This is a really great game! Very well polished.
It's like a turn based version of lemmings - with monsters.
I would like to mention that I tested this on linux, and it ran wonderfully(*); please seriously consider distributing the .love on your website!
Things that were great;
- The graphics. Since this game is supposed to be based in the 1980s, perhaps an idea would be to use an NES color palette.
- The menus. Clear and to the point.
- The click to continue screen - colorful and interesting.
- The tooltips - Concise and helpful.
- The tutorial - short and to the point.
- The music - I'm loving it, and it loops really well. Perhaps consider having different music for different scenarios.
Things that could use improvement;
- The click to continue screen has a signpost that says "Camp Keep Away". It's hard to read, consider increasing the contrast.
- The winning conditions. For the tutorial, the point of the game is to save two children, but during the Keep Alive Mode, I had no idea how many campers I was supposed to save. Perhaps some sort of percent bar at the top, a percentage in the upper hand corner, or a fraction (e.g. <CAMPER ICON> x 0/2 )
- The minimap - The color palette here doesn't seem to match the rest of the game.
- Credits / Quit screen - Either they should both overlay, or they should both have a full black background. The difference bothered me. Also, the quit screen content isn't vertically centered.
- I'm not a big fan of games that start out full screen, but they ought to offer at least a windowed mode. I think this would be an easy and nice feature to have.
- Consider having a vsync flag. I noticed the mouse rather laggy when I ran the game.
- The tutorial is very wordy. Today, I had a good attention span, but you ought to cut out anything that isn't necessary. For example;
Welcome to Camp Keepalive!\n\nThis is one of our many cabins, which our counselors and campers call home. Though it may be rotting, dank, and mosquito-infested, it's surprisingly secure. So long as anyone is in the cabin, they'll be completely safe from any... unfortunateness.
could be changed to;
Welcome to Camp Keepalive!\n\nThis is the counselors cabins. It may be rotting, dank, and mosquito-infested, but it is safe from any... unfortunateness.
Bugs;
- The volume control doesn't actually max out.
- The quit information isn't properly centered.
(*)
Please don't obfusicate your code unless you're willing to have a support infrastructure.
My OS has troubles with fullscreen mode, and after running the game about 6-7 times, my X11 crashed.
http://josefnpat.tumblr.com/post/429891 ... ost-on-the
So, I do what any lover would do and I opened up the lua to fix it, only to have found it
squished.
Luckily for me, you didn't mask the setMode command, so I was able to remove the following lines which allowed me to play this game windowed;
101:..setMode(n.,n.,)e.ò=
107:..setMode(e.,e.,)..setScissor(0,0,e.,e.)e.ò=
I understand you are looking to protect your intellectual property, but obfuscating your product means there's a lot more overhead you have to deal with. For example, instead of me being able to just supply a patch fix (for you, or other people with the same issue) for this problem, I would have to ask you to do it, and then wait however long it takes for you to get to the ticket. Repeat with several hundred issues like this, and you have to spend your time fixing bugs for simple outlier cases like mine, instead of making fun games.
, though the game can be sometimes really unfair. For example, I moved my counselor to the woods and placed trap, which was then activated by a monster. But before I got a new turn for that counselor, 2 plaethermasks were spawned directly next to him. No way he could've survived.
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