Hello! Welcome to Feedback Quest 7! My name's Hythrain and I'm one of the hosts and one of the streamers for this event! This feedback is being written live as I stream your game! If you're interested in seeing my live reaction, let me know and I can send you a link to the VOD once it's posted to YouTube!

So my normal approach for any game in these events is simple: I get the game, make sure it's not a virus, then play it with as little information on how to play as possible. This way, I can judge how intuitively someone can figure out the game. Only if it's obvious that I need to read more will I do so. I note this so you can get a sense where some of these feedback comes from. In addition, I want to note that feedback and rating are different; don't use this feedback to gauge what I'll rate, nor should you view my rating as entirely indicative of my feedback.

So I'm just going to express how I felt in the order I felt it. So let's begin...

WHAT?! WHAT'S GOING ON?! WHY IS THAT PERSON STABBED?! WHY ARE THEY LAUGHING?! I KILLED THEM?! WHY IS EVERYTHING SO BLOODY BRIGHT?! WHAT IS THIS KNIFE? IS MY HEALTH DEPLETING?! I CAN'T FIGURE ANYTHING OUT! I'M JUST GONNA- wait, is there another room in this trailer! Holy crap, there's another room in this trailer and... WHY ARE MY BOOBS SO BIG?! ... ok, focus. Let's look for... A LOCK BOX! How do I get the code, though? Wait, I can use the knife? WHAT IS GOING ON?! IS THAT ME ON A TABLE?! WTF IS HAPPENING?! Oh hey, I found the code! Now to- HAMMER TIME! Let's get outta here! OMG I'm outside and OH GOD IT'S TOO BRIGHT HERE TOO! Ok, whatever, let's explore. Okay, got a key, got into another trailer, what am I doing? There's lots of stuff to pick up, but where am I... wait, can I get through this window? WTF?! THERE'S A ROOM HERE?! OKAY, LET'S HIT THESE and I died. Ok, let's try again! Just hit this switch and then this switch and oh shit that was wrong. No worries, we can just- THE PURPLE IS COMING AHHH HURRYHURRYHURRYANDNOWESCAPE JSAHFJKSAHGFJAHGLKDHSGS!!!!

Ok, escaped. Onto the next area! Two trailers to explore here, this one has nothing in it. Ok, how about- oh, a body. Oh god, more purple! Wait, why can I pick up these boxes?! Can I do anything? Nope, seems not. Okay, let's keep looking around. I found some notes, but nothing gives me a clue to the next puzzle. Crap. Let's double check. Why do these trailers both have the same note? Ok, let's triple check.... how am I supposed to proceed? Chat, do you know? Oh, two other streamers played? Let's check them out and I'm ahead of them. Fuck. HOW DO I GET THIS NEXT CODE?! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anyway, that was my experience before I stopped. Honestly, I'm just going to let THAT stand as my feedback. You can take from that whatever you want from it.

Ok, no, I won't do that. First, the visuals: that glow is just awful on the eyes. Can you tone it down? Second, as creepy and perfect as that sound you use for the rot is, PLEASE GIVE ME OTHER BACKGROUND SOUNDS AND DON'T MAKE IT SO LOUD! XD Lastly, changing between the knife, hammer and nothing should be faster. The delay when you pull out the knife before you can put it away is awful.

Link to VOD:

I think Purple Rot has a solid foundation going. It feels like you have something of a story that you want to tell, and you're emulating the walking simulator for it nicely. I really like the music and the color pallet for this, too. Great selections. This game has a lot of potential, and I look forward to seeing where it goes.

As someone who has played a lot of walking simulators (Emika, anyone?), I do think you need a little bit more information in the game. So far it seems fine as far as the discovery of items and notes; but to make sure people find everything they'll need you'll want to make it so they cannot leave the memory, for example, until they've read the note with the passcode. Similarly, if the only light source is going to also injure you, you should be made aware of that more than just the heart icon ticking down; and I'd also say the game cannot be so extreme on brights (and maybe tone these down anyways because I almost didn't see the body in them due to the neon blindingness) and darks, and you'll need a lot better health items (or keep them plentiful) laying around. Otherwise you'll want to introduce a flashlight, or similar. Possibly the power boxes were supposed to be said light, I'm not sure. Regarding that heart icon though, it remains unclear to me if that's just HP, or also possession rate? If it is both, then there was a glitch when I was at the power boxes I believe. If it is not, then adding in a bar indicating how possessed you are would be helpful.

Now a few nit-picky items, take these as you will. First and foremost, definitely go back and re-read your notes and such. If you do choose to watch the section of the VOD where I play your game, you'll notice me mention it as I spot it, but there are a few typos and some areas that could be better grammatically. In addition, one note feels like it should be two, or have a better segway--the one in the outside drawer bank. I think you have the story in your head, which means you know where it's going and such, but as a player I don't have that insider knowledge so it feels a bit disjointed to me. If you didn't plan for it already, I'd also add in a head-bob option and a motion-blur option, because there is a decent portion of gamers (like myself) who get motion sick if one or both of these are on. Having the ability to turn them off can be the difference between us playing your game, and us having to put it down.

Finally, a word of advice. If you ever plan to put this on Steam, please try to make sure the playtime for it will be greater than 2hrs. I say this so you don't run into the same struggle that Emika has; where people buy the game, do a full playthrough, and then refund it because the total game time is less than 2hrs, and they played it within the first two weeks that they bought it. It's a really garbage move on the part of the gamers, but Steam continues to allow it to happen.

Overall though I look forward to where you take this game, and I think once complete I will see it among the games played by the horror community on Twitch. I've offered my ratings for where the game stands at present, as there is plenty of room for growth and improvement on a solid base like this.

Hi, I watched Luna play through your game, great concept, here's some live feedback VOD vid: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2220748773

Your game comes in at 1:13:38 

All of us agree this is a great concept, the world, and great intrigue for the horror genre, the lighting is a bit too strong for long play, please tune that down or allow us to adjust. Keep up the great work and look forward to your update after the feedback.