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Just updated to Ver. 0.88 after 3 days of hardcore playtesting events and tons of feedback!!

Still need to fix a few red flags, but in the meantime I uploaded the latest version, which includes:

- Proper palisade environment with a ton of NPCs, a new main character, tons of new dialogues and lore!

- Bodybags, a new graveyard, and injured soldiers.

- Tons of small improvements to platforming, environmental colliders, and physics issues.

- The throwable two-handed rocks no longer get in the way of the player; Created a new physics layer just for that kind of pickup.

-Added a very basic version of the forest natives to the end of the scene village.

Made a sneaky update to add the tutorial popup when picking up the letter, improving optimization and anothe small improvements.

Made a sneaky update to add the tutorial popup when picking up the letter, improving optimization and anothe small improvements.

Nice, I think I'll make a variation of that pop up just for the letter. Hopefully it will be enough for the players to associate the triggers to each hand.

Thanks for the feedback! Yeah I was debating on the best way to introduce that mechanic. I want to void permanent UI on the screen, do you think adding it to the item description in the inventory could be enough? I was also thinking of just triggering the "RT to use right hand item" again. Once you pickup the letter.

Ver 0.875 Out! New Blacksmith side quest!!

This update brings a ton of small general improvements, but most importantly, the biggest side quest in the prologue scene. It took making a brand new character,  with his own animation timelines, setting up his own scenario along with fixed cameras, and creating a new interaction state logic compatible with Item use, popups, and quest events. In short, it just took a ton more work than expected, as it tends to happen… But this new interaction state opens the door to a ton more immersive and rich developments in the future. So I'm very satisfied overall. Hope you guys like it! More side quests on the way!

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Thanks! It still need a bit more flare but I think is going in a good direction. 👍

Ver 0.87 Out! We finally have Voice Acting!!

Very proud to announce this new update! Our protagonist, Hanna, can finally talk… Well mostly… We went with the silent protagonist (Zelda OoT style) type, so it's mostly wordless reactions and expressions. But it does an amazing job with immersion and in bringing the characters to life!

Of course, as in the last update, all these changes were mostly limited to the prologue scene, since we'll be presenting that scene at a gamedev event in November. All cinematics, interactions, dialogues, and NPCs now have audio feedback in the first scene, except for Hanna´s improvements, which are global and will work in all scenes.

With Carissa Ferguson as Hanna,  Alex Furness as the forest priestess, and a bunch of audio bundles from Ovani Sounds to fill all the environmental audio and NPC samples, our little project is finally getting close to commercial quality.

We also finally got the game's logo, courtesy of Carol Hurtado (Cheruvbite).

And as usual, there's a bunch of minor improvements all around. But we'll let you discover them on your own.

Thanks for checking in on our game! There's a lot more to work on, but we are very happy with the progress so far!

As always, any comments, feedback, and opinions are appreciated.

Until the next one!

Atte. THMarq

Just updated a few minor corrections to the game.

Ver 0.86 Finally out!!

This one took a while... I've been neglecting making the intro cinematic because I knew it would be a huge challenge. It took us almost 3 months to make all the new models, characters, VFX, particles, textures, get the audio, find a voice actress, and get everything working together, but it was worth it.

We are also changing the roadmap a bit. Since we'll be presenting the project at a major gamedev event in November, I'll be focusing all our efforts on the prologue scene. Of course, the rest of the demo will get updated eventually, but we're trying to get the first scene as close to the final state as possible.

We also reworked all the water, added water splashes and ripples.
Added interactable grass and mushroom interaction in the prologue scene to help guide the player.

Improved visual representation of interaction along the prologue scene.

And lots of minor details and adjustments,
Hope you like it. Cheers!

Another sneaky update that probably no one will notice since it mostly involve using the mouse, but alas it was necessary:

- Added cursor locking, confining and visibility logic based on UI,  action map state and inputs. Now working on with all UI.

- Now new quests get added to the top of the quests list instead of the bottom.

- Proper UI deactivation during fade ins, fade outs and loading screens.

- A lot of minor UI improvements and bug fixes.

Uploaded a sneaky update to fix a few issues found after playtesting:

- Added coyote time.

- Stopped gravity affecting player during cinematics.

- Fixed vertical velocity after leaving moving platforms.

- Made jumping less floaty and more dynamic.

- Made longer parkour climbing actions run faster.

- Increased aerial movement control during falling, jumping, gliding.

- Increased gliding distance while holding chickens.

- Plus a few minor issues.

Ver 0.85 Out! Improving gameplay and presentation!

We were fortunate to receive a lot of feedback during this update, so we focused all our attention on improving the gameplay and presentation, but also added a ton of new assets and resources!

Major improvements include:

Rework of the player camera, now better than ever.

Rework of the scene to reduce unwanted camera collisions.

Rework of all physics puzzles and cranes. Lots of tweaking!

Rework on all dialogue, lots of spell checking!

New resources include:

A whole new forest village, now explorable in the prologue/nightmare scene!

A whole new main menu! Been waiting for this one for a while...

Lots of new environmental audio clips. The game feels a lot more immersive.

And as always, lots of bug fixing and minor adjustments all around.

The game looks and feels a lot better now, still not as good as intended, but we can finally work on a bit of lore and narrative on the side. For the next update, I'll remake the first cinematic “Awakening” from the prologue/nightmare scene and add a few new characters. The current one is just a loredump placeholder, so I'm hoping to introduce a lot more information properly next time. A few new spirits and interactions are needed at the forest village; currently, it feels very empty. And of course, there are still a few bugs and issues waiting.

 
It's been incredibly hard to get the game to an acceptable state, but it feels so close lately. I can't wait to finally work on all the complementary events and characters, but in the meantime, thank you for your patience, feedback, and support. Cheers!

Thanks a lot for playing! Glad you liked the worldbuilding. Getting the correct ambiance was super important, and even though we're still not quite there, we at least seem to be closer on that front. Currently, most of the feedback has been regarding player guidance and gamefeel, particularly the camera. Getting a 3rd person camera working properly with collisions has been a struggle, but we'll keep working on it until we get it right. And yeah, fixing the grammar is at the top of our priorities. Cheers!

Cool idea, very original concept! The movements do feel a bit too unpredictable for such a huge map. I was able to pick up every upgrade I put my efforts into, but those within the "No Cloud" zone were particularly hard, and trying to pick them all might be too frustrating. The time it takes to change the randomness with the mouse wheel might be too long; perhaps a faster tuning speed might make the game feel more enjoyable. Regarding upgrades, I think I only got real use from the one that let me move through walls; the other ones were a bit confusing. Faster cloud speed would be really cool. Overall, really cool prototype interested in seeing where it goes from here.

Thanks for playing! Gland to see the atmosphere has gotten good reactions, but theres still alot to do in regards to game feel and player guidance. All this feedback has been super useful, we'll keep working on it until we get it right. Cheers!

Thanks for playing! Currently with keyboard you can only skip with space but yeah I will make it clearer. Player guidance does need more work. I do like the feel of always feeling a bit lost, like in the silent hill games, where you need to explore your way through, but ill try to make it more enjoyable. The 3rd person camera has been a hassle, we'll keep working on it. It does feel a lot better with gamepad tho, most 3rd person camera games suffer a lot with mouse. The Ctrl key had been receiving lots of feedback, crouching should work with just a tap, and since I needed a way to drop item from each hand separately holding Ctrl + the corresponding mouse button seemed like a good idea. But it wasn't as well received as I thought, I'll look for an alternative. I does work a lot more nicely with gamepad tho 👍. Thanks again, cheers! 

Thanks alot for playing, and for the feedback! Yeah I need to redo the first cinematic, currently is just a place holder with lots of lore dumping. Eventually it should work like the ones from the wagon/cart progression, which fills one dialogue box at the time in small jumps forward, those doesn't get much feedback so ill hope is enough. Unfortunately the blocky textures on the terrain are due to the lower terrain resolution, set on the ever lasting attempt to optimize the game, so it might be a bit late the change them tbh, I'll see what I can do. But yeah they do bother me alot. The transparency is an ill attempt to reflect that the character has some sort of ghostly form on the first scene, but yeah no one really gets it, and the shader looks weird, need to try something different later. It does go away in the next scene tho. Fast animations blends usually hide weird bone movements, since the blending is calculated by deranged mind of the engine. But yeah some blend are a bit iffy, specially the parkour and climbing ones, giving them all another go is on the list. They tutorial hints will get rearranged in the next update 👍. Do you remember which body of water it was? I theory they all should have climbing vines to get out, but yeah they're not always super clear.  The feeling of getting lost is supposed to be intentional, I wanted to reflect the feeling of getting thrown into a mysterious and weird place, an Alicia's rabbit hole event, like at the start of Ocarina of Time, Majoras Mask, or most silent hill games. Where you need to explore your way through, but never feeling competely familiar. At least that was the intention, it hasn't worked out like that for most players 🫠. So we'll keep working on it, but thanks again, seeing more people playing it means a lot. Cheers!

Thanks for playing! Theres still a lot of tuning to do, getting the game feel right has proven to be quite challenging but well get there eventually.  Really glad you liked the puzzles and the story so far. 

It certanly is moving in the right direction, and seems to be at a good point for playtesting. So now to tweak and polish until you hate everything  about it  XD. Im certainly at that point myselft, so best regards and keep it going! 

Thanks a lot for playing! Even recorded the  playthrough, really appreciated. Yeah the 3rd person camera has been a struggle from the start, Ill keep trying to make it more manageable. Even with alot of tweaking 3rd person camera games work a lot better with gamepad so its highly recommended, also adjusting the camera sensitivity in settings might help a bit. I havent noticed the issue with the out of bounds mouse, or not being able to put the game on window mode, sorry seemed really frustrating, Ill check it out. Glad you managed to solve the physics puzzles, the solution to the last one was correct I think it just needed 1 or 2 rocks more. Ill try to make them more reactive to the correct aproach. Those physics mechanics are really hard to get right and super easy to break... Lots of tweaking and polishing to do still, but your feedback was super useful thanks a lot!

Yeah having the player undertand the game properly is a pain, Im still struggling with that myself but its really neccesary. After 4 tries I only managed to reach the third room. I also got a little frustrared by the fact that even thou theres cool synergy between the party they also suffer a lot by staying together. I can undertand not being able to charge through an ally, but not being make ranged attacks might to too harsh. I think I once killed my own ranger with a spear thurst from the tank. Most of the time the ranger was on the back being useless unable to shoot because the tank was doing his job holding the line. Or being suicidal running around by himself trying to shoot something. The fear system seemes to be based on how many allies you got near, so having  the ranger by himselft made it feel a bit unfair. 

Woa looks super solid, love the overall aesthetics and concept. Does feels a bit hard, the spawn rate is super fast and feels too easy to get overwhelmed, but I don't know if its a balancing issue or a know how issue. A proper tutorial might help with that. Seems like there's no reward to killing mobs so it feels like the best strategy is to send the ranger for the chest while to other ones tank dmg and move towards the exit. I don't fully understand the fear system that makes the characters run away. Overall great idea and presentation. Would work a lot better with a proper tutorial and more valid strategies, more loot by killing enemies would be nice.

Cool platformer idea. It took a bit to understand the game loop, as there is no clear visual hierarchy between the overall map, the upgrade consoles, and the portals, but I eventually worked it out. Integrating the main UI into the lobby area seems a bit messy, especially since you can move the character and the UI simultaneously. Given the complexity of working with multiple consoles, integrating the main menu into a physical console in the lobby might work better, in my opinion. I would advise focusing on the core mechanics and UI before adding new ones. Using the vacuum rifle works ok but is not satisfying enough for a main mechanic, and I can't even tell what the riffle particles are doing, Check out "Slime rancher" as a reference, the frame rate is super low for some reason, If you get too close to the radiation particles it doesn't suck them up, try to avoid the camera from clipping through obstacles. Reaching the top of the purple pillar/mushroom seemed like a satisfying milestone, but there wasn't anything up there and I couldn't stand on it. I couldn't find a real use for the dash, but it might eventually be cool for something. The toxic pools are not visually represented as a danger sinkable zone. As with any game, including mine, getting the game to feel right is super tricky and requires a ton of work, but starting early saves you a lot of headaches later once the game begging to increase in complexity. So keep on grinding and congrats on the project so far! Love the concept and the style!

Awesome little game, love the retro vibes. I only could travel between those 2 towns, did I miss some content? I couldn't rest or heal at the Inns, or access the inventory so I just got killed after the second encounter on my way back to the first town. Still a bit early to really go deep into the gameplay or mechanics but it looks really promising a I like the vibes a lot, awesome work keep it going!

Woa awesome little game, loved the mechanic, the setup and the presentation.  Only found 2 minor bugs I got stuck on the very first rock, but still freed myself after breaking it. And the game did crash on me once when I returned to the first cave after breaking to rock at the south next to the rock blockage. Unfortunately that made loose a lot of progress.  Also I don't know if the spikey black walls on the first cave kill you or not since it seem like they did once, but I don't think is visually clear enough and didn't bother to try it again. But otherwise really enjoyed the game. Got to the first card key at a cave after the scorpions and the charging weird harlequins  and really enjoyed every second. The combat works fine, really liked extracting new habilites and updating the robot, that along the different biomes and enemies made the exploration really satisfying. I was always worried about updating the wrong thing and softblocking myself out of reaching more gears but I didn't reached that point so I don't know if it's possible.  Overall great game, looking forward see where it goes. Cheers.

It think is a bit early to get a proper feel of the gameplay or mechanics, Im not sure what the first 2 dice options mean or why they are the same (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), is it 1 dice with 6 faces? Or 1 dice with 1 face + 1 dice with 2 faces +1 dice with 3 faces.... The most common representation on dices in games tend to be 1d6 or 1d1 + 1d2 + 1d3, also knowing the result of each dice roll separately is usually expected in this types of games, so starting with clearer visuals could go a long way. But congrats on the progress so far this could definitely evolve into an cool game. Keep it going.

Yeah it think is a bit early to get feel of the gameplay or mechanics, Im not sure what the first 2 dice options mean or why they are the same (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), is it 1 dice with 6 faces? Or 1 dice with 1 face + 1 dice with 2 faces +1 dice with 3 faces.... The most common representation on dices in games tend to be 1d6 or 1d1 + 1d2 + 1d3, so starting with clearer visuals could go a long way. But congrats on the progress so far this could definitely evolve into an interesting game. Keep it going.

I was thinking that maybe a Star rating system similar to candy crush or overcook might be a nice incentive. Where 1 star gets to to the next level, but 3 stars help to boots the gamers ego. That works great with loose point base challenges. But it would need to store previous game and allow replay though. Something to get the player hooked.

Cool idea. all mechanics work great. The puzzle aspect does feel a bit loose, is it all procedural? I don't think it offers the same satisfaction as an concrete solution does when solving other precision puzzles Ive seen with similar mechanics. Might be better tuning a bit the approach but I wouldn't know how. 😅

Really cool pinball game, liked the visual style and audio a lot. The upgrades are ok but some feel a bit out of place, I get that they are inspired by the survivors games but I think some only work with survivors like movement. Couldn't find any use for the laser rotating around, the most useful was the one shooting bullets but that encourage me to stop the balls movement so it wouldn't miss so many shots, but the game just reset the ball if it doesn't detect movement, so it feels like punishment to make use of that upgrade. I would prefer to see upgrades the focus on the ball movement instead. Maybe a trail of fire. maybe mini balls that appear if you hit an enemy, maybe an AOE explosion after certain number of enemy collisions. Idk something more akin to the pinball spirit XP.  After getting a ton of upgrades is easy to lose the ball under so man effect, I would prefer a solid color for the ball with clear contrast. The warp zone idea is cool but the  enemies might be a bit too close to the pit so it might be too easy to lose the ball to a quick enemy bounce.  A few times I found delay on the paddle input, I don't know if it's just me so you might want to check that, and maybe increase the physics resolution since I think I saw the ball going through a few obstacles but I'm not really sure.  Of course the coolest part of the pinball game is the event progression so might what to prepare for that later. But overall the game look a feels really good, congrats on the progress so far keep it going!

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Cool idea and mechanics. Of course  a lot could be improve in the matter of presentation but in regard of the gameplay I liked the game a lot. What I find could be improved would be the design of the puzzles. I mostly ended solving them by process of elimination instead of by logic. I no expert in detective games and couldn't solve sh1t in "Return of the Obra Dinn" but still couldn't find the solutions satisfying:

On the first one I failed to see why the lamp was the murder weapon,  I started with the flower base just because it was the closest one to the husband and tried everything until I got the lamp. But couldn't really find any logic or indication. Also I don't understand the narrative. I'm guessing the wife was cheating and the husband killed her? But if she got caught why is the other guy still hiding in the closet. And who entered by the window? The lover? Did he just sneaked in to f*ck while the husband was in the house? That doesn't make any sense so I'm guessing the husband came back early from traveling. Somehow saw the both from the window and entered from there? A bit of a stretch that's the only reason I could find for the footprints outside the window. But if he saw them then again why the red guy still in the closet. I don't know seems weird and not at all satisfying.  

The rest of the cases are really similar, at the bank robbery a fifth guy was the killer but I couldn't really find any evidence of the fifth guy existing, and he didn't even take the money so I don't know what that was about.

And at the third there was just to many options so I couldn't solve the case solved by elimination. I may just be really bad a these games or maybe the puzzles and narrative need a lot of work.  Either way I like the idea and could certainly see it working after a bit of work. Keep it going!

Hmm the most complex card game I can think of is the magic the gathering mobile game. And not only the first game tutorial is quite extensive, but also very carefully paced. It doesn't jump to new concepts until you get some grasps of the previous mechanics. Of course the UI also need to be super clean since there's a ton of info you need to keep track of. And also you can access to each ability and card documentation at anytime during a game.  Is quite a difficult balancing act, I would suggest finding a  tutorial template that works really well in a similar game and try to adapt it, since I really wouldn't know where to beggin. 

Yeah it can be cool to leave side quest, and events as a reward for exploration. But core progression and mechanics should always have some kind of guidance. It's always been a common issue in our game as well. Better treat tutorials and exploration as 2 separate things.

Yeah I do think there's way to much going on . I mean it looks, feels and sounds really great don't get me wrong but after 4 battles and the tutorial I still didn't get a full grasp of what was happening. What's the use of the timeline? I know we are taking turns but what's the use of knowing what happened in the previous turns?  I mostly used Coda really liked the momentum mechanic but eventually I just gave up trying to unders which attack counter wich attack and just focused on attacking from a distance. Movement, dodging, stamina and momentum where the extend of what I could understand the rest was just ignored a hoped for the best.  I would really dumb down the first cards and build complexity a gradually. But that's just my opinion, I can see a ton of work put into this game hope to see it fully realized!  Keep it going cheers!

Just like in real life i can't find a way to gain happiness. Y manage to find a new character but she just went away and never returned. Y managed to find a portal out but it just restarted the game in a new grid with lower happiness. I get from the stats and skills that there must be some kind if survival system but Im only able to shuffle around bushes until I get depressed and die. Lol, relatable am I right. I think some kind of tutorial at least a simple one is needed. Other than that the presentation is really nice and the mechanics work seamlessly, looking forward to find where this leads.

I was surprised by the side scroller like camera choice but it actually works really well once you get used to it, good melee and ranged weapon variety and a few different zombies. I actually believe you have a good base for a solid game. I think the current weaker point would be the UI, no one likes to working on UI but the main menu and HUD does sell the game a bit short in my opinion.  Other than that the game feel could always be improved but I think is going in a good direction. Getting overwhelmed by zombies might be a little bit to easy,  finding a way to offer a second wind could make the run loop more enjoyable. and of course AoE weapons like grenades or molotovs would be super satisfying. Overall great work, keep it going!