I’m not much on discord — don’t trust that platform. But I I plan to continue Dryads Sun, because I still have 3 chapters planned — some with stuff that will be pretty challenging and hopefully rewarding to write. And I actually have a story arch in mind that will be completed after those three chapters.
The browser version didn’t run for me in Chromium and stopped after a few seconds in Firefox. The Linux version failed with org.freedesktop.portal.FileChooser (though the reason is likely my somewhat broken local setup).
I enjoyed listening and playing. It was a quiet break in the morning.
A few times I got stuck in “why doesn’t it continue?” — but others already said that. The music was a nice match. For the voices, it could be an option to record this yourself as audiobook.
In the gameplay I wished for more choices, but I liked it that the choice had such a big effect on the story.
From the plot I felt that the introduction was a bit long — the time to the first choice. This may be due to the digitized voices, though (that are weaker in grabbing and holding attention than real voice actors). The overall length was nice.
And despite that: most of the time the voices actually worked pretty well for me. They spoke better than some youtube-commentary I sometimes run in the background while working.
Since this is a game that needs some quite time, it may be useful to show an estimated play-time, so people can set aside the time for when they play.
The download I see here is still just the link. It looks like you have to upload this: \EQUIPO-PC\Users\0equipo.android\omar no la elimines\Desktop\espacio\espacio.exe
Do have a look at the about & copyright: that it works that well for screenreaders is to a good degree thanks to Robert Kingett and Random Songbird who tested the interface again and again to help get it working reliably.
That’s likely, yes. It may not be so easy to do this cross-platform. Though since you’re already using mono, a dedicated binary could be possible. But native audio on Linux is still harder than it should be.
That’s a fun idea. I somehow wish it were possible to build upon the story. Maybe to walk inside the story of the cave and only change parts of the story to shape it incrementally.
This is super-fun — it had me hooked instantly when I read the story and the puzzles were fun right away.
The only stumbling point was that I could not try the tones before having to crack the firewall, so the first clicks were random until I found what sound corresponded to which button. The rhythm was sometimes hard to get right, but I guess that’s the point (and I managed after a few tries).
A small tutorial where I click on each tone at least once could help here.
But overall really cool and it left me with a big smile. Thank you for sharing!
I’m trying v1.3 on Linux (Distribution: Guix), and while the game runs after some tweaks (that I have to do for most proprietary software),¹ I don’t manage to get sound and the game crashes during the intro just after showing what will become The Pile. I created a paste of the log at https://paste.debian.net/1247471/
¹: This is my runscript for Guix that gets the dependencies and fixes libstdc++ problems, just in case someone else needs it:
Thank you! I could not get more done during the jam due to very real time constraints :-)
I hope I can make it larger over time.
Guile is really cool, but it often needs a bit more effort to get something working, because while the foundations are strong, the tools feel like they are tailored to those who already know them. For example I use stty to get the shell out of line-mode (cooked mode), instead of triggering some provided function — though it’s an awesome strength of its own that Guile allows me to do that shell indirection by using #! as inline comment — that way the hashbang for bash starts an inline comment, so I can add a bash-header in a completely valid scheme-file and then exec Guile after some custom operations :-).
and my paper notebooks has the moves of a C-style who fights with = and ++ and ===; having a vulnerable attack which uses < < < > > > (vulnerable between the angles, because C++ templates are whitespace-sensitive :-).
I’m still thinking about how to represent Haskell :-)
