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Hello Zakaria, earlier this year I uploaded my game Tourmaline to itch.io, I've garnered a few views and downloads which is great but unfortunately I have yet to receive any feedback and was wondering if you would be willing to check out my game. Any attention your video could give my game would be fantastic but I am almost more interested to see your opinion of the game, either way it would be very helpful. Even if you don't decide to play my game or don't find the time I have to give you major credit for managing to keep up with this process so thank you for doing this for so many people. Anyways I am eager to see your response and hope to speak to you more later.

More info on my game can be found on the page.

The link to my game: https://duke-of-souls.itch.io/tourmaline-demo

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Hey there Duke, I have played your game ahead of the rest of the list because of the kind way you asked for it. I hope this gameplay review video will help you with your new game here! All I am asking is your subscription to my YouTube channel, it will surely help me, it is like a help for help ;) LOL. The video here contains a lot of information, opinions and reviews, so you might want to watch it fully. However, in case you don’t have time, here are some notes.



  • I love the style of the game; medieval era is my favorite of all times.
  • The soundtracks and music are greatly matching the game style! So well done on that one.
  • There is an issue with your tutorial instructions; the writings seem not that clear and they are not in a good position. Also adding to that, the descriptions of items like weapons for example is so small! In the video you will notice that better.
  • When the player dies, the game takes you to the main menu at the start. Maybe instead of that adding a restart option better.
  • I think there is a small bug: When there are those two big men, only one of them is trying to hit me, the other is standing next to him (around 20 minutes inside the video).

Of course the video contains more than these notes, so feel free to watch it. If you decided to update the game and solve the magic feature, let me know by contacting me and I might give it a shot and play the game and finish it, or maybe to show the new updates.

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Thank you very much for your time, I will watch the entirety of your video later today and let you know more once I have done so.  I have also subscribed to your channel partially cause you asked but also because I enjoyed what I watched of your other videos.

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I have watched your video and enjoyed it, it was very useful as it showed me a lot of things that could be improved or made clearer to the player.  It is unfortunate that you were unable to finish it but this is understandable as there were many things (like the magic feature) that I now realize were not sufficiently explained to the player.

While watching I took some notes about different parts where you had been confused and would like to clarify some of them, I've also included time stamps so you can see what I am referring to.

Time In Video, 3:37 - For some reason the tutorial text boxes were not displaying correctly for you, there should have been a box behind the text to make it easier to read.

Here's how it looked for you:

Here's How it should have looked

I am not sure why it displayed incorrectly, and I will try to fix it for future versions.

Time Stamp, 6:46 - To clarify, the reason for why touching enemies hurts you is to make sure you can't run past them when you shouldn't, at least, not without getting hit


Time Stamp, 10:00 - I agree, you should not be booted to the menu after dying, I will fix this in the future, thanks for the suggestion.


Time Stamp, 12:16  - This is a health orb, it heals you when you hit it (but you had max health), the tutorial mentions this but sadly due to the bug mentioned earlier you may not have been able to read this (I may have also forgot to include that tutorial, I will check)


Time Stamp. 12:36 - You can change the size of text under Options -> Accessibility -> Text Size. Making it bigger may help you to read the item descriptions and the name of items when you pick them up


Time Stamp. 36:00 - I think the hitboxes may be broken here, you should have been able to hit this enemy easier with the lance, I will fix this for the next version


Most Importantly:

To use magic you have to hold the spell toggle button (By default W) and press the attack button (By Default E), you can cast the spells as many times as you like so long as you have enough mana (The blue bar at the top)


Another thing I realized is that the second half of the demo (where it goes dark) is not easy to understand at first. A big part of why you had difficulty with that second boss is because there were new weapons and spells in the dark version of the level (Two weapons in the tower area, and a spell where you first unlocked the dash ability), I can see why it would not be clear that you should explore this area fully, sorry for not making it more clear. If you ever decide to revisit the demo hopefully with this new information you would be able to complete it. 

Thank you for checking it out though, your feedback is helpful, I've had two other people test out the game but they've been playing it since the first demo, so its useful to see someone who had never played that demo try this new one, so thanks for your time.

Whether or not you decide to go back to the demo, I hope to speak with you again in the future, and I will inform you whenever I make any new releases or major updates. Again thanks for your time.

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I am so glad that this has been a useful way to test your game and happy to help! And I am more surprsied by the efforts and time you took to replay and explain your game further here.

Now I understand more why the second boss was that hard, It seems there is two parts of that boss anyways lol I wanted to say that I was close to beat him.

It makes more sense now how to use magic after you explained! I was not able to get it (I was just spamming keys). 

Now for the most important part that you want to know: Will I do more for your game? Well an easy answer would be yes! But... and I am sure you will understand me... I am having too much requests here, so I can't go back and finish the game now, however, I can surely take a look at it again after you update. Looking forward to see the end of that demo to be honest!

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I completely understand you, you've already given me priority so I thank you for that anyways, If I fix the demo I will let you know but will understand if you don't have time to re visit it. Thanks for your time. 

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I've been looking into the issue with the tutorial text boxes and cannot seem to recreate it. I was wondering if you would be willing to tell me a few things that could help me figure out what happened.

- What recording software where you using?

- Where you playing the game on a multi monitor setup?

- I saw in the video the resolution was set to 1440 : 900, is that the resolution of your monitor; and, is that the resolution windows is set to use?

Thanks for your patience, I'm hoping to solve these issues so they do not affect other players in the future.

Hey! No problem, as long as I can help easily I would do it! 

I am using Wondershare Filmora to record my videos. The games are played on one moniter that is set to 1440 : 900, and I think it is related to the resolution because I noticed once uploaded to YouTube they are not on full screen (there is a little of black sceen in both sides, left and right) unlike when I was recording in older Laptop that has 1366 : 768. It might be the resolution of 1440 : 900.

Hope this helps out!

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It very well may have something to do with the resolution of your monitor, I will look into it, thanks for the information.