josefnpat 2015-12-15 02:28
I very much like text adventures! The parser felt a bit off. e.g. "w", "go west", "go to west" should all have gone west. Nice job!
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD34 → The Regrowth of Layeon
By ampera
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coolness | 3 | 53 | ||
| Humor | 693 | 2.31 | ||
| Mood | 918 | 2.50 | ||
| Innovation | 929 | 2.40 | ||
| Overall | 960 | 2.74 | ||
| Graphics | 992 | 2.11 | ||
| Fun | 1012 | 2.36 | ||
| Theme | 1037 | 2.54 |
I very much like text adventures! The parser felt a bit off. e.g. "w", "go west", "go to west" should all have gone west. Nice job!
Interesting! The commands were a little strange though.
Interesting start, but needs a lot of work still. Text adventures are challenging to do right, because of the command parsing needed. Good luck, and keep working on it!
Better continue your game. This has so much potential.
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One minor suggestion: put the 'submit' button in auto-focus, so the player can type commands and then 'enter'. I had to keep clicking 'submit' and that distracted from the game. Good job making a game! Writing is hard, but keep at it!
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Very cool game, but the need to press the button every time you enter a command is awkward. Maybe make a hotkey or something, so every time you press enter it submits the command.
I couldn't figure out how to get into the armoury. None of the commands listed in Help got me in (inspect armoury, inspect the armoury, go to armoury, go armoury.) "yell at armoury", "punch armoury," and "stab armoury" didn't work either, but I wasn't expecting those to. Also, Enter should enter commands. This looks like it should be interesting, but the command parser needs some work.
The command to enter the armoury is just enter.
I like a lot text adventures, these are one of my favorite classic genres, if not the most! It's a genre that has to emerge again, IMO.
I think it has a lot of potential, and like to see more in the future, really.
The most important downs of the game are that I feel that navigation through the game world is not very intuitive, cardinal points are almost a universal standard in text games, and players expect these... and that "enter" should enter the command... but nothing new aside from other comments.
I suggest you check Inform 7, a framework for making text adventures with an extense library, if you are interested in text adventures ;D
Thanks. I don't like inclusive frameworks. I feel that by using them I am almost cheating and taking an easy way out instead of mastering the craft. Thank you all for the feedback, and I hope that I will have a nice score.
Nice work, Ampera! Seems like you have a really solid foundation here - I'm impressed at how much you were able to get done in such a short time. I like the description of the setting as well. Looking forward to seeing where you take this next.
My only suggestion is that it would be a bit easier to play if you standardize the verbs. For example, instead of requiring players to type "look around" in one area and "inspect" in another to perform a similar type of action, provide a fixed set of commands and keep them consistent.