Next time just give me the book.
The game's story is fascinating, I was really drawn into the world, but dear god the gameplay sucks.
Why do I have to walk past flames? A drunk kid could get that done. The 'debates' were a joke, every quiz that appeared was something I had heard before. I could just google "list of quizzes" and recreate the same quality.
Hugely disappointed from the winner of this contest.
Except for the story. The story is awesome. But seriously, give it to me in bookform. A game is the wrong medium.
@dev (if he somehow reads this): The game has a very simple problem with Dealer Captains(DC); Kingpin/Dealers contradict each other. I don't want to idle for kingpins bc I can reset way before I can upgrade which is always better as of now. Unless you introduce at least two other elements interacting with either of them (pretty much your base model - Everything interacts.) your users will start to hate upgrading to kingpins in later stages even though it'd improve your cashflow. You say you want to make cash more relevant and expand on everything but this issue will stay and it's highly irritating.
I wish there was some kind of a hint mechanism, like "talk to the same person three times and the dialogue will change" because right now they're giving me all these instructions before I can have fun and figure it out myself :(
A lot of the things I'd want to think about are being instantly revealed.
Pro:
- Overall style. Every character looked unique
- Clue gathering and combination giving it something like a "doodle god" style (which you could expand on that)
- Items are very intuitive
- Magnifying glass reminding me of Carmen Sandiego JD, taking away the frustration some other games see as "part of the experience"
Slightly annoying:
- No way to go wrong/No false leads to follow
- Everything is necessary except for the alley behind the restaurant. More like this would be amazing. Helps getting 100% but not explicitly needed to solve the case.
My partner was shown as a glutton before but I would have loved to miss that without visiting the alley and getting it wrong in the end
- Less appealing to replay the game if I get the solutions at the end and don't need to find out myself. Maybe just hints?
- General animation skipping/speed
Cons don't matter much yet due to the game's length of under 30min.
Really enjoyed it the way it is right now and had a fun time :) 4/5
Hello Psyman2, and thanks for your detailed comment! Let me answer to your "bad" questions: - you CAN go wrong, if you make the wrong deductions; for example, you can receive the clue that Ghvnn is a glutton, and still conclude that the thief ate the brains! - as for the game speed, I've decided to add a few things to the game like a double-click option to quickly leave an area, and a map that you can use to move even more quickly to some other place. Thanks to you players' feedback, it'll become a much better experience :)
So all I need to do is create a User (avoiding the username bug or I can't ever play), go through a tutorial in which everything is automated (therefor I won't learn anything), finish the first quest without disconnecting (which would lead to the "PW/Username don't match" bug) and... actually I don't know what will come after that because after creating 3 accounts and having all three rendered invalid I lost any will to give this game another try.
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First try.
It's less impressive once I tell you that this game has been my workday routine for almost 2 weeks now.
I rated it 1/5.
Yes, I came for the badges, but I stayed for the gameplay.
Too bad the gameplay turned around and bit me in the ass.
Things happened that weren't explained anywhere, like troops out of nowhere although I wasn't jammed, no troopmovement was visible and all gates in the whole area got jammed.
Three of the top 10 members ganged up on me to keep me conquered and take every outpost I'd create, etc.
It made no sense, there was no protection and the community is bullshit (no support at all).
Don't play this game.
Kudos for being a nice game but did we really need another one of that kind?
Changing the graphics won't make it a new game unless we can find new elements or can experience known, better thought out features.
3/5
I... I have literally no problem with this game at all.
In fact, I found it so easy to play, I ended up doing nothing but hitting fast forward and building random towers every 5 rounds or so.
Worst TD I've played in a long time
rsmith: It tries to create local saves on your computer.
Right click >>> settings
You might have saves deactivated.
Pobtel, shadows will come later in the game. (thank god. they're a pain in the you know what)
The only thing I am cringing about is the "endurance" and "giants only" lock.
Endurence, Sandbox, however you call it mode is a big part in almost every Tower Defense Game and "Giants only" is kickass and has been craved by TD players for years but is still found rarely.
I never complain about Premium stuff and understand that this game needed it (I even suggested it about 2 years ago because of the sheer lenght and replayability of the originaln Gemcraft) but it's sad to see that they cut through flesh.
But yea, I'll pay, it's gemcraft after all. I had over 100 hours fun for free what do I have to give you? Five bucks?
Well, at least the price is hillariously low :)
Thank You
I wish you could make a longer version out of this although I don't know how one could do this without the game getting repetitive...
It's basically a map pack for the first part, nothing more but looking back at 2011 I'm happy with "never touch a running system" :D
was a fun hour
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Hello Psyman2, and thanks for your detailed comment! Let me answer to your "bad" questions: - you CAN go wrong, if you make the wrong deductions; for example, you can receive the clue that Ghvnn is a glutton, and still conclude that the thief ate the brains! - as for the game speed, I've decided to add a few things to the game like a double-click option to quickly leave an area, and a map that you can use to move even more quickly to some other place. Thanks to you players' feedback, it'll become a much better experience :)