Is this game worth saving?

First off, congratulation on finishing a game, that happens not too often, believe me

so, I was wanting to ask; is this game worth trying again on, and what can I do to help give it the best chance of success if I do?

I played it, though I lost really quickly, but eventually the game seems ok. Improving and polishing it could result in not much more attention. So, why don't you try and test an other game design, you will get better from time to time, producing prettier art, etc. Once you have designed a few games, pick the most promising and build upon it.

It is seldom that people start small, most often they want to reproduce one of the current trendy games (e.g. MMORPG), only better. Therefor continue this way, produce many smaller games which will help you to evolve as game designer/coder !

Hey Nova,

4/5 star rating is a pretty good score on that site. I would keep going with it. Remember every project complete is another notch on the belt!

I would try to introduce the concepts in the game more slowly, one by one. Let people figure out how to shoot zombies before you even let them build buildings.

If you're not sure if you should continue to build on this game, then why not put it aside for awhile, knock out some of those simpler games you mentioned and then come back to this game with renewed enthusiasm.

Id like to trow this out first, i don't wanna down vote the game, but i would give it 2/5 or 3/5.

Also the grass makes me blind. And spamming my mouse left click to shoot was not nice. I don't want to wear out my gear.

But that being said i really love this genre and i would like it to be expanded, music is pretty cool.

The clicking to fire thing depends on the weapon; weapons like the pistol or shotgun are 'manual fire' and have to be clicked each time, but others have auto-fire and the mouse can be held down for. I was not thinking about the mouse wearing out from clicking; I don't think thats ever happened to me before.

Sorry about the grass, I didn't realize it was quite that bad. My art is my weakest skill unfortunately..

The clicking to fire thing depends on the weapon; weapons like the pistol or shotgun are 'manual fire' and have to be clicked each time, but others have auto-fire and the mouse can be held down for. I was not thinking about the mouse wearing out from clicking; I don't think thats ever happened to me before.

Sorry about the grass, I didn't realize it was quite that bad. My art is my weakest skill unfortunately..

Its not the art of grass. Its contrast used. "colorize different".

I did the hardest mode only, maybe because that i was clicking like mad. it took about 20-30 shots per one zombie.

Also events should get handled more often. if X amount of event are given in one frame the game will lag.

I did games where i have my click per second around 20-35 clicks per sec, lasts around 5min session, around 1h long. Trust me the mouse wears off. The buttons get less responsive (Most press harder to trigger click) etc...

BTW if i sounded too harsh its because i meant good.

About your question:

You will know what to do. If you feel like edition your existing game you should do it, but you can make a new better one with knowledge you gathered. Its a skill to know when to dump project and start new and when to go back to old to improve it.

Keep up the good work!

I played it and just wanted to say I encountered a couple of bugs. Sometimes after moving around really fast the character would get stuck walking in one direction.

Like, character would get stuck walked downward. I'd press the 'W' key to walk up and he would but as soon as I released it he would walk down again. This also happened another time when walking down and to the right. I could move any direction but as soon I released that key it would go back to moving down and to the right.

You weren't too harsh; I just meant I hadn't thought of the mouse wearing out because that hasn't happened to me before. I believe you that it can happen.

Chad: From my testing, I've found that usually happens if your mouse happens to go outside of the screen a bit and click (like when you are firing rapidly), causing flash to lose the focus while you are holding down the button, flash seems to get confused and not realize when the button is released. I've also had it happen completely randomly too, but I'm not sure what is causing it on those times.

I think you have a decent framework for a version 2 or a similar game.

A few things I noted:

To much lag when there are several zombies on the screen (firing weapon and walking).

The artwork is good enough for conceptualization, but needs to be improved for a final/next project (I am not an artist either).

Game balance, I beat the game on easy and on hard to look at the contrast. The only difference seemed to be how hard the zombies hit. It was not difficult to beat on either mode, on hard I got 100 on all 3 boxes on the bottom.

To much time between waves.

Everything else I noted has been mentioned above.

Of everything mentioned, the lag is the only thing that needs to be 'fixed'. Something in your code is not working right, and if you move on to another project now you may carry the code design with you.