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Hi, thanks for the tunes. I wondered if you could help with two of the tracks...

I have a rhythm minigame in my larger adventure game that uses both Seize the Means (practice dummy) and I am the Piano Man (the boss fight).

I need to figure out the BPM for both so I can add timings for the attacks. If you have them to hand that would be great, or if you have advice on figuring them out I'd also be grateful.

Did you ask the wallbanger nearby for advice?

Did you keep bumping the wall or did you step away between bumps?

In the next draft the last line the Organiser Mouse says is, "You need to push a bubble towards a wall or object to pop it. Like it was being pinched from both sides."

I am tempted to add two mice facing a bubble from either side who demonstrate popping a bubble.

Given how common this complaint is, I'm also tempted to comment on how no one seems to pop bubblewrap anymore. That was life before videogames I guess.

I have done the bare minimum to port the desktop version to mobile, it is a desktop app first I'm afraid.

I'm not sure if you mean zooming the actual gameplay or the surrounding user interface, both of which have technical problems as the effects processing would need to be remapped and any user interface would require lots of additional rules to cope with boundaries being scalable - not to mention extra UI indicators to let the user know they can zoom and that other things are zoomable.

Then finally this would have to be back-ported to the desktop version, splitting the UI further.

Sadly not so simple. But I will add this to my list of requests and look for ways to add such features. Thanks for letting me know.

I assume you mean the free windows build. It's old.

The Android build I downloaded from itch before patching it and uploading.

Security exploit in Unity. Patched. Sorry for any excitement caused.

Security exploit in Unity. Patched. Sorry for any excitement caused.

All suggestions look dumb until they actually work.

There's a least a dozen ideas I've shot down in this thread, only to figure out a way to do them in a years time. I appreciate all contributions, thanks.

I've considered a 2 player dungeon, but I think for it to work I would need each player's active area to animate independantly.

In an early version of Six Match, other players would lock up parts of the board that they triggered movement in. This allows one to have a turn based game with multiple players.

It's on the list of possible dungeons, I've just yet to think of a way to implement it.

Originally in Ending the allies moved by themselves and everyone complained that they didn't like it. The issue comes from the fact that it has nothing to do with your actions - it's just something going on that you have no control over.

If something did act independantly of you, it would also need inverted behaviour when converted. That's kind of hard to imagine, unless the whole point is that you only control it when it's an enemy. Which could be interesting I guess.

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I will consider a bestiary, but it's far more work than it sounds and not fun to work on.

I'm afraid I can't reproduce that on Windows in browser or on desktop. Not with key mashing either.

But I'll keep a lookout and thanks for letting me know.

What help do you need?

Thanks.

I originally tried redrawing the "roomba" to 16x16 and I realised how real everything else would need to look, the time it would take, the loss of abstraction, the compromises keeping it simple, etc.

My next to-do is save slots, so more UX is in the post.

Correct.

The last room will be replaced, Mint Hater included. A new mint flavoured joke will take their place.

The sequence is ROX where R is you, O is the bubble, and X is any other object. In any direction. Like popping a spot, pressure from both sides.

You can talk to the other RCV to move it around, allowing you to put an object on the other side of a bubble to pop it when pushed. Otherwise the bubble will say scronch. I do believe this area needs a tidy up and a bubble popping enthusiast to learn from.

It's also possible an error occurred, softlocking the bubbles somehow, but I don't have any leads yet on what that could be. I'll keep a look out.

Thanks very much. I appreciate your input.

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The intent is to have a backing track that plays only when your vacuum is on, like you're one of those characters that has their own theme tune.

Having actually worked as a cleaner, scrubbing back and forth is a core part of the experience. There's a couple of ways to speed it up, so I should leave tips for them.

I will be adding a menu for save slots and hopefully a backlog of the chat if it isn't too much grief to install.

Pop all the bubblewrap (needs something on both sides to pop), then double check the party goers.

I'm a little concerned a mouse or two may not have stepped aside to help, which was a bug I thought I fixed. The intent is that if you talk to everyone then you have it spelled out to you - so you can be a wallbanger first if that's more fun.

Not yet.

It will be the redesigned as the hub for cleaning Poirry's flat.

were you popular and did you talk to the DJ?

Thanks for your help, I'll look into these for the next update.

There are some remaining bugs in the engine that need to be solved unfortunately.

When I've tracked them down I'll be able to look at porting to iOS, though I would prefer to put that version on the app store where it will cover its cost to make.

I'll see about some promo-codes for folks who've supported the game so far on itch.

I've added framerate control to the settings on Android.

Hopefully this should help you find a setting that gives you a better experience.

Thanks for letting me know.

I'm afraid there's no way for me to reproduce this at the moment, but I will keep an eye out for it.

If it ever happens in the desktop build you can undo a few times and press M to save a screenshot (which will have the level in it that I can load to reproduce the issue). Unfortunately, saving to the Android file system isn't supported by the libraries I use.

I could have it cycle every time you play it, then you'd just need to spam restart for your choice.

(This isn't unreasonable or far fetched, but I'll allow it.)

Thanks for letting me know.

I cannot reproduce this problem and the level generation for Thief is more complex than the other dungeons. I'm afraid this may take a while to fix.

The team-swap is an interesting twist on the converter's attack, and the roller is a good candidate for it as it requires the activation to prevent it being invincible.

I do wonder if there's other applications though. A reverse-converter would get insta-murdered mostly, but for key puzzles it might be relevant.

Or if one wanted a flaming barrel type of attack, then maybe there's room for a piece that spawns bullets when it has an empty line to an enemy.

I fear the aggressive roller would actually be more of a friendly roller as it would just get punched back to you, given that rollers only die when hit from behind when rolling. Or maybe the variant wouldn't and it would die on its first bump - then you'd get your exploding flaming barrel. I will probably try out a few variations as there are indeed a few loose threads to pull at here.

There is no developer mode on Android (it would require more work than I can do in my spare time).

It detects a gamepad automatically, you will see a gamepad symbol on the title screen bottom-left. Something like a USB C cable might work (it works for me), or you would have to pair the gamepad wirelessly in your phone's settings - I recommend turning to the internet for advice on that one.

I assumed android would lock the FPS to 60 so I removed the option to adjust it. I'll take another look, maybe it can go higher.

It runs fine on my Samsung M23 (2.2 GHz) where it defaults to 60fps, but I will double check the framerate.

Before the latest update I optimised a lot of systems, to the point where I can get a web build to work. If you're able to connect a gamepad to your phone you can try the browser demo to see if it's just as slow (it runs just as fast on my phone).

Finally, can you post what phone you're using please? It might be a hardware issue. I can't promise I'll be able to fix it, but at the least I can let others know of potential issues.

Thanks. The apk is uploaded. It's been a long day.

I was thinking next year of doing a turn based platformer of the same thing. So you have 1.5 axes of movement - actually 1 of 3 (most of the time).

If that goes well I'll have to figure it out in 1 axis the next year.

Purity is like a reverse XP bar. It made more sense to me as a countdown because you discard your current hero back into the hero deck (but level it up as it goes).

I will add it to my to-do list, though an update is not for a while. Cheers.

But quit game resets the game?

Let me know the platform you're playing on, and walk me through what you're trying to do versus what the game allows.

Either I've made some confusing UI or there's a bug. I'll add it for consideration when another update is required.

Not at this time.

Making the game portrait requires rebuilding the UI, and changing much of how the game works to compensate for more of the level being active and interactable.

I may experiment with a landscape only port to see how Godot makes mobile apps.

PRO TIP: The search button will start on the next item in that room after you've searched.

This may save you an hour if you're an idiot like me.

Unfortunately I would have to rewrite all mechanics that react to bullets (which is all of them), effectively making an entirely new game.

I'm not against making a new game, but I feel like I should finish up here or at least make something small that isn't a platformer.

My problem is that I have the memory of a goldfish. so I've no idea how well I'm doing. I literally don't know if I've had a score even worth comparing to your list of bad-to-good scores because there's no record. The score is there and gone.

If I play again there is no tension as I close in on my best attempt - I don't know what it is. And so the score doesn't matter to me, and yet that seems to be the entire objective so far, to get a really big score.

Ah, no. I just meant your personal best.

Other people's scores are interesting, but that's not the same as measuring your own progress.

Good luck with the game, feels like it has room to grow  🐍

Is there a Best Score anywhere? I couldn't find one so I can't track how well I'm doing across runs.