Great game, the one point i'd give is that taking damage feels really unforgiving, either making hearts a more common drop or just giving the player more life at the start
I tried to play with a gamepad and in the first bossroom, while i was fighting, a door opened after I had touched it, I don't know if it is a bug and if it is related with the pad, it has happened only once.
The green notes make you faster, but there isn't anything that makes you tougher (I haven't tried all the items yet).
Green note is almost mandatory for second boss because some rng placements require extremely fast reaction and player speed. They also give your bullets more speed, and hence gives further range, which is very useful.
So, I get up to world 29 and I can say I was op, sadly the enemies just seem to be more resistant and their atacks become more and more fast, also hearts just stop appearing in shops after level 15 or so. Nothing to say but I love this game!
wow nice, cant say ive been that far, or really designed it for people to last that long. There is a lot more content coming and harder enemies so longer runs will be more interesting and rewarding! Thanks for playing!
Uhh hey I've been playing for 12 hours or so and this game seems super luck based. I just died to the first boss cause I only gained 3 notes and didn't run into a store once. I feel that it could really turn some players away cause it takes some of the skill out of the game.
I like the enemies on the third area, here's some opinions again:
- The third area is way easier than the second area in terms of the enemies, what makes the second area harder than the third is the fact that the room are filled with many of those enemies that shoot in 4 directions, making it hard to move freely, the third area lacks that kind of enemie which makes it the easiest area, even easier than the first one.
- As said before, in the second area, many of those enemies that shoot in 4 directions are being spawn in the rooms, some nerf or limitation on those would be a bit apreciated, it's trully a chaos, don't know if it was intended, but it's really the hardest one so far. I enjoy it of course, but I think it's too much for the second area.
- Since the enemies can like get some special abilities when they are in a different color, I noticed that the static enemies that shoot staying in place don't get this kind of ability, it would be good if it got added, making some expections on them, because getting the purple ability won't be much in a static enemie, but green to make it shoot faster and yellow to hide, would be cool.
- This would be maybe already too much but maybe do the same mentioned before, but with mini bosses, to have some variety on mini bosses, just don't make them possible to have the purple ability, 3 mini bosses in a row, no thanks, of course if a mini boss gets the chance of have an ability, lower the enemies that are in the room with it to make some fair balance.
That would be all, I have to say that I only managed to get to the third area once, so maybe I missed some of the enemies that area already there, so far I didn't see like a imitation of the snake enemie or a static enemie in that area, and getting to the third area is a bit of a pain because of the spam of the static enemies in the second area.
Thanks for reading and hope this help to improve the game that is looking pretty good right now.
As the game is now coins could be taken as a score, tho their timer is a bit short, cant get a rotation around a room (kiting) to collect them before they expire.
Volume control does not effect enemy "Mines" of the 3rd room explosion volume. Volume control does not effect start game sound volume. Volume control does not effect laser beam sound volume.
This game is amazing, but the two things I (my opinion, not others) don't really like is the darkness around you making it harder to see, an the inability to renter rooms that you entered before. Other than that, great game!
The laser on the boss is way too difficult compared to everything else. I can dodge all enemies, all bullets, but the laser gets me every time given how fast it is.
Lasers aside, the game is very slow, in terms of going room to room, in terms of enemies, in terms of projectiles. I don't really want to replay it when it starts off so slow only to die to the boss despite how interesting it is. I guess I feel like I've seen most of what the game has to offer quite quickly, it's cool, but there's not really any intensive to play more.
Not really sure what the darkness adds, felt like more of an annoyance.
Is the green a dash? Given you already have a dash. perhaps something else would fit better, like the ability to destroy enemy bullets.
Lastly it could do with a lot more kick to it. The rhythm elements have a really great feel to them but everything else is very lacking.
I don't know if the boss is hard for me,if you do not want to dodge the boss' laser and want to circle him, then go close to him and circle him, it works for me :D
Hi, i've been playing for 7 days in a row now some bugs i've noticed: 1- when the bullets get too fast with echo like when using gatling or laser with echo, some bullets actually pass through walls and doors, especially from the doors between 2 rooms. 2- when using Barrage and Echo and you're close or sticking to the wall, The barrage stops working and the bullets just go straight. 3- when using gatling the sound just shatters and the game lags soo much, i don't know if that's from the browser or a bug tbh. That's all for now, other bugs i've noticed before are fixed ^^
I'm quite liking the game, although I haven't been able to make much progress due to the second stage's difficulty. The amount of projectiles is a bit nuts, frankly.
However, my main issue is how unfair the visibility feels. This game is tagged as a bullet hell, which I believe makes it incredibly important to be able to see your enemies at all times. As the game is right now, enemies are hard to see before you enter a room, and still hard to see until they get closer to you, due to the shading effect, (which also appears to apply to enemy bullets?!?) So, if bullets come from the other side of the room before I can predict them, that feels...
Well, really unfair.
That said, some of these rooms are so big that your enemies literally are on the other side of the room, meaning they're offscreen.
Also, I somehow got sucked through a golden portal after killing the first boss this one time, with a whole bunch of neat rewards, but I have no idea how I did that, and there was nothing to indicate that I did something special to deserve it in contrast to my several other runs. What's up with that?
Will there be any kind of meta-progression in the final release? it's kind of demotivating to die, and lose everything, and i would like to feel some sort of permanent progress.
note board circle burst send out 4 shots like an X scatter shot shoots 3 bullets in a cone Bazooka double final note size double trouble final note twice turret gives you a mini turret 3 sec domino more damage? unsure power mine leave behind a mine for 5 sec circle skills echo shots bounce off walls heavy bullets doubles bullet size sharpshooter longer range?? hexagon skills Spiral bullets bullets spin around you almost like a shield
Got two bugs! First, snakes can deal damage to me before I completely enter a room and also I think their AI still targets me before I'm in the room. Second, some bits that I come by are either visual glitches or just can't be picked up. It has happened quite a bit. (;
Very cool game, only issue I have is that the upgrades cost a lot of notes so unless it's a good ability it's not usually worth it. I think they could maybe be reduced in price so that they aren't costing 3/4/5 notes. I mostly just hoped to get a level 5 upgrade in the store or I just didn't worry about it.
Is there a way to have every slot have an ability? Not super clear to me, because once I had lvl 5 scatter shot, I didn't want to risk it getting replaced and the though never crossed my mind.
Would be nice if visibility was a variable in the MainMenu settings as a score multiplier of sorts (Heavily impeded visibility may repel some players), at that - score count may be of interest for some.
I'm not sure when the Rooms are set, but making currency as a multiplier for Shop Room spawn likelihood would be nice (For I had a game where I lost while having about 600 in second "Cycle"/"Loop").
Consider making "Floor" count a multiplier on the Tier of the "Final Cord" generation.
Hmm yes, taking those last two - In a sense I'm pointing towards "Director" that would influence RNG. May be as a setting in MainMenu rather than having Pure RNG runs, it would be more "casual" so, hmm..
Oh and on some Bugs: I haven't replicated it but in Nature (i think) Floor/World I managed to clip into the wall in the shop Module/Room (i think, hey it was Quite few hours ago, vaguely remember). While so the inputs were reverted (Guessing its a corrective if someone actually manages to clip into a wall but yeah).
Also I don't know if you will like this but i saw video where he just spawned in with a bunch of notes and was maxed on floor one before he even left the room, he hacked them in, idk i just feel the cheats the game
I feel like it would be nice to have a button that you could press or hold to instantly unequip every note so you can change your "song" easily. It may not be used that often but it would be nice to have for on the fly re equipping.
and there's a change set button so the notes will be changed depending on the situation. Like for example, if you want to be purely swift and then sudden change into an attack mode.
Daily comment of a guy who likes this game: Oh heck yeah the turrets were fixed, no more lag! And you still see their pellets! Great job on that one! Had a weird game today. I used to rarely get any items aside from weapons; In 3 floors i could get simply one dash item, or just heavy bullets, today i ended up having a weapon, gatling gun, blink, heavy bullets and a total of 9 notes by the end of floor 1, the loot pools are kinda weird! Still had an awesome experience just like when i started playing this game, it fulfills a pleasant hour of my time.
Just like the comment below, an option to change keys would be great; But i guess it'll just come with a more complete options menu. I'll stick with changing my keyboard to qwerty everytime for now, it doens't modifies the experience ;)
I've noticed that the instruments feel just a tad repetitive when you've played for an hour or so, so possible could you add an option for different instruments sometime in the future, such as drumset? Also the notes combining is cool, but maybe have some synergy with different beats for people who are musicians and think some beats might work, instead of trying to get all the notes to "do all the things" at once. And one final question, what do the quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes do? I'm genuinely confused as to what they do, I haven't seen any clear indication of what they do.
the notes you pick up allow you to change the sound of the music, once you have got one see the arrows on the side of the notes? click on that and you will be able to change the sounds played by those notes!
Gatling and Barrage are similar on the surface, but synergize with other abilities differently. Gatling triples your other bonuses and spaces out your shots, while Barrage just changes your projectile count and movement patterns.
Blink makes you teleport when you dodge. Functionally it makes your dodge faster.
i would also reccomend more note spaces like a grey drum piercing shot and a new ¨token¨ for the dash space, basicly it makes it so the dash is longer, its called ¨long jump¨ and the description is ¨like mario 64, but glitch free¨
Ik this is like my fifth post but i have a request on the 2nd floor boss. So when i was playing and fighting so the little group of bugs that she shoots out stays for awhile because when I got to the part where you have to dodge the beams of bugs i was trapped and got killed :/
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personally i think you should add checkpoints at the varying difficulties so from dots to bugs and so on
I wish that the notes that make your other notes sound different, had an actual effect. Or if there is, make it a bit more undersandable.
PS: Please make the descriptions of items actually descriptive.
Great game, the one point i'd give is that taking damage feels really unforgiving, either making hearts a more common drop or just giving the player more life at the start
I really like this game, but:
I would like to see a score after each run.
I tried to play with a gamepad and in the first bossroom, while i was fighting, a door opened after I had touched it, I don't know if it is a bug and if it is related with the pad, it has happened only once.
The green notes make you faster, but there isn't anything that makes you tougher (I haven't tried all the items yet).
Green note is almost mandatory for second boss because some rng placements require extremely fast reaction and player speed. They also give your bullets more speed, and hence gives further range, which is very useful.
What is the name of the menu screen music?
no name yet, our musician made it.
I need that music as its own song, as my computer can't run the game (I play on my laptop) and I love the music.
So, I get up to world 29 and I can say I was op, sadly the enemies just seem to be more resistant and their atacks become more and more fast, also hearts just stop appearing in shops after level 15 or so. Nothing to say but I love this game!
Damn! You got to world 29! i only reached world 14 :(
wow nice, cant say ive been that far, or really designed it for people to last that long. There is a lot more content coming and harder enemies so longer runs will be more interesting and rewarding! Thanks for playing!
Hearts do appear in shops late game! But only if you already have less than 3 of them, and even then, it's still not a guarantee.
I have an idea for the collectible notes; maybe when you collect one, the speed or power of the note(s) that it affects increases.
A list of other things I would suggest (according to my experience):
btw, circle burst is probably too op, I beat the first boss with lv. 1 circle burst and 2 full rows of notes in about 15 - 20 seconds
Uhh hey I've been playing for 12 hours or so and this game seems super luck based. I just died to the first boss cause I only gained 3 notes and didn't run into a store once. I feel that it could really turn some players away cause it takes some of the skill out of the game.
Hey we are doing some tweaks and fixes to make it less luck based. Thanks for the feedback!
I like the enemies on the third area, here's some opinions again:
- The third area is way easier than the second area in terms of the enemies, what makes the second area harder than the third is the fact that the room are filled with many of those enemies that shoot in 4 directions, making it hard to move freely, the third area lacks that kind of enemie which makes it the easiest area, even easier than the first one.
- As said before, in the second area, many of those enemies that shoot in 4 directions are being spawn in the rooms, some nerf or limitation on those would be a bit apreciated, it's trully a chaos, don't know if it was intended, but it's really the hardest one so far. I enjoy it of course, but I think it's too much for the second area.
- Since the enemies can like get some special abilities when they are in a different color, I noticed that the static enemies that shoot staying in place don't get this kind of ability, it would be good if it got added, making some expections on them, because getting the purple ability won't be much in a static enemie, but green to make it shoot faster and yellow to hide, would be cool.
- This would be maybe already too much but maybe do the same mentioned before, but with mini bosses, to have some variety on mini bosses, just don't make them possible to have the purple ability, 3 mini bosses in a row, no thanks, of course if a mini boss gets the chance of have an ability, lower the enemies that are in the room with it to make some fair balance.
That would be all, I have to say that I only managed to get to the third area once, so maybe I missed some of the enemies that area already there, so far I didn't see like a imitation of the snake enemie or a static enemie in that area, and getting to the third area is a bit of a pain because of the spam of the static enemies in the second area.
Thanks for reading and hope this help to improve the game that is looking pretty good right now.
As the game is now coins could be taken as a score, tho their timer is a bit short, cant get a rotation around a room (kiting) to collect them before they expire.
Volume control does not effect enemy "Mines" of the 3rd room explosion volume.
Volume control does not effect start game sound volume.
Volume control does not effect laser beam sound volume.
Will fix, thanks for letting us know.
This game is amazing, but the two things I (my opinion, not others) don't really like is the darkness around you making it harder to see, an the inability to renter rooms that you entered before. Other than that, great game!
yeah those are two things that could need tweeking
Really cool concept, and quite well executed.
The laser on the boss is way too difficult compared to everything else. I can dodge all enemies, all bullets, but the laser gets me every time given how fast it is.
Lasers aside, the game is very slow, in terms of going room to room, in terms of enemies, in terms of projectiles. I don't really want to replay it when it starts off so slow only to die to the boss despite how interesting it is. I guess I feel like I've seen most of what the game has to offer quite quickly, it's cool, but there's not really any intensive to play more.
Not really sure what the darkness adds, felt like more of an annoyance.
Is the green a dash? Given you already have a dash. perhaps something else would fit better, like the ability to destroy enemy bullets.
Lastly it could do with a lot more kick to it. The rhythm elements have a really great feel to them but everything else is very lacking.
You have to dodge through the first boss laser, you can't circle around him. The second level becomes much much more fast paced, don't worry lol.
The green buff makes your bullets go faster and farther, and it gives you a boost of speed.
Yep, The boss is way too hard for that early in the game
I don't know if the boss is hard for me,if you do not want to dodge the boss' laser and want to circle him, then go close to him and circle him, it works for me :D
Hi, i've been playing for 7 days in a row now
some bugs i've noticed:
1- when the bullets get too fast with echo like when using gatling or laser with echo, some bullets actually pass through walls and doors, especially from the doors between 2 rooms.
2- when using Barrage and Echo and you're close or sticking to the wall, The barrage stops working and the bullets just go straight.
3- when using gatling the sound just shatters and the game lags soo much, i don't know if that's from the browser or a bug tbh.
That's all for now, other bugs i've noticed before are fixed ^^
It's "a bit" hard game.
I'm quite liking the game, although I haven't been able to make much progress due to the second stage's difficulty. The amount of projectiles is a bit nuts, frankly.
However, my main issue is how unfair the visibility feels. This game is tagged as a bullet hell, which I believe makes it incredibly important to be able to see your enemies at all times.
As the game is right now, enemies are hard to see before you enter a room, and still hard to see until they get closer to you, due to the shading effect, (which also appears to apply to enemy bullets?!?) So, if bullets come from the other side of the room before I can predict them, that feels...
Well, really unfair.
That said, some of these rooms are so big that your enemies literally are on the other side of the room, meaning they're offscreen.
Also, I somehow got sucked through a golden portal after killing the first boss this one time, with a whole bunch of neat rewards, but I have no idea how I did that, and there was nothing to indicate that I did something special to deserve it in contrast to my several other runs. What's up with that?
The golden portal is randomly i cant predict it
Golden Portal is random, I have had 2 runs where I got it. It's just total random chance of weather or not a boss will drop it.
Will there be any kind of meta-progression in the final release? it's kind of demotivating to die, and lose everything, and i would like to feel some sort of permanent progress.
Yes, we are planning on introducing unlocks that you retain between games for Steam Early Access.
I kinda wish there was a wiki or something that had the details for all of the upgrades and abilities and such
note board
circle burst send out 4 shots like an X
scatter shot shoots 3 bullets in a cone
Bazooka double final note size
double trouble final note twice
turret gives you a mini turret 3 sec
domino more damage? unsure
power mine leave behind a mine for 5 sec
circle skills
echo shots bounce off walls
heavy bullets doubles bullet size
sharpshooter longer range??
hexagon skills
Spiral bullets bullets spin around you almost like a shield
domino: when it kills an enemy it leaves behind a destructive aura to damage other enemies.
nice! A fan made wiki would be awesome!
Got two bugs! First, snakes can deal damage to me before I completely enter a room and also I think their AI still targets me before I'm in the room. Second, some bits that I come by are either visual glitches or just can't be picked up. It has happened quite a bit. (;
Does the game have an end or is it infinite?
Very cool game, only issue I have is that the upgrades cost a lot of notes so unless it's a good ability it's not usually worth it. I think they could maybe be reduced in price so that they aren't costing 3/4/5 notes. I mostly just hoped to get a level 5 upgrade in the store or I just didn't worry about it.
Is there a way to have every slot have an ability? Not super clear to me, because once I had lvl 5 scatter shot, I didn't want to risk it getting replaced and the though never crossed my mind.
Might want to look at Bounce from Orbit behavior, speed does not transfer, it is intended or unaccounted?
finally reached World 9!!!!(although died at boss which was sad :{ .... )
Would be nice if visibility was a variable in the MainMenu settings as a score multiplier of sorts (Heavily impeded visibility may repel some players), at that - score count may be of interest for some.
I'm not sure when the Rooms are set, but making currency as a multiplier for Shop Room spawn likelihood would be nice (For I had a game where I lost while having about 600 in second "Cycle"/"Loop").
Consider making "Floor" count a multiplier on the Tier of the "Final Cord" generation.
Hmm yes, taking those last two - In a sense I'm pointing towards "Director" that would influence RNG. May be as a setting in MainMenu rather than having Pure RNG runs, it would be more "casual" so, hmm..
Oh and on some Bugs: I haven't replicated it but in Nature (i think) Floor/World I managed to clip into the wall in the shop Module/Room (i think, hey it was Quite few hours ago, vaguely remember). While so the inputs were reverted (Guessing its a corrective if someone actually manages to clip into a wall but yeah).
Also I don't know if you will like this but i saw video where he just spawned in with a bunch of notes and was maxed on floor one before he even left the room, he hacked them in, idk i just feel the cheats the game
So what if he did?
I may have watched the same vid, pretty sure it was modded or something like that
You mean OmegaMoney right? If so, then he has permissions i remember.
Hello, I just went through an entire first level and I did not see a store once. Is this intentional or just a bug?
just means you were un lucky because its not guaranteed that you will find the shop
Do you think you can make a mobile version.For movement could be a D-pad and for aiming could be a joy-stick
I feel like it would be nice to have a button that you could press or hold to instantly unequip every note so you can change your "song" easily. It may not be used that often but it would be nice to have for on the fly re equipping.
okay we will look into it, might make it the "u" button
and there's a change set button so the notes will be changed depending on the situation. Like for example, if you want to be purely swift and then sudden change into an attack mode.
you could make music sets with the keybindings being 1 2 3 4 and 5
Daily comment of a guy who likes this game:
Oh heck yeah the turrets were fixed, no more lag! And you still see their pellets! Great job on that one!
Had a weird game today. I used to rarely get any items aside from weapons; In 3 floors i could get simply one dash item, or just heavy bullets, today i ended up having a weapon, gatling gun, blink, heavy bullets and a total of 9 notes by the end of floor 1, the loot pools are kinda weird! Still had an awesome experience just like when i started playing this game, it fulfills a pleasant hour of my time.
Just like the comment below, an option to change keys would be great; But i guess it'll just come with a more complete options menu. I'll stick with changing my keyboard to qwerty everytime for now, it doens't modifies the experience ;)
Still an awesome game, have a good day!
I'm glad somebody noticed the turrets! The frame drop from them was really irking me.
please, can you add an option to change the keys ?
This will be coming with the Steam Early Access launch. Key bindings will definitely be there!
Some of the enemies on the second floor just suddenly stop moving and shooting...
We uploaded a build last night that should fix that problem. Let me know if you are still experiencing it. Thanks!
I've noticed that the instruments feel just a tad repetitive when you've played for an hour or so, so possible could you add an option for different instruments sometime in the future, such as drumset? Also the notes combining is cool, but maybe have some synergy with different beats for people who are musicians and think some beats might work, instead of trying to get all the notes to "do all the things" at once. And one final question, what do the quarter, eighth, and sixteenth notes do? I'm genuinely confused as to what they do, I haven't seen any clear indication of what they do.
the notes you pick up allow you to change the sound of the music, once you have got one see the arrows on the side of the notes? click on that and you will be able to change the sounds played by those notes!
oh okay thank you is that all they do, just change the sound?
I've noticed that sometimes when you dodge you skip attacking for a beat. Is that supposed to happen?
Yes, that is an intentional trade off for the safety dodging provides.
I've been playing this for an hour non stop its amazing, please have multiplayer when it launches!
I also love the emphasis on music over dps
Maybe a 2p version for steam would be great
Ooooh and the sound could like be a neat harmony
This was a run..., also please buff Gatling gun, it does the same as Barrage but worse. And what does Blink do?
Gatling and Barrage are similar on the surface, but synergize with other abilities differently. Gatling triples your other bonuses and spaces out your shots, while Barrage just changes your projectile count and movement patterns.
Blink makes you teleport when you dodge. Functionally it makes your dodge faster.
this game is so fun but im so bad at it lol. I cant even get past the first boss. really fun though
i would also reccomend more note spaces like a grey drum piercing shot and a new ¨token¨ for the dash space, basicly it makes it so the dash is longer, its called ¨long jump¨ and the description is ¨like mario 64, but glitch free¨
the token image would be a ball at the top with a trail going to the bottom part
i would recomend that the world 3 boss is like level 1 but square, can move around and can summon enemies
I feel like the lvl 2 boss is harder than all the bosses lmao. Also why does world 3 have world 1 boss?
We are currently working on the level 3 boss and mini boss. They will be in shortly
Ik this is like my fifth post but i have a request on the 2nd floor boss. So when i was playing and fighting so the little group of bugs that she shoots out stays for awhile because when I got to the part where you have to dodge the beams of bugs i was trapped and got killed :/
We have been debating whether bug missiles already in the air should be terminated or not when that sequence begins. We'll keep this in mind.
It seems likely from all the feedback we've gotten that the swarm beams need a lot of general tweaking.
IMO it helps me to keep on guard tho xD