Got to the ranger station but couldn't get further. What a strange and interesting game, thought it was gonna be a kid game or something but its much more cryptic than that. I like the theme and puzzle like exploration. The environment looks good overall and it's cool you can interact with things a bunch. The only complaint I have that it's bit unclear what's happening and where you need to go next. I also encountered a bug where when I was on the lift and jumped I clipped through and fell for infinity. Cool game you've made and I hope you reach a wide audience.
Thanks so much for your kind words! I'm glad you had fun. we fixed the lift issue but i can't remember if its in the current version or not. Any advice on how I could make things more clear? what were you confused about? I'm big into giving players as clear instructions as possible as a guiding principle for game development, but of course it easier said than done hahaha
Well I hate handholding in games but on the flip side sometimes when a player misses a prompt or key dialogue it can be confusing, so I would suggest some kind of log that can guide the player with messages like "oh this horse told me to search X room for a key" written as a quick note in a notepad style quest ui. I personally was in the room shown into the screenshot, I had explored the entire outside space and saw that the windows behind this horse led to another room but the door to that room didn't open. I assumed that's where I needed to go next but after exploring the entire building that was accessible I didn't find anything else or anywhere else to go.
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Got to the ranger station but couldn't get further. What a strange and interesting game, thought it was gonna be a kid game or something but its much more cryptic than that. I like the theme and puzzle like exploration. The environment looks good overall and it's cool you can interact with things a bunch. The only complaint I have that it's bit unclear what's happening and where you need to go next. I also encountered a bug where when I was on the lift and jumped I clipped through and fell for infinity. Cool game you've made and I hope you reach a wide audience.
Thanks so much for your kind words! I'm glad you had fun. we fixed the lift issue but i can't remember if its in the current version or not. Any advice on how I could make things more clear? what were you confused about? I'm big into giving players as clear instructions as possible as a guiding principle for game development, but of course it easier said than done hahaha
Well I hate handholding in games but on the flip side sometimes when a player misses a prompt or key dialogue it can be confusing, so I would suggest some kind of log that can guide the player with messages like "oh this horse told me to search X room for a key" written as a quick note in a notepad style quest ui. I personally was in the room shown into the screenshot, I had explored the entire outside space and saw that the windows behind this horse led to another room but the door to that room didn't open. I assumed that's where I needed to go next but after exploring the entire building that was accessible I didn't find anything else or anywhere else to go.
Great suggestions! I think a log and character ref would go a long ways, and probably wouldn't be too difficult to implement