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Hello!

Apologies for the bother (and the kinda long message). I really enjoyed the game, but I ended up having a glitch happen which really killed my motivation to get a better rank. I was on the timed Disorder minigame and the gun was targeted at the person in the middle (I think it's the sister?). I managed to complete it and consequently save the family member in danger (I already freed both their hands). However, the timer was still going, even as the game was acknowledging I succeeded by letting me save someone. Unfortunately, some issues resulted from this.

(Before I get to those, though, I do want to mention that this led to the rather amusing visual of the shotgun shooting the person in the shadows as they were setting up the TV on the box. There's a silver lining for everything!)

1. This still ended up counting as losing, meaning the person in the middle was considered dead.

2. Because of the animation of the slumped TV head when someone gets shot overlapping with the box stand-in, the middle TV was clipped into the box in a pretty awkward way that made it hard to see. Luckily, I just had to do one round of Hangman for an answer I already knew after this, because I saved one family member (the left one, I'm guessing it's the dad), and the other... well... 

3. The game ended up forcing me to pick another member of the family to kill immediately after this. It's conjecture, but I suspect the game just freaked out at the unusual circumstances and tried to smooth it out by treating it like a normal failure. It registered that the person the gun was aimed at was "saved" (even though they apparently weren't) but also that I "failed" (even though I didn't), so it tried to make up for it by having someone else die.

tl;dr Two of the family members died after a minigame I won.

Again, I truly did enjoy this game. It has an addictive quality to it that I could definitely see being expanded upon, and I absolutely don't regret my purchase. However, this combined with some other problems with the Disorder minigame (I've seen in other comments that you're already aware of this, but even in the newest version, there's quite a few words missing; I'm sorry I can't give many specific examples, but I remember there was one time where the singular version of a word was included but not the plural, even though both were correct) sucked out a lot of my enjoyment and introduced elements of unfairness and luck I did not appreciate.

Thank you very much for reading. I hope my comment here ended up being helpful in some way! :D

EDIT: Also, I totally understand you getting rid of the head bobbing, but truth be told, I actually quite liked it! If I may make a suggestion, I'd like to see that mechanic make a return in some kind of "hard mode" later down the line.

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Hi Gaming blur!! that was some really solid feedback ! I really appreciate that thanks mate! 

I am currently tracking down the timer bug, it is such a tricky one as i cant seem to replicate it on my end but i've seen videos of it happening and I can assure you it is a main priority with the game , I will track and down and squash it.

I do have a few ideas I am playing with when it comes to headbobbing, one of these ideas is to have a heart rate monitor in the game and the player will have some control over certain things that happen in he game to prevent their heart rate rising to high and the head bobbing as well as some visual fx will be tied to the heart rate as well. ( I will be detailing a bit about the future of the game next week)

Thank you so much for taking a chance with DISORDER! and I really appreciate any feedback I can get mate!

Cheers!

Stonie.

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Hi Stonie,

This was my first itch.io game I've bought after I saw MrKravin play it. I was really wanting to play a word game and this had such a great plot to it :)

I also experienced this bug. I had just succeeded at the 6-word unscramble challenge with the shotgun pointed at the person in the middle (the 'mother'? People might be mistaking her for the 'sister'?). I completed it with plenty of time and the timer just kept going and ended up shooting the replacement TV after she was taken away. Then the the gun was taken but the timer sound effect just kept going for the rest of the game. This then counted as her death at the end.

Later, I solved this with plenty of time that I chose another to be saved (can't remember if it was unscrewing or crate result) and the shotgun event didn't stop until the next game started and the shotgun disappeared. It may be that this event when targeting the middle person only ends at the next game rather than when the player wins the shutgun game?

I think there was also one of these 6-word unscramble challenges where I put in about 3 different eligible words in a row and the game treated them as wrong. I can't remember the whole set right now but I remember that the last combo I tried was "Site", which it had all of these letters. Maybe it was just my eyesight reading the letter font wrong, but it was strange to get three different words on that one wrong. I was playing by keyboard rather than mouse, too.

Thanks for the fun way to play word games. I hope you implement a reset game function and to be able to skip the screen text into it, too.

Cheers!

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Also, when they get taken and replaced with the milk crate, are they meant to be able to be selected for the shotgun? I had saved the two on the left, both replaced with milk crates, but the shot gun got put on the middle one and ended up shooting that TV and it was replaced with her corpse. I ran out of time on that one, but the ticking sound effect kept going after.
Also, for EKNIACDP I couldn't use NAPE. For TCEHSDEA I couldn't use THEE. For PIGSKCUF I couldn't use the F-word (though I got the shotgun and threat, but I haven't tested that word when those four letters aren't in the list).
There was a couple I couldn't get for SRICENTU (and I didn't even dare try the C-word) but I forgot them. SIRE might have been one, not sure.

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I finally saved them all, huzzah!

Now to get these phrases out of my head ha ha

Yo manticore!! Thank you !! That is some great feedback man. 

I will get to the bottom of the shotgun bug, it has been an elusive one haha