Post by Igor Konyakhin in The Good Old Days jam comments

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It's not clear how to progress pong and asteroids.

Pong progressed itself after I scored 5 but it wasn't clear upfront and because it was (as the voice noted) pretty boring I felt the urge to quit.

I wasn't able to progress asteroids. I played few times with a scores of 13800, 4900, 11900. I thought maybe there are certain number of attempts you have to make to progress, so I tried quickly dying several times. This didn't work so I had to quit.

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Termi-NayNay-Tor5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. The voice acting was meant to say 20k, but after hearing my audio again, it's definitely is unclear! I'll make sure to play your game next :-)

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Igor Konyakhin5 years ago

20000 is actually not that simple. When I scored 13800 I actually tried to avoid asteroids.

To be precise, 20000 is sure not too hard for a standalone game but it might be a bit too much when it's just a part of the bigger story.

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Termi-NayNay-Tor5 years ago

You make a good point. I 100% see what you mean. I was really trying ti go for that whole doing the same thing over and over again, but when the game is meant to be more of a story like mine, then it definitely muddies things. I think I might lower it to something like 10k

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Igor Konyakhin5 years ago

The main thing I think you need to clearly set up the goal to the player so it doesn't feel indefinite.

Otherwise you may adjust the required score based on the first 1-2 attempts to make the player try harder.

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