Comments - Genseric

A short review: Youtu.be

Thanks! :-)

Here's a review (of sorts) that I made of Don't Move: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-AnhKZTRH0

Cool Good luck :-)

I liked your game better than Heavy Rain, but that's another argument. ;-)

I wouldn't expect you to agree with all my personal criticisms, everyone will take something different from a game. I stand by what I said, but I do agree it's pretty good for a free debut. With some patching I think I would enjoy it some more. In any case, I will look forward to your next game, whatever that may be.

I made a video review: Youtu.be

Overall: interesting game, has some flaws, worth a look.

Hey, I made a video about the demo: youtu.be/_Szah83ExQw

Looks good :-)

A note to any youtubers:

The way Second Life's copyright policy works is that individual users retain (at least in part, it's somewhat confusing) the rights to any content they create, including their avatars. So if you want to make a video in Second Life you will need to get the permission of every avatar you film, as well as the explicit permission of whoever owns the land you're on. More here: Wiki.secondlife.com

Having never played Second Life before, I was going to do a first impressions video on it, but I think it's all but impossible without breaking some sort of copyright.

(At least Nintendo and Sega have simple youtube policies, draconian as they are ;-) )

The graphics just looks so plain. The background is completely blank, the battlefield is dull, and the robots, while they do look distinctive, are a bit small and simple for my tastes. Also, the animations are very basic, but I assume you're working on that.

Oh, and frequently the battles just become brawls over the tactic points. At this point it's difficult to tell the robots apart and see what is happening because everything is so bunched together.

I think you may have to explain the time points system more, or just simplify it.

No problem. I still feel bad about complaining though! I really do encourage you to keep working on it. It's always great to see another indie dev :-)

I'll see about emailing the output file - I've been away from my own PC for a while.

I've had another play of it.

Unfortunately, I keep getting the same bug where it stops working. I can tell you have improved on it, though. I does kind of prevents me from really seeing what the game is like.

I think you've got a good idea with this game. I like having a wide range of robots, and it is reasonably fun to play for such an early version. The groundbreaking mechanic is a good idea.

To hold my interest for longer, though, you're going to have to up the graphics. The battlefields are extremely plain, and each one is pretty much the same. I see that there are random barriers in each one, but I think you'd need more barriers, or even environmental hazards, to make things more exciting.

I think in time you may need to find a very fluent English speaker to fix up your text. At the moment it's stilted and sometimes difficult to understand. I like the touches of humour, but they don't work as well as they could.

I don't understand how the time points system works. It just looks like it increases (or decreases) by random amounts.

I'm not sure what else to say. Obviously you will have plans for the game which may contradict what I think.

I'm considering doing a video on the demo, but with it being such an early version, I'm not really sure it would be very fair.

In summary: good idea, but needs more work.

Edit: Rethought things a little.

I made a video about the demo: Youtu.be

In summary, I want to like it! I just feel that the comedy will not work until you get a proper translation for it.

No worries, beta is beta.

Just played the demo. I keep encountering the same problem: whenever a robot respawns the game just stops. I can still access the menu and quit, but nothing else happens. I can't take a turn, the computer does not take a turn. Is there a way to avoid this?

I guess I could give it a go, if QCPolmer is alright with that?

I made a video on youtube on the demo - watch?v=fKzo2tyVQ9A

Can't say it was without problems, but you've got me intrigued!