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I did it! I completed the level! 

I like the new enemies, and the green lighting on the character and cookies (Is that vertex lights?)
The camera controls only work with mouse, they don't work with the controller.

Also, I think the hitbox for Dingo's attack should be a bit bigger, and the walking speed could be a bit faster, as well as the jump length. But that is not that big of an issue because you can extend the jump by attacking in the air.

What you have here is extremely charming. If you can lock in, you have a WAGMI in the making.

Very curious game. Felt quite wholesome. The MID music is great.

I like the levels, but it is very hard to understand what is a platform and what is not. Also it is a bit hard to know what is an intractable object and what is not. Like the pots in the "town" level. It's not impossible (I managed to complete the game), but some way of having contrast on platforms and intractables would be a big improvement.

The controls are a bit weird but ok. I do wonder why do we control the magic arrow with the arrow keys and not with the mouse?

I am curious about the lore. What are all the human NPCs? 

Cool game, keep it up!

Thank you!! I loved 102 Dalmatians on the PS1. Especially the Farm and the Spooky Forest levels. I'm glad that you feel that way. I started to make this game because I wanted a game that gave me the same sense of wonder I had as a kid playing Spyro.

Wierd indeed. Must be something specific to my computer then. Linux shenanigans

Fair enough!!

I really struggle with the controls. Never played the original Ghosts n Goblins, but does it need to be a dedicated button for each shooting, and move with D-Pad? I feel like it would be ok to move in a grid, but with the analog, and shoot where the character is facing. Jump with "X/A". Then the trigger buttons could be for shooting up and down, if you hold them.

Played the Linux version with Mouse + Keyboard. Everything worked fine. I enjoyed the gameplay. Killing the enemies is very satisfactory. Nice gibs! So far the art direction is also feeling good. Do you plan on having a map? I feel with more complex levels, the player might get lost. The only thing I felt was a bit underwhelming currently was the sounds. They feel a bit muted, while the other aspects are quite intense.

Also, shoppkeeper <3

Keep up the good work.

EDIT:  AH! Another thing. I don't know if this is a Linux, or my PC specific, but is the cursor supposed to be gigantic, and have some "scan lines glitch", as if it were holographic? Tried to print screen, but it doesn't appear on the prints.

I switched to Linux, so now I can't play Shrimpgame Kino ; _ ;

Everything seems to be working properly. It also feels like the game is quite in the begging stage, so I don't know what feedback to provide. Only two things caught my attention in this build.

1st was the music. It feels like an upbeat ShinMegamiTensei. It's good music, but somehow I don't think it fits, as your game reminds me more of FF Tactics. Of course this is subjective.

2nd is on the fight menu, it was a bit tricky/unclear to see who my "active" character was, and what cells the abilities affected. Like Knight's Rising Slash has AOE, but other than in the text, it is not shown in the screen. Make all the affected cells glow in those cases.

Other than that, good visuals, but I want to see how the board will look, as I don't think you will be able to have walls?

I also require a Linux version ; _ ;

Squirrle and Racoon!? Sing me in!

Great visual changes. I loved the small details, like when you grab the underwater sunburst, the mouth of the character was as if they were holding their breath haha.

I had the same issue this time with the boss, were it would not spawn the first time I got to the lava pool. I entered the power plant, died inside, and when I reached the lava pool again, then the boss spawned.

I noticed there are a couple of small "corridor" areas like on the picture below. Unless you plan to add stuff to these areas in the future, like small collectables, I don't think you need them.They entice you to explore, only to reach a dead-end.

Inside the power plant, it is very fun to try to do the challenges "in one go", preserving momentum, but by doing that it is very easy to die, then re-spawn all the way at the beginning of the level. So I think you should add a checkpoint inside the power plant, at the door.



On the conveyor belts, my initial reaction was to jump at the very end, for the momentum to fly me over. But I noticed that kills your vertical momentum. You need to just let the conveyor belt "do the jump for you". I feel like both options should be valid.



Lastly, inside this 2D section, when doing these "loops(?)" my reaction was to first hold [Right], then [Left], as I'm upside down, but that made the character freakout, and I got stuck inside the collisions, with no way of escaping. Perhaps as you are still prototyping and ironing things out, add a button in the options to "reset" or "unstuck".



But overall I had a lot of fun. Keep it up!!

Great game. Were you inspired partialy by Blame! ? The derelict giant structure that we explore reminded me of it. Love the setting and the mood. I wish there was no centipide chasing us, just because I wanted to explore the strucutre, and take in the sights. 

Nice start. I didn't find any issues or bugs. Played the game normally, first the 3 minute shift, and then the 6 minute shift. Managed to get all the customer of both of these shifts. I've found the game quite relaxying. I liked the minigames. The clicking one, I holded the mouse with one hands, and used two fingers to click at 2x speed haha.

Got enough money to buy the two upgrades, then I level up. Tried the 3 minute shift again, and now things got a lot harder. Lost 3 customers. I would miss the new music minigame, which was the longest. Maybe when we are on this minigame, turn off, or dial down the background music, so we can concentrate better on the notes being played.

The memory minigame, doesn't this ussually first show you all the pieced, then they turn down? Not an issue regardless because there are only a few pieces. But if they get progressively harder, I think that would be at least an upgrade to buy.

Anyway, I enjoyed the game. You have a lot of room to expand with new machines, minigames, and upgrades.

Good luck!
 

Thank you very much for recording a video! The commentary was very usefull. You brought up many valid points. 

That last bone you were having trouble with is very awkward to catch. There are many ways to get to the roof, but all of them will feel unintended. Also, I didn taught the mechanics in this build (my bad), but there is a "high jump" if you hold the Crouch button, and jump. That would help you a lot.

Thank you for playing! I saved your video for future reference.

Interesting comment. What do you mean by acceleration based on momentum? Like acummulating speed when going down slopes for example?

Oh, thank you for finding that bug. I'll make sure to fix it.

Noted. I need to add sounds, and balance the volumes of everything. Will come with the content phase.

Indeed. I'll be adding a toggle for the default movement speed. That way you can instead hold to walk, instead of running.

Probably the levels will be more horizontal, because my main inspiration is Spyro for PS1. 

Thank you for playing!!

I have good new then haha. These bones are a placeholder collectable. The final version will have different collectables themed to each level. So the sounds will improve 

Thank you for playing!

Good idea about the portal loading. I'll probably add the words loading, and other information about the level, while we load.

Noted. Maby players struggle to hit the button. And the hitbox it's kinda wierd. I'll probably rework how the button works.

Ground pound indeed has no reason to exist currently. I'll try to introduce some usefullness to it.

Yes, that bone is not very straight forward to get. There are many ways to climb up to that roof, but it was not very well tought out, so none of them feels as inteded haha. Hopefully better level design will fix these issues.

Thanks again for playing!

Game ran very well. I liked the visuals a lot. The map has great atmosphere. There is something about these kinda "elemental dimension" world that I love. This felt like the "Forest dimension". Thecharacter controls very well on mouse an keyeboard. I tried playing with controller too, but there was no options to invert the camera axis, so I couldn't get used to it as it is. There is not much to do yet in the game, but it was quite fun to just jump arround, defeat enemies. So good job there. 

The big enemy seems a bit janky. It kept popping in and out of existance.

One think that I found wierd is that, the character has a big sword, and yet we attack by shooting? I could not find a way to fire the Firebolt. The other habilities worked fine.

Good work so far!

Very interesting gameplay loop. The shopkeeper experience is maybe even more high action than the dungeon one hahaha. Presentation is also good. Many elements feel like they are still a WIP, but the overall feeling that I got was of good feedback with all the menus, and interactables.

I had a bit of trouble understanding how would you display your items for sale. Maybe make the highlighted area on the furniture, where you can place the items, more stand out.I would keep it conisten with what you already do with all the other interactables, where you make a white ouline. Instead of manually going to each spot of the furniture to put the item, just open the furniture, and show all of the slots.

On the technical side, I hada big freeze each time I would step into the dungeon portal. Also got some stutters here an there, the first time something loaded, like when firing bullets.

On the shopkeeper side of gameplay, I was very confused about buying items from customers. I would assume I would have the option to not buy, but aparenty there is no way of not buying. You are forced to. Is that intended?

Keep up the good work!

That a very good idea, having the guide, and the forum to search new glitches, and things to do. Good luck on the development!

Thank you for playing! Glad you liked it so far.

Interesting point about the button. Hopefully I'll be able to fix issues like that with better level design.

I will add this toggle, so you can change the default movement, to running or walking. 

The skid right now does not serve any purpouse indeed. But I think I can expand it to enable a very high jump, like Mario's summer sault indeed.

The visual bug with the portal is very interesting. You are the first person reporting it. Does it happens every time you are in this level? It could be hardware related, but then I would have no idea on how to fix it ; _ ;

Thank you again!

Very fun concept. It is very satisfying to manually load and pump the shotgun. I know nothing about guns, so i thought it was strange that the shell was loaded when I scrolled up. But then I searched on youtube, and that is how they work indeed. Haha. I like how you can roll the wheel "1 tick", to check the chamber.

The only two issues that I found were, on the browser version, the game didn't captured my mouse at all, so aiming was not possible.

On the download version, when I press ESC to quit, it says to click to capture the mouse, but it didn't worked. Had to quit with ALT + F4.

No other issues than that.

Interesting. I'll investigate the issue. It is probably related to a camera mode for controller, whereit follows the character, then rotates to face it. But on Mouse + KB it fights the mouse input. Refactoring incomming!

Thank you for investigating the issue.

 Ohhh, I see. So what got me confussed is that I selected paddle, but then I did the Tutorial 0, which was specifically for fully mannual.

Maybe a solution here would be to have the tutorials for each mode in different categories, or disable them alltogether depending on which set up you choose.

I'll give the game another try know that I have this knowledge.

Thank you for finding that bug! I'll correct it. 

The bone you didn't catch is a bit strange to reach. I'll rework it  to make it more intuitive. As it's even kinda hard to explain.

And yes, the button has been missed by a lot of different player, from the gameplay footage I have seen. I'll be reworking those as well.

Thank you for playing, and the inputs!

Thank you for playing! I'm glad you liked it!! 

I need for sure to include the controls for the game. I failed to do that in this demo, but will be included for sure in the next.

The small bones do have a sound when you pick them up. Was it not playing for you? The big bones don't have one yet, but will be included.

I will include a toggle option, to swap the default movement between running or walking. That way you will hold the trigger to move slowly instead of running (which is most of the time). That might make it more easy on the fingers haha. Or maybe a key rebind option, that way people can adjust to what is most confortable to them.

Thank you for the inputs! 

First of all, fantastic presentation. This is extremely well polished. I really like the idea of having all the tools, including the game, as if they were phisical objects. Very nice.

The game itself is very pretty. Almost makes me want a proper version of this not-pokemon, to play properly haha. Good taste on the moster designs as well.

Now for the parent game itself, it is a very interesting concept. Having to glitch the game to progress. My opinion on how should you scale the game:

Right now, we have a guide, but is not a game guide, is a guide on how to perform some glitches inside the game.

What I think you should do, is provide an actual guide, on what to do to beat the game. Like where to go, what glitch to use when, etc. This will be "NG". The catch will be that, you will be following a linear path provided by the guide, but as the player begins to familiarize itself with the possible glitches, they will discover that there are a lot of other things todo, outside of the guide. So it will be maybe a "NG+" kinda of thing. Maybe even allow for glitches not present in the guide to exist, that the player can learn about somehow.

Anyway, it's just an idea. Maybe not the best idea...

But very interesting game. Keep up the good work.

Thank you for playing! And for recording the video. It is always very usefull! I'm glad that the moves come down to you naturally. I failed to include a "controls" section in the menu, but will in the near future. You had the right idea about how to collect the last bone. Where you playing on mouse an keyeboard? The controls for that are a bit worse than in pad, making the game harder. But you catched 6 / 7 big bones!! That feels apropriate on DD 67 hahaha.

About the camera being choppy, how do you mean? I have not experienced that, or seen it reported from other people. But I'll be reworking the camera soon, so maybe I'll inadvertedly fix wharever issues it had with that.

The bones and big bones are currently placeholders. The final colectables will be different. But to answer the questions, the little bones are neon energy because I was experimenting with some shaders.

Noted about the brown slabs and gap in the rocks. I will make sure to keep things consistentnd polished as levels get into their finalized stages. 

Thanks again for the inputs, and for providing the gameplay footage!

Thank you! I'm gald you liked it so far! I've been told that the regular running speed is a bit too slow. I might increase it a little bit. Other people requested a toggle to make running the default, and then you hold the trigger to walk instead. I think I'll add that, but some friend raised a point that, it might be because there is no reason to walk at all currently, and he might be right. So maybe that could be amended with better level design, where you would want to walk, for more precision, or positioning.

Yeah, the rat looks at you in a T-pose for now hahaha (missing a proper animations).

Thank you for playing! I'm glad you liked it so far. Level design will probably make or break things in the future, but I'm hopefull!

This was my experience with the game: I truned it on, and chose the Paddle setup. Seemed interesting to manually put the gears. I hopped into the tutorial, and it was quite technical! A lot of terminology that I was not very familiar with (at least in english) made it a bit overwhelming to follow the first tutorial. The controls are not complex, but demand a bit of coordination. I had to get used to them. But I was able to complete the 6 stages of that first tutorial. Then I advanced to the second tutorial, and here things got strange. The first tutorial taught me to hold "L1" and then input the gear with the Right stick. Here on this tutorial, the game starts me at 1st gear, If I press "L1", the gear changes to Neutral, and then Reverse, and I could not find a way to get out of Reverse. It was very strange. I thought that might have been some quirk of that tutorial, so I tried stage 01, but I got the same behaviour. So I am really confused about how am I supposed to play this game. 

Besides my inability yo play the game, presentation feels very nice. There is a good level of polish to the whole game. You obviously also put a lot of effort in the simulation of driving a car.

I guess my 2 cents here are to (if this is your goal) ease in people like me, a lot slower. Game is very technical, so it's easy to be overwhelmed.

Thank you for the video! Really impressive that you got them without knowing about the controls! My bad on that, I should have included them somewhere in-game. Perhaps in the options or pause menu. Thank you for playing!

The game felt very responsive and functional. I liked your tutorial, it did a good job explaining how to play. I think you did a good job on the technical aspects of the game. The AI was pretty good. All the systems worked as I expected. I guess I have a hero ability when I click that little banner button. I clicked it but it damaged me instead (using the archer). I think I should be able to select a unit I want to affect with my hability. And if I want to target myself, then I just select myself. Overall I think the most challenging part will be to find a cohesive visual identity for the game. The card art is well rendered anime style. The UI looks mobile, and simple in comparison. You will need to invest on having everything "match". If you go with this anime style for the cards, perhaps you could have an oriental theme to the whole UI. I like the map, where you choose where you want to fight. Reminded me of another card game, Yu-Gi-Oh forbidden memories for the ps1 haha. Those are my 2 cents. Keep up the good work!

6 7 6 7!!!

Hey, I'm happy to hear that. I didn't had any oportunity to test the performance, but I asssumed it should be low specs since the graphics are simple.

For what is worth, you handeled the transition from "room to room" very well. The direction I was pressing kept consistent towards where I was expecting to go with each camera angle change.

When I got to this "room" here, however, there was no change back in camera angle, making it kinda impossible for me to go back to the beggining. So that is something you should be carefull with.

Other than that, everything is obviously  very early in development. I must say that I didn't like the feel of the attack animations, and the jump. They felt clunky and unatural. I assume they are also WIP, but worth making that point, so that you make sure to improve them in the future.

Presentation was great Azur. You did a great job with the intro cinematics. Story was hooking me in, which is a good sign.

Now, I do select the New Game option with the mouse, but then, I can only advance dialogue with "enter". I think it would make sense to also advance dialogue with LMB, to keep things consistent.

There is a technical issue where some of the dialoge options had wierd "hitboxes". Some, I could not even select, which forced me to select the other option.

I got to this part, and the game locked itself. I could not progress the dialogue at all.

I restarted the game, and got to the same part. Chose the other option this time, but the game locked again.

I like the presentation a lot, and the story was getting interesting, but the game seems a bit broken at the moment. 

I'll try it again when it becomes more stable. Keep up the good work!

Thank you Blorb! I'm flattered! 

Good point on having a toggle for running. I'll implement that. The mouse and keyeboard controlls have been a bit neglected as of now, so they need some reworking. 

And yes, good point on the controlls. I'll have them displayed on the options menu. thank you for the suggestions!

You are not crazy about the textures. It happens due to inconsisten texel denisity in some assets. I'm using an atlas with 64 x 64 textures, so I need to UV my assets as little squares over it. Some times if the polygon I'm texturing is too big, the textrure get's streched. But you are right, if it is noticeable, I'll take more care in the future.

About the loading screen, for sure, that is a good idea. I can put a placeholder "loading" for now, and later make a definitive one.

I'll soon rework the gamera, so hopefully that will fix the wierd "camera reset" movement. 

Thank you for your inputs Blorb, and for taking the time for playing!! WAGMI!!

Dayum! Apologies for that! I can't believe I left this gap in the game haha. If you try the game again, and get stuck, as long as you thon't close the game, you can quit to the main menu, and back to the level, and it will remember the bones you have catched.

I'm glad that you liked the game so far! Thank you for playing!

You sure can! But I had almost maxed out the upgrade tree I think. I maxed the click upgrades, and almost maxed the drill and spear. Didn't bought the "cheap stuff" upgrade because I figured it would have overpowered stuff for testing haha.