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Kreastricon4 years ago(+2)

I have some constructive criticism.

It's too easy to get lost,  maybe if you changed the color of textures in different areas of the map so it wouldn't look all so samey it could be easier to tell that your in a new area of the map. 

The camera is very slow. I found it hard to control. The one thing that stopped me from turning around was the size of my display. When I wanted to turn the camera a full 180 degrees, the one thing that stopped me was the mouse hitting the edge of my display.

The extra variables don't feel like there adding anything. I bought seven light upgrades and I still didn't feel like I could see any further than I first started.  When you progress to grow stronger, the changes need to feel immediate, and I just didn't feel it.

I am sad to say that I quit playing halfway through the game. I actually gave the game two attempts, but if the camera was easier to work with and the progression was there, I probably would have sought to beat it.

I know I sound negative but I sincerely hope in the future that you will become a better game developer and not take the little things for granted.

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andrew7fls4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback - always very happy to receive any criticism to improve in the future. 

Sounds like you had quite a negative experience in this game, which is a shame. In an ideal world, more playtesters (other than me on my own system) would obviously highlight some of these issues such as locking the cursor to screen so as not to limit rotation - they also only seemed an issue on the online version which I didn't get to spend much time playtesting at all which is a shame. 

I completely agree about the camera speed and ideally, I would have had a player preference setting to adjust the speed of the camera.

Strange about the light, I imagine after 7 upgrades of it is must have been quite blinding when the scrollwheel was fully turned up! Again, this is probably something that could have been caught through proper playtesting and is something I will keep in mind for the future. 

Thank you so much for persevering  with the game, despite finding it frustrating. This was the first Jam I have entered and I have felt very fortunate to have received so much positive and constructive feedback from people playing something that I have made. Have certainly learnt that the lesson is to try and get others to playtest if possible within the 48 hours :) 

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Kreastricon4 years ago(+1)

I sincere apologize. 

I didn't know you could use the mouse wheel. I was wondering what the blue bar on top was for, now I feel stupid. I think the reason I missed it was because the tutorial was too wordy and I was able to beat the tutorial without the upgrades.

So I played the game again, re rated it and I beat it so I now feel much better. So yeah, it in my earlier playthroughs, I played the entire game in the dark and it was very frustrating all because I missed the thing about the mouse wheel. I take back everything I said about the upgrades. 

But still camera needs work though. And the scroll wheel only works when the mouse is on screen, otherwise it just scrolls the browser window up and down.

Great job!

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