jokes apart, good luck with the game. Yeah, sorry about the demo size. I didn't realize how much audio we had until I had to spend about a month cutting and pasting all of the clips into separate files. I am a little worried that it could affect the games' success, but I think that as long as you stay around 150MB, you're usually okay. The Nancy Drew games are up to 1 gig sometimes!Mirage wrote:The demo is huge ^^;;; It will take more than 5 hours before it will finish downloading. I'll review the demo later after I played.
As for commercial games, there are plenty of them on-going in WIP section, but very few actually ever got released.
I really appreciate your support and thanks for the luck!jack_norton wrote:Congrats on the release. I see you put also a cat in the game screenshot, nice! That will surely bring lot of luck and sales!
You can actually play the demo for a long time (no time limit) because there are dozens of choices available, but you will be stopped before you are able to make significant progress in the plot, and you will be returned to the beginning. I spent a long time trying to figure out the best way to do the demo, and yeah, some choices will stop you pretty quickly. It depends on your luck I guess. I also try to stop the game at areas of interest, so that the player would be motivated to purchase the game and complete the chapters.Mirage wrote:Ok, I finished the demo. I'm not expecting the demo to be so short considering how big the file size is. I guess the voices must be the cause of the gigantic file size.
The story seems interesting, but I feel the demo ended way too quickly before I can feel invested to the game. I quite like the addition of the voices because it was quite americanized rather than the usual trying-too-hard to sound like an anime dub. There's a lack of soundtrack, but the voices made up for it.
As for the graphic, I like the usage of the photos. It makes everything look realistic. I'm not sure about the anime sprites though. It feels a bit of a mismatch.
There are couple typos, most of them happened to be the names. Like it was supposed to be Trent's mother who's talking, but it was written Delilah. When Gabby was talking, it was written Delilah. And then Maid was written Gabby instead. Officer Dooley was written Office Dooley.
Aside from that, the script is quite solid. I find it pretty easy to follow.
By the way, how long is the game?
Between the sprites and backgrounds, I would say the one needed to be changed is the sprites, not the backgrounds. I do think the sprites are good, but they don't seem to be compatible to the game's atmosphere. I thought something like semi realism might work better in this case.redpandastudio wrote: You can actually play the demo for a long time (no time limit) because there are dozens of choices available, but you will be stopped before you are able to make significant progress in the plot, and you will be returned to the beginning. I spent a long time trying to figure out the best way to do the demo, and yeah, some choices will stop you pretty quickly. It depends on your luck I guess. I also try to stop the game at areas of interest, so that the player would be motivated to purchase the game and complete the chapters.
The backgrounds and the sprites are mismatched, but there wasn't much that I could do about it because I couldn't afford to paint over 60 backgrounds, though I took considerable effort to find a way to do it. I just didn't have any more money to spend towards the end. When I put the art through focus testing, people did not report significant issues with the visuals.
There were some bugs reported that the names didn't match, however I was unable to replicate them in-game. I'll try to find the rogue "Office Dooley". That's the first that I have heard of that one. I'll take another look in the opening scenes and see if I can find anything out of place. I probably just don't see it for some reason.
I think the game is 15,000 words or so, but I will have to double check. It usually takes people 2-4 hours to solve the case. It depends on how fast you read and whether you skip through the voiceovers. A lot of script was typed directly into the builder, so I have not accounted for that.
Thanks for your feedback! It will really help me as I continue to prepare the next upgrade.
Okay, thanks! That will make it very easy to find. I will look for it now.Mirage wrote:Between the sprites and backgrounds, I would say the one needed to be changed is the sprites, not the backgrounds. I do think the sprites are good, but they don't seem to be compatible to the game's atmosphere. I thought something like semi realism might work better in this case.redpandastudio wrote: You can actually play the demo for a long time (no time limit) because there are dozens of choices available, but you will be stopped before you are able to make significant progress in the plot, and you will be returned to the beginning. I spent a long time trying to figure out the best way to do the demo, and yeah, some choices will stop you pretty quickly. It depends on your luck I guess. I also try to stop the game at areas of interest, so that the player would be motivated to purchase the game and complete the chapters.
The backgrounds and the sprites are mismatched, but there wasn't much that I could do about it because I couldn't afford to paint over 60 backgrounds, though I took considerable effort to find a way to do it. I just didn't have any more money to spend towards the end. When I put the art through focus testing, people did not report significant issues with the visuals.
There were some bugs reported that the names didn't match, however I was unable to replicate them in-game. I'll try to find the rogue "Office Dooley". That's the first that I have heard of that one. I'll take another look in the opening scenes and see if I can find anything out of place. I probably just don't see it for some reason.
I think the game is 15,000 words or so, but I will have to double check. It usually takes people 2-4 hours to solve the case. It depends on how fast you read and whether you skip through the voiceovers. A lot of script was typed directly into the builder, so I have not accounted for that.
Thanks for your feedback! It will really help me as I continue to prepare the next upgrade.
For the typo, the sentence is something like "Okay, but we really need to get out of here. Office(r) Dooley has been patrolling the area nightly since..." when talking to maid after you chose checking window.
Thanks for your support and thanks for letting me know about the review! They e-mailed me and told me it was up and said that one of the staff said they were afraid to play it at night. LOL! So funny! I think that they may have just been kidding, but I'm not sure... I never intended for it to be a horror game.Bane Reiko wrote:I will be buying and playing this in the near future (LOVING the demo right now!). The graphics are great, and while I also think the sprites and backgrounds don't quite match each other, I think it adds to the feel of the game. I quite like it.
Also... are you aware Sankaku Complex has an article about this? http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2011/05/1 ... errifying/
Apparently they like it.
Muse wrote:Any chance on a Mac version of this game? (I should probably say the same for Linux.) I know there aren't as many of us Mac/Linux users as Windows, but there do seem to be a decent number for us visual novel fans. Just thought I'd ask.
Looks quite interesting, and congratulations/good luck on the release!
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