Give your decree in simple yes or no answers, and help the kingdom grow! · By
So, first of all, I wanna say I love this game. It's so simple, but yet so good. I would put it up there with To The Moon and Undertale. One feature I would very much like to see added to the game though is the ability to save your progress. For example, I made it pretty far...I had over 2000 population and things were going well...I pressed escape thinking I would have the option to save my progress and the game exited...I lost so much progress...still love the game though.
I think some of the smaller, repeating bonuses for Happiness or a small gold amount (1-5 gold) should have a slightly longer continuation - like if you pet Boots' belly enough, he goes and keeps the streets clear of rodents, raising happiness by a larger amount, or if when you pet Pancakes, there's a slight chance something will happen from the slightly magical cat - perhaps even the ghost who inquires about the castle being a castle return and offer a small gift as a way of apology for his lack of manners, getting gold if you accept, happiness if you decline.
I have been playing this game since yesterday and if there was a way to log my hours I would say I have over 10 hours in the game as of now. I finally stopped once I reached over 10000 people and 5000 monies at one time however I did realize that the original content ended about 4 hours into it after I'd created the infinite money machine, sorted it out with the trees, got saturn and mercury, got the plant and pineapple people, killed the dragon, got the bunny robot, etc. I would like to say the game should add a suggestion saying something like, "You've completed all the game has to offer, I think you should take a break," Or something like that because damn I spent a lot of time doing basically the same things xD
Wow, it's incredible you played the game for so long! Sort the Court is a tiny game that was originally only meant to be played for 15-20 minute stretches. The update I am working on includes plenty of new content including a "main story" that will make it more obvious when you've completed the game. Thanks so much for playing!
You could maybe include some more voice acting in the game, other than the king's yes and no sounds. Like, sounds of disappointment or joy depending on your choices, with each character having a different sound. You can get tons of free sounds like that online, or otherwise amature voice actors are often happy to do things like that :)
Haha, don't be sorry. I mean... Most of the best game i've played are game which where not ment to be played extensivly and let's face it, it's probably why i love those game so much. Your game is simple but yet fun, and i feel many game creator forgot that game is mostly supposed to be fun XD
So don't be sorry for being succesfull in that regard :P
These are really more questions than suggestions but 1) I have seen a few people bring up a mobile version but i haven't really seen a response from you and I was just wondering if it's on your to-do list at all? Even if it's a way far in the future thing I think it would be a pretty cool idea. But if you think leaving it as a pc only game will keep it more authentic or something that fine too (it's your game obviously!)
2) I was also wondering if you had an ETA on your next update? I'm really excited to see what you have in store for us!
I've played the game and was wondering if there is any "You Lose" or "You Win" Scenarios? I can dig a whole endless play style and I never came across a situation where anything but gold went into the negative and even that wasn't that big of a deal. Maybe adding a "You Win!" screen or pop up after 500 population or something with the choice of continuing on the same difficulty or maybe doing a new game+ with an even higher goal would be nice. For the "You Lose", I would imagine having 0 Population would result in a loss, having happiness at 0 or maybe a -20 or -50 could result in a loss, and say a -500 gold could result in a loss as well.
The New Game+ would start you off with say 200-250 population, 150-200 Happiness, and 300-500 gold with increase in difficulty and an end goal of say 1,000 population or something. Could essentially do this endlessly an just adjust the number to have higher risks and higher rewards for your choices and each New Game+ could add cosmetic changes to the king and his throne like a trophy shelf, nicer throne/clothes/crown, so on and so forth.
Other then that I like the ideas of switching scenery to get to new locations with different decisions, checking on people, and deciding where buildings go. One idea I had and I'm sure others have pitched is changing how the king looks, having a customization option to change hair color, beard, and maybe face.
Other then that my last idea, concerning the "You Lose" part of the game, while not reaching negative in stats or stat of 0 is one way to stay alive, I was thinking about the wrong decisions could result in a loss. For example I was drinking the Butlers "Special Tea" that cost 10 gold and he always seemed so shifty the whole time during that and I was just thinking "OH GOD HE'S POISONING ME!" but after like 10 cups I just figured he's being creepy. So maybe a decision of the butler poisoning you could be one and say drink 3-5 poison teas consecutively could result in your death or basically a "You Lose Scenario". Other's would be like sending out the dragon blade with the wrong hero and the dragon comes back to kill you because the hero fails, letting the wrong person join your court or guard and ends up being an assassin that kills you. So on and so forth. Not saying the butler will poison you every time, and if you get suspicious you could send skelly or the mold to investigate.
Well that got me to thinking about another idea; Skelly, the mold, and the other various people who join your court or end up arriving in the city tend to be just there and random. So having more impact to the decisions could lead to relying on random chance of the right person arriving. So what if the various people you can add to your court or various unique people like the witch, skelly, or the mold, could be sent out to deal with problems or decisions that require you to choose one of these people to send out instead of just a Y or N. This would put them on "cooldown" since they are away, Skelly and the Mold would both be investigators but specialize in different stuff, the witch and wizard the same way, so on and so forth.
So i have like 20 hours on this game and the only problem i got is the haynting system that was very anoying because even i if payed the thing to the witch i would be haunted either way buy anyway is a nive game good job.
And i didnt like the npcs that you give money too and they really dont get nothing back,,,,,
My best run: http://imgur.com/a/TFZYt
Hey, I have some ideas, I think that the game would be awesome with them.
First why don't you have a system where your population would give you taxe income that would normaly be 1% of your population (ex: 250 pop=2,5 - that we round up to 3 coins per day) this 1% would exist if your pop was happy, if the were sad it would be 0.5% and if your were in deficit you could gain 2% at the cost of 5 happiness/day, this could be an option given by a new character a tax man.
You also could have sistem where after the pop metter you would have a soldier meter that would have your amount of soldier so that you would have to maintain an army to for ex: help the sultans' town. In that system to maintain a total of the 1% income you couldn' t have more than 30% of your pop has soldiers.
I have been thinking in other ideas but for now i think that these are the best for you to have in the game.
Also if want i can translate the game to Portuguese and Spanish it would be ny pleasure, and no payment need. If you want just send to may mail the data and I'll get it done in 2 week max.
Hope you see this!
From playing the game, I like it! but here's where I get serious. It seem to me that later in the game we have lots of of people in town but how about when you hit a certain number in the population, someone new appears. Also since I feel the need that you can choose to be a good king or bad king XD
Hey so, for Sort the Court, this isnt a suggestion as much as it is a question. Haunting. I dont understand it. Like im constantly getting information on hauntings but i havent been able to find a solution. idek what to do. i dont want a direct answer like i want to figure it out myself, but if you could give me a hint perhaps? or something... idk
other than that, i really love the game!! so thanks ^-^
I have an idea for a side thing with the dragon. So we all know the big bad dragon comes in and steals your gold, kills your populace if you don't comply, what if there was a way instead of slaying the dragon you were able to befriend it, or depending on previous circumstances and other decisions that a slightly different dialog came into play, were the dragon will guard your kingdom in return for gold, something along those lines. But your game is awesome and I can't wait for future updates. Good luck with this game. :D
Okay so I personally LOVE this game, but I do think there needs to be a few changes. Like there need to be more outcomes where you HAVE to press no, cause I can spam Y and make it through just fine. Also the ghosts come out even when you pay the fines and that's a problem.
I also think that the "special tea" you get should actually be a drug substance in the tea, and it kind of affects the character in decision making by kind of making the words fuzzy, and if you don't take it as often then you end up saying no to most everything not by your own will. Now of course there's a way to fix it, maybe the witch or a doctor can fix it! But you'll have heavy withdrawal symptoms and such. I dunno I thought it'd be a neat idea. The game is super fun and I played for like 4 hours without noticing how much time I spent on it but I feel like there needs to be more negative outcomes to balance the game out and maybe add like a gypsy and she kind of half predicts a good or bad outcome in the near future like a troll suddenly attacking or meeting a new person who will bring you good fortune in the long run if you play your cards right!
Anywayssss~ Thanks for making an awesome game and being even more awesome and putting it for Browser too! I wouldn't have been able to play it if it wasn't thanks to my stupid Chromebook.... I hope to see more updates and maybe one day even a mobile version!
