Made for the Ludum Dare, Nelson is the perfect blend of action and adventure. Your character : Nelson, is the head repair man for Timeco time machines. On one of his routine checkups of Timeco's newest product: The Handheld, he notices something just isn't right, so naturally, he investigates. He is immediately thrown into a random time in human history. With the help of his trusty blaster, Nelson will have to fight his way back from own time period. Have fun, and happy blasting!
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Had nice music and was a nice little top-down shooter. I think instead of having 4 buttons to shoot in 4 directions, it might feel better to only shoot forwards and have a button to strafe/keep facing a direction as you move. Good work, though. :)
The music is great, and I like that "build-up" sound which plays in the last two seconds.
As for gameplay, let's just say it's WAY too hard to kill an enemy when starting off. It takes nearly the whole 10 seconds to do so, and there's not just a few enemies, there's 10-15 of them.
Also, I know it's probably the itch.io site, but having to go through a pay what you want system for a Ludum Dare game leaves a bad taste. I recommend just linking directly to the zip files.
Oh, sincerely I apologize for my first comments, didn't see thats coming from itch.io, but yes the free download is a bit hard to see.
Greets for your nice game.
Pretty engaging and enjoyable, but gets very difficult at Wave 9+. I think I only got to Wave 11. Controls were responsive and functional. I think there's a bug with the level not getting reset on death - or at least the meter graphic? Not sure.
@Vaughn yea the bug is that the bar doesn't scale properly, so it looks like you have gotten no xp, but if you look closely at the numbers over the bar, you have some.
And it is not supposed to reset your level, it saves it even when you quit the game:D
The graphics are pretty awesome. All of the different time periods/locations were varied which kept the game interesting for awhile. The only thing I would have liked to see was some sort of change to the character/weapon/bullet as I leveled up. Otherwise everything is sort of the same the whole game. The music fit the game very well and was fun to listen to. Looking forward to the post-comp version!
Really fun and interesting! Music and graphics made it really fun! The game would sometimes hit major lag spikes though, and I with the upgrades from leveling up were more substantial. Other than those small complaints, good game!
As for gameplay, let's just say it's WAY too hard to kill an enemy when starting off. It takes nearly the whole 10 seconds to do so, and there's not just a few enemies, there's 10-15 of them.
Also, I know it's probably the itch.io site, but having to go through a pay what you want system for a Ludum Dare game leaves a bad taste. I recommend just linking directly to the zip files.
Greets for your nice game.
And it is not supposed to reset your level, it saves it even when you quit the game:D