Test Project

owinmowe 2020-04-20 23:52

Was nice seeing a game made in Unreal :D

shreyasrao-ts 2020-04-21 00:02

liked the game especially the ending tone which is really spooky!! really good SFX.

fermingimpel 2020-04-21 00:47

This game is so interesting, and the art is decent. I think if the game had subtitles it would be much better for the player

jamieok 2020-05-03 15:39

I think it's important to talk about and highlight issues such as suicide and how people can help, however I feel the 'You failed' ending is a problem. You shouldn't pin blame or failure on anyone for this kind of thing. The 'bad endings' are going to be dark regardless what the text says, but another phrase besides 'You Failed' would be more appropriate.

That being said, about the actual game: Great job for making custom audio, the singing is aptly eerie and the voice acting is definitely worth having in the game. I think the options could even do without the 'The caller will not be comfortable' hints to make each decision more thought provoking. 'How will the other person react to what I say here' as opposed to the game telling you the answer.

The art is nice too, as simple as it needs to be for the game. Bleak too, to tie into the mood of the game.

I think it's a good project, and a good execution for the game, just with an iffy approach to a sensitive subject in the bad endings. Nice work!

2020-05-05 21:13

@jamieok

Thanks for the feedback, it means alot to us. We did think about how to approch the game idea, although under the time limit we missed a few things we had wanted to add. For example we would have liked to added an ending screen which contained help lines for people, but opted for the trigger warning at the start of the game due to the amount of numers we had to add due to it being world wide.

On another note I'd like to add we made the "you failed" endings that way so the game could have different endings and different deaths, I completely understand but due to the playblity we had to make it win or lose. We never intended the message to come across like that but will keep it in mind for the future and other products. Our main goal for this game was to produce something shared awareness and was user friendly, hence the "caller may not be comfortable" so incase you wanted to play though again to see the other ending it is easy, these are a simple outline to help the players. Although looking at it I do think the game could been done without them.

With the dark endings we wanted to adress how many people can attempt suicide in many different ways, the sound track is done to really draw in that emotion and create an depressing tone to the game. Again I'd like to adress the "you failed" was never intended to "pin" the blame on anyone. Suicide is a choice of the victum and people should never feel guilty, this was simply done for ending.

I really thank you for the critism and we will keep that in mind if we choose to make any more darker themed games, as this was time restricted we cut many corners and didn't turn out 100% how we wanted it to. Fun fact, the singing at the start and end was at last mintue adjustment I suggest as I felt the tone of the game was off alittle, the song "you are my sunshine" was used. I sung it in a sad tone as if you play through the game you realise the charater has a son but he was taken away. I thought it was a nice fitting song.

Thank you for the feedback though, I respect you alot as you took your time to play through and give your honest feedback. There is a happy ending to this game aswell but was cut kinda short due to time limmits. There are multiple bad endings and one happy. This is to allow people to try come back and vistit different endings.

prackli 2020-05-10 20:01

The voice over is pretty good, I thinks that's the best part in the game.