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Nice work.  I'm impressed with the high production value.  I really enjoyed the parallax visual to accompany the text, and the little touches like the reflections in the monitor edges.  The colorization works really well.  Seems like a lot of work, keep it up!

I loved this game, great job.  Perfect mechanics for the theme, and fun play against expectations.  The torch cross over was a nice touch too.

Nice job!  Fun Papers Please vibes.  I particularly liked the interface and use of 4 colors. Music was good too.

2 UI suggestions: It took me a bit to notice the new/approved/rejected ship color indicator, and also to parse what the unlabeled categories were (allegiance, ship class, weapons, etc).  

Hi, thanks for the feedback!  I went back and forth on whether to make that default or a power up.  In the end I decided that I wanted the memory aspect to make it more challenging.  There are different approaches you can take to help gain info while relying on memory, but I realize some players don't like memory aspects as much.  I'll consider it, thanks again!

Sorry for the late response, but I'm glad you are enjoying the game!

Unfortunately I don't have plans to make an android release.  I do have a 2-player card version of this game which is similar but also a little different.  If you'd like to check that out there is a digital prototype at https://screentop.gg/@jschomay/deductiondungeon.

https://itch.io/embed/983267?bg_color=92734b&fg_color=feffff&link_color=dbbc53&border_color=c07e28

https://itch.io/embed/980955?bg_color=1b3025&fg_color=dfdfc8&link_color=a6d59a&border_color=4da154

https://itch.io/embed/886560?bg_color=000000&fg_color=ffffff&link_color=FFA500&border_color=333333

If you have made a game with this tool, please share!  Feel free to copy the "embed" code from itch.io into your post and/or include a screenshot and short description.

Glad you enjoyed it!  Thanks for posting the video :)

Hi Clouddie!

Happy to hear you are enjoying the engine :)

This is a great question, and it sounds like you came up with a good solution too.  If you have any other questions, feel free to post them on https://enegames.itch.io/elm-narrative-engine/community so others can learn from too.  Also, I'd love to see what you make if you end up with something you'd like to share, and don't hesitate to reach out with more questions.

Here are a few more thoughts related to your question which may or may not be useful:

• In my own games I ultimately would use a query very much like what you wrote in part of the view logic.  I'd like to add a setting where you can supply a header and query to show up in the view, instead of the limited defaults of the current theme.
• The .hidden tag is a great way to toggle what should show up, but the default theme doesn't currently support that.  I think I should add it.  For now you could toggle the .location tag on and off to make locations appear or disappear.
• In a custom game, the engine supports adding other component data to your entities, and I have used this before to model how locations fit together.
• If you have a location that is linked to more than one other location, you'll get stuck, because links are only one-to-one.  You could use something like .north, .south, .east, .west to get around this.  I'm considering making a new time of link that is one-to-many, but it adds a fair amount of complications and I've gotten along without it in my games so far.
• If you are toggling views on and off in your rules, just take care to remember to do the same if you have a specific rule that would override your generic "moving around" rule.  This is the primary reason I use a custom view query or separate component data in my own custom games.  I have plans soon to make it easier to create your own custom game shell.

Awesome, let me know how it goes for you.

I'll kickstart the forums with a spot to ask any questions you might have.  I am happy to answer them.

Announcing the debut of the visual editor for the Elm Narrative Engine, a tool for making non-linear interactive stories, right in the browser.  With the visual editor you don't need to write any code, and you can collaborate in real time with others and test your game as you write it.  If you have used Twine or ChoiceScript or Ink or Inform 7 or similar tools before, give this tool a shot!

https://enegames.itch.io/elm-narrative-engine

Hey, I think I fixed the bug you ran into, so hopefully it won't happen again!  Thanks again for reporting it :)

Oh no! I haven't seen that in my play testing, do you know what you did to cause it?  Hopefully if you restart it will work.  Sorry about that :(