Beams

[Luftbauch]

When someone want to help cute cats out, or finding more musicstyles then electro for BEAMS, then pleases go on my Twitter Acc and vote for musicstyles in Beams.

@TYGABYTE;476515

Ok so I’ve seen you posting this over the last while on the forums and I’d like to offer some constructive criticism.

Yes it is/was one of the best of them, so far.
Thank you very much for your time.

@TYGABYTE;476515

I like the idea of the different colored beams and the visual style you are going for- HOWEVER, having most of the surfaces at 0 roughness causes an extreme amount of artefacts in the image, and makes the game harder to look at.

You are right with metallic/artifacts and i think, it will be no problem to provide different mat/lightstyles optional later.
But for now i want to stay with it, then when the player sees it in reality and not through my bad videocap or reduced screenshots, it feels better.
When players want it different then i could offer an option as DLC for 47,50€ ! hrhr
And yes it’s confusing.
Emitted edges reflect different then unlit areas, when you are in small hallways and emitting stuff is flying around, hard to see what is real and what is faked, like in a mirror maze.
Mazes should confuse i thought.

@TYGABYTE;476515

I’ve watched almost all of the gameplay vids, and screenshots and still have NO idea what is going on or what the goal is- I can make out a lot of moving boxes and objects flying around- I’m not trying to be mean or harsh, it’s genuinely my reaction whenever I see a post about- the amount of contrast between colors and objects moving makes it quite hard to look at or see what is happening- hopefully you see what I mean and are just using the current scheme to prototype ideas!

Light is in testphase, materials too. I test stuff impacting performance in standalone build later.
All my records are not well in color or sound, sry for that.
I recorded a “secret sauce video” for your eyes only, well hidden at the end of “boring proc audio devsnippets”.

Beams is some sort of simple race again the time game.
Share your time, compete with others.
Start time - plan your way.
Look at the both timers, one is general lifetime, one sectortime.
Take your goodies with you, or not. Your choice.

Perhaps you are safer with it, but faster?
Skilled?
Makes screenies at some points automatically, share them for good stuff, with a highscore. ^^

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@TYGABYTE;476515

THIS is an example of what I mean: (when I see this, it’s like “What the hell is going on here”)

Bwahaha i like that. ^^
It’s only about the hatch on the weirdventory.
It looks a bit like a mutated transporter, or not?
Because it’s one.
The “cubifly” you attract with the cable snapped onto it, is the “weirdventory-engine”
Point it, where it should drive.

Why has everything to be clear in the way you use it?
Look around in the gameworld, so many boring clones.
Highlighting everything, pointing every objective out on a permanent minimap and with a special keypress you could reveal shortest route.

For me, that is not so important in a game to have fun!
Fun is all in the end, when it comes to gaming, if you ask me and so far, you could have some in beams.

@TYGABYTE;476515

Finally, although this seems pretty negative I think you have what could be a unique and cool game, and I love how much fun you are having while developing- this is what it’s all about. I thought I’d just give my thoughts to help you improve on it if you were planning on moving forward and releasing it at some point in the future! Keep having fun and making cool stuff ( that moving sign in the post above is AWESOME btw

I really take nothing negative, what you wrote.
More the opposite. Feedback is one of the most important things, i could get in this dev phase.
Sincerely Bauch
Something i made to relax, but i like it. Dunno if i should put it ingame?