Hello! I got this game in the California Fire Relief bundle and it looks potentially fun! However, watching the trailer, I already started to get motion sick because of the moving backgrounds and how they don't correspond to where your triangle goes. I'm not normally someone who gets motion sick from games so this was a surprise to me. Is there an option in the game to make the background animation stop during play?
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It's interesting. Took me a few tries to grasp it. Another kingdom was able to get past my line with an outpost and fill up the spots I'd been saving, so I had to set the other side of the map on fire to get barely enough room to build a park for the win. I started getting in the habit of filling my empty spaces with gems so that no one could take them. But because of this I wasn't really able to convert my farms and ateliers to cities. I find planning ahead what to put where to be pretty daunting, especially since the requirement for cities is a very exact number of buildings. It might be nice to be able to build over your own structures as your needs change.
I can't quite understand it (or I probably could with great difficulty) but I think it's very cute that this was inspired by a young kid in your life. Does Alessandro know about Yoshi? Yoshi definitely seems like a dinosaur but is maybe a bit too friendly and cartoony compared to the "real" dinosaurs. However I think it's interesting that Yoshi is kind of caught in the middle as a member of both "teams".
this is a really cute character maker / dressup game, I love the mix of cute, creepy, and grotesque elements. Definitely gonna come back to this one for future characters! I’d love to see some a front-hair option that looks like a mane of feathers, maybe without the head-wings 👀
If you really want to shoot the moon, I’d love like a “quick palette” of colors you’re using elsewhere so it’s easier to make things match and have a coherent color scheme. And as a crazy bonus, what if the different elements could remember what “quick palette” slots they’re looking at, so that if you change the color in that slot you can adjust the color of multiple elements at once :0
Most tabletop games I've actually played I would consider "spreadsheet-required", at least for me. And I've genuinely enjoyed them! I'm actually kind of mad that the default for D&D 5e (at least in AL) is paper sheets. As soon as you have to use one number to calculate more than one other number, I want it on a spreadsheet. I don't wanna have to do that at the table; social anxiety will freeze up my brain so fast it'll be a nightmare for everyone. And forget about looking up spells in a book at the table. Anyway sorry to rant on your page here, def gotta check this out when I'm back at a PC.
I'm happy to see a Dragonball game that's not just a fighting game, so I wish I could rate this higher. Unfortunately it's waaay too hard. I lost slowly and painfully on easy mode. This is one that you pretty much have to win right away, because if you slow down even a little your progress is lost pretty much instantly, which makes it frustrating and tiring.
Some improvements (aside from just lowering the difficulty) might be:
- Break the bar into segments, and make it so that you have to click X amount of dragonballs in Y amount of time to progress 1 segment (moving your kamehameha a little closer to Cell). Then make it a lot harder to lose progress/go backwards a segment than to gain it/go forwards a segment.
- Some sort of visual warning before the dragonballs disappear. I do like that they get smaller, but it's tough to tell exactly when they are small enough that they're going to disappear. You lose a lot of valuable time if you go for dragonballs that disappear before you can click 'em, so some sort of visual flash or color change right before they're set to disappear would help a lot!
- This is more of a personal thing and might not suit what you're going for, but I have a MUCH easier time finding keys on a keyboard than waving my mouse hand around to click all of the places (I occasionally have wrist trouble from Too Much Computer). You could potentially make a version of this game where you press a corresponding key on the keyboard to pop a particular dragonball instead of clicking it with a mouse. Maybe even make it a typing game with lines from the show or manga. Just a thought.
This could be a fun little game with the right tweaks! Best of luck to you!
I forgot about that "feature," thanks for catching it! You can change it in the game.ini file (either set "confirm game exit" to 0 instead of 1, or just delete the ESC in there because even when it's set to confirm, it just closes if you press ESC in fullscreen @.@ ) Should have changed it myself before uploading.
Solid little Undertale horror game! The controls and UI were really polished; you nailed the Undertale feel in that department. The only thing that didn't seem quite right was that the "bullet" effects would sometimes stick around a moment after the window had closed, but that's real minor. My favorite part was how the heart and menu slowly paled and turned blue, and slowed. I felt that the attack patterns lasted a bit long in the beginning of the fight, especially for how easy they generally were to dodge; it might have been cool to have them start fairly short, and lengthen slowly over the fight as winter bears down on you more and more. It also took me out of it a little bit that there was pretty much no agency from the start of the fight; it clued me in right away that nothing I did mattered? It might have been a little bit more effective for me personally if there had been something that seemed like it was doing something in the beginning, only to be revealed that it actually hadn't? Though it might be tough to do something like that without it being frustrating. I get it's a trope of this genre of fangames though so it's not a huge deal. Overall it's a solid game and my criticisms here are small nitpicks. Good job!
Thank you very much! This game was made in SRPG studio, so the "hard parts" (eg. base "Fire Emblem"-style gameplay) were done already; I implemented the pokemon type system, items, moves, stats, etc. It definitely is way too hard, I was tweaking the difficulty the night before the due date and eventually had to go to bed @-@ I don't mind whether or not you upload your video to youtube, but if you want to play a more polished game in the same engine you can check out my other project Twelve Tikis! Thanks for playing!
Seconding the feeling of icy controls. I did figure out the dash (after I was ready to close the game and happened to glance at the instructions again), but that still leaves the controls feeling very slippery. I think the biggest issue for me was that the camera felt very zoomed-in, so it seemed like once I was going at a decent speed I didn't have any time to react to the platforms. In the original Sonic games, the camera is zoomed out enough that you can usually see the entire arc of Sonic's jump without the camera moving, and it only follows him up or down if he goes high enough, like if he's on a spring or rolls up a ramp. Giving Sonic a shorter jump and making the platforms a little smaller would be a great start, as well as tweaking the movement speed and accelleration. The game jam was a very short timeframe and getting platformer controls to feel satisfying takes a lot of tweaking. If you're passionate about platformers, I hope you'll keep working at it!
Atmosphere is really good. The flashing lights warning really spooped me, I was super paranoid for a jumpscare the whole time and had to stop partway through, take an ice cream break, and turn off the flashing lights even before they came up. After a certain point when things started getting REALLY [], I wasn't sure what to do anymore. Though I got something to happen once at that point, I wasn't sure if there was anything else or if that was it, so I quit.
I know you're probably not concerned with compatibility for Windows 7, but I thought I should post nonetheless. I'm running on Windows 7 and I have difficulty running and jumping at the same time (if I press down the run key, the jump key *usually* doesn't work; it will sometimes but is completely unreliable). Because of this I can't get past 2-1. I've tried on both Firefox and Chrome so I'm pretty sure it's not a browser issue. Other than that I really like this game!