ZortchTest

I love how this turned from something I have been waiting for my entire life watching the devlogs and stuff to an incredibly good game 100% worth it lol 

I'm sorry dude. I've been waiting for your game and I have money, but it seems in my country I can't buy it. I hope someday the world will be calmer.

Played the first level of the latest demo build and I thoroughly enjoyed it overall, great work to those involved however I do have issues playing it though personally; due to the low FOV and the speed of the game, feels like I'm persistently zoomed in and that makes me nauseous a horizontal FOV slider would be amazing, did also notice camera jitter here and there and a far less incredibly limited FPS cap and a unlimited option would be tremendous (slider with increments of 1 instead of arbitrary limits would be most ideal as it's a great.) Thanks for sharing what's on offer right now in this early demo, looking forward to seeing more - here's my PC specs: Win11 Pro, RTX 3080 Ti, i7-11700KF @ 4.5 GHz, 32GBs of DDR4 RAM @ 3600MHz, NVMe SSD with all drivers up to date, target resolution and framerate is 1440p on a adaptive sync 240hz monitor at a locked 60 FPS whilst playing as it's the highest it can run presently GPU and CPU utilisation was in the single digits so it seems efficient but would love to use some of that headroom for some smoother and better input responsive gameplay.

This Game is Awesome i rate it 10/10 the visuals are nice the Gameplay is smooth the weapons are quite limited but fun to use the enemies are noice JIGGLE PHYSICS and the Game overall is Fantastic.i have a few suggestions that you should add to this Game 1 there should be more weapons 2 there should be multiplayer or arena mode 3 there should be cutscenes 4 there should be more characters the player can pick Like a masked warrior of some kind or some other characters 5 there should be a sandbox mode where you can toy with all the enemies and weapons and stuff 6 there should be a debug room no questions asked 7 there should be Easter eggs and easter egg weapons Like a quake level. well there is all of my suggestions it would be really Great if you would implement some of these in to the Game!! well thanks for reading whoever is

ggs mutantleg

I would recommend doing this
maybe just maybe make proper max ammo as I can just have more by using at least 1 of any ammo type and just take more than what is intended same thing with health you can have more than usual without bonuses just have at least 199 HP and then take a sixpack if this is intended then good to hear

same bug as nekkrobox about screen resolution

starting the game makes it look like the window is not there until you change resolutions

back after finishing the game I would recommend doing 2 things first maybe add a map so the player doesn't get lost alot which happened to me I was clueless of where I was heading until I played around for an hour lol second maybe make the objects that you can pickup not take the entire screen so you can actually see while you are holding that object otherwise great game!!!

Hey man, your Hungarian friend again. I was thinking. Why not put your demo on Steam? You would get a lot more exposure and a lot more feedback than here (though itch is a great site too)? 

I'm sure you'll get a lot of criticism too but that is also a good thing.

Hey again, I'm trying to boot up the Easter Demo but it doesn't seem to work and remains stuck in a sort of eternal loading. How can I fix that?

gave the demo a go, it was pretty fun! it felt a bit like the opening parts of Daikatana, except good. it also reminded me a bit of Unreal and Chasm: The Rift.

I enjoyed the visual style, it felt like Unreal mixed with Half-Life. The classic painted texture look never gets old to me :)

I got lost navigating the level, maybe an automap would help out with that?

I did run into some technical issues. I have a high refresh rate monitor and the game seems to be capped at 60-ish FPS, which unfortunately looks a bit choppy.

An aesthetic issue I have is that I don't like texture filtering, and there didn't seem to be a way to disable it.

Props on creating your own engine. It's rad!

looking forward to seeing what happens in the future!

Really impressed by the demo, this is quite a solid mix of old school FPS like Quake, Half Life and Unreal with a little bit of that weird sense of humor from series like MDK. And by looking at the video previews, there's quite a lot more from enemy variety, levels and weapons, which I cannot wait to play!

I have some feedback for things I didn't particulary liked tho:

1) It is a bit annoying to see objects cutting your FOV in half from the bottom when you grab and carry them around. Dunno if it is possible to make them not completely attached to the player's face.

2) The sprint-slide kick is a lot inconsistent when it comes to stun damage.

3) There are still some fall in framerate when you save the game or when it loads a new area.

4)The pistol shield being unlimited when in higher difficulties is a bit weird, I was expecting it to disappear from intense enemy fire or by time.

Overall, this is a great promising demo and I can't wait for the final game!

It looks like Quake 2.5, has phsyics and interactions like Half-Life 2 and the creativity and the playfulness of Duke Nukem 3D. About a year ago I started working with OpenGL as a hobby and can understand why you prefer this way of development. I have the great respect for everything you have created. None of this may be rocket science, but there are so many components: collision detection, advanced physics, level editor, menus, event scripting, particles and effects, objects and object transforming and countless more. And it's not often that a good programmer also has a has a good sense of aesthetics and level design. All in all Zortch is one of the most awaited games for me above all AAA titles. Don't try to code too many working ingame pinball machines and pool tables before the game is finished. 😉

Impressive stuff, particularly building out the engine yourself. What was the motivating factor behind doing the extra work versus using an "industry standard" engine?

Also, you've mentioned using "opengl" whenever people ask about the engine, however you haven't specified which specific libraries you're using, I'd be curious to know.

Looking forward to further releases!

Hi I've made a video about the game and wanted to share some feedback about it, hopefuly it is useful to you ^^

-The visuals are quite good and feel cohesive with the game and level design.

-I really liked the variety of enemies and I'll say that the "robot" ones are quite interesting ^^

In conclusion, the idea is great and I hope you keep working on it. Hopefully this is useful for the development :D, also if you could subscribe that would help me a lot :)

Regards

Hello, I enjoyed your demo quite a bit! I would suggest separating the bindings for "use" and "reload". Also I found a repeatable bug where the frames would drop for about 5-10 seconds after saving. I liked the weapon variety and the music/ambient sounds. Very cool game though!

I've now played all of the ZORTCH demo, and I gotta say I do love it - but it's not without its flaws. Firstly, well the animations and sound effects need to be snappier for many things. You know Doom 2s Super Shotgun is like god slamming a car door? Yeah a lot of the things in Zortch are like the exact opposite of that. A lot of the weapon sounds are kinda wimpy, there's not enough of an exaggerated push back on the weapons when they fire animation wise, and the enemies weapon sounds are kinda quiet too. What gives? The other major gripe I have is the level design - it's not bad, by any means, but it needs more landmarks to help a player navigate the space. It all feels very similar, which is fine and I know is the norm for shooters of this ilk (think Unreal Gold, Quake 2, etc) but most importantly it's all FIXABLE. A few more very distinctive looking monitoring stations (bright monitors with some pipes coming out on top of a big computer box, something like that) and a blinking purple light in one corner of the map - got it, that'll make that area look more recognizably different, help players navigate. Those shotgun animations? Kill a few of the keyframes, make the animation punchier and for gods sakes, up the volume on those explosions and shotgun blasts! (Incidentally, there is one place you do this really well - and that's on the turrets and the sentry dogs. THAT is exactly what those weapons should sound like!). Currently this game's just a single strafe-jump in the wrong direction, but it would take so little work to polish it up and make it amazing. Lastly - your enemy designs are great. I'm not the biggest fan of the zombie robots - they're very grey, blend into the background too easily, probably need a few more blinking lights on them so we can tell them apart from the walls. But the absolute menagerie at the very end - that giant spawn thing on four legs?! The enemies with the firework guns? Yeah, there's something special here for sure. You just need to make like Spinal Tap and turn things up to 11, baby.

Дуже класно прям дуже.

Додайте мапу.

Та клавіши "швидке збереження" та "швидке завантаження"

Played it on hardest difficulty (don't know why, guess I wanted to flex my old-school fps muscles? he-he). LOVED IT! Did I see some inspirations from Half-Life and Duke 3D?

I kinda like how everything looks so rundown, and also that looking outside the windows you see a kind of metropolis, even though I was initially under the impression that the setting was a spaceship.

Suggestions?

- Why is Zortch green if she's a human? Or is that just the HUD? Will there be an intro-slideshow or something? I'm actually happy that you kept the backstory minimalistic, as way too many games nowadays cram exposition down players' throats, and it's annoying.

- Would also be nice to have some kind of manual, even as a .pdf file, or an in-game menu where we can read description on the enemies and weapons.

- While it's nice that the level looks rundown and lived-in, I'd suggest expanding the texture colour palette, because once the game gets released, people are gonna complain about samey grey-and-brown corridors.

- Also add total number of enemies vs number of enemies killed upon completing the level, or even a togglable in-game counter. You know, like in zDoom?

- While the demo level isn't too complicated to navigate in, depending on how you'll wanna go about the future levels, perhaps it would be wise to add a togglable mini-map or an automap?

Anyway, best of luck; looking forward to the game!

Things I would like to see in the full game:
1) Whenever enemies attack you with a weapon, you can pick up that weapon from them.

2) Be able to heal by stepping on the remains of defeated enemies.

3) Maybe super powers as bullet-time, but it should be accompained by more enemies or more powerful.

I loved your demo! It is simple but fun. A interesting thing is the differences between difficulties. First I played it in the easiest mode and then in the hardest mode, and they seem like two entirely different games. In hardest mode it's really challenging but fun, and it's very original that here the enemies only die if they are tear in pieces.

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Really enjoyed the demo! The level was a little confusing to navigate, but I was able to figure it out within 20 minutes. Music and atmosphere was nice, the little bits of text had a nice bit of cute wit. Most notably however, I noticed enemies most often because I was taking damage, which leads me to think they should be making more noise so I can anticipate their presence. Reload and interact being the same key is a little odd -- In fact, having to reload at all is a little odd. Unless reloading weapons is going to come up in your gameplay loop, I might consider how important it is to you. If you do intend reloading to be a core element that forces you to switch weapons mid fight, perhaps reducing their capacity would help. Otherwise, toss the whole thing out and don't worry about reloading at all! It would be a shame to waste those animations, though.

It plays like the amalgam of Quake 2, Unreal, Sin, and Blood2. 

Your movement is a bit wobbly, therefore your aim is wobbly too I somehow like it. 

Level design is great, lot of interconnected room, feels like a maze, excellent job here.

The secrets are quite easy to find, found all of them and I'm not particularly perceptive :-) They still feel good. 

Atmosphere is nice. Music is a bit repetitive but the lighting and color palette helps the immersion a lot. 

Enemies do not poes a huge threat though. That jump they do is a bit ridiculous, it is as if we were on the moon :-) 

All in all you really captured that RAW retro feeling.

Basic keybindings work but making E both the use button and the reload button is a bit awkward.

Also, when your character is hit you he/she(?) sounds like a cat who got her tail stepped on :)

Keep up the good work! 

I had a really good time playing the demo! The level design gave a lot of freedom in exploring the world, there was enough ammos and resources scattered around to make the experience balanced, the secrets required a certain amount of attention but aren't as cheaply hidden as they can be in classic shooters, and the dark yet colorful graphics give a nice retro atmosphere - a sort of mix between Quake 2 and Doom 64. Enemies have some cool designs and the AI does a nice job keeping you on your toes, especially on the hardest difficulty. Finally, the weapons feel good and it's all so satisfying to blow monsters into gibs with the TNT or grenade launcher! My only slight bother was the heroine's sound effects: her grunts either sound too high pitched or too deep. I'm not fond of the head for the health icon either (it feels too much like a model out of Reboot), but that's a real minor detail.

An extremely good impression overall. I'll be following the game's progression. Good luck with the development! ;)

Great game, I'm looking forward to the final version, only I would like the problem with the tnt to be resolved and its lighting is poorly designed.

I really enjoy it so far. It's basically like an N64 title and I love it :D Also love how interactive the levels are. That's always fun to play around with things.
I feel like the FOV is a bot too narrow though. I would welcome the option to adjust it. That was my only problem. Other than that it's really great.

really liked to try this game but it does not run on my linux os with wine... to bad.

what game engine do you used for this game ?