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SKULL AND MCCORMICK RESEARCH CENTER
--ALERT--

-TEST DOGS HAVE ESCAPED CONTAINMENT

-DOGS ARE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND WILL ATTACK ON SIGHT

-ALL RESEARCHERS ARE TO EVACUATE IMMEDIATELY 

-IF A DOG APPROACHES YOU, APPLY LOVING KISSES AND PETS 

-FIND ANTIDOTE BLASTERS IF POSSIBLE, THEY WILL CURE DOGS OF THEIR RAGE
-SMOOCHES CHARGED WITH RAGE WILL ALSO CURE DOGS

-AMMUNITION AND MEDICAL KITS ARE HIDDEN IN WALLS IN SECRET CHACHES THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY

-NO DOGS ARE TO BE HARMED FOR ACCOUNTING AND INSURANCE REASONS

-WE THANK YOU FOR COMPLIANCE AND WILLINGNESS TO PUT WORK FIRST

SKULL AND MCCORMICK 
RESEARCH CENTER, LLC



CREDITS

  • Designer: Sellers Thomas
  • Artist: Mary Kate Crittenden
  • Programmer: Dan Haub
More information
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows, macOS
AuthorDan Haub
GenreShooter
Made withUnity
TagsDogs, First-Person, Retro

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SmoochThatDog_Windows.zip 59 MB
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SmoochThatDog_Mac.app.zip 62 MB

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Vileblood4 years ago (1 edit)

A mutual friend of ours asked me to review this game, so I will. It's cute, and I love the idea! Move over, Chex Quest. I'd love to see this taken further!

However, my gameplay experience was, less than smooth. I am on the mac build, with a potato 2012 macbook pro. Some issues I encountered were:

  • The buttons in the menu are hard to click. Is there something up with the bounding boxes?
  • Because the dogs have colliders, they can push me through walls, and I frequently got stuck in the ceiling, walls, or just pushed into the void, where there didn't seem to be a kill volume to respawn me, so I had to quit to menu and then restart. Does Unity do collision layers? That could be helpful in ensuring that the dogs can collide with the wall, but not the player.
  • After death, all of the counters at the bottom go whack, and the health does not reset from 0%, which means that once I respawn, it's a one hit kill for me.
  • The dogs do not seem check (raycast, hit check or whatever) if there is a wall between it and the player, which means if I stand right in front of the first door, the dogs can hit me through the door.
  • After death, the level does not reset- if the first dog makes its way into the room, it remains there when I respawn, and with that one-hit glitch, it makes it very irritating.
  • It's probably just my computer, but it's also quite laggy, and made my laptop a makeshift stovetop. I cannot run a profile on built projects to give you any more info as to what could be wrong.

I hope I wasn't too harsh, or came off too condescending- I do not mean anything by it. Good luck!

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Dan Haub4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! 

I'm aware of most of these issues and simply didn't have the time to fix them due to being in school and having other classes to worry about. 

  • For the menu buttons, I think there's some issue of graphics raycasting on the UI elements that causes them to behave a bit strangely
  • deciding whether or not to let the dogs and the player collide was a pretty big choice and I suppose I chose wrong haha!
  • Checkpoints were a last minute addition and were neglected coming into the final stretch so I'm not surprised there are some issues with them.
  • The enemy scripts need some cleaning up for sure! I'll look into the dogs being able to see the player through the walls
  • I've heard a lot about performance issues, especially on Mac. It should run better if you download it to your computer. I need to change the online build to be a bit more friendly, and optimizations in general can't hurt!

Thank you so much for the feedback! This is my first game like this, so I'm not surprised there are tons of issues. Every bit of feedback both positive and constructive is extremely valuable!

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