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loganlemmon344 days ago (1 edit)

One of my favorite Playdate games so far! Up there with Bloom, Saturday Edition, and Quantum Phantom Basketball. Incredibly immersive (love the sound effects), excellent UI/UX, and I'm loving the meta narrative that's revealing as I unlock articles. I cannot stop playing.

As I've been playing I've noticed two small issues: 

- The progress in an article sometimes doesn't save. I've exited and entered an article after halfway completing and some of my letter choices are different. (edit) I just noticed in your spoilers post that this may be intentional, but I think it may not be the best user experience.

- Secondly, scrolling in a completed article isn't 1:1 with the crank. It seems the crank's dead zone is a bit high, so if I spin the crank very slowly and the article will not scroll. Perhaps intentional?


Thank you for such a wonderful experience! I can't wait to decrypt more.

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subpixel344 days ago

Many thanks for the comment, Logan! Delighted that you’re having a good time.

Yeah, D38813 may be a little harsh messing with you when you reload. I’ll have a think about that. It’s worth noting that it won’t do that if you just sleep the device. Also, the game doesn’t save unless you change something, so there’s a soft limit to its malfeasance.

You know, I’ve noticed the dead zone thing too. Not super certain what that’s about. I tried to counteract that a bit by adding a little curve to the crank so that smaller cranks scroll less, letting you crank farther to get more precision, before ramping up to much faster when you, err, crank it. Going to have to experiment over time to find the best feeling response. Thanks for the input! Always great to have more insight.

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loganlemmon244 days ago

Hello again! So stoked to see a Catalog release. Just purchased. Curious if any changes other than the custom document feature made it into this version?

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subpixel243 days ago

Thanks!

No other changes as yet. I did experiment a bit with alternative cranking speeds/responses after your last comment, but I’m afraid I couldn’t find any other version I liked better, apologies.

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