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How's it going again? 

I took your suggestions into consideration And have made the buffer cancel window for chaining attacks much wider, and it's definitely help smoother out Yuuto's cancels and flow of movement/attacks. I'm going to also add a little bit of a red material effect over the enemy characters when they get hit, that way it can really emphasize that they're getting smacked. 

Yeah obviously I can see you're bad at the game. If your "hit and run" strategy worked so well, how come you kept dying on the 1st part of the 1st stage? And I genuinely don't get what you mean by "blurry." "Nothing in this game is homogenous?" "unrelated asset packs?" Did I put a metahuman ballerina in the game without noticing? Nobody who has played the game from both playtesting and irl have said anything besides lighting being a bit too much but never blurry, so I don't get where this is coming from. And no, you're wrong about the enemies. They fit just fine. 

Enemies in this game aren't designed to just stand around and get hit, they will attack you if you are too occupied with one of them, and this leads to you needing better combos. And they have a LOT of hit stun when you're hitting them, so much in fact they can be comboed from near across your Fov, which you clearly didn't notice or care to. And I see you're CLEARLY lying about enemies not moving. When did enemies ever stop moving or attacking? They legit were hunting you down because you just resorted to spamming a single attack button. 

Someone did mention last week about chain cancelling not being that smooth, so that is being adjusted. But you're genuinely wrong about this game, and I am not taking your criticism into account. Good day to you, sir.

Alright, some critiques;

The jump pad is janky as hell; Idk if you were trying to go for "timed jump" where you're supposed jump as it moves up, but it feels pretty bad to use. And visually it's very jarring as it misaligns your jump spacing when going up. In fact, the ground pound jump almost gives you almost as good a boost and is more consistent overall. 

There HAS to be some sounds in the game, especially for the disappearing platforms. There's basically no cue or indication when they'll disappear, and not having some rhythmic feedback such as sound makes it hard to plan your jumps right.

Hey there.

 So in earlier builds of the game, enemies were not as Aggressive as they are now. The reason is because of the chaining system that puts them in a lot of hit stun, with near infinite strings on all enemies. So no, they're like that on purpose. It's better to separate enemies out for longer extensions or to go for simple, smaller combos in order to take them out. The normal moves aren't all that great on purpose. 

I also don't know where the critique of no feedback is coming through? Did you not have sound on or something? There's a lot of feedback when you're hitting and getting hit. And also there's no real blurriness to the game. The game is mostly flat with simple colors. 

And I don't think researching other action games is going to get "combat feel" right outside of bells and whistles. Other games have other systems they balance towards and are more limiting in terms of free chaining with Proto Zero. If the game had a more traditional 123 combo string, I would probably tone down the enemy aggression, but that can't happen. Otherwise, you'd just single button infinite through the entire game, no consequences. 

I will say you are right about the visuals of the game. It's hard to tell in some areas where you might be getting hit. This will be addressed before release. 

Thanks for your feedback and understanding. 

Welcome.

Thanks bruv, likewise.

Well I have this spot, plus smaller forums and chill gaming discord servers that help me out a lot. Way Better support and genuine interest and wishing the best for my project.

I literally get way more support from Itch and other gaming forums than any mainstream social media. still haven't tried TikTok, but I don't wanna go on there. Already burnt out from trying on twitter.

It's all that and MORE. Legitimately the site has become a cesspool for ragebait and fake hype and aura farming, as well as "pay2win" hierarchy caused by the blue check being able to be bought, thus giving you more vitality compared to regular users.

And I'll be honest, there's a lot of shitty ass behavior on that site by a bunch of ignorant assholes. You really don't want to promote your game amongst a buncha fake ass Larpers who only are ever on there to talk shit while they consume the latest gacha garbage and AAA Micro transactions dogshit releases. To hell with the majority of people on there. They won't help you out, especially those fuck ass curators who never retweet or even shout you out with their stupid hashtags. 

It actually legitimately is worse to use. I have a small following, but I have never grown from anything after a small boost over the years. The "limited reach" horseshit is also just complete garbage. Trust me, I have REALLY been trying to promote my game in 2026, but to no avail. I literally have had more support on here and other smaller forums than I have on just Twitter alone.

If you didn't already have a sizeable following, you're pretty much fighting an uphill battle, unless you have a REALLY visually appealing game that gets people hooked to RT and Like. 

Also shoutouts to all the useless ass curators who never actually play the games they promote and don't even bother retweeting you at all. 

Really sucks this developer couldn't live out their projects. It's a shame, they had some great potential with their stuff.

This is sick m8, will be using this for my next project!

Hello everyone, new demo is out. Same link as seen in the top. Check it out.

Thanks! What exactly did you have a hard time understanding? It'd really help out where you had a hard time understanding the controls. 

I'm using this little dude in my game man, check it out!

https://extrawildgames.itch.io/proto-zero-demo

Thank you very much for playing and thanks for your input. Also saw someone from the comments have the issue of stun lock enemy groups. Will adjust AI behavior according to those comments.

Camera Shake will be adjusted to not be so strong during crowd control encounters. 

Will also look into adjusting the character's weight for gravity and maybe  reduce base speed for a weightier feel.

Trying to go for somewhat of a minimalist hyperspace aesthetic, so I appreciate the parallels made with those generation of titles, especially with games like Asura's Wrath and MadWorld with super unique aesthetics and art direction.

Input manager coming soon for custom button config.

There has been a bit of an issue with that in regards to enemies being too clustered together, gonna need to find a way to stop them from being so clustered or near each other so often.  Also clarifying that when your severity is higher, there's less hit stun overall, and enemies will try to mash out on less tighter combos. 

There is no directional dodge in the game as I do believe just turning left or right, then back dash or dashing is already very strong. Also a lot of, if not all, the enemy attacks are very much linear. Adding side dashes would just invalidate most of the close ranged attacks enemies have.

Also going to your quote here:

"I think I am able to describe in what I think is why the combat felt off. With how free-form it was, I was thinking that after a hit, I could cancel into some form of directional attack (basically if I push the left thumb stick to my left, the next punch from the character will go left), especially considering how much the enemies tend to gang up, as a way to do crowd control." 

Attacks are actually soft auto locked from a certain distance on enemies, meaning that Yuuto will shift his forward position to the nearest enemy, but has to be very close in order for this to happen. I was trying to experiment to where the attack button isn't as dedicated as moving him forward, and having it similar to how strings work in Yakuza or No More Heroes by flicking the control stick a certain way, but that completely broke the way animations animated and collided. Will probably have to go in and change some normals that are more orbital in nature, since enemies do like to swarm around the player often. 

"Side note, enemy animations and when I get hit from them feels confusing. Sometimes, I would just get stun-locked with how fast they attack after one another. And even when doing one on one, it seems like when an enemy runs after me, they can also attack while in running animation? Something to look into when possible."

Please describe which enemy this was. Might have to adjust behavior based on the issue of severity.

Dully noted. what about the combat in particular was weird or felt off? And also I'm wondering about getting out of harm's way being difficult? Is there a situation you came across that made it clunky to dodge?

Also this "pressing the regular attack buttons interchangeably was more than enough." Did you not need to use any charge moves? What about the combat was somewhat weird to get? And did you play the demo again?

And as far as performance, was there any lagging or framedrops at any rate when an enemy got destroyed at all?

If you can make money selling games, might as well hop on it.

https://extrawildgames.itch.io/proto-zero-demo

Proto Zero is a 3d action game about keeping up your momentum in parallel to the autonomous hordes going against you.  You play as Yuuto, a human who has woken up to find himself surrounded by AUTOs, sentient mechanical beings which mean you nothing but harm. Exterminate them on your path, and find out what has happened to the reality unsheathed before you and Yuuto's eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJIen5udCHY 

Added a few visual aspects like target reticle lock-on and changed some UI aspects. Added a hit counter as well.

I'm making an action game where you're a young man named Yuuto, as he tries to escape from a megastructure as he fights hordes of "autos," mechanical beings who want him dead. Control Yuuto and get out of the megastructure to find out more of the origins of the antagonistic autos.  Here is some footage.

Added single target lock-on for nearby enemies

I'm looking for feedback on what could be added as far as clarity. Kinda feels like there's something missing, but I don't know where besides adding hit fx when a player hits or gets hit by the autos. I don't wanna make targeting too obvious. Kinda wanted to keep it subtle like Yakuza.

Hey, has the game been updated at all?

Thank you all very much. I have found some good resources and insight you cannot get from the Artificial Intelligences. If anybody has any Dnb/Breakcore songs they already made, I'd love to hear them!

Hi there. Barely check Itch.io as much as I should, but I don't like people doing stuff for me for free. If you have any already made songs made, I'll check them out, though I am looking  to make a more drum n bass/breakcore soundtrack type of sound.

No  way. Really!? How can you tell!?

I'm trying to find copyight free music for my game, and was checking to see if those "copyight free" songs were ok? 

Was using this website, and there are some copyright free songs I want to use:

https://eproves.com

I'm just wondering the legality of using something like this for my game. I don't really care much about "owning" the song, moreso I want to able to charge money for game without any legal loophole of some company saying I copyrighted their music.

Really good model. Gonna use it for my game!

That is a good question. They could just be getting really good rates on memory/server storage, and are passing the savings onto us.

Yeah Imma need some more details than just a blog post with no substance or link to it.

This is impressive stuff. Good lookin' for us Mech Fan Indie Devs

Guilty Gear Strive cuz you hit anybody with 50% meter,  they immediately explode.

Damn, you ported this over to MonoGame on a web browser? How'd you do it?

Quake/Doom Inspired Unity Dev Kit to help you get started on making that future Doom Eternal/Quake Champions spiritual successor. Will be adding more content in the future. If you'd like to support me, you can download the package right now as is and get all future updates for FREE.  You can get it through the Itch.io page below right above the preview vid.

https://ramimorrar.itch.io/cool-kids-fps-sample-package

No.

will check out later.

Nice!

will share it around my groups. Good stuff!

Very nice finds! Is this your stuff?