Pretty interesting game albiet I didn't manage to beat it. It does have atmosphere which has allowed me to get into it from the first second, making me wonder and enjoy a bit of wandering on my own. But it's not exactly a clear game. There are few collission glitches, in particular I wish I more safeguarded when fixing a hole, as I would get pulled right inside a wall when done with fixing. Walking near walls also felt weird, which I think is because collission of the character gets turned along with sprites, which isn't something one would normally do for movement/navigation collision. I also didn't beat it fully and feel that some design choice for one-life adventure are a bit off, with long walk and one item per slot (drop on a spot) where you have chance to soft-lock by sealing a wall. Ah well, could have been simplified.
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Cute! Nice 45 days work. The basics of rougelike is there, I can see you have implemented turn-based loop and all the formulas, randomization, and even field of vision with fog of war. That is not too simple to learn at first, good. Inventory too, even if it felt unresponsive at times as if I pressed something wrong and got stuck. It only misses saving dungeon floors in a run.
Though when it comes to gameplay as is, I didn't get in-depth. I wasn't sure what stats would do, then I very quickly got overwhelmed by all the chest equipment that flooded me, with hard to know which is more effective. So I stopped thinking and just moved to kill and go down, not having much choice. I think keeping this proof of concept lesser in stats types amount would have helped and replacing most of chest to contain consumables (like food in old crpgs) would have helped. Or at least letting me see effects and calculations so I get to learn too.
Pretty funny for 3 day jam, gets vibe across. Atmosphere isn't anything for me to dig in, throwawayish, but for short jam you managed to stuff it up well. It also had a sense of journey and discovery, as I did get across a trash dump ground just as I was thinking of finding a good place to consume and grow. Had to peek at comments to understand what the game is about however, I didn't realize that the character is eating grass as I thought the sound effects come from the music. Wish I turned a bit fsater but it's fine this way too, sliding around.
Due to me accidentally closing butler process early, I now have a blank build in build history that has "Started" status on it stuck. I have uploaded a new build through butler, so the "started" build is now pre-last version in build history. Is this anything to worry about? It's not going to cause any database problem?
Oh, this is your magnum opus of your 2023 Godot experimentation. It has a sleek design and just as sleek presentation. Well, I am rather surprised at how neat presentation is, with dull dice sound, little increasing score popups, the way dice idles with popping up sides, the tips on each screen start. Good job.
I am not a puzzle man so I am not going to play this after trying this, but I like how it has both short-term and long-term thinking. For short-term it colors tiles properly so I can sometimes just not think too hard and roll myself all over place. And in long-term you can either go for simple route that has the least values or actually predict the sides that the dice will be on.
Not sure if you have copied something you've seen but it is very neat and could appeal to some puzzle people. Not me, since I don't enjoy when each step and progress just means more of same puzzles, but yes.
I got used to keyboard controls perspective very fast, my Landstalker experience did not go to waste.
I will just say that for me the shaders would break and just show flat colors anytime there was a score. I also think it may do multiple scores popups if you move onto same new and old tile very fast multiple times. And numpad keys controls did not work for me for some reason.
Good job 2023.
Henlo there too!
Godot 4 HTML5 that app downloads to run locally do not work. The error states that "Cross Origin Isolation" is missing.
It does NOT complain about "SharedArrayBuffer", unlike what usually happens on website when you don't have that enabled.
(This one isn't related to another issue for website I have just posted, it has been always this way, just got around to reporting)
Hello! Since today I have been unable to run Godot Engine 4 HTML5 games on itch.io using Firefox browser on Android.
The error messages states that "Cross Origin Isolation" and "SharedArrayBuffer" are missing.
The projects I tried on have experimental support for SharedArrayBuffer enabled. I have no updated Firefox app and these games used to run and weren't updated either. Thus I believe it's something on itch.io side or somewhere on the web.
They work fine on Chrome Android and on Firefox Desktop.
Oh, this one is close to being the good kind of jank. The kind where you can see and recognize what it copies, but it has 'broken' mechanics of what it copies that get outplayed by its own brokeness. Ie, with all the camera shaking and hero barely keeping self to the floor, it's funny how you can sometimes barely squeeze by a ghost.
Not going to say that I would play it any more, but I think if outside of the maze was completely dropped (going for stars there felt like a waste of time, until one ghost surprised me into face and gave me a game over) and if it started 1-2 difficulty levels higher, that could be a very fine jank.
The animal jpeg slowly shrinking as more dialog is getting added sure made me laugh.
It sure feels very janky. Probably could jankify more to add context, otherwise I couldn't understand whether it's a bug or feature. Though to be honest it could just be very slow on my laptop.
Didn't get past level 3 after many attempts.
Pretty chaotic and fast and took a while to figure out what's going on. Mostly because by the time I figured out what I am looking it, most of the planets were already flying in space far away. A bit heavy for me.
Might need to have it go slower overall to appreciate the movement of the objects and gravity.
But pretty cute, with background and all, toy simulation.
I don't think I can escape "pause" button.
In one of my other games, I did something similar to what you suggested (rather than a menu, it was a grid of gameplay elements that could be navigated with mouse or keyboard), and a blind player ended up with focus unexpectedly moving around because they unknowingly had the mouse cursor over the playspace.
Thanks for sharing this experience, I actually didn't quite think it through. I will need to pay more attention to how other games do it. It still feels a bit off in Cloud Courier main menu for me personally but now I am not sure how exactly it should be.
A fairly well jam entry on a technical level, surely. There is a simple system, minimal gameplay loop, good stuff for a couple days of jam. I did mistake assets for stock kind at first but they do have a charm.
But I did feel that I didn't really enjoy playing after a while. Rather, didn't enjoy moving, exploring. The simplest explanation would be to complain that the horizontal thrust don't allow you to tap quickly enough, making you wait and mash and wait and mash. From a bigger view of things, having read postmortem, it's because levels didn't have the right amount of air currents in right spots to make it interesting and sometimes it would send me to deliver package to the very very close destination where I was willing to go up or down all the way through map and was stuck just thrusting horizontally. But of course horizontal thrust, in a full would be project, would need to have a different feedback or mechanic limit to make it more obvious that it's more of an exception.
Talking of postmotern, it was only there I realized that the levels were randomly generated. At first I kept pushing, in hopes of increased difficulty that will challenge me to appreciate the core idea, as well as not to disappoint dev that I haven't finished the game before making an opinion. Then after level 5 I met a layout awfully similar to what I had in level 1 and I figured that, due to seeing no big changes, the game was simply looping between five levels like old arcade games. Having found out more about project, I think that in hindsight it should have had 3-4 hand-made levels show off the core intent better. After all, the generation was not needed as game doesn't have enough replaybality value and good generations would have taken too much time. Albeit it's, of course, good coding practice.
Main menu behaves a bit weirdly when using both keyboard arrows and mouse. Perhaps game should set the "current choice" for keyboard control to the line that mouse had hovered over. But of course it's fine for a jam jam.
I also was not aware that game had dynamic music system, haven't noticed, having read postmotern. Perhaps dying was too rare. I can agree with composer that music was a bit too static. A level with simple color overlay to make it look like a dawn and some more mellow melody could break it apart, perhaps something cheap in workflow. Maybe. But of course it's merely a jam contribution.
On a cute side, I, for some reason, really liked how the vertical gauges on HUD looked, especially the second one, for vertical movement. The bubble in the middle made me a bit of nostalgic at gauges and tools that I would find at dad's room, ha. The game was polished for what it is and time being too.