Ah yeah, seems like I was clicking on the pieces instead of the spaces. Did run into a coup-le of weird bugs - one of my knights just froze in the center of the board and the other knight was somehow commandeered by the devil when he castled with it. The Devil then carried on using my knight as if it was a rook!
It's a cool game though. Would recommend adding subtitles to what the Devil says at the end because I couldn't make out any of it!
Thanks for the heads up. Was going to hold off on doing an article on it until the White Label released, but if it's going to be a while then I'll just cover the Arcade Mix (which is pretty damn cool anyway). Would love to feature the White Label on the YouTube channel when it's ready too. Keep up the great work! :)
No worries. Looking forward to trying future builds. Really loved the first one so I'm excited to see where it goes.
With regards to the notes. As well as spreading them out, I'd also recommend condensing them significantly. If you could get it down to one page per note then the game will flow a lot better. Keep up the great work! :)
Glad you're continuing to develop this! Really loved the last demo. I think you may have gone a little overboard with the notes in this one though - stopping to read a 3 page note every 20 seconds really breaks up the momentum of the gameplay and you seem to spend more time reading than playing the game. Really love the atmosphere and the story though and the monster's pretty freaky! Keep up the great work! :)
Yeah I got contacted too. I've been talking to SidAlpha about this issue. He has this advice:
"In terms of the Trademark dispute, he would have a case with the other Dev because it DOES create market confusion. But in terms of your video(s) he has no legal right to strike your videos as even IF Fair Use wasn't a valid defense, it's not even his copyright. If he filed a DMCA of your video, it would absolutely be against the law and you would have a VERY easy time suing him.
You cannot claim copyright infringement of a thing that you do not own the Copyright for. Trademark disputes between developers should never be used as an excuse to flagrantly violate the law in order to punish Content Creators out of a desire to blind the public as to the other game's existence."
So it's illegal for a developer to file a DMCA takedown for a video of another developer's original game. No matter what the game's name is.
For full transparency, I have removed my video as I'd rather not get in a fight about it, but if the Dino Hazard dev doesn't rescind the Copyright strike I will pursue legal action.
Thanks for the heads up, did a gameplay video and a short article on the new game. https://www.freegameplanet.com/atoll-the-last-ghost-download-game/
Was thinking about covering Darkest Corners too, but if the second chapter's almost done then I'll wait until then. :)
This is really cool! It keeps crashing after the random battle after entering the castle though. The last thing you see is the text "Fighting your way through winding stone hallways, a wall of fetid air blasts you as you reach the heart of the castle...". Then the screen goes black and nothing happens.
Hi! I haven't played all the way through yet. The game crashed about 40 minutes in. I died in the area with the woman who has a big hoop through her nose and it got stuck on the loading screen.
1. Sure, I'll definitely make a video.
2. Will play the whole game (as long as there's not any offensive material in the part that I haven't played yet)
3. It's hard to say how many views it will get. I'd say the average is about 30k, but it can be anything from 10k to a million. You can see the channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKNiazqmuUi9CeX_kyDpjw
I understand that swapping out the music is a big task, so I understand if you can't do it. It's a cool game. Great work! :)