A little gameplay, a little critique ;)
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Oh! Thank you so much for playing our little game!
Your critiques were super fresh; haven't heard these ideas before so I'm glad to hear them and respond to some of your suggestions!
- More stuff to do during freetime: ABSOLUTELY! We have a few items already 3D modelled. I (as the engineer) have just yet to program them in lol.
- Spider Animations: This one's interesting. You're probably the first to pioneer a suggestion of changing our spider animations. The current animation is actualy just between two frames (animated by me lol) after Cilantro Like Rice made two walk models (and an idle model).
- Sound Effects: We absolutely agree that there should be more somehow. Not sure what either but we'll keep that in mind. I am personally curious if the background hum was too quiet for you personally to be noticed or not. (OH! Idea! Prisoners screaming!)
- Interacting with Spiders: You brought up some really great ideas for interacting with the furniture in the room! We haven't thought of that before! Currently, the spiders are the way they are due to programming restrictions but those ideas are indeed stuff we can explore further!
- Lore & Writing: Interesting and kinda sad fact: we originally had a whole person dedicated to writing but sadly they suffered from writer's block and had to step out. All of our current writing is from Cilantro Lime Rice (the 3D modeller). Adding new story parts is definitely a good idea. As a note as the design dev, the mystery part and vagueness of the game is intended as you're ideally suppose to gain theories on what's going on (with the true ending hopefully finalizing a conclusion). But your insightful pointout about the storytelling we definitely need to make sure improves~
- Daily Tasks Instructions: This one's on me. My thought was that they're more instinctive urges (like how most people use the bathroom first thing in the morning) but I then went ahead and messed it up by trying to write an eerie gane description. Hmm, I'll see what I can do that that.
Once again, thank you so much for playing and making a video! We hope you enjoyed it and perhaps try to get endings 2 and 8 on your own time~~