Saw you had no ratings yesterday after a few days of the jam which sucks so I wanna give as much feedback as I can. Don’t mean for it to come across as harsh or anything but I know it is ass getting nothing back from people after putting in alot of work to make the game so heres everything I got. Cool game here so you could have something nice done with a lil post jam patch.
Main Issues people probably had I had aswell
- Menu art is very harsh on the eyes I would go with some shots from the game, or some smoother colours such as dark blues and grays as the levels are nicely deisgned.
- The looped audio ringing is really hard to listen to and drives me nuts I would have it be a one shot clip.
- The pausing movement during in game dialogue is a bit weird I would remove that
- The cutaways dialogues kill all the games momentum for me so I would make em faster and add skip otions as it feels like they take a minute +
- Died putting together wires and if I didn’t wanna give a proper feedback at that point I would have just quit and put the game away cus it meant I had to sit through the 5 minutes of dialogue screens again.
- Enter to open is a bit unnatural using E to interact with stuff is much better and the norm.
- Game freaks out and doesn’t let me move my mouse when tabbed out I feel like you’ve system coded something you shouldn’t have there, should only lock to place while in game.
- You’re able to move around during the opening dialogue screens
- Cable thing killed me a couple times didn’t find the notebook till my 5th attempt so could make it a bit more clear there is something to pick up, think I just walked towards a wall and got it
- Cable game doesn’t have a pause between damage so if you hold down the wrong key for more than a second it triggers the -5 every frame and you die immediately.
- Wife and blood decals were elevated off of the floor.
- No music, ambience (This ones mega important in horror) in the game, just the base SFX.
- Ending was a bit weird and unclear
- Very dissapointed there was no voice acting or cool audio since I saw you had a composer and the game was made by voice actors
POSITIVES
- Really liked the story idea
- Cool environemt with some creeps, can go even further next time with the spooks
- Once I found the note and wasn’t insta killed the wires were a nice touch.
- Feelss like this was made in some old engine which I think is a cool vibe for horror.
- Nice player controller with inventory and items
- Load and Save system which is the only reason I could finally beat the game
- Cutscenes have problems but having them is a cool touch
- Game got creepier as I progressed
- The idea of having to pass tests with little game ideas was cool
Big ol ass issue list I know but don’t be discouraged by something like this, its not as bad as it looks. As you get more experience making games this is the type of thing you’ll be playing through and making note off yourself so the game can be in as good a state as possible for release.