It's certainly a pretty interesting survival game with very cool puzzles. Admittedly, once I got the broken sword, I was able to plow through them as if they were cardboard. Not bad.
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Creativity | #14 | 3.500 | 3.500 |
| Overall | #19 | 3.185 | 3.185 |
| Fun | #21 | 2.833 | 2.833 |
| Harold | #21 | 3.222 | 3.222 |
Ranked from 18 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Thanks for the comment Kazuki!
Yeah, re: the plot, I put all my energy into the two endings haha. I didn't do a good job at all of explaining Harold's behavior from the start, whether that be exposition/subtext.
Balance could use a lot more work for sure. As I was building it, I kept going hmm, I think this is too easy, and scaled it up more here and there.
That said, all the comments have been very helpful, I think I have a good idea of how I would tweak things to get a range of difficulty. There's a lot of quality of life stuff I can add without adjusting the current difficulty/number of resources, as well as a good understanding of what it would take to make a normal/hardcore mode kind of deal.
Thanks KV! I really like the semi-transparent tiles, you're the first one to comment on that :D
Also, really appreciate you taking the time to note down your thoughts. I didn't realize you could fight on the boat, not sure how to fix that but that's very good to know.
- For some reason, I thought itch was either forced fullscreen/no fullscreen option. That's just my inexperience with the platform. I've enabled the fullscreen button now.
- I added a download option to the post jam version. I didn't realize until after the fact that it's more ideal to have both. Oops.
- Battle backgrounds weren't a priority, and even though it doesn't take much time to throw something on, I didn't want to pick a random one. I know some people hate that though, so will likely do something about it in a more polished version.
- Re: difficulty I'm glad you like it! I knew going in, even if it wasn't unfair that it would be polarizing. That said, I only spent a few hours balancing combat, and I know it could be much much better haha
- I like the boat too, and that you list it as a pro :D
- On enemy health bars, I did realize in the final hours that it would be very helpful, but it was crunch time and I didn't wanna add a new plugin even though it's a fairly simple one haha. That's definitely a must have
- Yeah, I straight up just didn't have time to create the animations haha
Appreciate the feedback!
Oooooh. There is supposed to be a window color actually, and the font is usually white. Thanks for the screenshot! That's definitely a bug. Could I trouble you for your OS and browser? I'm also going to upload a downloadable version for the post-jam version at some point. After my other friends got some loading issues I figured I should have both available.
As for the writing, I definitely could've made it more intuitive, and I plan to on the post-jam edition once I have more time. The intent was that Harold is trying to run away from MZ, and is somewhat self aware, so game "story" becomes trivial to him.
Thanks TuomoL!
Thanks TuomoL! Good to know, appreciated. FYI if you ever feel like giving it another chance, I have playtested and uploaded the downloadable version on the post jam page at https://gloriousclover.itch.io/resident-harold-mv-post-jam-version. If you don't feel like playing again that's cool too, thanks again for commenting!
Hi GraniteHeart! Thanks for playing and for the comment! Where did you notice the walking on walls? If it's not a room passage, it's probably a bug. And yes, I have gotten feedback re: the constant dying, I'm going to want to add a feature that does instant respawn when death is inevitable to speed up the gameplay loop. Re: the save crystal, you just need to use it over top of a save circle rune, there's one on the main floor, and one in the dungeon. Thanks again for the comment!
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