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SunForge3 years ago

Hi and thank you for your feedback!

The issue with being unguided is that I did not have the time to put in a starting cutscene to explain your goal, haha. I could definitely put that in the next patch, after the voting period. As for the HUD covering essential switches, hmm. Maybe I should make the vertical camera movement go further?

Can you tell me exactly where and how you got stuck? I am trying to get rid of all the gamebreaking issues, haha

And the minor nitpick: completely valid, we did not have time to implement a proper parallax system so the skybox is just set to always have the player's positions lol.

Thank you again for your comment and I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

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jeff@redopticgames3 years ago
The issue with being unguided is that I did not have the time to put in a starting cutscene to explain your goal.

Oh, this wasn't so much about an opening cutscene, it's that the map felt too open, especially in the beginning. I didn't really have a sense of where the game wanted me to go, it felt like there were too many decision points and branching paths. It probably took me a good five minutes of wandering through every nook and cranny available before I found the fireball ability.


Maybe I should make the vertical camera movement go further?

This was specifically after getting the fireball ability and trying to get back into the palace, you have to shoot a gem that's very high above you to open a large door. This gem is very easily obscured by the HUD. It might be as simple as moving the gem down a bit.


Can you tell me exactly where and how you got stuck?

Right from the start of the game, if you go right and exit the palace which requires leaping off of a ledge, you'll end up in an outside area I couldn't find an exit from. All of the platforms back into the palace were too high up, and all of the pathways that I found (including one built into a cave - which had a nice transition hint btw - which was ultimately a dead end at that point in the game).

I hope this helps. Let me know if you need any screenshots and I'll see what I can grab for you.

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SunForge3 years ago

Ah, the open endedness is the intended experience, haha. You can progress in one of four directions from the start and then you are pretty much locked into a linear path until you find the ability of that path. As you've noted with going right, there's a cave entrance that you can continue into and find they way forward. Or do you mean somewhere else?

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jeff@redopticgames3 years ago

Ah okay, that's cool. I found my way into the cave but didn't find the intended path so assumed I was going the wrong way. =/

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SunForge3 years ago

It is very much possible, that the graphics are a bit murky in the area. You were two rooms away from the easiest to get upgrade though lol

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jeff@redopticgames3 years ago

Ah interesting. I'm gonna give it another go later and check it out, sounds like an interesting concept. So a question, do you just spawn additional monsters as the player finds more upgrades (to keep the difficulty curve ramping up)? I think I noticed that the vampire things (I didn't look very closely, but they had a cape :P) didn't spawn until after my second upgrade, but maybe that was just coincidence.

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