The weapon fire rate was a little low in the actual submission version, I’ve turned it up a little bit since then. But I’m trying not to have it high for 2 reasons. 1. I like the player to be able to dodge at least some shots and gaps between projectiles allows for this. 2. Adding all these projectiles and trail effects impacts performance.

I like the idea a lot; it’s a bit reminiscent of Captain Forever. Strapping loads of stuff onto my ship and flying around dealing death from my ridiculous junkmobile is definitely appealing. ;)

One thing that really messes with my head in this game though — and even though I quickly realized what was going on, it still keeps screwing me — is that I have a mouse cursor, and I use a mouse button to shoot, but my bullets don’t shoot toward the cursor. They shoot along the forward vector of the component, which I can only control using the A and D keys. It feels like all my components should orient toward my cursor position, and then those which are blocked by other parts of my ship simply don’t fire.

I also wish the default rate of fire was, like, 5x faster, even if that meant each bullet’s damage was 1/5 to compensate.

But overall, not a bad effort for your first Ludum Dare. ^_^

Grazie

Thanks for this software, really nice and very helpful, I’m using a few hours this fantastic program and I see great possibilities.

Thanks