http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=596791
Hi guys, we just uploaded our first demo and we would love to hear opinions and feedback about it
Hope you like it.
Hi guys, we just uploaded our first demo and we would love to hear opinions and feedback about it
Hope you like it.
Thanks guys!
About the splash screen, seems that the game starts loading on the last one (the game pad controls one), and depending of the computer it loads faster. Macs have most problem with it (longest to load), becuase of some type of ram issues, and are more apparent if they have programs on the background while playing the game. We hope to optimize that in the future.
And Im glad both of you are having fun with the endings, we didnt know if they were going to work or be funny lol My favourite is the third option. The bad one, lets hope we dont get thrown into jail, maybe we need a better plan to rob the bank lol
BTW what is your opinion about the difficulty of the demo?, we've been testing with some people here and they get stuck sometimes, and the medium time to beat it is something like 15-20 minutes, but its important to see how gamers are finding it. We dont want anything too straightforward, but neither impossible, a happy meddium would be best, with the puzzles getting more challenging at the end of the game (we also need to add the zelda type puzzles at in some of the future demos).
Also, problems with jokes and how is written?, english is our second language so that type of feedback also helps us a lot.
Hi everyone, since someone mentioned Futuridium a couple of pages ago, I wanted to let you know that Futuridium EP is finished, is out, and it's FREE to download!
Here is our main thread on NeoGAF: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=509770
It's our first release and we... are thrilled.
As promised, the game is FREE, you can download the PC Windows version on the official website:
http://www.futuridium.com
Or clicking here:
Mac OSX version will follow soon on the Mac App Store, then Linux and an iOS edition in a couple of weeks.
New official trailer:
And a quick recap on the game features:
- 13 levels
- 11 original music tracks, for a 45 minutes original soundtrack. You can skip them in games like a jukebox.
- A new energy based gameplay mechanic
- 4 different gameplay speed, unlockable finishing the game. The game can get crazy fast...
- 4 different graphic skins
- a total graphic makeover, with revised colours, new models, more particles and special effects
- online leaderboards (with full GameCenter and achievement support on Mac OSX)
- totally revised difficulty curve, the game is still super hard but more enjoyable
- a credit system: destroy cubes to get in game credits to continue and other goodies
- some cool easter eggs...
The game is HARD and while the keyboard is supported it's a lot better played with a joypad: the Xbox 360 is natively supported with all the buttons correctly mapped, but the game supports any controller with Windows drivers. The Dual Shock 3 is also supported.
Hope you enjoy the game!
Thanks for all the support,
The MixedBag indie team
Jørdan;65187191 said:
Jørdan;65187191 said:
First of all, the music, sounds and animations are crazily endearing. You got something special on your hands if the final game can live up to this charm gameplay wise. The style is really, really unique and awesome. A total joy to see and I also love that the font and the decision to have living objects and speaking animals fits very well, making it seem a bit magical. Same with how you played with the fact that its a TOON world, you really should draw from that often (like with the amboss thing). I figured the amboss/helium things are probably a feature that might reappear more often, but even smaller, non-gameplay consequential touches that show these are toons would be awesome and could lead to some hilarious scenes(Finding a rubber and erasing an arm accidentally before redrawing it, as an example). It makes the style of this game standout even more, and there are probably plenty of random neat ideas you could include as hidden goodies/jokes if you dont need touse them as gameplay mechanics.
The ambient sound is a great touch too (louder noises from the water/fire when you are standing close to it and hearing it respectively on your left or right ear when standing on one side) Super unexpected but awesome touch, so props to whoever fought for including that in the game. Minor blemish, the fire sound needs some rework to sound more "cozy" and less like random static.
While I wasnt laughing out loud, the jokes are endearing and I smiled a few times, for example with the "coin, let me acquaint you with my pocket. I am sure you'll get along" sentence. The puzzle design was also surprisingly clever and unintrusiveI liked how the game didnt point you to using the stick as a match and you need to figure it out yourself that you can light it instead of literally searching for matchsticks
Some negatives:
1. The grain filter looks horrible, not sure why, but you might want to rework the way it looks. I am not opposed to grain filters in general, but this needs some work.
2. A button to not only speed up, but "finish" dialog to the end of a box would be neat, since I personally prefer having the dialog up before me when reading instead of it moving while I read.
3. Some minor language issues : e.g. "I dont think they'll miss much their friend"
4. The short demo has already 2 3-piece fetch quests, you should avoid making them more prominent since these really feels like filler usually.
All in all, you really could have a hit on your hands with this. Best of luck to you guys!
Edit:
Oh and I made an avatar for one of the lovely reactions:
If anyone wants to use it, feel free.
Also thanks a bunch for the feedback, all the negatives you've seen are clearly problems with the game, and we will try to work around them in the future demos. We wanted to add the automatic whole dialogs on the demo but didnt have much time to implement it, as we are going to rework the whole dialogs using a unity program so we can customize them as we want, as all the text right now is hand written on the code. About the language, we really need an American that could work with us with the final scripts to give it better flow.Toma, I really glad you liked it
And about the fetch quest you are totally right, as the final game is an hybrid between typical point and click puzzles (with a better inventory were you can mix and match) and the environmental puzzles like in zelda (you will use thinks like the anvil like zelda objects instead of acting like keys, as they are in this demo), we hope having a good mix of this makes it not repetitive.
And its a good idea the thing of putting no gameplay toon elements, that would be good with some objects were we are only finding a funny use and would get repetitive if used as an object. We already were thinking about a pencil with eraser object so its funny that you mention it also.
Again thanks a lot for giving us such a great feedback, hope we can get this train going so all of you can play the final game
BTW the avatar thing made the whole team laugh, that expression is a copy on one of the real expressions one of our writers (she is such a troll lol) and we added it because every time she makes its pretty funny.
Your game demo obviously doesnt seem representative of what you have planned for the full version, and even the demo is already quite promising. Looking forward to following your progress now.
Nice to hear
(And again, props to whoever got the ambient sound design in, I love it)
Edit: Also, things like the avatar story make me wish for more games with unlockable audio commentaries. How difficult would it be, realistically, to include something like that in a game? Generally? Not saying you need to do it, but I am curious why we dont see more of those.
. Thanks, with your reply I remembered there was an option displayed at startup to disable post-processing with the 'P' key and I forgot to see what that did when I was playing.
They did a terrific job given the circumstances, the writing, environment and characters all work great together to provide a funny and engaging demo.
Jørdan;65388986 said:
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Thanks! I´ll see whether I can finally work on it today and update the database.
