An original premise, fun to play, fiendish escalation (so to speak) of difficulty!
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A scavenger uncovers the dark secrets of a doomed starship.
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A short action game about a young warrior proving his mettle.
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A classic gothic story with a vegetable twist.
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A horizontal shooter about facing your nightmares. Limitation: No text.
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Let me say that I impersonated someone and helped another person refresh themselves, allowing me access to a new area. And after that, could not figure out how to proceed.
Yesss, another HinmanLantern game!
I'm loving the setting and art direction--beautiful environments and solid music. Feels like a low-fi retro Hitman game!
Unfortunately, I got stuck after just a couple of sneaky moves (but I don't want to leave spoilers for anyone else, haha).
These devlogs are a joy to read. Of course I want to get my hands on the game, but the downside is that I don't want the devlogs to end. ;)
Incidentally, I too would like to volunteer as a playtester if needed.
As for the Patrick O'Brian books, there are 20 of them, so it should take a while to get through all of them.
The depth gauge looks fantastic.
These updates are always really fun. Even the smallest challenge is taken very seriously and tackled with an extraordinary passion and energy.
I also appreciate the Aubrey-Maturin callback. I'm a huge Patrick O'Brian fan and I get a jolt of endorphins any time I come across even the most oblique reference. :)
Agreed, it looks beautiful. This is such an achievement with 2 colors and a 400 x 240 resolution.
Another fascinating glimpse into the endless challenges of design. I really enjoy these devlogs, though I can't wait for the game to be released.
FYI, I don't think "gun out" is as clear as it could be. "No ammo" might be better.
Building The Torpedo Data Computer, And What I Learned From The Battle of Helm's Deep comments · Posted in Building The Torpedo Data Computer, And What I Learned From The Battle of Helm's Deep comments
Really looking forward to this title. It'll be great to have a game of this scope and depth coming to Playdate.
A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments · Replied to Top-Hat Squid in A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments
Thank you for all your kind words! I'm really glad you enoyed it.
I was really impressed by how much you managed to do with PICO-8. I didn't even know you could build an inventory system like this! The controls work smoothly and it's fun dodging the enemies, exploring, and shooting the ghost bunnies (?) to bits.
Unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to plant anything, and I wasn't sure what my overall goals were.
Also, it would have been cool to have more music and sound effects.
A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments · Replied to porkrind in A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments
Thanks so much for trying it, and for your kind words! I personally like playing co-op even by myself. One character can go exploring while the other character stays behind to work the farm and protect the baby from the eyespiders.
I experimented with different lengths for the day/night cycle, but in the end I stuck with a very short cycle because there isn't too much to do during a day, but you need a certain number of days to grow your crops. This is definitely something that would require very serious experimentation in a commercial ganr.
Fantastic art, well done! The music works, though a bit more variety would be nice also. I found planting and growing the crops pretty intuitive.
I did have some issues with controlling the soldiers. When trying to click on one soldier, I would find myself giving an order to the soldier previously selected. Also, giving a soldier an order would deselect him, so if I wanted to give the same soldier multiple orders I would have to click him multiple times. Instead, I think it would be more sense to select soldiers with LMB and give them their orders with RMB.
Nicely executed defense game. The allies and enemies had reasonable behaviors, and I enjoyed watching a large horde of my various veggies taking on those slimy cubes.
The movement system was a little cumbersome. I would have preferred the ability to click on a spot further away from the player character, and without having to click a special icon first (i.e., maybe right-clicking would free up the cursor for player movement, as is typical in turn-based strategy).
I got some sound effects, but music would have been nice, too.
Nice job with the procedural world generation. The controls are responsive and the UI is perfectly clear.
Growing your own enemies was a little unexpected, but why not?
Also, nice job incorporating couch co-op! Only a few of us did that. ;)
I'm not sure if you included sound and music in the game, but if you did, it wasn't playing for me. That would have really helped with immersion.
It was nice planting the flowers and seeing them come up the next day. Experimenting with the potions was fun (and the recipe book was a nice bonus). The music was pleasant, and didn't outwear its welcome.
I did have a little trouble figuring out the UI at first--the second row of UI elements at the top had me fooled for a while. I think it would have been possible to display all the icons simultaneously.
Overall, a solid entry. One thing that might have made everything a little more fun might be a bit of flavor text: names for the different plants, names for the different potions, names for the different monsters.
Great character designs. The vibrant colors on the black background look absolutely psychedelic. The music is also very cool. The sound effects are serviceable, although the fart sound got a little old after a few minutes. :)
Finding the dragons was fun!
One high-level observation: the vibe didn't feel as much like a farming game as much as it felt like a "cleaning up" game (e.g., Super Mario Sunshine). This is probably because I wasn't planting seeds in order to harvest the crops, but rather for the secondary effect of the plant growth (eliminating the surrounding muck).
Overall, a fantastic entry.
Great art and music. Everything has a mischievous, Halloweeny vibe. The theme is deliciously gross. Eyeballs and hands in a pot--brilliant. The customers are very well-designed, and the frog is adorable. I laughed out loud when the angels first showed up.
Some of the UI is a little counterintuitive. The GIFs on the game page make for a helpful tutorial, but I still found myself confused about how to serve up potions (although in practice, it worked).
The pacing is a little off. Although it's a lot of fun to spray those pesky angels, the night lasts too long and I found myself just waiting for dawn.
Also, I think it might have been helpful to give the player a bit more money in the beginning, or at least set the lab up with a single pot and a couple of free seeds. It is a little too easy to waste all your money buying pots and then realize you don't have enough to buy any seeds.
A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments · Replied to Invincible Eli in A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments
I'll see if there's anything I can do about the UI after the jam.
If you ever have the urge to give it another try, the controls are written on the game page.
Thanks again for trying it out!
A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments · Replied to Invincible Eli in A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments
Hmm, sorry to hear that. May I ask what screen resolution you are using?
Did you get stuck in the dialog, unable to progress to the game?
Multiple sets of responsive keys is also an option (as long as they don't overlap)!
In a commercial game, the correct answer is "keys must be remappable," but in a jam game, I don't think it's worth the time investment.
A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments · Replied to Soul Grinder in A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments
Thanks so much for playing, and for your kind words! Glad you enjoyed.
A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments · Replied to Wisp in A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments
You're very kind. Thank you for checking it out!
You could consider I, J, K, and L. Those are the mirror positions of W, A, S, and D.
This is what Blasphemous does and I think it works really well. Just a thought.
A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments · Replied to ZatzuDevs in A Visit from The Very Tall Man jam comments
Thanks for playing! It's definitely quite hard. I actually like playing both characters myself, but that takes quite a bit of practice. :)
There is so much to do and so little time! But hopefully you had fun and learned a lot while doing it. :)
Awesome art and audio style, like a demented version of Stardew Valley!
Some of the text (e.g., the letter in the intro, or the numbers on the trading pop-up) is too small at this resolution.
The combat controls reminded me of the Alone in the Dark games. A pleasant memory, but dodging is quite difficult with this control scheme.
Cool art. Impressive number of crops you can grow!
Some of the colliders don't seem to be in the right place (e.g., I can walk all over the trees in the forest, or on the roof of the house).
Also, I wasn't getting any audio. Not sure if there was any, but if there was, it wasn't working for me
At the end of each day the label made me expect some kind of summary of what I had achieved, but I didn't see any statistics.
Lastly, sometimes the game would select two tiles at once, as in the screenshot.