Had a great time playing this! Art & gameplay is super polished. Audio was great too. Do wish the movement and tool use didn't both require clicking & dragging, because switching was a bit tedious, and it took me several days to find a single treasure and I was wondering what I did wrong lol.
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Thanks so much for playing :D We are definitely going to be increasing the amount of collectables that generate as a lot of commenters are saying they found it hard to find stuff!
We were trying to make it easy to play on phones + tablets, which why both moving and the tools use clicking + dragging. The idea was that the player picks a place to go, and then they are using the tools while they move there. However, I agree that it becomes tedious, especially with the magnifying glass + binoculars AND ironically enough, doubly so on phones + tablets, lol.
In your opinion - how would you feel if we changed it to tapping a direction to move in, rather than tapping an exact position? E.g. You tap a direction around your character, and you'll continuously move in that direction forever (or until you hit something, etc). That way we could keep the move-and-use-tools loop but stop the constant tapping to change position.