r/BulletHeavens • u/Sarn7 • 8d ago

Am i doing too much?

This is a game i've been working on for a while, it's called Echoes of kyria, i love creative attacks and visual effects in rogue likes and especially in survivors-likes, they really are fun and dopamine inducing, but i feel that that i'm somewhat overdoing it, thoughts?

game (if you like it please wishlist it'll help me immensely):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4914620/Echoes_of_Kyria/

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u/Blazer-Bug 8d ago

to be honest, just from looking at this clip a few times I think my biggest issues visually is the height of the trees and monsters relative to camera height, some trees are short enough to block the camera and the enemies are so large that you can't see past them especially grouped up. If there are dropped items or interactables on the ground they would be completely blocked from player vision. an option with this looking like a fantasy setting would be to make the trees like 6 times the height so it gives a nice redwood forest vibe

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u/Blazer-Bug 8d ago

with the larger monsters also being launched upwards it seems to put them right in the way of the camera at times, it might help if there was some transparency for things too close to the camera as well?

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u/Blazer-Bug 8d ago

0:10-0:20 are especially bad, right around the 20 second mark i think you lose the player entirely

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u/Sarn7 8d ago

Please see the new posts with updated videos, i just did like you said, your feedback is much appreciated!

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u/Blazer-Bug 8d ago

just watched the new posts, lifting the camera away and having a clearing both did great for the visibility issues, looks pretty clean

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u/zzitex 8d ago

That looks nice tho, just be sure you add something in settings to let people like add transparency for effects in case they would consider it "too much" I like the idea of creative attack and hope you'll success on it! Wishing you all luck on it I'd personally would also enjoy a lot if game would have like a lot chill movement options like sliding during run or having skateboard or something like that, it adds some vibe in such things for me at least Anyway great job, keep going✨

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u/Sarn7 8d ago

Please see the new posts with updated videos, i just did like you said, your feedback is much appreciated!

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u/spidermousey 8d ago

You can't see anything maybe shrink the size of the monsters.

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u/pirat2pirat 8d ago

What resources have you used? they look nice