Slugger v1.4.7 beta
+Minor visual bug fix

Slugger is a fast-paced top-down bullet-hell shooter full of eternal action and fun!

The game's core are waves made of "Hivoxes", which in turn, spawn enemies that you'll need to defeat if you wish to proceed to the following wave. Some waves contain bosses. 

Once you perish, you may upgrade your slug in the Skill Tree, and become more powerful, so you can get to harder waves. 

Once everything in the Skill Tree is maxed out, there will be an *Ancient* surprise waiting for you... Maybe you can use this power to become even more powerful... and defeat the final boss...

This game is mainly only supported on PC and some types of Chromebooks. It half-supports mobile, but is quite hard to use on mobile and may not even run.

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Slugger v1.4.7.exe 156 MB
[VERY UNSTABLE] [WIP] Slugger v1.5 snapshot 10.2024a.zip 219 MB

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This game is super fun!

It's one of those experiences where you just kind of blindly shoot and either die a lot or win a lot lol. It all feels a bit random but I don't mind it, I think it's fun. The upgrades are cool, the music is banging, the sfx and effects in general are immersive... I'd say a job well done!

Only thing I'll touch on is the crashing, I had some errors popping up at first. But I restarted my computer and the exe worked okay, maybe the HTML will as well. 

Thanks! I'll have a look into the crashing. This hasn't happened with any other people, so it may just be you.

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Hi, so here I am played a bit of Your game. 
There's not really much to complain about, chaos might be a bit too big and movement be too fast oor maybe that's a skill issue from me haha. But I only played the easy mode which was recommended and for me it was already hell. The bloom might be cranked up too much and this also generates another level of confusion added to how fast you move. Music and SFX i would say are all on point, art i think You will work on it aa bit either way so:).

Another problem is that I dont really know what im doing. The power ups You pick up feel random to me, I only understand that well triple shot gave me triple shot and heal gave me heal, but the rest .... no clue. I think You could maybe show it in tutorial or create some small encyclopedia where everything is explained if someone is interested.

Going back to the fast paced gameplay. I think You either move too fast or the map is too small. You move through the whole map in a second which really doesn't give enough space to play in my opinion so maybe that could get some changes: either sizes of sprites or speed (of the player at least).

I will play it more tomorrow and let You know what I think about the other part of the gameplay because judging from ancient skill in skill tree there is still some more progression to take a look at :)

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Thank you so much! This feedback helps so much! I'll take all of your points into consideration. I think I'll make the map smaller, as that seems like the logical choice. Looking forward to what you think of the progression!

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Great game! I loved how chaotic it became I don't see many games which get chaotic. Good Job!

Thanks! A lot of people have said that I need to tone down the chaos, but the whole point of the game is that it's fast-paced and chaotic, which I don't think some people realise.

Thanks again!

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Nice game! Huge Scratch game vibes

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Thanks! This was actually made in something called PenguinMod, which is a mod of Scratch. I'm curious to know why it gave of Scratch vibes? Like was it a similar quality to most Scratch games? (Meaning bad quality) I'm aiming for this game to eventually be up to Steam game quality, so if there was something that felt bad quality can you please tell me? I'd really appreciate it. Also could you tell me if there was anything else in the game that you didn't like or anything I could improve on?

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dk man, it just feels like something i;d see on scratch with the fonts and the graphics lol

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Thanks, I'll keep working on those to make the game look as neat and professional as possible!

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BTW, my game was not working on your computer maybe because you only installed the executable file. Try installing the other 2 files.

Huh that's weird, my game should only need the single exe to work. Are you sure you installed it properly?

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hi its jackandcreeper

Hey!

Do you like the game?