Beat Blast DEMO

I am back once again, and this time I actually counted. Decided to stop at good ol' stage 69. Got a few more notes here:

The fov is a bit too small. Combined with the fact that not all enemies glow, it sometimes makes it hard to avoid things like the snakes that come right at you out of nowhere. I think it would be good to increase the fov size, or at least make all the enemies glow.

On the bug stage, it felt a lot more rare to get one of those 4 way split rooms that lets you choose which room to go to (like the shop or boss).

The snakes can hit you before you get far enough into a room for the door to close. 

Sometimes there can be a big crowd of enemies directly in front of the door which is a bit inconvenient.

There's a small visual glitch in the sequencer when going into full screen mode. You can see it in the screenshot above, where one of the columns stays permanently Thicc™. It happens to whichever column is currently Thicc™ when you go into full screen.

The barrier passive can shield you from taking damage from the bug boss' second attack with the columns of bugs. Not sure if this is intentional or not.

When you start getting a ton of bullets on screen like with the setup I have up there, it sometimes makes it difficult to see your character while moving around and shooting in close quarters.

Enemy bullets can be hard to see over your own attack since they both glow to the same white. It might be good to pull the red bullets to the top layer so you can see it over your attack, but there's probably a better solution than that.

[edit] A pause menu would be very nice.

Anyways, that's all I can remember for now, I'll edit this comment if I think of anything later.

Does a dash key exist near the arrows? It's not practical to use the dash while moving  with the arrow keys. If this key dosen't exist, can you please add one?

Bug Report: Sometimes when I kill an enemy and it drops coins,  I can pick the majority of them up, but can't pick up 1 or 2, and they eventually despawn. This has happened to me multiple times.

Great game though, keep it up!

reporting bug: if you have sharpshooter you can destroy those 4 shield bubbles from the tunnel before entering boss room in bosses on floors 1 and 3

I discovered something about the spin shot. If you use the bouncy bullets with the spin shot weird stuff happens. so you might wanna look into that.

can it be free? it would be awsome if it is free

I found a visual bug with the note collection at the beginning of a new game. I'm guessing when you click on the notes faster than the menu music ends after clicking play, the first note will be invisible but the others will seem oddly placed. The visual bug fixed itself though once I exited fullscreen.

would be awsome if there is shield its the same as health but it might have another use

Ummm, enemies can clip through walls pls fix it. It's like a mini jumpscare

Will the game be available on mac  os?

I would love to play this game but my computer is an old mac inherited from my father

Locked rooms that you have to play a specific sequence as a "key" to unlock the door (like in the Zelda Ocarina of Time games), the current room contains clues to the music pattern.

I see the suggestions with additional bullet types.

I think it can work, but you can only "bring with you" 4 bullet types to battle, but you have plenty more to choose from in the "load-out area", or something like that.

secret bosses? like if you have only 7 notes [2G 4P 5B 6P 7B 8YB] a text will appear at the top saying ¨the grid is not 90° and red... seems like a anomaly appeared¨ if you get to a choice room the only options are: mini-boss and ??? (??? being the secret boss). each world will have a ceartain rhythim to do in order to summon the anomaly (the hive is melle + speed  (and tecknology is spread in 1 and 5))

Hello, this game is brilliant, but could you maybe lower the amount of damage the small bug swarms can do to you in level 2 (maybe make it so one has to hit you twice to take a heart) because I have had many good runs ended by one of these little demons attacking me while I am dealing with purple/black enemies.

Hello im not new here played this game for weeks and i like it! though i would like a sandbox mode.

i would reccomend a ¨build workshop¨ and a ¨sandbox mode¨

Fire Bullet Concept

Here is an idea, a new note type:

Damage: 1/4 of purple bullet (will 'burn' the enemy 5 more times, same damage, not counting hit damage, will do it 1.5 sec)

Speed: 3/4 of normal speed

Amount: 1

xXnautilusXx's Idea

hey, its me again! my suggestion is, that (whatever they're called) the buffs in the bottom right hand of the screen add to the music itself, defending on what you have in what slot. maybe an off beat hi-hat or something that mixes it up a bit, seeing as the music gets very repetative

Twin Bullet Concept

Here is an idea, a new note type:

Damage: 1 purple note bullet damage (cause we don't know the default number)

Speed: normal bullet speed

Amount: 2, will move like in picture (not 2 copies of thing in picture)

Gertimoshka's Idea

just left feedback, but ill repeat it here in case you dont see it, im also adding more here

 i would recommend making the bosses telegraph their attacks a bit more, as it is now its a bit unfair

there should be difficulty in the full release, 1 hp for hard 3 for medium and 5 for easy, that would make the game a bit more inviting for new players whilst letting better players challenge themselves

i would recommend adding descriptions for each upgrade, and put the joke at the bottom

 i would also recommend making the tutorial explain how different notes effect each other, like how green makes it go faster/farther as well as how some enemies work

i also recommend making doors not close forever and adding a map, though this is least important to me 

this is my recommendations as of now i may update later

Have you ever thought about adding items like other rouge litkes that do little things, like what if you could find an item that made your yellow purple beats explosions explode into more even smaller triangles, maybe that would be one the circle things? but stackable things so you can get even more powerfull past full square mode, like what if there was an item that gave you an additional row of squares to fill, and the scanner bar got fast to scale. Im probably suggestiong to much and it may even be annoying to try to read this, but like, another item could be an addition equipment row, so you could hold 2 riot shields or a riot shield and a domino or something. I notice that if you dodge on beat, you lose that attack, and i feel like that is A LOT of wasted potential! what if when you dodged on beat it did something based on your squares, your solo yellow would dpuble in size, you pink would shoot five, your blue would deal double damage and green would make you dodge far further.  I also feel as though a lock and key system could work nicely, perhaps its a bit too much for the vibe you have going on, but fighting a mini boss could drop a key that can be used after beating the boss of that stage to get a bonus item/equipment/square etc. Sorry about such the long comment its probably bothersome to read these, but i made this account just to comment. i think this game is so amazing and way too captivating, its on my steam wishlist and i cant wait to rack up hours! huge props you and everyone else who worked on this. Thanks for reading and i look forward to a reply.

Jake

if i could make a suggestion how about starting with 3 notes not applied yet so the player can put them in whatever they want without modding the game  love your game :)

I know its kinda sudden, but the game kinda needs a new world, and not just any world. It is a world where every legendary power-up you get in the first world, is the basic thing is the new world. I'm saying this because for me, it became repetitive whenever i pass lvl 20. Kudos to you and the team for creating an amazing game.

can we have checkpoint?

Dodge should be activated with hitting the directional key twice instead of pressing space.

Idea: Alternative use for notes:

Those notes you pick up could be used to "infuse" a white block with that notes power.

So lets say you have a white block on the blue line, then you "infuse" it with "Purple power", then suddenly that note sends out 3 blue balls, instead of 1, it basically acts as if you have BOTH a Blue & Purple note on that column, but it's just from 1 block there.

Is no one going to mention how they misspelled access on their steam page?

I had a bug that only happened to me while using a controller. while i'm running up against a wall, i will sometimes go through the wall. In all fairness, i tried to see if i could replicate it under my control but had no luck and nor could i find a way to abuse this. if anything, i got outside the map and almost got lost haha. i think it may have something to do with the green tiles speeding me up and dashing at a wall at the right time? not entirely sure.

another problem i ran into while using controller is when im using the d-pad to change my music tiles, it would fail registering the controller inputs for roughly 5-10secs+

PS. this game is great and has so much potential and cannot wait to see how far you take it :) <3 

Heat-Seeking does not work with lasers.  Logical but unsure if intended. Heat seeking could also take effect a little quicker, they usually disappear before hitting an enemy.

Turrets can be thrown inside enemies.

Mini-Gun and Heavy-Bullets don't seem to work together, but I guess that would be a little too powerful. 

A piercing upgrade would be nice, like a rail-gun to shoot through multiple enemies.

The attack of the  bug boss is a bit too fast, maybe a ~+0.15 second delay? 

Most upgrades don't seem to do much. Spin-Shot or Circle could maybe have +1 to +2 projectiles per upgrade?

Possibly after dashing you are invincible for ~0.20 seconds, for those times when you dash and barely graze and enemy. This is a better alternative than making the dash longer.

Checkpoints, to add a little bit of mercy on all of our souls. It feels like not saving in Resident Evil and dying and having to restart at the beginning of the chapter. 

A magnet upgrade that will increase the range you can pick up  Bits?

An upgrade which could slightly increase the tempo, making notes have shorter delays between them.

An upgrade which bullets will follow the cursor for the bullets lifetime.