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It's a little brute force. I'll try to explain:

1. Create a randomly sized square
2. Pick a random wall tile
3. Create another randomly sized square in the space next to the picked wall.
4. Repeat this process until a number of rooms are made that don't overlap.
5. Fill in each square room with different things. Some rooms become "hallway rooms", some are filled with random pillars, some have their centers filled in.
6. To make the sand exterior I took each rooms center and created a circle with a larger radius.

The way the algorithm works is kinda like how you would draw a map in MS paint or something.

I don't see a problem with that solution 😀

Mostly art. Im terrible at modeling and I'd like to work with someone who could really bring a refined style to the project.

Nah

The full game is on indefinite hold until I'm able to either scrap together enough resources to hire a small team, or develop my skills enough to create it all myself. I do plan to return to it one day, but no definite plans at this moment :(.

I don't think my game is crashing, that's just the end lol. The choices are actually made within the launcher, if it's not showing you those after the game closes, that might be a different issue.

https://twitter.com/iwilliams_dev/status/1559985489712594946?t=5-LbrnY8CuUYaFyju...

Thanks :)

Thank you :). If you're looking for something similar that's way more complete, maybe check out Lunacid!

The boggling has only begun

Thank you! When the time comes, I'll remember to look into GOG, but the game will also be released here on itch!

Thanks! This was the first time I ever made music, so it is what it is 😅

Thank you!

Thank you!

When the full game comes out it will not be free.

Check here for patch notes https://hauntedps1.itch.io/demo-disc-spectral-mall/devlog

There's not an official one planned at this time, sorry :(

I'll make sure to add a subtitle option in the steam release!

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Q: Does this run on an actual Playstation 1?

A: No these games are all built on and for modern hardware. The demo disc will be a downloadable game for Windows PC's and not a physical disc. Unfortunately due to the high development and testing requirements of releasing 18 separate executables on windows we also will not be able to release for Mac or Linux.

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A: No. While we have received a lot of messages over the last year about people enthusiastic to help us do a physical release of the first demo disc, we have thought long and hard about it and decided that no matter what a physical release would involve money which would inherently conflict with the goals of the HPS1 remaining a free community run for the love of low-fi 3D games. 

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It's not meant to be exited, you're meant to play it forever.

yes!

No C++! It's all written in Godot's native GDScript.

Very bizarre, you're machine is certainly powerful enough to play the game. Have you noticed similar issues on other Godot games?

Hmm haven't heard of anything like that. What are your system specs? If you try launching the game from the Windows command prompt you might be able to see if any errors are being logged.

We tried making a webgl build, but the performance was not up to par.

Thanks for playing! I'm sorry you experienced the slow down towards the end, we'll look into fixing that.

Great idea using mech weapons as different "golf clubs"! I found it a bit difficult to tune the distance of my shots, but still had plenty of fun.

Amazing! I love the items and extra mechanics. You've raised the bar for jam made MGS-likes! ;0

Thank you! The armor core increases your maximum HP.

None of those errors should be causing the issue you're describing. Sorry, I don't know what's wrong :/

The demo takes 10-15 minutes to play through. The full game is on hold while I try to figure out how to pay for it's development.

No worries! The debug build should have a separate window that pops up, you probably need to alt tab to see it. It will list any errors. Are you sure you extracted all of the files in the zip? 

Did you try the debug build? There should be a console window that pops up with any errors you might be having.

Thanks! My original plan was to let you assign units to cannons to fire back. I was also going to allow you to assign units to instruments for a buff :D. I might come back to this game one day and expand it a little.

Thanks for always checking out my little games! xD

The debug version is just for bug reports, they both have the same content.