Time Survivor

Once you have have 200 damage upgrade, farming resources is pretty fun. Unfortunately, there are no further upgrades past that point and the hitboxes make the boss fight still fairly frustrating to play. Would like to see additional upgrades that make the boss fight easier (e.g. additional invincibility (especially after dashing), faster dash cd, slightly higher damage, a way to not get completely one-shot by boss attacks, etc.)

Also, switching fullscreen mode sometimes causes the initial knockback explosion from the bossfight to be mispositioned, so the player spawns on top of the boss.

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

-

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.

-

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.

-

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.

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

1 thing

make the dash hitbox BIGGER
the square is INSIDE the triangle and the dash doesnt even hit, also, the dash invincibility doesnt even do anything, as they somehow usually HIT you after you dash into them, when the square is 3 pixels away from it, it doesnt hit it makes no sense, please, fix your hitboxes

Update: Haha, yeah, the whole tutorial breaks if you do a second run before buying any upgrades, and you buy the max energy upgrade first. Now that I've restarted from scratch, and grabbed the 1 energy upgrade first, the tutorial's continuing and energy orbs are spawning again.

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.

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