comments for Time Survivor

Nice, but using the dash with the mouse is not practical.

Overall interesting game, the dash aiming is abhorrent and horrendous. It was so frustrating I couldn't keep going. My personal suggestion would be at least to allow the cursor to be visible and just aim toward the cursor. If its intended to be difficult, then maybe limit the cursor to a small bubble around you or something. Even so, the thing definitely is interesting and different than most of what I've seen on here. Good luck to you.

I second that the aim system can be improved, but the concept is great, looking forward to it.

boss's beam trail makes huge frame drop.

I enjoyed the game until the (first?) boss fight, when lag made playing basically impossible. Maybe the dash damage II upgrade would make things more bearable, but you can specifically make your farming worse by buying the time headstart upgrades.
Generally a nice concept, but lag and upgrades that make your experience worse (at least for where I am at - which is likely not close to the end) put me off, I'll try the desktop version at one point, but for now i'm done with it.

The dash really needs improvement now that ive gotten to the point where I need to aim at a moving target

Ok, so the Dash should aim towards where the mouse is and not have its rotation based on the mouse movement, its a really confusing way of implimenting a dash
Other than that its fun

Concept sounds interesting, but I don't seem to be able to get into the game. It's been on the "Loading Game for the First Time" message for over a minute already

Also there's no fucking room for mistake for time keeper.
WHO THE HELL THOUGHT MAKE A BOSS INSTA-KILL THE PLAYER IS A GOOD IDEA????

Both of the dash modes are horrible, if you use the mouse controlled one it will randomly spin you completely around, And if you use the keyboard one it just doesn't go in the direction your trying to go. Please fix.

Somehow managed to do it with keyboard only, but what's the point of hiding cursor?

had fun until i only could fight boss...with dashdmg++ would probably be easier but when you have to start at boss and are "bad" and can only kill 1 ship every 2-3 rounds just gets to annoying to farm it. also find myself scrolling through upgrades alot to see if i maxed out them

The early and mid-game are fun. Progression is rewarding, and the upgrades make a noticeable difference. But the final boss is a huge leap in difficulty. Suddenly, it goes from a game about progression to a hardcore skill-based challenge. Maybe I'm just not the target audience for what you're going for--I generally don't enjoy games where you die in one hit--but personally, I would find it a lot more enjoyable if there were some more late-game upgrades to make grinding the boss battle worth it.

Cool game. Style reminds me a lot of node buster. The gameplay is simple and pretty fun all things considered. Would probably spend a few bucks on a full release when it comes out.
Would appreciate it if there was some more quality options such as an indicator when your dash is off cd (i.e. the indicator flashes green/orange/white) as well as upgrades to increase the dash hitbox to make it a bit forgiving. Not that the difficulty is too hard, but there's many times where I felt like I'd just go straight through an enemy, even taking damage from them but not dealing any. If you plan on expanding this game as well, I believe the pacing of this section could be pushed a bit faster. Having basically 0 enemy variety does start to drag the game on, and the enemies aren't particularly hard to dodge even at max modifiers. The dash attack mechanic was a welcome change of pace but it eventually becomes pretty one dimensional once you figure out the best way to farm the enemies.
If you haven't already, I'd take a look at Nodebuster for inspiration. It has a very similar style and a simplistic expanding gameplay structure but it does manage to keep the game paced well and continually expansive until around the end. However at the same time, I believe it would be in your best interest to try to deviate a little from its structure as well and add more concepts of your own.
I'd also consider creating less circles or finding a way to handle their movement more efficiently when buying upgrades. Towards the later sections, there's a significant lag spike whenever an upgrade is bought. I know Godot does garbage collection for you but I'd still consider finding a different solution than you're currently using.

I like this game. But here's what you need to do to fix the controls:

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1. Enable cursor. Right now I have no idea where I'm aiming in "dash towards the cursor" mode. It will also help to see if the cursor is moving away from the window in the "relative to ship" mode.

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2. I'm assuming your "relative to ship" mode operates by adding a child object to the player object and translating cursor movements to it. What you want to do, is take the relative position of the child object to the player object and normalize that vector (divide by it's own length so that it's length becomes 1 while preserving the direction). You might also want to multiply that resulting vector by some constant (and better yet add an option in the settings for what that constant would be for players to control). And then position the child object at that position relative to the ship. This will result in the cursor always staying at a set distance away from the player object, which will make controlling of the direction you dash towards much more intuitive.

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3. This is not about the controls, but it is about the dash. You want to keep the invulnerability going for a bit longer after the dash finishes. You'll have to play with the actual timing, but right now it sometimes feel like you dash into the enemy and still get hit when you feel like you shouldn't.

dashing cd is too long and is very precise, making it nearly impossible to get triangles in perma-time stop

ok now that im farther into the game
these hitboxes are absolutely HORRENDOUS
also when i stun the big guy, the "line" in back of him KEEPS EXPANDING, meaning i ALWAYS run into the damn thing after dashing into him
ALSO, the lines that are so faded out that you can barely see them STILL deal 999 damage

refreshed the tab and now it gets stuck "loading game for first time"...

Game isn't loading after playing for the first time and closing the tab. Bug is on Firefox.

Time Jump upgrade means grinding red points is next to impossible, and there does not seem to be a way to refund skill points