Thank you so much for taking the time to write such detailed and thoughtful feedback! I am definitely planning to change several things you mentioned to improve the game.
About the lags, yeah, it is several things. The browser has a poor performance in the game overall, and I am surprised it works as well as it does, never thought of it being playable in the browser to be honest, haha.
The FPS drop when going into the woods is the change between the bonfire (no dynamic shadows) and loading a lot of dynamic shadows, as you mentioned in a very tree dense zone. I will try to pace it better by loading in chunks, but it already has a lot of optimizations in place, and in the desktop version you never notice drops if you have recommended hardware to run the game, but I will take another look there for sure in what can be improved.
Also I know you are on MAC, so you can't try the desktop version. I will also take a look if I can produce a MAC version down the road, which would be cool.
Thanks again for the incredible feedback and support!
Hey, thanks for playing! Ye, the "continue" button is just meant to take you to the end screen in the demo in that spot. Also, saving works best on the desktop version. It wasn't really built for browsers, but it still works, just failing in some specific browser edge cases. Orange trees (tier 3) are indestructible unless you proc a fatal strike on them.
Thanks! Good idea, maybe you can't avoid it though, as the fire must be fed ^^ I'll keep it in mind for the full version, also had some ideas in that regard
Oh, sorry to hear you had low FPS. Sadly, this game can be demanding. It has some approximate minimum requirements on the steam page if you want to compare them with your hardware. But it's the dynamic shadows for sure, those are pretty expensive :(
Thanks for the support, really appreciate it! Sorry to hear you had a bad experience with the performance. It does require a bit of hardware and is definitely best played in the downloadable version. The atmosphere relies heavily on dynamic shadows, which can make it quite demanding on some systems.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it overall. The pacing is tricky to balance for sure, as it also depends on what choices you make, I saw some people getting to the end 2x or 3x times faster than others somehow. Won't be expensive for sure ^^ around the same price as others in the genre.
Hey! Oh, sorry to hear that, but it's probably because it requires some minimum hardware. Especially in the browser, it has a lot of intensive lights, shadows, many objects at once, and VFX, which are costly on the CPU and GPU. So it's probably that, not enough power to run the game sadly.
I hope you'll have a chance to play it another time if you get access to a slightly more powerful system. Maybe keep it on your list and come back to it later?
Very nice simple mechanics with great simple visuals and a soothing audio, had a fun time playing this one, good job! The sound slider and the nice menu it's a pleasant bonus.
The audio man! It's awesome :D also the game is very interesting, no idea what I was doing but it was cool, not sure what was the goal tho :D 10/10 sfx tho! Also on point with the theme and innovation, cheers!
