jk5000 2015-04-21 15:00
A really fun idea. But when I am playing, the fingers moves in strange directions, so I can not make the correct hand gestures. Too Bad.
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A really fun idea. But when I am playing, the fingers moves in strange directions, so I can not make the correct hand gestures. Too Bad.
Hmm, just to let you know the download size might put people off. People are already less inclined to want to download a file, but to also have it take a minute or two (or more depending on connection speeds)... well, you know.
Anyway, about the game. I'm not sure if I'm playing the same build as jk5000 did above me, but I understood how the hand moved pretty well. Now... actually using the keys to do it was another story at times haha ;)
I found the overall concept and implementation done really well. It was somewhat educational and an interesting little game to learn some things with. I noticed some fairly heavy inspiration from Papers Please's structure and tone, which went well to a certain extent. It reminded me of a bit of a cross between something like Surgeon Simulator and Paper's Please actually, where there's a general lack of control over the main mechanic (or actually too much control haha) but you've also got the time limit and things to memorize to deal with all at the same time. It's a little much all at once to be honest, and the only reason I made it as far as I did (you apparently added in Chinese and Japanese that round) was because of the way you spawned in people and how you're trying to deny everyone.
I'm not sure if the spawning was trying to be accurate or anything, but there were a LOT of spanish speakers that came through. So much that generally, once I made the hand gesture offensive to them they just kept pouring through and getting offended (at least 4 in a row). Winning me the round. It happened at least twice, maybe three times, and I found it really really strange.
Aside from the above issue, I said earlier I found it difficult to juggle everything at once. I think you should have had a couple of rounds that don't introduce many new hand gestures, or few, so the pacing doesn't ramp up as quickly as it does. It's hard enough making the hand signs, but learning them and trying to execute them under time pressure is very intense. Also the slower learning pacing would also allow more practice improving your muscle memory for moving each finger of the hand.
Visually I can tell there was a lot of work done art-wise. I found the photo-altered people to not fit in quite properly with the rest of the art, but all considering they work pretty well given the time constraints. The player's hand of course is the star, and appropriately it looks and moves very nicely given how quickly it needed to be done.
The sound is sort of meeting the bare minimum. It's only the text sounds, and while they are fitting and aren't normally annoying (they are excessive during the first introduction)... I kind of wish there was more work in that department. Just a general office ambiance, and certain other sounds associated with people coming in and out would have been nice touches.
So overall this was a pretty excellent entry. It took a little while to download and get running, but it's rather nice when it's up. I'm not entirely sure what's causing the game files to be so large... it's definitely not audio files bloating it. So I'm guessing it's the art. I'd probably recommend trying to get that file size down so that people are more inclined to not stop the download. That and rating other games (try to rate at least 20-30) will give you guys the feedback you need (and deserve for all the work put into this).
I'm also curious why there isn't a OSX or Linux download. It's made in Unity, so you can build for those platforms even if you can't necessarily test them yourselves. Just put a fair warning in the description those platforms were untested.
You could also build and put up a web version if you get that file size down some so loading won't take too long (and have people leave).
Interesting concept :)
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Make a web version :) I know it doesn't work on every browser,but this ld i'm downloading sooo many game. I'm happy for every one that I can play right away :D