Steam Greenlight Release Dead Spawn

Not that I've ever put up a greenlight project, but it seems to me you may have gone too early. There's a potential there to the game - the shooting mechanic as a base looks fun, just needs more -stuff- overall to make it feel more than a simple project. You have to give people a reason to part with cash, and this kind of game can be found on newgrounds for free multiple, multiple times over.

More guns. More enemies. More variety in what the enemies are doing, and how they appear. Construction stuff is a good path - add in a variety of turrets/shields/utility buildings. Add in different terrains - go urban, go rocky, go desert...

Just - more.

I have to agree with 4burner and a lot of the greenlight comments. You need to standout from other top down horde shooters. If the construction mechanic is your unique hook then flesh it out and show it in your video. Also, make sure to show variety of areas and enemies otherwise it will look bland to most first time viewers. One of the comments also pointed out the backward walking that occurs ultimately in these games. Maybe see how you can change that up a bit?

for being new to gamedev you have pulled off some impressive things (im most impressed with the zombies bumping off eachother and not walking in the same spot haha).

Keep polishing, I voted yes of course

There are two things that, in my opinion, are essential for games like this to be really fun. The first thing is gamepad support. Even though I'm a snooty PC Master Race™ guy (gaming exclusively on computers since about 1988; haven't owned a console since 1983), I'd refuse to play any twin-stick shooter (eg. Dead Spawn) with a mouse (which, looking at your video, appears to be the control scheme here).

The second is multipliers. Shooting loads of the same enemy and seeing your score go up by 20 points each time will get boring quickly, even in the most polished of games. But add in multipliers, and the excitement is hugely ramped up. A well-made multiplier mechanic adds time pressure, greatly incentivises improving one's skill, and transforms gameplay into a high-risk/high-reward scenario where playing it safe doesn't pay, while constant movement and quick decision-making does. All of the good twin stick shooters use multipliers for this reason (eg. Geometry wars, Waves, Ion Assault, Renegade Ops), as well as games like Darksiders and the Batman Arkham games (which could arguably be classified as 'twin-stick brawlers', as they share many mechanical similarities with twin stick shooters).

There are different ways to use multipliers, so you could choose out of a number of styles for a different feel. For example, Geometry Wars increases them when you collect geoms, and once accrued you can't lose them. Ion Assault's multiplier only remains active if you keep shooting enemies in quick succession (and is further increaased if you shoot multiple enemies at once), while Batman's multiplier is predominantly based around not getting hit.

ok, I wasn't sure. I was looking at the cursor in the video, and it seemed look like it was being moved by a mouse, but obviously I was wrong (or maybe you just chose to use mouse for the video)

Upvoted!

The genre is an evergreen, I think you can't really "abuse" something like that X)
but yeah, maybe you can add some more stuff/variation,
some more characterization to environments,
some building/obstacle that would add to gameplay strategy

good luck