Alien EX: Prototype Test

Alien EX is a commercial top-down immersive-sim…developed using only software from before the turn of the century.  This includes graphics libraries and coding language, 3D graphics, 2D image graphics and music & sound FX software.  

This is my current build of the prototype, which includes character control, level loading, basic enemy AI and basic keycard/door mechanics.  This prototype is basically a test to see how far I can push Dark Basic Classic, the language I'm developing the game in, while sticking to the game's vision.  This was written in a two week span, and is poorly optimized spaghetti code.  

I'm looking for feedback and gauge interest for a project like this...and of course get a proper commercial game out that is completely built on my own, that I actually finish.

Controls:

Keyboard:

WASD or Arrow Keys: 8-dir movement

E or Shift key: Toggle, Pickup/Move Crates

Space key: Open/Close Doors

Ctrl: Shoot Rifle

Right Alt: Strafe

Gamepad:

Left Joystick: 8-dir movement

A: Shoot Rifle

B: Strafe

Y: Toggle, Pickup/Move Crates

X: Open/Close Doors

Please try out the prototype, current version 13b, and give me feedback, be harsh (yes I know it has frame spikes, I call collision checks way more than necessary) I can take it.  I plan to take any feedback and create a second prototype from scratch with improvements, which will be used as the base of my final game code.

I've planned for a 6-month production period, and by Dec will start posting Youtube shorts and dev-logs.  This has been the most excited I've been for a project in a long time, I thought I lost the spark years ago and had settled into a mondain life and daily routine...but than I started playing around with my old coding language DBC and discovered it worked right out of the box on windows and just started coding non-stop, every day.  Anyway, enough of my mid-life crisis ramblings! Play the prototype!