to disable or lock certain colors so it doesn't become an issue between levels.

Music and sfx were pretty good, my audience enjoyed the music and cheered when it came back on after I forgot to switch it between the browser and downloaded version! If anything, add more music like what you have to keep everything fresh, especially when the battles get longer!

For the gameplay, this was pretty fun, I won't talk too much about the changes and updates you are making towards the game already since that's already in progress but I do want to leave some comments about what would keep me coming back to your game, especially with a lot of competition in the genre. For the most part, I see similar games even in free platforms like Roblox where I watch my kids play and I think they'd definitely do better on mobile or tablet for things like this since sitting at a PC is something they are still getting used to but kids all jump on mobile devices quite early on.

With the floor falling, and some pits around the stage, you have the framework for some really fun gameplay and mapping. It didn't occur to me while I was playing because I was in the thick of things but having stages where it feels like you are dealing with obstacles would be something I feel would set this game apart from others which tend to be big open fields with masses of enemies. Also, it's a great opportunity for satisfying and fun weapon types, I imagine like a grapple to pull the monsters into a pit you are standing behind. (not sure if that's viable though haha). Other weapons that throw and knock around the enemies would be fun too but all of which are risky because of the coin and energy drops falling off the stage. So much potential and lots of fun with this early concept.

Definitely focus on the core game first but I think some kind of multiplayer and some "skins" would make this very amusing for a lot of people, especially kids who would play things simply to unlock and have a good laugh with their friends. I can picture my son requesting the blocks be dinosaurs and my eldest daughter wanting to see a bunch of ducks waddling at you lol. This can all come later, of course.

I think most of everything else was something you already mentioned that you had in the works, so I'll leave that for now. Looking forward to playing more! Keep me in mind when you have updates!

Thank you for the Jam and for the fun game! My daughter and I enjoyed it!

Regards,

- Glim GlimMusic.com

Hey! With FQ9 ending soon, I wanted to let you know that I won't be able to cover your game until after the event. If you're okay with waiting, just keep the game on the event and I'll be getting around to it over the next couple of months or so. :)

• Youtube Link / Twitch Link
• Graphics : Neon clown vomit , severe epilepsy potential. 
• GUI : Mostly fine , can be touched up a bit, maybe certain elements being resized [Like the Bitcoins and the other currency]
• Performance : Fine
• Music / Sfx : 
  • Music : Fine, DnB , more variety would be nice though.
  • SFX : Incredibly lackluster
• Gameplay : A bit lackluster atm, it feels like enemies just have ridiculous amounts of HP compared to your damage output, the arena shrinking like a Battle Royale could be leaned into, or the fact you can break individual squares , you getting weapons to break the floors or body slam enemies [physics] could be fun, and at numerous points I was somewhat able to get enemies to fall out of the arena.
• Notes : 
  • The pistol would be better if you could click to speed up the firerate , as it is by default it feels rather bad.
  • Firerate on the SMG/AR [whichever it is] is pretty low
  • Animations practically don't exist for many things and enemy models are rather obviously just a cube
  • The 'tongue' attack enemy could instead be a telescoping robo-arm to fit the idea of them being robots
  • The thrown weapons should do more damage
  • Many of the upgrades feel a bit lackluster (10% heal , enemies are slowed for 10s or "+3S" ground interval collapse interval) 
  • You get an excess of guns on the ground, have them despawn, or are able to be picked up for more ammo, or just shot to blow them up like an explosive barrel, or even have enemies potentially pick them up after a while (or an enemy that 'eats' them) 
  • Upgrades and their costs might need to be revised.
  • The visual vomit...visuals are fine, but there really should be a toggle option for a 'boring' version for those prone to headaches or epileptic seizures
  • The jump feels a bit jank
  • ATTACK OVERLOAD, MORE LIKE SENSORY OVERLOAD, AMIRIGHT? [joke]
• Final Thoughts : It's got a fine groundwork, it could do with some balancing and some more variety.

Fun game, I get the disco theme, great design, just wished the colors were a bit more muted or less eye-straining so its easier to play longer. 

Really good game you made well done! The graphics are really effective, and the music fits well with the game. And I also like the fact you made a lot of enemies chasing me, which makes it look hard.  However, if I had to say something you need to improve, it would be the fact the gun and the hitbox. The gun comes out of nowhere makes it confusing. And I think you made the player hitbox way too small. Although the game is really fun with like the 100 enemy ai movement mechanics. 

Good luck :D

Interesting take on the bullet heaven genre. The music was cool and the screen effects were kinda fun. It's clear you were going for a chaotic atmosphere. Unfortunately, almost all of the tweaks to the formula made it worse for me. Here's how a typical run went:

• Map starts, there's a gun nearby. But don't pick it up! You'll waste limited ammo.
• Enemy spawns. Now it's safe to pick up the gun. 
• Fire at the giant red cube. (Gas pump?) 
• Bullet goes right through giant red cube without hitting it. Try to aim at its center of mass? the ground beneath its feet? The white dot you can't see half the time? Where's this thing's hitbox!?
• More giant red cubes start to spawn. Eventually, if the horde gets big enough, I'll start hitting some of them, I guess.
• Every few seconds, there's a lag spike. Not sure what's causing it. Maybe it has to load the gun model every time you get a new gun?
• Speaking of which, having to go and get a new gun every 5 seconds is annoying. Half the time, it spawns in the middle of the horde. I can't imagine a 2% chance of getting an SMG instead of a pistol is going to save this mechanic.
• My hands tense up every time I'm forced to go near the edge, every time I'm forced to jump, every time I realize my gun stopped working... pretty much any time anything that makes this game unique happens, my blood pressure goes up.
• Let's talk about jumping, by the way. My back is to the wall. There are enemies all around me. I have a double jump ability. I'm mashing the spacebar. Why my character not go up? That was rhetorical. You're using Unity, so the answer is probably you used a Rigidbody instead of a CharacterController.
• You really need to be more generous with the hitboxes, man. Each enemy should have a hitbox for world collisions that's the same size as the mesh, a seperate hitbox for player bullets that's a bit bigger, and a third hitbox for damaging the player that's a little smaller... oh, wait, you used Rigidbodies for everything, I forgot. Make the player bullet hitboxes bigger, then. No, wait, then they'd hit the world geometry when it doesn't look like they should. Okay, so give the player bullets a larger enemy-collider that fits like a shell around the world-collider. I'll take anything. This business of firing into a crowd and somehow missing half the shots is ridiculous.
• If the bullets moved faster, it would really make it a lot easier to hit what I'm aiming at. I believe Unity has a physics setting to brute-force solve the problem of projectiles "ghosting" through colliders, and if that's too computationally expensive to use, just use box colliders for the bullets, but stretch them along the bullet's trajectory so you're firing long rectangles that get longer the faster the bullet is. 
• (IMPORTANT: change the Box Collider numbers. Do NOT scale the bullet GameObjects! It'll break the physics collision process entirely if any physics objects are scaled to non-uniform proportions!)
• Actually, could ghosting explain why I'm missing all the time? I dunno. The bullets seem pretty slow. It doesn't look like they're moving fast enough for that to be an issue. Then again, at these frame rates, I suppose anything is possible.

I hope you improve the game. You've got a nice theme going. Now you just need to focus on the fundamentals. Your movement, jumping and bullet collision need to be, well, bulletproof. 

Good luck!