Good afternoon, KG...
My curiosity was piqued enough to download and install your demo, and I'm impressed..! Very smooth, a quite 'chirpy' feeling, and nicely reactive using mouse and keyboard. Doubly interesting, to me, as there are coincidental comparisons that I can find between yours and my own, very much more primitive, Demo (Rachdale Cheese; see 'Demos and Testing'...), even down to a Chicken Run and Recipes..! The (vast...) differences, too, are inspiring; I shall doubtless think about how to incorporate some of the notions in any future forays I may make.
I've not progressed enormously in the game (Disclaimer: I'm a (very...) old duffer, quite far removed from the typical target audience, and a pitiful game player...); I got wiped out by the Dark Lord South-East of the Werewolf hut in just two blows..! Doubtless far too early, and very much ill-prepared for such a venture, but that's another way to learn..! I'll keep going (I'm only up to three'Save's, so early days yet...) and will spend much more time exploring more fully the Village, with its side tasks, before taking on any more tough'uns.
On a technical side (and this is only my poor appreciation, not a criticism...), I have always found it irritating to have to confirm each and every text box; my own Demo does this automatically after a short delay. I realise that some folks read a little more slowly than others, and for a game destined more towards a commercial release I would perhaps have to change this, but as I did mine essentially for my own instruction, I didn't want to 'build in' this irritation. Still, one gets used to 'clicking' after reading, so it just shows how seldom I play these games, eh..?
Bravo again, then; I'll report back once I've gone a little more thoroughly into the concept, and enjoyed a little more the hunt for 'gems' of all sorts.
Thanks for posting; meanwhile...
Have a nice day
Douglas
You see a lonely ogre, ahead on the path. What do you do? The only answered that worked out was quietly, yet quickly run away...
