SENSUALPOPCORN'S PROFILE

I'd say ( although a game should be basically for oneself) that if you want input or new ideas or even a sounding board to check your mistakes and keep you going, then marketing after creating a conceptual prototype is useful.

Then again, I'm new and that is all I have done, but I have gained lots of great info .

Or consider marketing in proportion to the material you have available.
then again, if you want constant feedback you should constantly be marketing.g in new ways to new people to get those new perspectives.

That's just my ramblings for the day,
I've been sensualpopcorn and you've been great. I look forward to people telling me I'm wrong.

Starting from the top of your list:

-the mill pause: there are actually a lot of triggers there and before I had to take this production break I couldn't find the cause.

-nice. But I may add a small intro.
- I'm going to edit lumber mill a lot. Make it lighter battles.
- I can change the blind. But I think I'm actually just going to make it one snake.
-as of now there are a total of 5 laces to go. Albeit the Mage quest is kinda a requirement to do that.
-Lavos town is actually going to grow and repopulate as you progress. So depending on which sides who's help those people will move in and the region become prosperous. Technically this story thread is in there but you need to be in the ghost town with The first party member.
-bridge is on my list to do. Just didn't have enough polish time before I had to leave.
-snakes are to be hard but I'm going to lessen the number. I actually purposely made an uneven difficulty plane in this area so no one can just plow through. Plays into the free exploration, but the world is not molded to your level so it forces you to adapt and survive. That's the thought.
-there is supposed to be a good deal. Go back to the crumbling tower next to the mill after speaking to karadas. That gets it moving.

I did play test it multiple times so the quest should be working fine. Though adding more direction is on the top of my list.

Hopefully this clears up a bit of these issues

Thanks for for insight

I thank you for considering this. Currently I recommend looking at the recent review posted as it captures some of the critiques I have heard.

Yes there is a plot but (and here is where I may not come across clearly):
Through attempting an open world feel the plot is ever changing based on your decisions. Also, the MC's story changes with those decisions. So there is a story in place (yet I haven't explained the back story of the MC much) but because this is more like a prototype it may only appear in plot threads. Although I have placed a lot of plot threads in the prototype.

I hope this sounds clear because I'm trying to eliminate the strict rpg role but still have the MC story alongside the player's "story" eg your decisions and actions. It's kinda like having two plots in the character in the game and the character the player creates. If that makes any bloody sense.

First off congratulations on Getting through this, and I hope you play this yet come away with some critiques or even insight you see into the characters, world, themes, styles etc. So I may understand how others see this.

Thank you

-SP

Now that you say the language mix is 'jarring' I may just keep it because of some themes I'm working on such as that even if a person is familiar with one they will still feel foreign. But I would need multiple ones to still give a sense of differences among locals. I wont drone on about it though.

Fluent no but moving to proficiency from a strong base. At least for the complexity of mixing languages. I (humbly) think.

Mage snakes, without too much detail, are a species influenced by a self-teaching mage making mistakes and inadvertently influencing the outside world.

Newbies = new = fresh. Fresh is good sometimes and I can respect that.

Thanks,

Merging the two styles of game is a challenge I'm looking to tackle and a major component is in the role itself. But that shouldn't be an issue because the player and main character are I the same position (thrust into an unknown land). Similar to the first Zeldas With more characters and story behind it. But I digress.

After writing I though about the progression of power and considered not to have much more grinding opportunities than already made so that a general level plateau is reached. With your suggestions about defense and augmentations I feel I have a workable solution as of now.
I really like those "cheats" in part because of the options it gives on how to approach the game world, reducing those whom just force their way through (similar to the Castlevania style general gameplay if I remember correctly) and doesn't hinder adventuring around.
This has given me some more ideas and I'll certainly look into more of that Mega Man X style, it's better than the one-path puzzle bosses I considered.

Thanks again as this has been very informative to keeping my design on track without relying on people playing through the entire thing just to give some critiques.