Post by Tomate Salat in [2020/Jam] Cup Time - GDTV jam comments

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The game started with a wow-effect. The world looks really nice - but it also started with some confusion. Took a while until I noticed that I'm under attack.

So here are some ideas how I would go ahead with the game - may you like one or it will inspire you:

- I would place the camera above the player. That would get rid of some clipping effects with the floors. Then I also would make use of the either Virtual- or FreeFormCam from the cinematic package. Both are great for 3rd-person views and you can attach extensions to it like collision-detection (available out-of-the-box in the cinematic-package)

- Don't let arrows shoot through buildings - that is just mean :-)

- Add WASD-controls

- Put the cinematic to the game-start. In between it was really confusing for me and I actually thought I lost the game. May add some text to make it more clear that there is a cinematic.

- Give the player the opportunity to flee from a fight

What you have so far is really good and you should keep on working. I also like the idea of implementing the theme. I thought a lot about how I want to cover the theme and none of my ideas were even close to yours.

Well done. The game is on a really good track :-)

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MarcusFromOz4 years ago

Thank you, as you know I'm a big fan of your game and your suggestions have me thinking of new ideas, for example can I turn the the cinematic into a quick tutorial.

I will talk to the engineers back in 1870, they shouldn't have buildings you can shoot through :)
(I will fix it)

Players can dodge arrows btw, I hate homing arrows etc and made sure I didn't do it that way.

I look forward to swapping ideas with you for many years.

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Tomate Salat4 years ago(+1)

Thanks for the answer! I am always happy if I can help or inspire people . Specially the last point doesn't happen so often - cause I'm usually not that creative. A lot of my ideas I got by "accident". One or two things one could have considered as a bug. But I liked the bug more than my actual idea and decided: the bug is now a feature. The computer is way more creative than me - I have to make use of that xD. But of course I used the bug only as a base and added some extra work to make it fit.

Turning the cinematic into a quick tutorial is probably a good idea. At least I had in some of my past games that I thought the game mechanics were obvious but they weren't. Tutorials shouldn't be under estimated. This is e.g. something were I try to improve - cause interactive tutorials are always better than text which might not everyone read.

> Players can dodge arrows btw, I hate homing arrows etc and made sure I didn't do it that way.
That was definitively the right decision. Homing shots are working well for games like WoW - but in a game like yours that makes the battle more interactive. If the player dies he also get's the feeling that he did something wrong. So he wants to try out other tactics. At least for me this is a big motivation. When I notice: a tweak in my behavior can change the game - then I want to go ahead and try.

> I look forward to swapping ideas with you for many years.

Would be cool. I'm here at itch.io cause of the community. I'm active since 3month and by joining game jams and listening to feedbacks I learned in that time so much more than in the past two years :-).

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