Perspective is complete. I finished my first draft of the conclusion, finishing the game. It's a full game now, game time can't be accurate yet but it's loosely around an hour. I looked at it all in it's completeness and already know mostly what I'm going to polish. Let's start with this:

Seiromem's Test Session
So to start, I had him test it. While my focus was on making it possible to complete, beginning to end, and looking for bugs, we looked at the narrative as well. We have our bug report now and I will crank out fixes tomorrow. I'm preparing for the next two sessions. Both are more "experience tests". I hope to have the game clean for them when they play!

Other than bugs, I've decided on changes to the game that will surely improve it. I'm going to work on the game from beginning to end, fixing the bugs as I go, for these changes. Here's the list of changes:

• Intro changes. The tutorial level does it's job! The rest of the intro is working as a great intro to this game but the very first two scenes need to be changed. This is the biggest change, probably, and will hopefully finalize the state of the narrative in the intro.

• Clue Icons: I need to use my own graphic for the clues so that no matter where they sit, you can see them.

• I want the Perspective title to appear somewhere in the intro.

• Smooth out the intro as a whole

Then I'm going in and fixing all the bugs we found in the level and anywhere else. The stages were perfect according to Seiromem so that's good.

• I need to make sure the player understands what they must do upon starting the level

• Narratively speaking, I need to make sure the bridges between the level and intro and the level and conclusion fit.

• Conclusion needs some enhancement to it's final scenes. I need to take a look at it overall, make sure it fits in the narrative and concludes it so there's closure with the level, but the conspiracy leaves at cliffhanger as there will be more! It's a To Be Continued thing.

So there is definitely more change coming to the intro then anything else, more bugs with the level then anything else, and then some polishing for the conclusion. I plan on doing all of this before my next test session.

I plan on updating this blog entry for the next two tests. Then, one last progress blog perhaps when I'm ready to make the game public! I have a week or so to make sure this game is the way I want it to be!

*UPDATE* Part 2: Version 1.1

Changelog:

• All Bugs from last test fixed

• Intro Changed

The intro now has a different beginning, changing how the game starts(basically erased two scenes, and changed how things were going down), adding a title to appear and some dialogue changes.

• Conclusion Bugs Fixed

• A different default thing is being used to represent clues instead of a custom thing. I tried :p but I'm no artist.

Sister's Testing Session
I had my sister test the game! And soon I'm going to have another friend test it but here's status.

Intro:
Just needs touch-ups to dialogue, scene direction is good. I'd say the last change has now made this pretty much final! This isn't where I'm worried. Need some explanation to different things.
Level:

• Collectibles need to be explained more

• A couple simple bugs found

• THE MYSTERY BUG: My worst bug yet. At some point she had found two clues but the main crystal said she already had found all five. I tried to figure it out and made it worse! I screwed up trying to figure out how many she actually had, using the wrong variable. Now we don't know what happened. We have to keep an eye out for now. I have a plan for the next test, fingers crossed! It's a hard to find bug but I want it gone!

Conclusion:
In her opinion it needed more, however what was there was definitely working as a conclusion. There will be changes to this too.

And some side-notes, I remember calling it a demo earlier that I might release. It would actually be a full game, not a demo, so scratch that. Silly of me, and also the reason why the game is not out but complete is that I want to get these initial changes in and have my initial testers test before I make it public. Make it ready for the contest as best I can!