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cute game!

Rusty was my favorite character! His character design was gorgeous and his ending was really sweet <3

i have a few suggestions, if that'd be alright!

-maybe add in a skip feature because it can be rather tiresome having to click all the way through things you've played (common route stuff) to play someone's route (i did that so many times i lost count and i was pretty tired by the end of it haha)

-also maybe you could add in the option to back scroll with text? i ended up accidentally missing dialogue a lot and i really didn't want to have to start all over to read the text in case i didn't end up saving right before that point

-also it'd be awesome if we were able to lower/mute the music because i like to listen to other songs when i play games and it was tough to do that because i had no way to mute the music

these are just some suggestions i wanted to offer in case you were looking for any!

anyways, i liked the game. the characters were cute and i just cannot get over how gorgeous Rusty's character design was the colors complimented each other so well lol!!

have a wonderful day!

Samantai7 years ago

Super psyched you enjoyed it so much, and Rusty in particular.

We loved our short grumpy little guard too.XD

And your suggestions will definitely be taken into consideration for future games, we're getting into the nitty gritty of the tyranobuildercode.

While rereading to spot mistakes, we ended up having to replay routes over and over again as well, and while the fast-forward function is nice, you definitely have a point with actually needing a skip button.

My partner on this project also mentioned that after reading your comment, while doing these fast-forwards, she ended up missing a few bits of text that she had to reread in several other playthroughs, so that we definitely will have to look into as well in future games.

For the music it's also a good suggestion. Usually we work around that by just lowering the volume of the game on the volume mixer in Windows, but it's probably wise to look into that as well should we want to expand to mobile apps.

Either way, thank you so much for taking your time to give us such a great comment and really helpful suggestions.

It's immensely appreciated!

Thank you for playing and for your amazing input!

malu17 years ago (4 edits)

ah of course!!! :) i was really worried because i didn't want to come off as rude. i'm so glad my suggestions helped!!

i understand coding is not easy; i've tried my hand at ren'py and struggled quite a bit with that aha. i just figured some input might be helpful, and i'm glad to find that it was beneficial.

also yes rusty was SO cute :D

also i'm not sure if it is just my computer but i was unable to fast forward anything (meaning things i had already played, like common route stuff), nevermind skip, so that's what i was alluding to when i said i had to keep clicking through the routes that i had already played.

i tried pressing the ctrl key multiple times but it didn't work D: not sure if that's what you meant by fast-forwarding in your reply, but i just wanted to let you know.

anyways, thank you for the response!

you're very kind in your reply :)

Samantai7 years ago

Nah, it was really well put and really helpful, and right now, constructive criticism is incredibly welcome. owob

As for the fast forward thing, at the bottom right of the screen, there is like a little cog icon for the options.

If you click on it, you get a few options, where you can save the game, or load one, but also 'skip'. Though it basically fast forwards you through the events of the game up to the next option, unless you click.

And also, Tyranobuilder is way easier than Ren'py, especially considering I was a beginner. I super recommend it to you should you ever want to try your hand again XD

malu17 years ago

oh, lovely!! that really helps!

thank you so much for the help!! haha

and thank you for the recommendation! :)

good luck on future projects! :)

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