VOID WARD

This game needs some serious optimization. I actually quite enjoyed the game for the most part. The upgrades were satisfying and well thought out, despite their descriptions being too short and not particularly clear. However, the biggest issues is the severe lag when playing beyond the first few levels and the fact that if your income exceeds a certain amount the game can no longer keep track of it and converts it into an impossibly large negative number, which means that from that moment on you will be unable to buy any other upgrades. Then the special currency comes in at a disproportionately small amount compared to how fast the cost for permanent upgrades increases, meaning that you will be constantly grinding once your abilities reach a slightly higher level. Finally the absolute worst parts, if you have your bullet speed too high the game can no longer track if enemies are hit, despite that actually being one of the upgrades you can unlock. Meaning that if you actually upgrade your projectile speed to a certain level you will never be able to progress because the enemies will never get hit by your projectiles. Then if you have your defenses too high and your can't kill the enemies attacking you the game will just crash rather than just ending the round or offering you a chance to quit. My recommendations to fix this game: Make easy mode an actual mode. It is currently set to do absolutely nothing. Set it so enemies are super weak and provide very few special currency after completing a lot of rounds as an exchange for playing easy. Fix the frame rate. How? I don't know as I don't know how this game is coded or tracks things, but usually allowing people to adjust their own games visual settings helps... Add a setting that if a single round runs for a certain amount of time it prompts the player to quit rather than just crashing the game. Remove the cap on the currency or set a hard limit on how high the currency counter can reach and make sure all upgrades are less than that cap. Stop the enemies from increasing in power with the players upgrade levels. The point of unlocking permanent upgrades is to allow the player to feel strong enough to get through the early waves with ease rather than having to always "struggle" with the first few waves. Lower the price increase for upgrades, both temporary and permanent. If their prices are lower then the max level of trackable currency that the game can handle wouldn't be such a big deal. Finally I would recommend making boss rounds more unique. At present the boss is just another enemy that blends in with all the rest and is only notable because of the large health bar at the top of the screen. They should instead be different from all the other enemies and should be at least several times larger than the normal enemies to make the encounters more memorable.