Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines

Beat the game, minor critique/bug reports (spoilers)

A topic by benzoingum created Jan 29, 2016 Views: 1,452 Replies: 4
Viewing posts 1 to 5

just beat the game, or at least most of it - i can't get the "loneliness" input in the name prompt to do anything. overall i thought it was a really unique experience and certainly worth the price.

however i do have some issues with the design of the game and encountered a few bugs. it's all nothing major but they might be something to consider:

  1. the room with the strung up corpses - the floor often disappears for a few seconds
  2. the "not to see" achievement either needs to have a clearer trigger or not be random. having to replay that one section of the game over again was tedious, and i ended up editing the .ini file on my second playthrough
  3. kinda disappointed that the first half of the game was virtually unaltered - running around collecting keys isn't very interesting (everything after that is pretty awesome, the shopping mart area was especially cool)
  4. the phonograph noises were confusing. i would hear one to the left, and no matter how much i turned the direction of the noise wouldn't change
  5. the third valve room with large white face needs to redesigned. i liked the idea but being able to sprint halfway through it killed the tension since large white face is so slow. large white face itself was quite glitchy and had a very hard time navigating the walkways, on my second playthrough i never saw it at all. you can also walk to where the chair and the noose are, and from there it seems you can walk into the abyss/out of the level boundaries.
i think there might be a few more things but that's all i can immediately recall. excellent game regardless
Developer

Excellent critique/bug report, I have to say! Thanks a lot!
Let's answer, then:


1. That's intentional;

2. You're not the only one having issues with this achievement: I'm thinking of a solution and I'll let You know! Thanks for the feedback;

3. The first half of the game needs to be almost the same of the original, it's for "lore" purpose;

4. Game Maker is really tedious with 3D sound (and I'm not a great programmer): really sorry about that, but the sound won't change based on the direction (it will, however, change when moving). If I come up with a solution, I'll revisite that portion;

5. Didn't knew you could go there, gotta fix it;


Thanks for the feedback, benzoingum, I'm really happy you enjoyed my game! But... How do you know about Loneliness?

(1 edit)

ah, i had figured some of the things were intentional but i wasn't sure. goes to show how well the atmosphere is nailed imo

loneliness was found thru "special" methods :)

If you don't mind me asking, how did you edit the .ini file to get the achievement? I have tried everything and I can not get the achievement.

Wow...that was weird

Directly after posting that comment, I opened the game and got the achievement.

WTF