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Silence Norfleet3 days ago

nice game. i could play this for a while for sure. 1 major issue and a few things to talk about though.

1) having a cut scene as soon as the game loads is not the best way to start your games. don't show the cutscene until the user presses new game. this will fix future situations such as if they want to play the game on a saved file then they have to skip the cutscene each time it loads just to get to the title menu so you can continue your journey. 

2) on The title screen, initially every button is a different color and when i hover over the start new game it turns from green to a gray-ish which is counterintuitive. suggest that all the buttons (excluding exit) should be the same or a similar color and change only when you have one of them selected/hover over it so its easier to know what you are clicking on. if continue option is disabled make it a darker color than the rest (you did this but all the colors are different so it doesn't show its disabled easily)

3) settings menu had a drop down for resolution but no options in it otherwise it seemed to be setup rather well.

4) when other characters are talking, either highlight / bold their name or try to put their name on the first line and their conversation on the next line so its easier to read what they are saying without figuring out where the end of their name is and the conversation starts.

5) find a way to organize the cards by name or rarity. feel like my character has ADHD with the way his cards are in a random order and i have to keep scrolling around to try to find what people are looking for. 

6) when you buy booster packs from the store, it should show all the cards you gained visually and highlight or label the ones that are new to your character. scrolling repeatedly up and down to see if anything new gets cumbersome fast. 

7) not sure if this is intentional or not. you cant open shop once a day ends by just interacting with the shop again. you need to step away from the shop and move back towards it to get into the shop again. 

8) keep track of which character said what. it gets boring reading the same lines over and over without being able to do anything else about it but wait for them to finish talking. especially if they are saying the same thing time after time.

9) selling hellhound card caused the game to crash with an error code. not sure if it was that specific card or just a random occurrence. (this took place after i won the game and went back in using the continue button, dont think that has anything to do with it but want to give you as much info as i can about the crash)

10) restricting the max booster packs to 99 at a time sucks. i had way more money than i could spend and had to go in and out of the store multiple times to spend it all.

i completed the game on day 7 with 98 card. the concept is very fun. wish there was more interactions in the playground than just the loan shark kid. maybe you could have a way to gather people to go against the bully or maybe you could actually battle other kids with your cards. something else to do besides buy booster packs, sell the cards and pay off the loan shark kid would be nice. I love the aspect of haggling for price, that's a great mechanic in the game. i did come up with what i think is a decent strategy for earning as much as you can per day. ill keep playing to verify if my thoughts are correct or not. i was able to continue my journey after i paid the loan shark kid but using the continue button brought me back to before i paid him.  if you have time, suggest to add some type of environmental aspect to it such as some days are sunny or raining or foggy so it changes things up a little bit. maybe a mysterious trench coat purchaser comes on foggy days only or a lost elderly couple visits on rainy days only. just some food for thought. hope you continue to work on the game and make it even better. was enjoyable to play what i could before it crashed.

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Greg2 days ago

Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback Silence! I've been working on an update the last few days which should resolve some of the issues in your list already. :)

1) I wasn't aware that the cutscene at the beginning was in the way. I figured it would be a good way to remind the player of what the game is about, and they can skip it if they already know, kind of like a lot of games do it, but maybe I'm thinking of older games which used to do that before the title screen. I have to consider if it's still something newer games do. I'll think about that one.

2) I agree that the hover colors don't quite match, though I don't agree about the disabled button. I think because it's not "colorful" and also because it doesn't have a hover effect, the continue button should be fine the way it is. In fact, even if the player were to click on it, nothing happens, which should tell the user that it's not clickable. :) I'll add the hover colors of the title screen buttons to the TODO list though. It would be better to have matching hover colors to the starting button colors (something like a lighter version of each color).

3) Since you used a save file, I assume you downloaded the game. It's strange to me that the dropdown didn't give you any resolution options. I used a built-in Unity functionality to show the possible resolution options based on what's available, and it works for me, so I'm not entirely sure how I can go about fixing this. I can take a look at it though and see if there's a better solution.

4) This is a good one. I've been using this dialogue system for a couple games now and no one brought something like this up. I'll make sure to make some kind of change to the name to make it more obvious which part is spoken and which part is just information.

5) This one was resolved in my latest fixes, which I will upload later today. I automatically sort the cards in alphabetical order now, so it's a lot easier to find the card you need based on the name. In the future I'll consider adding some other filter options like rarity.

6) I'll add this to the TODO list. You're right, the only thing the player really cares about when opening new booster packs is if there are any new cards. Maybe I can sort them by new cards first, then older cards.

7) This is something that's on my list already. I plan on making it more obvious when it's recess time and when school's out, so it's more obvious to the player when the day is starting or is over.

8) Since you played to the end, I guess you actually got to the end of their dialogues. After you've interacted with a character long enough, eventually their lines loop, because they have to say something anyway. I can consider adding some kind of randomness to the dialogue at the end, but either way the player will just skip it if they already got to the end of a character's dialogue, so I'm not sure how much sense it makes. I think the character that has the most unique dialogue and the most to say is Gossip Kid. Apple and Orange kids also have connected dialogue based on what you gave the other kid, since they're rivals. Bully Kid also has his own unique mechanic based on the answers you give him. So I tried to give the characters some level of variety, but I could only get so far within the bootcamp's timeline.

9) Thanks a lot for the bug report! Yeah I also noticed some crashes sometimes, but I need to dig deeper to figure out what the issue is there. With your information I can maybe figure it out more easily.

10) I never figured anyone would ever continue playing after beating the game, so I just added an arbitrary cap to the purchases to avoid bugs, but maybe it's not necessary. :P I'll remove it.

Thanks again for all your feedback and for enjoying the game! I'll keep putting in the work to make it a lot more fun and engaging!

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Silence Norfleet2 days ago

2) you are welcome to setup the title page any way you want. was just giving you stuff ive learned in the past

3) I did not download the game. the save file came after i beat the game. it auto saved somehow and gave me the option to continue when it pushed me back to the title screen. i was running it in chrome browser. as far as the resolution stuff, i was more or less trying to advise you to make the resolution option hidden when you export it to the webGL version (or whichever one you are using for web). if you can manage it, have the software figure out what version it is and auto hide then you don't have to remember to enable/disable it all the time. give this code a try. (i haven't tested it but i think it would work for you.)

// If the game is running in webGL then dont show resolutions. 
if(Application.platform == RuntimePlatform.WebGLPlayer;) { 
 // ... disable the resolution options here
}else{
 // ... enable the resolution options here
}

8) if they have to have some kind of dialog then i don't think they need to say anything beyond a 1 line message "Hey, do you have this card?" or "I'm looking for this card, do you have it?" that way its much less clicking for the user. obviously the bully should have his full dialog because you have the options in there. possibly the card shark kid goes into a loop of "you owe me X and there are only Y days left, better start paying up!" you did a great job with the dialog aspects for the bootcamp timeframe, please don't take that the wrong way. I'm trying to give you feedback to expand beyond that time frame into the next level of your game.

let me know when you update it and I'll give the game a few more run throughs to see if i can determine what is causing the crash.

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