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Hi! I sincerely apologise for the misleading nature of how I deliver updates without explaining where the work in progress roadblocks are. Unfortunately there aren't any means to leave the prison complex aside from having a bad ending in the Swamp for now. The phone cannot be unlocked as for now. The next update will contain more areas and asset updates.

I will take into account your critique and add very clear notes during gameplay of where the player reaches the limits of what's currently available. The game has no goals that can be achieved as of now.

I hope I haven't worn out your patience with this piece of unfinished game. I appreciate some aspects of the experience were a bit more enjoyable. I realise it was too early to actually update the game, I might have been pressured to do it regardless. This update contains mostly the groundwork for many new mechanics I intend to take advantage of later on, it's also been about making the project capable of welcoming help from assistant programmers with an intelligible and flexible code, which is something I lacked of when starting this.

Thank you for your feedback

samapatti3 years ago

Ah, thanks so much Ghuraok, that certainly helps a lot to know the limitations and boundaries of the current Game Version.

Personally, I don't need you or your team to "pressure" things, but clear communication certainly helps prevent frustration and disappointments as to what is to be expected from current status of development of the Game. So, don't let others pressure you into stuff - clarity in communication is all that seemed to have been missing a bit for me about the status.

I know a little bit of coding myself, but never really applied that knowledge much so far since people, who do not know it, often times seem to have entirely unrealistic expectations as to the effort and time, that goes into it. So, if anyone keeps pressuring you or your team, ignore them please and keep on doing your thing with an attitude, that "sparks joy" in you and celebrate the step-stones with those, who can appreciate the work done until each of them.

So, thanks for clarifying and being transparent about that process - the Game runs much more stable now (at least with the newly created Save-Games, which makes sense since you were just writing, that you upgraded the Code behind, too) and I've just checked the hints in the "Memories"-Archive again - which are pretty helpful already.

Alright, so much from me - 'love the Game and also the "Placeholders" are really self-explanatory, i.m.h.o.

Keep up the good work and looking forward to the further development when you and your team's ready.

Ghuraok3 years ago

I'm handling everything by myself so far. That includes : Music, writing, scripting, coding, designing, drawing, integrating, marketing, etc. Obviously that's a lot ! I'm very organised but I know that with the funds I'm getting and being alone that is, I can only make so much happen. Slow and steady wins the race !

Thank you for reassuring me, don't worry I keep a cool head about this, I know how the internet works haha

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