Imma Nouncin Mah Game!

Ok, before playing I opened up a notepad document and just typed things as I thought of them.

Thoughts before even playing:

Tutorial Menu should not be in sentence mode. Should look more like
[P] = Pause
Keys should be bindable
Even though you say how to exit to menu at any time, it isn't very clear on the tutorial page. I spent a good 30 seconds trying to get back to main menu after clicking tutorial.
Maybe more than white text on black background.

Gamplay attempt #1
I have no idea what I'm doing. Seriously. I can't tell what my clicking does.
Make it more obvious which team belongs where.
There needs to be a step-by-step tutorial.

Gameplay attempt #2
Ok, turns length is dicated by the circle that disappears on the edge? I think?
Maybe the whitespace in the corners could change colors to let you know whose turn it is. The action is kinda fast paced and hard to tell what is going on.
Maybe a chatlog that would explain the turn of events? "Alpha hits Beta for 20 damage"
Animation for damage being taken.

Personal thoughts:

I think the game should be a bit slower. Make it more of a thinking game.
It should have a simple tutorial. Even just a series of "Powerpoint Slides" with text and arrows pointing at stuff would be fine.
Interesting concept. Not very fun to play yet. This is expected for a pre-alpha game.
Powerups/spells might add a better tactical theme to the game. I just shoot the easiest target right now.

Congrats on getting the game running! I am willing to provide more feedback as it evolves.

>Make it more obvious which team belongs where.

Err, sorry, I was typing and talking at the same time. Not sure what I meant.

The speed is much better. I actually felt like I knew what I was doing this time around. Can't wait to see more.

Q1. For the idea, i'd give an 6-8 (depending on what you are going to do with it).

Q2. More weapons, upgrades, levels... I see the beginning of a campaign, which is good.

Q3. Mostly getting into it. I see 2 green planets, but i can shoot from only one. That is extremely confusing at first (until after the game you find out it is a team, you were playing with a bot). If "your" planet had some sort of indication that you control it, things would be fine.

Q4. Quickplay 4 times (for now). Tried to start campaign 3 times, but i can just click on the planet to change texture (apparently size is random each time i enter campaign?). Anyways, i wasn't able to get it running.

Q5. I rarely recommend anything to family/friends, and especially not browser games. So no, but that shouldn't influence you.

Q6. That tanks browser flash thing i guess... Was loads of fun. Buying weapons and using them cleverly (and skillfully, the wind was a great factor in that game!) against friends (on the same computer) was generally fun. But ofcourse fast-paced games can't really work that way. Oh yeah, and worms ofcourse.

Q7. I suppose the numbers at the top right are fps? Well it shows high numbers, but the sound is kinda stuttering and the game sometimes, too. Nothing major, but you do notice it.

Just played another time, lasers go through the sun? Hm. Oh, and the game ended when my mate was alive (and would've killed the last enemy) but somehow the game declared that blue won...

Q8. Will have a look at that later.

Q9. Tutorial sucks atm. If you go to tutorial before playing you don't even know what the game's about, and if you do after playing you may learn new stuff (i can play with keyboard? I can change power of shots? What's increment etc. all about?), but it didn't help you play. So yeah, gotta fix that.

Edit: Thinking about it, gravity would make this awesome!

Hmm... apparently the options on the campaign screen are not intuitive enough :x

Shadowfury333: there is a team/planet selection (not with quick start atm. just "campaign") Click the little sliders that are below each planet to change the planet's name, size, ai level(human player is highest setting), and team selection. Shot/power/weapon display is in the works :) just not finished atm :(

@MauranKilom: q3: I will add some popup text showing who's turn and if they are ai/player then. q4: Did you try clicking on the sliders underneath the planets? Or did they not work as expected? There should be a big pink button at the bottom that says "Start Campaign" (all it really does is start up the level with the settings you defined on that screen)

quote: Just played another time, lasers go through the sun? Hm. Oh, and the game ended when my mate was alive (and would've killed the last enemy) but somehow the game declared that blue won...

Yep lasers are a known issue. Did you change any settings with the planets or were they default (green: you, ai, blue: ai, ai, purple: ai, ai) ? I'll look into it.

strange... It should look like this:

Is there any error in the console? (in chrome right click -> inspect element -> console)

I have the same problem as my arch enemy. Firefox 18.0

Dude! Nice!

Minimum changes needed? It is made way better if you AT LEAST control both the planets on your team, if not 3 planets vs 3 AI's. This adds way more agency. Adding more core interactions is important: More skill, more decisions.

The slow rotation of the planets that changes what you can shoot at and your line of fire is a bit erratic given the variable turn lengths. Have each turn progress (say) 2 seconds. A projectile is fired, it flies for 2 seconds, then pauses for the next turn, another projectile is fired, 2 seconds, etc. This means multiple projectiles, and the ability to see things unfold and plan for them. Allow projectile collision, so you can shoot down a projectile in transit, or have a space station, moon, armor plate, dyson semisphere or something that allows you to orient it a direction to reduce damage from projectiles coming that way (this makes orbital slingshotting (Or right now, bouncing off the wall) even more important).

Making the game progress in segments this way allows you to plan carefully for the turn when your orbit with the enemy is in close approach, or when you can line them all up in 1 laser blast, etc.

Gravity would improve it. The core of scorch was ballistic flight paths to get over obstacles and hit your target. Even having elliptical flight paths would be a good start.
http://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/planet/

Obstacles you have to slingshot around is even better.

After puttin' my thinking cap on I solved a problem which has stumped me for weeks (and ended up quite elegantly simple). Gravity from planets and sun now works for projectiles.

Programming the AI is going to be a mess, but I'm happy that now you can slingshot rockets around the sun and hit yourself :)

I also added a bit more to the UI so it'll show your shot power/angle, which weapon is selected etc. Not remotely done yet, but it at least shows basic info.

You could make it realtime with a reload time (or energy/mana) if you control just one planet. Then you get projectiles everywhere.

[color=FF2DC5][b]Reminds me of M.A.R.S.. Their AI seems to handle physics quite well.

P.S.: I can't make the link pink! :[[/b][/color]