Atelier's Key

fun shooting game

As they stated, this game was for a school project so its not a long or expansive game. I would give suggestions to areas that could be improved such as repetition in tutorial boxes, spaces between buildings should be moved closer together, adding voice lines, etc. BUT I would believe, being as this is a school project, that there was a short amount of time to meet specific criteria to grade. The art, styles, and functionalities of the game are beautiful, well thought out, unique, and developed very well. Great job guys!

It's got a lot of jank, but I won't downvote free student games when effort was put in. The artwork kept me engaged enough to finish it. You can beat it in anywhere from 20-60 minutes, depending on how much you explore. [h1]The Good[/h1] +Can rebind keys despite what's shown on store page +Some really nice setpieces and modeling +3 save slots (not really necessary, but nice to have) +Achievements, which is rare for a student game +Colorblind support, also rare for a student game +Didn't run computer hot, also also rare for a student game +Final boss has some mechanics, compared to everything else [h1]YMMV[/h1] ~Story is unclear ~Audio is weak across the board ~Ability UI icons don't explain what they do ~Abilities aren't that useful ~I don't think the sniper enemies can actually hurt you? ~Sluggish movement ~Some physics jank [h1]The Bad[/h1] -Game bugs out on first load when it forces a discord browser window. Have to Alt+F4 out. -No sound and invisible magazine when reloading -Most common enemy has no movement animation - it just slides -Sniper rounds kill enemies before the projectile reaches them Played on: Win11Pro, i7-14700K, RTX5060 Ti 16GB, 32GB DDR5-6000 @ 1920x1080 us…

Pretty polished student project! The world looks BEAUTIFUL-- I have no complaints about any of the art. The map design was pretty good, though the first area with the forge was a long enough jump that I wasn't sure where to go at first. The game is QUIET too... it could use more ambient noise aside from gunfire and music. It's really funny that the gun you pick up is referred to as a "mysterious tool" when it's clearly a semi-automatic weapon. There were for sure some bugs; mostly collision errors. The final boss is a bit rough... the grappling is unreliable enough to make an otherwise fun concept an annoying challenge. I got stuck in the ceiling a few times. Sometimes I fell through the floor. At one point my gun just refused to fire anymore? Overall fun. The sniper mode felt especially good.

Definitely this may be a game made for the first time. I can respect those 12 people working on it, I can see and dig into the idea behind it (the world and such) but I'll be honest, it's not a great game in the slightest. Good as a concept, but it's obviously buggy, short and it shouldn't even be listed on Steam to begin with due to its problems and lack of content. Again, I'm not judging the 12 people behind this project, I'm judging the product at hand. Good luck in the future, people.

probably one of worst optimized games i have played in awhile only played for about 10-15 minutes and the game crashed 4 times during that i want to give the game the benefit of the doubt but in its current i will not be recommending it.