Without more information I can't help you very much. The black screen maybe means a problem with your graphics card or whatever that avoid the game start correctly (have you move any file from their original localtion?).
The game not shows any message with error details?
i really liked this game. i was initially attracted to it by its "borderlands" art style. it was pretty difficult, and i was unable to beat it but still enjoyed it. congrats on the attention and praise the game has received over the years. kudos!
This is an amazing game! Really reminds me of doom. I love the aesthetic, and all the controls are really well mapped and the xbox control isn't bad at all. Would love to see more.
I must say, it's rather difficult at moments, but I do like myself a challenge! Eventually, I managed to beat the game! ... and then again, I didn't. Whoops!
Another thing I loved, was the style. Really made me think of some Borderlands-like game!
The only two things I didn't like as much, was that I couldn't zoom with my weapon for a better shot, and secondly was that there were no checkpoints. Dying and starting from the start were frustrating.. but the shortcut to the boss battle did help!
Finally, as others I made a video on the game. Feel free to have a look! Hope you enjoy it!
"The only two things I didn't like as much, was that I couldn't zoom with my weapon for a better shot, and secondly was that there were no checkpoints. Dying and starting from the start were frustrating.. but the shortcut to the boss battle did help!"
Yes, the rifle zoom and the checkpoint system was an ideas that I can't implemented because I'm not have enough time (remember that this game is developed in 4 weeks as part of a practical exercise for a master degree). In fact, the shortcut to the boss battle is was implemented for ease the evaluting task for my teacher ;P
Some things are little buggy, like the grenades. The bullets can pushing it and in the first version, the grenades not explode when contact with an enemy, the throw trayectory not works fine in some angles (you see it when tried to throw the grenades to the shotgun enemies over the ladder), the rifle droped by the outdoor enemy sometimes disapear under the floor, sound glitches, the mouse aiming... and in general the performance (is very bad for this kind of game :P).
Anyway, I'm glad so much to you enjoyed the game, and thanks again for the video review :D
P.D.: I see you don't found the 2 hidden supply areas (one on the tower and other just after the final boss area), with full med-pack and full armor ;P These make a little more easy to defeat the game :)
Hi. This is a unusual bug. In one year I cannot remember anybody report a bug with the menu/ui buttons interaction :-/
"and to quit it I have to use task manager.. any help on this?" Yeah. This is because the game always shown a confirmation dialog to close the game. The dialog cancel the Alt-F4 shortcut or window close button. Sorry.
It should be made into a bigger game in my opinion.
Yeah! Is too early to say it, but several months ago I was thinking about it, and after some developer colleagues recommendations, I would like, in near future I hope, trying to develop a full game follow the basis of this practical exercise from my master degree, developing it from scratch using all of I learned in the master degree and in my short experience in a game studio this last three months. Stay tunned! ;)
I see that you play with an old version of the game (the mouse issue at the start, and the main menu not show the "UPDATE #2 (14 MAR 2017)" message in the lower right corner of the screen). The current version fixes some bugs (detailed in the page description) and improves certain parts of the game.
From your comment in Youtube: "This game should win a prize for best combination of interesting graphics and awful gameplay"
Yeah, totally agree xD Thinks that the game is a practical exercise made in only 4 weeks for a master degree in game development. Not is a demo, beta or preview version for a future final game.
Anyway, I hope, at least, that you ever enjoyed (a little bit) the game :)
Regards.
Edit: I see now in your video in Youtube that the video review has been recorded on 11 march, before the last update. That explain why you played an old version :)
A bit late of a reply, but I did enjoy the game! I usually exaggerate a little bit in my videos, people love to see me rage. I'll try it out again in my free time sometime!
A very nice stylized game, I know you've said this was a project for a degree program and as a fellow student doing the same I thought i might leave some feedback for improvement nothing crazy but just ideas to sit and think over
1. For the menu options everything doesn't need a confirmation box deleting some of theses from the code like the one for when you die and click restart level we don't need to confirm at that moment because of the only two options we have on that screen.
2. maybe get rid of the health bars over enemies, it can be process intensive on the computer having to check the enemies on screen and do the math in the split seconds while your firing down range
3. The bullet animations, I like the idea of them being tracer like rounds but i think this also maybe adding to the lag the game gives. again going back in line with twos point of lag to produce the visual feedback
Like i said before its a great game, I like the concept and the art style you went with going into the project but I think the stylization came before the games ability to run somewhere in production. It might be simply the stuff I listed above all the code for some of that extra stuff might be bogging down the computer.
Love to see how your work progresses from here mate
Hi! Thanks for the feedback :) In response for some points:
1. Yeah. The UI is one of the less worked parts of this project. I'm only work on this after the deadline to made minimal usable for the final users (the initial UI and menus were very very simple and basic).
2. The lifebars are a obligatory requisite for the practical exercise by part of the teachers :) (and the code to manage this have a very little performance cost).
3. Yeah, another obligatory requisite. The requisite limited us to implement the all shoots as fisical bullets throw from the weapons by forces using the physics system. The ideal way wiould be implement this as a ray, for the instant impact or for ensure the target if the bullet has retard, and use a trace renderer for show the shoots.
The unoptimization is come for how is implemented much of the elements and mechanics by the forced limitation requisites. For example, all objects, like bullets or particles, are created and destroyed continuously instead of using an object pool (the teachers want to see if we learned to use the Unity3D basic functions and concepts to instantiate and destroy objects in scene), and other perfomance problems are related for how is comunicate between game entities in scene (masive use of FindObjectByType and similar Unity3D functions for example).
Thinks that is the first practical excercise of the master degree and the pourpose of this little projects is evaluate our level of what we have learned in class (thinks that is like an practical exam). The goal no is reach to made a final quality game (and less in one month of development). This is the pourpose of the final project (with a duration of 3 months to develop and no requisite limits).
Anyway, thanks again for all your feedback. I appreciate much all feedback received. Is an important way to improve my work on future projects, and I'm glad you liked the game :)
Mouse seems to have no affect for looking around. I see angles other than straight ahead view in the pictures otherwise I'd as "Is this a strafe only game?". I tried the 64bit version on Windows 7 64 Pro.
Is a bug in my code that I will try to fix in the future, if I find some time for it (now I'm working on the next practical exercises of the master degree).
Try this. Change the mouse sensitivity in the settings from main menu or in game pause menu, and try again. A friend reported me the same problem and is how he said that he solved it. Hope this can help you.
Hi! Change the mouse sensitivity in the settings from main menu or in game pause menu, and try again. A friend reported me the same problem and is how he said that he solved it. Hope this can help you.
Just a quick tip for the game: it's really fun, but it would be nice if you could update the damage sound, because -no offence- it's kinda annoying to hear 'ugh' over and over again. Otherwise, awesome game!
Lol, don't worry, does not offend me xD I made the final sounds (the voices) in a couple of hours. I'm afraid, the sound is the less worked part in this project. Thanks for the feedback! :)
Fun game! Had some preference issues as far as the feel of the weapons, but the look of the game was great and it was a decent demo. I didn't have any issues with the controls on the kb and mouse though things were mapped to weird keys. The physics of throwing bombs was also a bit off as far as power and trajectory. Overall good job for a class project. Good luck with the rest of your studies and keep making games!
Total agree with the grenades, are not well implemented (I'm affraid no are the only thing in this project), sorry for that :) About the control map layout, I'm using the standard/traditional FPS control map: AWSD for moving, C for crouching, Space for jumping, etc... Anyway, I'm glad you liked the game. Thanks for playing :)
P.D.: Mental note for next projects: Add the input map layout screen in game menu too, not only in the main menu ;P
I see in the video that you have problems with the input controls. Have you used gamepad or mouse and keyboard? (the game is not very playable with the gamepad). In case it was mouse and keyboard, have you played from Linux? Some players who have played the game on Linux have experienced acceleration problems with the mouse. Is your case? Problems with the keyboard keys assigned? (I'm using standard FPS input layout).
I am using a mouse and keyboard. It's the windows version. I am using Intel core 17 if that's helpful to you at all. If not, I can try and give you some more of my specs.
And yes! If we can work out what happened with the controls, I'll do a revisit episode. The game does look very cool. It's just a shame the controls aren't really working on my computer.
Hi! Today, one friend report me the same problem with the mouse in the Windows 64bits version (in his case, he fixed changing the sensitivity in settings menu). Other friends reported that mouse is initially inoperative at the first play, they solved it changing the sensitivity too. i'm starting to supspect where is the problem, and how to solve it for future projects. In 3~4 weeks I will be publish a new game (the next practical exercise, a space shooter). I hope the mouse does not trouble in the next project :)
Sounds good! I am glad that you managed to figure out what exactly it was. Because this seems to be a glitch sort of thing, I'll move your review to the "Granny Jo Approved" section of the channel. That way people can check out this game if they want.
Once your new game comes out, drop me a comment. I'll review it and count that as a revisit. If not I'll just keep a look out.
Hi. This already happened to another user. I see in my browser that itch.io tries to display a popup window when you try to download. Check your browser to admit popups from itch.io, or download directly the game from the portfolio web site: http://portfolio.visualstudioex3.com/2017/02/20/the-esc4pe-a-primitive-shooter/
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I cant close the window and also for a bonus the screen is entirely black on the game
Hi.
Without more information I can't help you very much. The black screen maybe means a problem with your graphics card or whatever that avoid the game start correctly (have you move any file from their original localtion?).
The game not shows any message with error details?
Can you find the game log file? https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/LogFiles.html
i really liked this game. i was initially attracted to it by its "borderlands" art style. it was pretty difficult, and i was unable to beat it but still enjoyed it. congrats on the attention and praise the game has received over the years. kudos!
Hey, thanks you for the video review! :)
TOO LAGY
Good game, just add checkpoints. (Skip to 3:04)
Hey, thanks you for the video review! :)
Very fun FPS! couldn't find out how to heal though so it was very difficult!
This game is... fine. nothing more nothing less... just fine and mediocre.
This is an amazing game! Really reminds me of doom. I love the aesthetic, and all the controls are really well mapped and the xbox control isn't bad at all. Would love to see more.
A fun little game to play!
I must say, it's rather difficult at moments, but I do like myself a challenge!
Eventually, I managed to beat the game! ... and then again, I didn't. Whoops!
Another thing I loved, was the style. Really made me think of some Borderlands-like game!
The only two things I didn't like as much, was that I couldn't zoom with my weapon for a better shot, and secondly was that there were no checkpoints. Dying and starting from the start were frustrating.. but the shortcut to the boss battle did help!
Finally, as others I made a video on the game. Feel free to have a look! Hope you enjoy it!
Hi! Thanks for your video rewiew! :)
"The only two things I didn't like as much, was that I couldn't zoom with my weapon for a better shot, and secondly was that there were no checkpoints. Dying and starting from the start were frustrating.. but the shortcut to the boss battle did help!"
Yes, the rifle zoom and the checkpoint system was an ideas that I can't implemented because I'm not have enough time (remember that this game is developed in 4 weeks as part of a practical exercise for a master degree). In fact, the shortcut to the boss battle is was implemented for ease the evaluting task for my teacher ;P
Some things are little buggy, like the grenades. The bullets can pushing it and in the first version, the grenades not explode when contact with an enemy, the throw trayectory not works fine in some angles (you see it when tried to throw the grenades to the shotgun enemies over the ladder), the rifle droped by the outdoor enemy sometimes disapear under the floor, sound glitches, the mouse aiming... and in general the performance (is very bad for this kind of game :P).
Anyway, I'm glad so much to you enjoyed the game, and thanks again for the video review :D
P.D.: I see you don't found the 2 hidden supply areas (one on the tower and other just after the final boss area), with full med-pack and full armor ;P These make a little more easy to defeat the game :)
An interesting little game (short but fun).
We enjoyed it very much.
Here is a short playthrough video:
Keep up the good work!Hey, thanks you for the video playthrough! :)
Hey, thanks you for the video playthrough! :)
I'm unable to click any buttons in the menu.. and to quit it I have to use task manager.. any help on this?
Hi. This is a unusual bug. In one year I cannot remember anybody report a bug with the menu/ui buttons interaction :-/
"and to quit it I have to use task manager.. any help on this?"
Yeah. This is because the game always shown a confirmation dialog to close the game. The dialog cancel the Alt-F4 shortcut or window close button. Sorry.
After several attempts, the error remains?
Hi. Very sorry for the late reply, I was busy with some new Steam games I bought haha.
I tried it today, and finallyit worked! I don't know how it worked, but I get to play it now :)
Kinda hard, but meh, I best git gud hahaha.
Interesting game!
Hey, don't worry :) I'm glad that finally you were able to play it.
Thanks for playing it ;)
really hard, damn
I loved this! Such a great game! Couldn't get past the boss fight cause I got nervous and fell into the lava haha but this is super fun :D
Hey, thanks you for the video review! :)
You're welcome and thank you for making an awesome game!
Love it. It should be made into a bigger game in my opinion. I did a video for you guys though.
thanks
wobblyfootgamer
Hey, thanks you for the video review! :)
Yeah! Is too early to say it, but several months ago I was thinking about it, and after some developer colleagues recommendations, I would like, in near future I hope, trying to develop a full game follow the basis of this practical exercise from my master degree, developing it from scratch using all of I learned in the master degree and in my short experience in a game studio this last three months. Stay tunned! ;)
Regards!
well, fingers crossed. I'll keep an eye any future updates and good luck with the masters :)
wobblyfootgamer
I like the kind of Borderlands/telltale grapics :)
i want editable keybindings and comprehensive health, armor, and ammo bars.
hihihihi
holy shit, how do you made the borderlands look :)
Very cool. As you said, you can really feel the non-optimization ;)
I was a bit critical...
Hi! Thanks for your video review :)
I see that you play with an old version of the game (the mouse issue at the start, and the main menu not show the "UPDATE #2 (14 MAR 2017)" message in the lower right corner of the screen). The current version fixes some bugs (detailed in the page description) and improves certain parts of the game.
From your comment in Youtube:
"This game should win a prize for best combination of interesting graphics and awful gameplay"
Yeah, totally agree xD Thinks that the game is a practical exercise made in only 4 weeks for a master degree in game development. Not is a demo, beta or preview version for a future final game.
Anyway, I hope, at least, that you ever enjoyed (a little bit) the game :)
Regards.
Edit: I see now in your video in Youtube that the video review has been recorded on 11 march, before the last update. That explain why you played an old version :)
A bit late of a reply, but I did enjoy the game! I usually exaggerate a little bit in my videos, people love to see me rage. I'll try it out again in my free time sometime!
A very nice stylized game, I know you've said this was a project for a degree program and as a fellow student doing the same I thought i might leave some feedback for improvement nothing crazy but just ideas to sit and think over
1. For the menu options everything doesn't need a confirmation box deleting some of theses from the code like the one for when you die and click restart level we don't need to confirm at that moment because of the only two options we have on that screen.
2. maybe get rid of the health bars over enemies, it can be process intensive on the computer having to check the enemies on screen and do the math in the split seconds while your firing down range
3. The bullet animations, I like the idea of them being tracer like rounds but i think this also maybe adding to the lag the game gives. again going back in line with twos point of lag to produce the visual feedback
Like i said before its a great game, I like the concept and the art style you went with going into the project but I think the stylization came before the games ability to run somewhere in production. It might be simply the stuff I listed above all the code for some of that extra stuff might be bogging down the computer.
Love to see how your work progresses from here mate
Good luck
~VFBmax
Hi! Thanks for the feedback :) In response for some points:
1. Yeah. The UI is one of the less worked parts of this project. I'm only work on this after the deadline to made minimal usable for the final users (the initial UI and menus were very very simple and basic).
2. The lifebars are a obligatory requisite for the practical exercise by part of the teachers :) (and the code to manage this have a very little performance cost).
3. Yeah, another obligatory requisite. The requisite limited us to implement the all shoots as fisical bullets throw from the weapons by forces using the physics system. The ideal way wiould be implement this as a ray, for the instant impact or for ensure the target if the bullet has retard, and use a trace renderer for show the shoots.
The unoptimization is come for how is implemented much of the elements and mechanics by the forced limitation requisites. For example, all objects, like bullets or particles, are created and destroyed continuously instead of using an object pool (the teachers want to see if we learned to use the Unity3D basic functions and concepts to instantiate and destroy objects in scene), and other perfomance problems are related for how is comunicate between game entities in scene (masive use of FindObjectByType and similar Unity3D functions for example).
Thinks that is the first practical excercise of the master degree and the pourpose of this little projects is evaluate our level of what we have learned in class (thinks that is like an practical exam). The goal no is reach to made a final quality game (and less in one month of development). This is the pourpose of the final project (with a duration of 3 months to develop and no requisite limits).
Anyway, thanks again for all your feedback. I appreciate much all feedback received. Is an important way to improve my work on future projects, and I'm glad you liked the game :)
Regards!
would be a really fun game if it wasnt laggy as hell
Loved it!! Such a fun game, even though I suck at FPS!
Hi! Thanks for the video review! I'm glad you liked the game :)
I really like the atmosferic envirorment
Love it but can you raise performance I have 8GB RAM and i5 CPU But It Was Laggy As Hell.
A E S T H E T I C
Mouse seems to have no affect for looking around. I see angles other than straight ahead view in the pictures otherwise I'd as "Is this a strafe only game?". I tried the 64bit version on Windows 7 64 Pro.
Is a bug in my code that I will try to fix in the future, if I find some time for it (now I'm working on the next practical exercises of the master degree).
Try this. Change the mouse sensitivity in the settings from main menu or in game pause menu, and try again. A friend reported me the same problem and is how he said that he solved it. Hope this can help you.
a e s t h e t i c
I'm on a mac running Sierra, and ingame the mouse doesn't work at all (I can select menus and stuff but not move the crosshair at all).
Hi! Change the mouse sensitivity in the settings from main menu or in game pause menu, and try again. A friend reported me the same problem and is how he said that he solved it. Hope this can help you.
Just a quick tip for the game: it's really fun, but it would be nice if you could update the damage sound, because -no offence- it's kinda annoying to hear 'ugh' over and over again. Otherwise, awesome game!
Lol, don't worry, does not offend me xD I made the final sounds (the voices) in a couple of hours. I'm afraid, the sound is the less worked part in this project. Thanks for the feedback! :)
really enjoyed this game, full of action and fast paced, a little bit short but all in all really good.
Thanks for the video review :)
Streaming right now
https://gaming.youtube.com/channel/UCS0Yj0swbnxp_0dGmyX0xjA/live
Not for begginers. Too hard.
Fun game! Had some preference issues as far as the feel of the weapons, but the look of the game was great and it was a decent demo. I didn't have any issues with the controls on the kb and mouse though things were mapped to weird keys. The physics of throwing bombs was also a bit off as far as power and trajectory. Overall good job for a class project. Good luck with the rest of your studies and keep making games!
Hey! Thanks for the video review :)
Total agree with the grenades, are not well implemented (I'm affraid no are the only thing in this project), sorry for that :) About the control map layout, I'm using the standard/traditional FPS control map: AWSD for moving, C for crouching, Space for jumping, etc... Anyway, I'm glad you liked the game. Thanks for playing :)
P.D.: Mental note for next projects: Add the input map layout screen in game menu too, not only in the main menu ;P
Yes! I saw that when I realized it was C to crouch. I was going crazy with it and must have hit everything but C lol Take care and good luck!
I really like the game, but it's very difficult to control. The atmosphere and art are beautiful, though, and I enjoyed playing what I could.
Thanks for the video review :)
I see in the video that you have problems with the input controls. Have you used gamepad or mouse and keyboard? (the game is not very playable with the gamepad). In case it was mouse and keyboard, have you played from Linux? Some players who have played the game on Linux have experienced acceleration problems with the mouse. Is your case? Problems with the keyboard keys assigned? (I'm using standard FPS input layout).
I hope you can give it a second chance ;)
I am using a mouse and keyboard. It's the windows version. I am using Intel core 17 if that's helpful to you at all. If not, I can try and give you some more of my specs.
And yes! If we can work out what happened with the controls, I'll do a revisit episode. The game does look very cool. It's just a shame the controls aren't really working on my computer.
Hi! Today, one friend report me the same problem with the mouse in the Windows 64bits version (in his case, he fixed changing the sensitivity in settings menu). Other friends reported that mouse is initially inoperative at the first play, they solved it changing the sensitivity too. i'm starting to supspect where is the problem, and how to solve it for future projects. In 3~4 weeks I will be publish a new game (the next practical exercise, a space shooter). I hope the mouse does not trouble in the next project :)
Thanks a lot for the feedback :)
Sounds good! I am glad that you managed to figure out what exactly it was. Because this seems to be a glitch sort of thing, I'll move your review to the "Granny Jo Approved" section of the channel. That way people can check out this game if they want.
Once your new game comes out, drop me a comment. I'll review it and count that as a revisit. If not I'll just keep a look out.
how the fuck do i download this its not letting me.
Hi. This already happened to another user. I see in my browser that itch.io tries to display a popup window when you try to download. Check your browser to admit popups from itch.io, or download directly the game from the portfolio web site: http://portfolio.visualstudioex3.com/2017/02/20/the-esc4pe-a-primitive-shooter/
MWAHAHA I HAVE IT! Now I am going to TRY and do a video on it and I'll put a link here when it is up.