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Still early days on this but a coupls of comments I wanted to make.

1) during the first nightmare/snowstorm sequence, coming down the stairs there is no snow visible through the window. And in the next image where you see the snowstorm, it only appears in the right window, not the left.

2) The screen distortions during this section might be a little much, Im assuming that they are supposed to happen and enhance the creepy mood, but to be honest I was worried the graphics chip might be melting the first time I saw it. Also, not sure if it applies here, but given the flickering nature of the distortion you may want to consider an epilepsy warning or something. (I dont have epilepsy so I dont know if this would trigger it, but better safe than sorry I would have thought.)

3) I know you can swipe up to get the menu, but an icon on the top left toolbar might be useful as well.

Other than thqt, enjoying it so far. Looking forward to the rest.

Moolah Milk3 years ago

Wow nice catch. No one ever notices the snowstorm in windows. This is first time.

Yeah, ima put epilepsy warning.

Thanks for ur feedback grimlar. very helpful and glad u enjoyed it

Grimlar3 years ago (1 edit)

Im playing on an android tablet at the moment and I am dealing with the Spear of Longinius (Convent) case.

I have all nine clues and have talked to all of the nuns and the policewoman, there are no more talk options available. So Im kind of stuck for what to do next.

Judging from Detective Spades comment at the start Im supposed to accuse some suspects to generate additional talk options, but for each of the nuns it just says that I dont have enough evidence.

This is the new version you released a couple of days ago.

If its any help when others complain of not being able to find the last clue, the last one I found was the one in the middle of the right hand column. Quite difficult to see.

Moolah Milk3 years ago

Heya grimlar. Thx for the feedback on the android port.

Regarding the church, have you observed the nuns to find clues on them?

Grimlar3 years ago

You are correct, I was missing one of the visual clues. Shouldnt they all be part of the list of clues that the player finds?

As for the ANdroid port, I have upgraded from 0.4.3.1 to 0.4.3.3 using the link you added to the relevant discord channel. Ill let you know if anything has changed when I continue later.

Thanks for the help.

Grimlar3 years ago

Yes the Gallery menu option is there in 0.4.3.3.

Regarding the Convent case, nun-hood should probably be sisterhood and novitiates should probably be novices. A novitiate would be the period of training a novice completes to become a nun.

Grimlar3 years ago (1 edit)

Would just like to comment on the readability of the text on the android version. Im playing on a 10" tablet but some of the text is still coming up as quite small, not so much whisper text but the yellow internal voice text.

The setting for the textbox opacity, even when set to 100% is still quite transparent, which can make it hard to read the text. D(epending on the colour of the objects behind the text.)

I would also say that the morning/afternoon/evening text on the top toolbar is sometimes difficult to read as well do to the colour of the text on the background.

Similarly some of the menu pages seem to have selected options as white on a very pale background making it very hard to read. The History page in particular is difficult to use, but also the preferences page.

Im sorry to say that despite having the 0.4.3.1 version I cannot see a gallery option on the menu.

These are perhaps mostly issues caused by playing the game on a smaller screen, but if Im having problems on a 10" screen, with a slightly increased text size, those on a smallr screen may be struggling too.

ShiranaiJittai3 years ago (1 edit)

I agree wholeheartedly with the epilipsy warning but I wouldn't change the distortion for anything. It gives an Eternal Darkness or Metal Gear Solid breaking the 4th wall vibe. Don't change that it is one of the more creative wtf moments in your game.
I didn't catch the snow inconsistency either. I actually thought it was snowing INSIDE your house.

While we are talking about the original snowstorm. What you see in the tub? You only see ONE of those two who are supposedly there. I would reanimate that to make it more obvious there are two people there. I looked and looked and looked your graphic shows one person.

Grimlar3 years ago(+1)

For me its just a little much. I appreciate that you like it, Perhaps a menu option to reduce it for people who are adversely affected by it?

ShiranaiJittai3 years ago

I can definitely get behind that. My brother in law has epilipsy no way in hell would he play this game but if he did I wouldn't want his experience to be hindered. So ya epilipsy warning some kind of toggle to enable or disable distortions and or visual patterns?

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