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Thanks! I'm kind of grumpy with it; it was a lot of good development experience but I'm worried it doesn't have much of a "hook", I'm still chewing it over a bunch mentally. I'm hoping to figure out something gripping about it so I can proceed on it with confidence...

I appreciate you spending some time with my smaller projects too. My goal this year was just to publish something small, and I did that, and next year my goal is to publish something with more meat on the bones than my prototypes and jam projects!

Neco The Sergal11 days ago(+1)

Hoh. Sounds exciting, like, fundamental mechanisms or a fun premise or idea? Monster? Threat? ;0

You know what a good hook is? Horror with a RE Nemesis-like aggressive threats that gets stronger the more into the game, we need more of those IMO.

onamint11 days ago

Right now it's mostly mechanical, like, you don't do a lot other than walk around and find things, and while it's intended to be a short enough game to kind of get what I can out of that, I'm still trying to find some other angle to make it more exciting, I dunno. Dwelling on it. If it's not super long maybe that's all it needs anyway.

I do think the Nemesis angle needs more attention; you don't see it worked with much. Like, if one of the requirements is that the Nemesis-like can be encountered on an unscripted/non-set piece basis, the only other thing I can think of is like...Hellnight, maybe? I think the critter in that evolves during the game and is randomly encounterable. I'll have to keep it in mind as I keep making horror games, it is a good idea :D

SolarKryos1 day ago(+1)

Hey there, i would definitely say your game has a great hook!

In the beginning i wasnt too clear on what my mission was or why i am now entering this building alone - but that might be because i am not a native speaker, not necessarily due to your writing.

Honestly i feel like your game is very promising and i would definitely buy it, should you finish developing it!!

kind regards

onamint1 day ago

Thank you! It is a little vague at the get go; my goal with the scenario is for context to build up as the game goes on. Right now, it is very incomplete though ^^;

I appreciate you playing it all the same, and the encouragement is very nice as well! :D

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