My friend is creating a bullet hell game. This is his first try ever, he is doing all the drawings, animations and shaders himself, without AI. He's also doing it old school way, by learning it from youtube instead of just vibe coding shit.He's expecting it to flop, but i've been telling him that it looks decent and that he actually has a chance to do 1000 sales, which is what eh would consider a moderate success. Check it outhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4537910/Synthularity/
Maybe if you had started it with "SWIM is doing a etc etc" , but as it is no im not clicking it
>>737639858SWIM?
>>737639910Dona quick search for SWIM
>>737639991But dude is SWIM? I dont really understand you, if you are implying that i would be able to finish any of ideas i had, thanks, but i am way too lazy to get past a certain point. Especially since i am always overreaching (trying to use raylib, love2d or shit like that because engines annoy me). So instead of making anything that is playable, i just make shit demos in frameworks that are interesting only to me.Thanks for bumping the thread tho, someone who might like this kind of game will see it, which is enough
>>737639706It definitely looks good. I'm a bit protective of bullet hell games, and I'm worried there won't be much of the "dodging bullets" part. This isn't exactly trying to be Touhou, but I would've put like a radial bullet spread and aimed shots to get the player to move somewhere they won't get shot.
>>737640284Yeah as of now to survive you must chase the enemies or something. I'm not that into this genre so i dont know much, i just talk to him about linux support and shit like that, which i will test before release
>>737639706>tags>casual>idlerI'd ignore this if I didn't already have it filtered
>>737641265What's wrong with those tags?Game doesn't actually require you to use your brain that much, it's a chill game, the only thing you need to use your brain for is the upgrades which you can buy in tech tree or smthBut yeah, game is not my genre either, i'm just trying to gather more opinions on it, since our friend group will probably just jerk each other off whatever we do or create
>>737641410>Game doesn't actually require you to use your brain that much, it's a chill game, the only thing you need to use your brain for is the upgrades which you can buy in tech tree or smthI don't see how that's even a video game. It's just vampire survivors with geometric shapes.
>>737641649Tech tree is inside the game, not outside (vampire survivors upgrades are permanent and out of the game right?)There are also bosses, it's definitely more idle than i would like it to be, but not as idle as clicker games or shit like that which is unplayable because there's nothing to play.Thanks for criticism tho, i will send him all the comments
>>737641753Where is the game part? It's also clearly not a bullet hell, please do not call it that any more.Probably the worst thing about indie dev, in my opinion, is devs who just make shit slop because they want to showcase artwork or music, instead of game design. If you aren't interested in game design, please do not make games.
>>737641965Sorry the game part is not sufficient for you )))
