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Cheeseness2 years ago

The downloadable binary worked well and had executable permissions set, etc., but I ended up running a modified version of the .py because I really couldn't have it extending over three monitors for a game that's not much bigger than 600x600 pixels.

I also fixed a crash when assembling the victory text, but I see that you resolved that in the meantime - good catch!

It took me a little while to realise that I could re-light the fire after snuffing it out. That's a nice mechanic that could perhaps be surfaced to users more directly.

The extra dialogue when clicking on your camping companion was a nice touch.

It's always nice to see a game with a beginning, middle, and end. Well done!

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umanochiocciola2 years ago(+1)

Thank you so much for the feedback! Yes the fullscreen is a bit rough, but pygame's one doesn't work with i3, so I made that dirty thing. Would you suggest adding an "hold" overlay to the snuffed fire, maybe only the first time you do it, to make it clearer?

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Cheeseness2 years ago

Ah ha, that makes sense. Personally, I prefer running everything in a window, so my workaround was a better fit for me than any properly behaving fullscreen mode would have been.

I think some kind of prompt or indicator might be a good idea. If it were my game, I'd probably lean toward having the other character respond to the fire going out and squeeze it in with that dialogue - though maybe that's not a good idea since it's easy to click through dialogue accidentally before having a chance to read it all.

One other thought on the re-lighting UI - since the bar was emptying, that made me feel like my embers were losing heat. Having the bar fill as it gets closer to being re-lit might be more intuitive.

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umanochiocciola2 years ago(+1)

wow we actually had the same thought process, I added in the refined version both a windowed option and a dialogue (if you enable tutorial dialogues) for lighting the fire back! There was the chance of you skipping it by accident, I initially just put an empty dialogue line before, but I just realized I already have a way to stop dialogue interactions with a timer. Also the bar growing instead of shrinking is a good idea, thank you!

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Cheeseness2 years ago(+1)

Fantastic! :D

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