SKAIANO'S PROFILE

author=Marrend

How the hell am I supposed to look for stuff that will help me when I can't see four feet in front of me!
Er, sorry about that. I'm on my fourth attempt at this game, and frustrations are mounting.


*Edit:
SAVE POINT!? Yes, please!

And, of course, I quit the game the "wrong" way, and my save file won't load because of it. I hate my life, and trying desperately not to hate on the game. I was forwarned about this, after all.

Hey, your experience is your experience, don't put yourself down it could very well be the game's fault. Maybe I should buff the candles, increased time/vision. I think the other aspect that is sort of detrimental to the current version is the fact that all the tilesets are hard to distinguish from one another. The darker tiles are supposed to indicate potential spawn-points for items and are also areas that mobs cannot access. As far as the save bug, you can by all means hate on the game for it, I know I do. Throughout production and testing it never crossed our minds to try and continue after closing the application, it was already instinctive that saves would be corrupted after working in the editor; we didn't realize that another core system was afflicting everything.

The basic pattern to the game is to search for the dark tiles, looking for red keys/ peddlers. If you find a peddler, fight the nearby mobs to farm a bit so you can get either candles or eggnog to aid you in further exploration. If you find a red-key, try to either find the red room or another peddler. There are some more "tips" given in the provided strategy guide if your willing. But again, at this point it isn't wise for me to point fingers at the player, because if there are key things that the game is not conveying efficiently, then I have done something wrong.

In retrospect, should the game be enraging you, you do not need to apologize to me about such rage. I'd rather receive a negative response than a lukewarm one, as I've stated at this point, all commentary is insight. I am very grateful that you are willing to persevere through my game despite your frustrations, and am ready to accept whatever verdict the current build may formulate.

author=RoyIII
I really enjoy it so far!

A few observations, that you may or may not already know of:
- Red Keys can be used from the inventory, at which point they disappear. If the game is set to only generate a certain number of Red Keys in a single playthrough, they can be rendered lost permanently and thus keep the red doors closed for good. Of course, I was kind of an idiot to do that, but it's still something to keep in mind xD
- Trying to use the Sweetness skill outside of battle crashed the game, referencing a line of code in the "Animated Battlers" script.

Thank you for the report! Don't feel bad about doing the red key thing, it's small things like that I know I overlooked.

These are actually some peculiar issues, I think I have some ideas; the red keys are set to only be used from the menu, and I instinctively set them to "consume." So when prompted by the red door to use it, you'd lose one. However, that might actually be pointless because in the event for the doors I already set it to subtract one from your inventory regardless so... yeah, thanks for finding that! In the back of my head I just wanted to make sure that players HAD to find all the keys, the basic "Zelda" module.

I'm really sort of lost on the Sweetness skill, there aren't any notetags routing it to the battler script, so I'd have to investigate that further. On the other hand, I'm glad that you managed to get the skill, I was worried about how stable the means of getting it were, that segment was pretty confusing to event so awesome job!

Thanks again for the input, I'll definitely throw this into my compendium for the upcoming patch!

author=sawworm
Can't wait to try full version of it!

So you're here too! Thanks for trying it out man, any input I can get at this stage helps immensely!