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Absolutely awesome demo!! Great job.

love the lighting and built in weather system
love how the controls remain on screen for those of us with a horrible memory
donate button is a great idea
background music and sunglasses are anachronistic. Would be great to have some saloon music in the background?! This is highly subjective so throw this comment in the trash if you like.

I had a weird issue where the demo loaded at the top left corner of screen but the cursor was not captured by the program. Trying to get the cursor somewhere on the program screen seemed impossible. This happened right after the wagon wheel loading screen. Changed my windows 11 screen resolution from 4k to 1080p fixed the problem. See screenshot below.

StunningVanilla1 year ago

Thank you so much for the feedback and kind words! ❤️

Regarding the background music I agree that having some saloon songs in the background could be really cool (as well as NPCs for eg.). However, due to licensing constraints and the nature of this project, which is not a commercial game but rather a learning experience for me, I opted for royalty-free music to avoid any complications and expenses. In the latest update, I made efforts to find better fitting free tracks and replaced some of them accordingly.

I apologize for the inconvenience you had with the cursor not being captured. Typically, pressing Alt+Enter can help in such situations. Unfortunately, I've seen other developers on forums mentioning similar cursor capture issues with the Unreal Engine. Seems it's one of the characteristics of the engine, among many other factors, which are not handled that easily.

Anyhow, thank you for sharing your opinion, really appreciated. 🙏

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