Thanks for playing!
Sorry for sub-par browser playing experience. We highly recommend playing downloaded versions. We now also will be including Linux and OS X versions, so everyone can enjoy the game.
We are aware of difficulty step in first level and we'll even it out in future builds. With recent versions it has slightly increased as we don't give that much food drops to slow the player down in levels. Little guys are just too fast for player to catch and snappy ones are too deadly.
Hi! That's really odd, could you tell us what were you doing before the issue? Were you in a normal level or in an arena with a single boss enemy? Do you remember how the enemies looked/which level was it? Did this happen after entering a whirlpool? Did this happen after you pressed "continue"?
We've only ever had this issue with loading a previously saved game, but that should be fixed. We haven't seen anything like this on our end, so any further information would help us a bunch :)
Hi! We'd love to fix the crash, but we need a bit more information in order to understand why the crash is happening. What operating system are you running on? What are your specs? Did you extract the archive before trying to run the game? Are there any crash dump files in the folder where the game executable is? Every bit of information helps!
Hi, thank you for feedback!
Did you play in browser or through downloaded executable? We haven't done a major performance optimization pass, however we would like to identify where to look at in the future. In what place did fps drop happen? Maybe you have a screenshot? Also what are your GPU and CPU models?
Hi, thanks for playing!
And thanks for reporting the issue. How often does it happen for you? On what OS do you play the game? How good is your performance, does the game seem to run well? We've had similar issue when outlines of Zooids would scale up to infinity due to wrong delta time with dynamic timescale.
This game is AMAZING.
1 (and a half) suggestion(s), though:
I know that in reality, a Siphonophore's zooids are basically only individuals by concept, and don't actually do whatever they want, (or maybe I read the wikipedia page wrong... oops...) but maybe it would be interesting if, once the main-control-zooid-thingy was killed, the other, remaining zooids would still struggle and kinda fight back (e.g., the claw randomly snipping, jets propelling), and maybe, if enough zooids survive long enough and/or somehow collect enough nutrients/health-orbs, a controller-zooid could even regrow?
And maybe it would look a bit nicer if, on the growth-mode tutorial, instead of always showing the "Shelly" structure zooid, it showed the currently selected parasite's control-zooid? (In the screenshot below, not sure if you can see it, but the parasite breed is Advena )
Love the GUI layout update btw, you're a legend 👍
sorry for making this unnecessarily long .__.
Hey, awesome post, thanks for playing our game!
Dead zooids could use some twitchy animations or struggle for a little bit, I think that would look cool, but they need to look dead, otherwise it might get confusing. We haven't planned giving the ability to regrow the main zooid, so it would require effort that is better spend on other things. But this idea is really cool, I'll make sure we got it logged down.
Nice catch with dialog icon, thanks.
Hi, thanks for playing!
That's some good amount of honest feedback. Did that enemy spawning happen in other than first 3 levels? In first levels we spawn a little guy to give some goal to the player. In later levels, the max distance could have been too low. We plan to tweak enemy spawning in the future, currently it's still too random.
As for variety for Zooids, we wanted to start with 4 balanced Zooids for each Breed and we might have some drop-only variations of less balanced ones. Thanks for suggestions
Rest of the points are valid as well. Looking forward to hearing comments from you on future updates.
