2 years of solo dev work and 6 months with an artist I met on discord one evening and now we finally have a demo available!
Please give it a go, wishlist and give feedback so we can get an update out before NextFest with your improvements in it.
Im working on a "Goldeneye but WW2" style shooter and have had a lot of feedback about weapon selection.
The issue is there are 20 total weapons in the game but only around 12 per level. I want all 10 to be accessible to the player, not just a primary and secondary like in modern shooters.
Goldeneye made you hit a "next weapon" button to scroll through your weapons but this takes ages and doesn't hold up.
I tried mapping "archetypes" to number keys - 1 = silenced, 2= pistol, 3=sub machine gun, 4=light machine gun,5= explosives. But this can be confusing. On one level it might select the MP40 as the sub machine gun, but the next level where i dont have the MP40 that "3" key now selects the Sten.
I thought about a radial menu but how should that work - does it list all 20 weapons and only let you choose the ones you have? Or should it fill in as you pick up weapons during the level? if so does the newest weapon go into the last slot, or into the same slot as always - does the MP40 always slide into slot 4, or append to the list? What if i dont have the slot 2 and 3 weapons, does the MP40 now sit in slot 2?
Also what if the "weapon" is a niche one that most people don't want to scroll through, or auto equip if firing a weapon thats out of ammo and just ahead in the inventory list?
Here's the game with a free demo if anyone wants to play and offer advice in context. I'm super keen to sort this as its one of the biggest bits of player confusion: