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  13. Posted

    Continuing to work on this when I have time. I want to address some of the control problems and bugs with the game.

    The first thing was to make it clearer what is happening when the cyberpolice approach one of your uncontrolled hacked people-- I have added a little "?" bubble above their heads that you can click on to answer the officer's query.

    I have also added a couple of sound effects--one when the "?" bubble appears and one when you successfully dismiss it.

     

    It was also bugging me that you could continue to control and hack with people who no longer had a link back to base through other hacked brains, so I have improved the game logic to require that all hacked nodes must remain connected to the base node.

     

    Version 0.3 20150519_1

  15. Posted

    Thanks Rev, you're the first to mention the Bogost graphic which honestly was the first thing I made and I smiled to myself the whole time. :)

     

    The plan is to spend a few more hours making a very basic and small level to introduce the mechanics. And also to fix the most blatant bugs and omissions (for example, I don't like how clunky detection is at the moment.)

    I'd quite like to do something better with the camera, but no one has mentioned it yet -- I feel that at max zoom it's somewhat fiddly but zooming in is a bit annoying as well. Anyway, I'll try and start on some of that tonight.

  17. Posted

    I really liked this. The sound was really awesome, totally sold the apartment. The car starting sound, the music on the highway. Really nice.

    The style really worked for me as well, kind of like a light noirishness with the lack of colour.

     

    I found the dialogue engaging, I didn't spot whether or not the choices affected the dialogue but I did wonder about it. There was one point where I was wondering what I should be doing because the pause in interaction/visual change felt a teensy bit too long (and this is pretty minor really, it just caused me to look around and click stuff 2/3 times when there was nothing to do), just after having picked up the gun. There was a slight shadow of this just before the phone rang as well, but I think that pause was actually pretty great because the phone came as a pleasant surprise just at the right point.

     

    Anyway, I really likes lots of elements of this game and I could totally get into it if it continued to delight/surprise with those nice touches and interactions. I definitely felt an echo of 30 Flights of Loving in there. \o/

  20. Posted

    I love the idea and the demos have come out well. I'm really interested to see how the piecing together would work.

    Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

     

    The story caught me pretty quickly. My only criticism would be the layout of the links/text snippets, many of them worked well but I found it a bit confusing at times to understand what each link was for. I'm in two mind about the very small amount of text on screen at one time, on the one hand it made it very bite-size but I think I would have been happy to sink my teeth into slightly larger chunks at a time (to stretch the eating analogy).

     

    I'd like to see what others took from it, I may be out in the weeds.

     

    All in all a great job :)

  21. Posted

    I really love the look of this game. You get huge returns from the simple primitives you used. If you were to do any additional development, a tutorial, or just more easing into the game for the player would make this game feel much less overwhelming. I want to read the thread and get a better understanding of the game and try it again.

    Thanks Spenny. I could push in a tutorial and do a bunch of small tweaks I've been wanting to add but not had time, maybe later this week.

  22. Posted

    I really liked the style of this. I'm not reading threads before I play, so I didn't actually realise I could control Nick. I was just hacking pedestrians and trying to line them up. Didn't really know what was going on!

    You shouldn't be able to control Nick (he's the one red guy who walks to the skyscraper and hangs around inside), only hack his brain and upload a nasty virus to make him regret his actions. :)

  23. Posted

    Apologies! I kinda got bogged down and didn't find time to tutorialise or even break it down properly. By which I mean -- yeah, this is totally old school drop you in the mix kinda cool, yeah! yeah? Oh. :(

     

    You do just click to hack and try to form a chain of citizens to Nick's location while avoiding the police. Then you click on the brain above the skyscraper Nick is in to win.

    Just beat the clock!

     

    The police will patrol if they see someone hacked they will move towards them and "ask them a question" for 4 seconds, if you don't select them in that time they will cause an alarm which will knock out that node and increase the speed the timer ticks.