First Version of my game

hi guys(and maybe girls , but i think here are none :D )

i made a Shooter game with upgrades and stuff and here is the link:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/77135197/monochrome/index.html

you control with mouse and Arrowkeys
kill enemys in the levels and get XP
pay with your XP for new upgrades and kill the boss who appears after a few levels

Tell me what you think , is it fun ? to hard or to easy? (i think the boss is preatty damn hard :D )

It’s very hard. The red text needs to go ASAP. The upgrades are good but I think multishot is just waaay too cheap, because that’s obviously the most beneficial. It desperately needs instructions, having the bullets go through the enemies is very misleading, I’d also like to be able to use WASD, the sound button didn’t match up before and after being clicked, and I couldn’t unmute the sound, which stopped during the game by the way, so you should put it on loop, also, be sure to round your variables when the player drains health because I was getting infinite decimals in my health. I think about twice as many levels would be good because by the time I got to the boss I only had 6 upgrades, and I just repeated level 4 over and over and over to buff myself up. The jump from the 4th level to the boss is rediculous by the way, with maxed vampire I was invincible in level 4, but I could barely touch the boss. The boss’ health also glitched up, when I entered the map it read 9999, but while I was fighting it switched to about 500.

It’s got a long way to go, but it’s not bad for a beta release and it’s got good potential.

PS. Beating the boss is about 100 times easier if you go up beside it. I don’t know if this exploit was deliberate or not.

Thx for your Feedback
you name mostly small things that i can do in the next few hours (except the more levels of course)

oh and the 9999 hp boss thing : its just that you dont kill the boss when he enters the map , so its pointless to shot at him before he stands still.

next thing , difficulty : i preatty sure you know it yourself , your own games allways seem easy to you , because you played them like 10000 times :D

oh and the sounds … yes the sounds , really not a good part at all in my game , time to fix it :D

ps . bullets go through enemys? this is a glitch i cant address atm , where did it happend?

“hi guys(and maybe girls , but i think here are none :D )”

This sort of attitude is why there’s not more.

First off, I recommend against using music you don’t have permission to use. There are tons of websites out there with music for your game that you can use freely. I recognized the Contra theme there and I’m pretty sure you don’t have special permission to use it.

Secondly, I would recommend having the enemies “fly in” to the level rather than just having them appear. That would give my brain a few seconds to react and understand that a threat appeared. I didn’t really know what they were until they started shooting at me, at which point I was already in trouble.

agreed red text is practically invisible with the background color. Game is fun the type of game I love to play. game is way to hard and just playing the first to levels its like extreme chaos in just the first to levels which makes me scared to play higher levels.

sorry for double post but also kinda glitchy. I beat levels without killing a single thing and sometimes the upgrade buttons show up on my screen well im in the middle of playing

The arrow keys aren’t doing anything at all for me. I can click and shoot, but not move. Also, it seems I can shoot when I’m on the menu AND when my ship has been killed and isn’t visible. As it stands now, this isn’t even playable for me on firefox.

Edit: I see what’s happening now with movement. “Arrow keys” really means wasd, and I have “start typing to search automatically” turned on. You might want to make a consideration for settings like that, as part of the “joy” of html5/javascript is making your products work properly in each browser.