An interesting 360-degree puzzle where you need to guide a child to their bed/parent by elevating or lowering towers and stairs. It is a neat concept on paper, but suffers in its execution. Most of the time, you can't access the tower you want to elevate or lower because it is obscured by the platform itself, and if you see the top of it, you can only interact with it by asking the child to walk on it, no change the tower itself. It is fine at first, but as the levels become more and more complex, it gets cumbersome and removes the fun out of the game, at least for me.
I had a lot of fun playing this game. It reminded me a lot of "Monument Valley" in terms of visuals, but its gameplay was really unique and interesting. I also really liked how the story was told through speech bubbles containing images, rather than through words, and I liked how creative the puzzles got.
I think I just lost all of my progress. I thought the leftmost menu button, which is a triangle with a vertical bar on its left side, means "Play from beginning," so I clicked the second menu button which is just a triangle to hopefully load, but that started me from the beginning. What's going on here? Is there any way for me to recover my progress in the game? I can't seem to pick up where I left off, now, several levels in.
Sorry, that is obviously bad UI/UX design on my part. The button on the left is actually a Continue-button and the second button a Play-from-start-button.
There isn't a way to restore a previously overriden save (remember this is a jam game, so I didn't put all too much thought into the save system), but there is a way to skip levels by manipulation the save data, at least if you’re playing on Windows. It's stored in the registry though, so it should only be manipulated by users who are familiar with registry editing.
If you are, in the registry under HKCU\Software there should be an entry with my name ("Fabian Denter") and underneath that an entry for the game. Then there are some values editable, one of which is "Scene to load" which you can set to a specific number. When you go back to the game and press the leftmost button in the main menu, it should load the level with the index you entered in the registry.
But please ONLY change numbers in the registry when you are sure to edit the right ones!
I sincerely am sorry for this and hope you are able to go back to the point in the game you already reached!
Edit: I looked up where Mac saves the game data and it should be stored in the ~/Library/Preferences folder in a .plist file. I can't check this though, because I don't own a mac.
Are you ever gonna go back to revise the game? Having a text popup of "Continue," etc. when mousing over those menu buttons would immediately fix all of this. FYI, when it comes to actual media players, a triangle with a bar on the left means "play from beginning" (which is why I perceived the buttons as such), so you may want to swap the icons if you update the game.
A very cute puzzle game, with just the right difficulty curve: just when you think you've mastered one of the game's mechanics, another one is introduced to make things more complicated! Like the previous commenters, I truly enjoy my experience with "A Wish Upon A Star" and only regret it's so short :)
Hi there! I bought this in the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, and tried downloading it on my mum's Macbook Air coz I thought she'd like it. Unfortunately, it's giving me the following error message when I attempt to open the application:
'The application "AWishUponAStar 10.01.25 pm" can't be opened."
I have tried redownloading it and re-unzipping it from the .zip file, but neither appears to be working, as it keeps giving me that same error message. For reference, it's a MacBook Air from early 2015ish running macOS Catalina with an Intel i5 processor and 4GB of RAM.
I don't suppose you have any idea why this might be? Or any potential work-around I can attempt?
Hi, sorry you are having issues. I received a few of those messages, but unfortunately I think it's due to Apple being overly restrictive as to which software people can install. From what I understand I'd need to "sign" the app with them, but I didn't do it (as it's not free).
Have you tried installing the game through the itch.io app? https://itch.io/app
Thanks Fabian! I tried the itch.io app, and after telling the computer to ignore that that app was downloaded from the internet, I could use it to install the game! I appreciate the help! :)
This is an extremely well made game. The graphics are astonishing, the aesthetics are perfect and the puzzels where really challenging. It took me around 9hours to finish it because i got stuck near the last two levels. It tested my patience alot and i had to keep restarting to complete the levels because i always ended up messing up the level to states where i had no idea what and where everything is suppose to go!
One of my main fustrations of the game was when I exited the game and thought it didnt save my progress, this was because the button for continue was not very clearly marked(I reolised there was a continue button after i finished the game). Since i was already really far into the game (i think i was around halfway) i decided to start again and in no time i was back to where i left off so i wasn't too bummed out.
Some of the interactions between the characters was also kind of lost to me since it was shown by pictures. It also ment i was really confused to why i was collecting random objects from people. I soon understand at the end. Another thing is the fact that collums had to be seen to be lowered or raised which ment i had to restart levels when i accidently lowered a collum situated in the middle too low.
I am extremely suprised that this game is free as this feels like a game you can get on steam for a decent price. If I had money this would definietly be one of the games i would tip for. Overall I give this game a big thumbs up, Good Job Creators!
Hey thanks for playing and taking the time to write so much feedback! It really helps me to see where I can improve and how certain things work or don't work with different players. Some of your criticisms were also expressed by other players and I answered them here in the comments. Thanks for the thumbs up!
.. and whoa - 9 hours! Wow! That's long! Glad you sticked with it and finished :)
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This would be great if I had a touch screen. Painful to use a mouse to control the person and the heights of blocks.
I had a lot of fun playing this game. It reminded me a lot of "Monument Valley" in terms of visuals, but its gameplay was really unique and interesting. I also really liked how the story was told through speech bubbles containing images, rather than through words, and I liked how creative the puzzles got.
Thanks!
This would be so good on Android!
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perfect animation and idea. Definitely, a free camera and level selection would be helpful rere
I think I just lost all of my progress. I thought the leftmost menu button, which is a triangle with a vertical bar on its left side, means "Play from beginning," so I clicked the second menu button which is just a triangle to hopefully load, but that started me from the beginning. What's going on here? Is there any way for me to recover my progress in the game? I can't seem to pick up where I left off, now, several levels in.
Sorry, that is obviously bad UI/UX design on my part. The button on the left is actually a Continue-button and the second button a Play-from-start-button.
There isn't a way to restore a previously overriden save (remember this is a jam game, so I didn't put all too much thought into the save system), but there is a way to skip levels by manipulation the save data, at least if you’re playing on Windows. It's stored in the registry though, so it should only be manipulated by users who are familiar with registry editing.
If you are, in the registry under HKCU\Software there should be an entry with my name ("Fabian Denter") and underneath that an entry for the game. Then there are some values editable, one of which is "Scene to load" which you can set to a specific number. When you go back to the game and press the leftmost button in the main menu, it should load the level with the index you entered in the registry.
But please ONLY change numbers in the registry when you are sure to edit the right ones!
I sincerely am sorry for this and hope you are able to go back to the point in the game you already reached!
Edit: I looked up where Mac saves the game data and it should be stored in the ~/Library/Preferences folder in a .plist file. I can't check this though, because I don't own a mac.
I'm on Windows; whew!
Are you ever gonna go back to revise the game? Having a text popup of "Continue," etc. when mousing over those menu buttons would immediately fix all of this. FYI, when it comes to actual media players, a triangle with a bar on the left means "play from beginning" (which is why I perceived the buttons as such), so you may want to swap the icons if you update the game.
A very cute puzzle game, with just the right difficulty curve: just when you think you've mastered one of the game's mechanics, another one is introduced to make things more complicated! Like the previous commenters, I truly enjoy my experience with "A Wish Upon A Star" and only regret it's so short :)
Hi there! I bought this in the Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality, and tried downloading it on my mum's Macbook Air coz I thought she'd like it. Unfortunately, it's giving me the following error message when I attempt to open the application:
'The application "AWishUponAStar 10.01.25 pm" can't be opened."
I have tried redownloading it and re-unzipping it from the .zip file, but neither appears to be working, as it keeps giving me that same error message. For reference, it's a MacBook Air from early 2015ish running macOS Catalina with an Intel i5 processor and 4GB of RAM.
I don't suppose you have any idea why this might be? Or any potential work-around I can attempt?
Hi, sorry you are having issues. I received a few of those messages, but unfortunately I think it's due to Apple being overly restrictive as to which software people can install. From what I understand I'd need to "sign" the app with them, but I didn't do it (as it's not free).
Have you tried installing the game through the itch.io app? https://itch.io/app
Also this might help? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202491
I don't own a mac myself, so I can't test this unfortunately.
Thanks Fabian! I tried the itch.io app, and after telling the computer to ignore that that app was downloaded from the internet, I could use it to install the game! I appreciate the help! :)
Awesome! Hope you and/or your mother will enjoy it, thanks for reporting back!
this game was really challenging but that's more on me than anything. absolutely beautiful and a really fun experience!!!!
I very much enjoyed the game. I wish there would be more levels.
Looks great!, any chance of getting this through Steam?.
Hey thanks for the comment! Unfortunately there are currently no plans to bring this game to Steam.
I thought this game was amazing!!
thank you! :)
Absolutely LOVE this game, challenging but fun and looks so so nice
Thank you! Glad you liked it :) That‘s a good video, hope you continue playing!
This puzzle game it's super cute and really challenging! One of the best games I've played this year!!
hey thank you so much for playing and making videos of all my games so far, means a lot! Excited for the full video, please post it here as well! :)
Ok, here's the full one! Thanks :)
how did you make this!? can you tell me the engine it uses?
Hey there, I made this game in the Unity Engine!
This is an extremely well made game. The graphics are astonishing, the aesthetics are perfect and the puzzels where really challenging. It took me around 9hours to finish it because i got stuck near the last two levels. It tested my patience alot and i had to keep restarting to complete the levels because i always ended up messing up the level to states where i had no idea what and where everything is suppose to go!
One of my main fustrations of the game was when I exited the game and thought it didnt save my progress, this was because the button for continue was not very clearly marked(I reolised there was a continue button after i finished the game). Since i was already really far into the game (i think i was around halfway) i decided to start again and in no time i was back to where i left off so i wasn't too bummed out.
Some of the interactions between the characters was also kind of lost to me since it was shown by pictures. It also ment i was really confused to why i was collecting random objects from people. I soon understand at the end. Another thing is the fact that collums had to be seen to be lowered or raised which ment i had to restart levels when i accidently lowered a collum situated in the middle too low.
I am extremely suprised that this game is free as this feels like a game you can get on steam for a decent price. If I had money this would definietly be one of the games i would tip for. Overall I give this game a big thumbs up, Good Job Creators!
Hey thanks for playing and taking the time to write so much feedback! It really helps me to see where I can improve and how certain things work or don't work with different players. Some of your criticisms were also expressed by other players and I answered them here in the comments. Thanks for the thumbs up!
.. and whoa - 9 hours! Wow! That's long! Glad you sticked with it and finished :)