Gobelins person here! I saw your game on the page for Press Start 2022.
First, congrats on making a VN/point-and-click game with GBStudio. I’ve played several top-view games made with its default “adventure” framework but they were looking a bit alike, so I started avoiding them at some point.
I expected something like YOU LEFT ME (OK, to be fair I could never fully play it myself due to blocking bugs) but the stats are much more prominent than I expected, much more like individual daily life simulators.
In fact, I worked on one myself and it was full of stats, with a minimal number of interactions, but not much narration going on. So I enjoyed the fact that this is more than abstract resource management. On the counterpart, there are many actions with a lot of overlap, so I do suspect once you nailed it, you can stick to 3 or 4 of them to get the resources where you want to. I eventually lost all my Health but I don’t remember which action makes you recover it, so I’m not sure how I’d be doing better next time. (EDIT: according to Nekoga’s comment, there is only one action that can Heal, I’m surprised Restore Health and visit Doctor wouldn’t)
On the purely functional side:
- I found a bug when choice text is not padding with one space, where the cursor would overlap the first letter of each line and erase it permanently
- after watering the plant twice, it becomes glitchy. I found it was a wanted effect until the text also become glitchy
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after watering the plant and meeting the Crow, I met again: Plant, Crow, Plant! The second time I kept listened to the plant (bad), the 3rd time I watered it again and then it got on a rampage! I’m not sure what to do if I meet it 3 times and only watering seems good. I understand if it’s a situation where you cannot do all good, but I wonder if it’s a bug that I met them repeatedly in the same nightmare, I thought I was stuck in an infinite loop (or maybe the meetings are just random?)
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to advance text quickly you press Z, but some text immediately skip to the next text if you hold Z. As a result, if you hold Z too long, you may miss some text completely. Sometimes you may also press Z too late after the choices appear and select the 1st choice by accident (an option to display all text immediately, or advance text quickly using X instead, would help, but I’m not sure how much GB Studio can do about it)