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Thanks for playing, and thank you a lot for the video!
Edit: the latest update should have fixed most of the bugs you might've experienced in your playthrough. The next one will address a few missing details here and there, and will also be released as a standalone EXE file if you want (although the recommended version is the web one, as the game has been designed around it).
"Running a server for a database is not a small task, it takes time away from development"
Setting up a small server does take time away from development, but it's far from being complicated. An used Raspberry Pi does the trick (and to be honest any team should have at least one server available, be it to share heavy files that platforms like GitHub aren't meant to handle or other things like that). It takes half a day if you don't know anything about CouchDB and ultimately the gain is worth the hassle. Any other similar tools I know of need a server to function properly (Articy:Draft for instance requires an SVN server), though it's sometimes set-up automatically as a background thing.
Fits the theme perfectly! It's pretty fun, and could very well become a bigger game given more time, I'm sure! Two details I could see being improved if you want to update it further: the level selection menu doesn't seem to work yet, and the puzzles can only be solved in one specific way (which would be fine if shown or explained): there's a level the player could actually complete in two different ways (if that makes sense). 'might be intended though, so take that with a grain of salt.
Thanks for playing! If you want to get to the ending easily, try to get every item you can before going to the granny's house (there's 14 of them you can actually get before speaking to her), it'll make the 6 last ones (which are close to the second house and corridor leading to it) easier to get, and will unlock the ending sequence!
Here's a small example template you can follow if you want:
- Name: Lena Glass
- Sex: Girl
- Age: 15
- Race: human
- Occupation: maid at the Gourmets' Inn
- Appearance: 1.5m, short & bright hair, red eyes, usually dressed as a maid, has a red wristband gifted to her by her mother
- Personality: outspoken, determined
- Motivations: want to make others happy
- Relations: doesn't know her father, lives with her mother & brother, works for Dunmann the inn keeper
- Likes: playing pranks on people, dressing as a princess secretly, eating strawberry cakes
- Dislikes: men, the color red, heavy kitchenware, weapons
- Background: Lena was but a little girl when her dad died to the hands of a drunk guard. She's had to work early in her life to help her mother & brother financially, but she seems to enjoy working at the famous Gourmets' Inn, with Dunmann. While he'd seem like an angry old man, she sees in him a father figure & a friend, with whom she works to bring the overworked lower-classes of the city some comfort in the form of fresh drinks & cute cakes. She's never left the Capital city.
Yo guys! It's been a while since I've promised this, but there we go: if you want to help us populate the world with interesting and/or funny characters, you can drop your own ideas in this thread RIGHT NOW!
Allow me to help a bit with the sheets, before posting anything:
- The character sheets must be posted in this thread
- Each character sheet must contain basic pieces of information such as names, relations, age, physical appearance, sex, job, motivations, examples of things the character likes or dislikes...
- Each character must have some kind of backstory (it doesn't need to be 3 paragraphs long however)
- You should provide some kind of environment linked to the character(s) as well: will they evolve in a crowded city? In a damp, dense forest?
- You can add any kind of extras you want to the sheet (music theme, artwork), and it doesn't need to be original (we'll use stuff like that as reference if/when provided)
- The sheet can be written in either English or French
Thanks to everyone who'll write something down! Remember that we're trying our best to build an interesting & immersive world, so if you somehow want to contribute more, make sure to join the Discord as well!