just saw the community copy thing, that is so incredibly sweet wow. i just got the game in the bundle and it was the first game i tested, expecting to only play a few minutes of it because usually im not the type for games with no goals BUT DAMN like. this game is incredibly nice and intuitive to play and i love it so much already. I think like as a game dev procedural stuff can feel overdone a bit, but the idea to combine it with photography is really fun and keeps you engaged way longer than I had expected.
here are some feedback ideas I thought of:
- i noticed that the camera UI has an (ISO/1/60 shutter) written the the bottom, i honestly thought i could change that in some way and tbh i think it would be dope if you would flesh out the camera more like that? changing shutter dissolve / iso / exposure time ( i google translated all of these words rn) and playing around with photos like that would be a really cool addition, because people can learn how camera basics work and i think you can do a lot with just these three settings in terms of interesting photos
- i would love if there would be some more movement in the sceneries, like lighting bug particles or small animals or some wind animations of trees etc (that would also work really well with the first idea because then you could do cool motion blur photos because of the movement)
- I like how little tutorial the game has but maybe spawn the player character next to the boat and not on the boat when the game first starts, because I was very confused when the travel-UI popped up after i took my first photo
- maybe a smaller second compass needle pointing back to the boat would be a nice idea because some islands did get really big tbh
- the "Return to your boat to move on" text is in a photograph if you take one while its displayed
anyways I really love the game ♥