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Game Title/URL:

RuffTale: https://mindlessruff.itch.io/rufftale

Pitch/Information: Adventures of a silly puppy in an icy world. I have a simple prototype of my game with a main character and some enemies.

I'd like feedback on: What should I focus on for the end of the jam?

Refining the enemy AI, breath mechanics
Adding more levels, perhaps through procedural generation
How can I make the core gameplay more fun?

I know I should make it more clear how to interact with the NPC, there is no indication you have to press 'E' to advance the dialog box.

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Sonderful4 years ago

Hey, nice work!

I noticed a couple of little things when I was playing that seemed a little unexpected.

When you move down, the dog turns upside down. It made me laugh at first, but still seemed a little odd.
When you’re facing to the right and press F the breath comes out of the dog’s mouth, when you’re facing left it appears to come out of a different orifice…

I think the enemy AI is fine. They found me, they attacked me, and I destroyed them with my mighty breath. I took some damage, but I wasn’t too close to death after a 3 on 1 encounter.

It might be nice to have some way to regain health.

It seems to be coming along quite nicely, I look forward to seeing the end result.

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MindlessRuff4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it. I will need to program the breath to spawn in front of the character and fix the issue flipping upside down. Only thing I cannot fathom is how to allow the player to shoot while running away. Maybe the character sprite should turn in the direction of the mouse?

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knubbilito4 years ago

Hi MindlessRuff,

This game looks nice. I think your story is good and the art is superb, did you do it yourself? My suggestion on how you can improve this game is:

Refining the enemy AI, breath mechanics:

1. The breath is not always pointing in the direction of the nose.

2. Another thing I noticed is that I did not die once the health reached zero, the health also displays negative numbers.

except that I cannot come up with any feedback, well done!

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MindlessRuff4 years ago

Thanks for checking out my progress. Yes I did draw everything myself, I spend some time before the jam learning pixel art from scratch! I will come up with a way to change the breath mechanic and allow the character to respawn when their health reaches 0.

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