To be honest, I’ve inferred things from several sources. Parts of them are in the readme documents for some of the games here on Itch, like the detective one. The secret area in Orbo’s Odyssey that explains the struggles encountered while making that game tipped me off as well. It’s quite a pity since Feverdreamjohnny is one of my more favorite creators.
I love how it pretends to be all semi-serious before almost immediately obliterating that with the reveal and then the incredibly goofy gameplay!
Also, I feel that there must be something more… something hidden… I picked up a basket ball on the roof, and the antenna is giving off weird signals, and there are whispers in some difficult to reach areas… knowing your track record, there’s gotta be something I haven’t found yet.
Or maybe not. It was made in only 7 days, after all. (What the hell, that’s impressive)
I decided to give the walkthrough video a careful look and… you’re just supposed to be able to pick it up? Is there some sort of prerequisite I might be missing? Or is this a bug?
Update: okay, I have learned now that the white dot does not appear on some objects for me. It’s happening with the broom closet key as well. Maybe it’s because I’m playing it through Proton on a Steam Deck, though I’d find it odd if that makes me unable to pick up some arbitrary items. I’m going to play around and see if I can’t get this to work.
Great game. I was a little on the fence about it at first because of how it presents itself, but it turns out this is a real labor of love.
I thought I went through it pretty comprehensively, but five hours later I still seem to have missed a bunch of stuff. Time to go through another run and see how much I can get this time!
I do have one question: are you supposed to be able to do anything with the bucket duck? I got it up from the well but I can’t interact with it.
You might have to set an executable bit on the file. You can do that in the file properties in most file managers, OR by navigating to the directory in a terminal and typing:
chmod +x "./Heaven Studio"
If that gives a file not found error, make sure you're in the same directory as the file and make sure to type it out instead of copying it because I don't know if this comment section is modifying any characters I'm typing.
You open the .riq files by launching the game and clicking on "Play", then selecting one of them in the file selector.
If you do want to open the minigames directly outside of the game by double-clicking them, you can go into the file properties for any riq file and and associate it to run with the Heaven Studio executable instead. (I image they're opening up like zip files for you by default)
