We tried out 4v4 for a laugh. But the balance of the game was pretty broken. Was very difficult for either team to score. That and the UI doesn't really support it - 6 players might work though I suppose. Modding support could be interesting, but I wouldn't want to commit to something that I might never get around to implementing. What if I just open sourced the game?
Totally agree. Would love to have a medal system similar to Neon White's. Allow players to complete the level at their own pace, but then allow them to come back and solve it faster to achieve a higher medal.
Very tricky on trackpad. Having keyboard controls as well would help a lot with some of the trickier manoeuvres - you could introduce the keyboard controls in a dev log.
I really love this use of the theme, and the humour is great. Could totally see this being turned into a full game.
This is a really charming game. I love the humour, and the attention in the interactions and UI.
I think the difficulty could have started out a little softer. There's quite a lot of information to take in and you really need to understand it all before you can start playing. I would start with minimal ingredients and maybe even fewer orders over the first few days.
Oh that's really cool. I mostly tested on gamepad, so didn't know of that one. No way would I take it out though. Any method for getting to the end is valid.
The game is definitely much harder on keyboard (for me at least). Which is a shame.
I've noticed the music loop stopping after finishing the campaign. But never the sfx dropping out. And it's especially weird that restarting the game doesn't fix it.
When I look at games I like to read the comments. So I'll leave them on for my games for the same reason. And I find the comments people leave are usually quite positive.
I can only speak for OSX, but I've tried a lot of different methods. There are a lot of promising and elegant looking programs that end up having trouble capturing a decent size at 60fps without dropping frames. Or not allow you to change the colour table method and do it based on the first frame only.
There are 3 methods that I've landed on each with different advantages:
Licecap Free and handles decent sized 60fps gifs quite well. The interface is a bit clunky. But it's free.
Quicktime + Video editing + Photoshop Highest quality results (but the most time consuming). Record the entire screen at the highest quality. Frame it and edit it to exactly what you want in Premiere or Final Cut. Export uncompressed video file. Import that into Photoshop and save for web to Gif.
The Photoshop save for web tends to allocate colours really well and get the filesize down. Once upon a time I use to use Fireworks over Photoshop as it had a way better gif export. But I haven't used it in years and can't compare them directly now.
Screenflick The best complete package i've found (not free: $30 USD). It has replaced both Licecap and Photoshop for me for pretty much every gif I do. It records everything as video and has a bunch of video export options and also a nice gif export. Capture process is smooth, handles decent size at 60fps on my Macbook Pro. Keeps all the source videos stored away in case you want to come back to them . Allows editing after recording. And remembers your export settings. Oh, and it records mouse presses as metadata, so you can export with or without those present. The only caveat I can think of is it doesn't let you choose the recording codec, only the quality. For video recording it would be nice to have the option for uncompressed or Animation codec for capturing clips when making trailers and things. Can be nice having a high quality source stored away for later
I'm using xbox 360 controllers myself as my main testing controllers. And I haven't had any issues. Is there anything non-standard about your setup that might point me in the right direction? Perhaps these aren't xbox for Windows controllers, but rather xbox controllers with some kind of adapter. Have you tested the controllers in other games? What version of Windows and OSX are you using? Which drivers are you using for OSX? (I use: http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Xbox360Controller/OsxDriver)
