As the first alpha build of the game it is genuinely pretty nice. There are still some signs that show that it is still on early development but overall pretty nice first impression.
- VISUALS: The games looks and feels good though i can't help but feel that some of the art still looks a little unpolished like the select night screens and the loss scenes (specially Fanibear). The office color feels a bit off with it having less color variety compared to the rest of the place. The camera design is really good, the cams are really nice looking, the girls sprites are good even when they are at the door and the fact that you can move the camera feed and map is a really fun addition. Also beign able to see the dark forms of some of the others characters is a really nice idea to kinda give the player this feeling of whats to come in the next nighs. Oh and I find the text to speech voice funny specially since its supposed to be a real guy on the phone.
- GAMEPLAY: The power feels okay for now, I cant say if it is too much or not but since the game will have 8 enimies it feels fine for now, tought the night being 9 minutes really is something. The first two girls beign able to go back their positions combined with the fact that they dont have many sounds gives gives a nice feeling on beign on always beign on the alert but as more characters are added maybe some sounds would help to know when they are close or not. I would have liked if one of them was a little different but its fine the it is now. I think its still a bit early to talk about the gameplay in depth since there are only two enemies in the game tought im curious to see how the others characters will be implemented, specially when the look of the office is simple with only having two doors to defend youre self (not counting the audio).
Even if the games is at an early stage I wanted to give my opinion so far even if some of the things that I pointed out I have faith that will get changed or added later. Its a really good first demo and I hope that this project moves forward and gets to be the way the team wants.
- SOME SUGGESTIONS:
- add a way to see the loss scenes without the text;
- if possible had one more scene for each character for a wieder variety;
- add custom mods and challenges to the custom night;
- maybe have the characters have more than one pose per cam and one at the window.
- put a little marker on the cam map so that you know where your office is (even if obvious, it always helps).