Feedback Implementation
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So I made a previous post about how i approached gathering feedback from the play-testing sessions, this time i will write about how that feedback influenced our game. Now the first thing I need to make clear is that the feedback has barely impacted anything major in our game that already exists and I’ll try to explain why. The biggest reason is usually because of a shift of focus on what is worked on. For example; from the latest play-testing session we received a lot of feedback on the teleport ability that our ship has, it was clear from this that the teleport needed a lot more polish. But what ended up happening instead was that a new ability was added to the ship instead, not to replace, but i suppose you could say ‘hide’ the flaws of the teleport. This new ability are missiles, unfortunately they were implemented shortly after the second play-testing session took place.
An early iteration of the missiles hanging out around the ship Now I do think the missiles are a good addition to our game. However, with only a week left of game polish left at the time I’m writing this, the missiles won’t get to receive any feedback the same way the teleportation. Also neither of the abilities will get enough deserved time to be polished. Another common feedback answer was on the game’s difficulty, almost all testers agreed that the game was way too hard. This was mostly due to the fact that I had designed the layout of our testing level to swarm the testers with enemies. What ended up happening was not redesigning the map or spawn rate of the enemies, but ramping up the power level of the player ship. The new missiles mostly contribute to this, but also small changes like allowing the primary fire harpoon of the ship to pierce enemies, making the previously weak harpoon to feel infinitely more powerful if you line up the shots just right.
some of the feedback we received So for the most part the feedback has been useful for tweaking numbers within our game, such as the movement for the player ship constantly changing and taking the comments from the feedback on it to find that sweet spot.  |
