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A jam submission

Project ArcaneView game page

(prototype) Enter the role of a detective
Submitted by Gameplay Supremacy (@gplaysupremacy) — 2 days, 21 hours before the deadline
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Submitted(+1)

DD53 feedback videos:

Demo Day 53 videos of games starting with letters from A – J:

https://mega.nz/folder/DdVwTYAK#ZsxVSpsd5L2yvgaqtcvBsA

Demo Day 53 videos of games starting with letters from K – Z:

https://mega.nz/folder/zBIi2A5T#DE3_eooG3HE-K3XTmpnR0g

I hope my video commentary will be useful to you to see what new players might think. I was very lost.

(+1)

-Loading previous version save will spawn me outside of the player bounds lol. While funny, you should have a way to either load the old data correctly or ignore it entirely.


I spawned by the wood box.

-Pausing game, the UI doesn't fill the screen. It might be due to me using a 16:10 monitor?


-Len doesn't translate to location. I would personally do "Loc" instead. No idea what abs means. Gen I have no clue, maybe general? since it includes evidence from other locations.  You could solve this by either adding tool tips or just writing out the whole words. Looking at the UI I see there's enough room to do so. It makes even more sense to do so with the filter drop down since it's a temporary piece of UI and doesn't get in the way.

-Some of the UI shows up in other UI. It will fix itself upon examining once more. I seem to have trouble replicating though, it sometimes happens sometimes not. In this case it happened by selecting car radio and exiting the journal with tab. Might also require examining the notes on it. 


-I was a bit confused why pressing X was giving me a shorter list than Gen, turns out pressing X makes it go to the last page. This isn't immediately obvious. Would help if there was an indicator for what page/current total, or an animation to show page turning.

-I don't like how you have to press the arrow to get details of a profile every time you select it. It should really be a toggle, once you pull up the details for one guy the details of every profile is open until you minimize it again. This is useful for when you're scanning a bunch of profiles for something (like the oldest living man mini puzzle).

-New inventory UI stuff is neat I guess, very half baked for now though. I like how you have a way to quickly go to the journal entry. 

Think that's about it. I didn't try anything else since I already played it last time. Keep it up.

Developer (1 edit) (+1)

Thank you a lot. Useful and detailed feedback.

Submitted(+1)

Not much to say about this prototype, the book interface is neat.

Suggestions:

- Dunno if intended but you can zoom while talking to npcs

- A way to fast forward dialogue would be nice.