As everyone else has said, adding in an animation for both your and the zombies’ attacks would make the game much more fun to play. Although you can hear how fast your attacks are by the sound that plays, a visual animation would be much more effective. Overall, great prototype idea.

The general concept is appealing. Nobody is really doing a fighting/action game, especially with melee combat, so it’s nice to play one.

“what are some specific things that could be improved, and how might they be accomplished?”

The game is lacking general “production” polish as well as ways to emphasize interactions. Pretty up the characters, give us a physical sword/hammer, and make it where the bad guys spurt out blood particles when we whack them and then the polish is there.

“do the two motions feel like they meet the assigned “feel”?”

(Note that we didn’t need two motions for this assignment, so I’ll ignore that part.) The music and general concept of the game has you “on edge” – you don’t want to die or be attacked! I’d say the brisk movement of the avatar matches how briskly I’d want to move if being attacked – so I would say that matches!

“do the interaction aspects help create game feel (controls, avatar movement and how it interacts with the world, polish effects used directly to emphasize these interactions)”

In the second question I talked about that, largely. The game is lacking ways to emphasize interactions right now, so I spose the answer is no. Once they are in there, I think the game will be cool, though.

“are the other parts of the prototype (textures, sounds, etc) helping or hurting?”

Sound is appropriate – kind of an intense track – definitely helping. The grass texture is appealing to me – it says to me “outdoors”… so I’m outdoors surrounded by zombies/bad guys. Adds to the intensity I feel. Obviously, you could add more textures, but the ones currently there I’d say, ARE helping.