someguyinahat
Member
Yeah, no problem. Every so often I'll boot it up and goof around trying to see if I can figure out the final achievement. Mind you, if the Steam forums are any indication my controller-less self...well, you know.
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Sequence |OT| Rhythm, Role-Playing, and Ronald Jenkees
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bobs...onGaf
Member
Thanks Feep for introducing me to this amazing song, and Ronald Jenkees:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg8LfoyDFUM
Im pretty sure he would demolish your game though, look at how damn amazing he is.
(What does he think of it? Its pretty cool for him to get a bit of exposure this way.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg8LfoyDFUM
Im pretty sure he would demolish your game though, look at how damn amazing he is.
(What does he think of it? Its pretty cool for him to get a bit of exposure this way.)He really likes it, but trust me, it's the other way around...I'm the one getting exposure from *him*. ^^bobs99 ... said:Im pretty sure he would demolish your game though, look at how damn amazing he is.
someguyinahat
Member
And that's all 20 achievements. Feeling accomplished.
One question, Feep, since I didn't see it come up: At one point, a certain character is referred to as "Shades" and his drop item is also his shades...but his artwork contains no sunglasses. Last minute art change? What gives?
One question, Feep, since I didn't see it come up: At one point, a certain character is referred to as "Shades" and his drop item is also his shades...but his artwork contains no sunglasses. Last minute art change? What gives?
bobs...onGaf
Member
Woah, I thought a failed synth didnt delete items. Wtf, I wasted a TON of exp on a failed Half Prism synth, the synth failed and I lost the items.
What does that thing do anyway? Also im really curious what the Iron Maiden on the 5th floor drops with just a 14% chance, must be something pretty good right?
cj_iwakura
Member
I'm having trouble running the game. It's installing XNA, then goes off, then nothing.
Any fixes?
It's installing XNA, then goes off, then nothing.Any fixes?
Loving the game all around.
Don't think I'll be tackling the higher difficulties, as I get my fingers tangled up on medium on the faster songs as is. Once I mess up bad I start panicking and everything unravels. Never gets frustrating though, which is quite nice.
I'll be grinding drops to craft the last few items and finish this one up, which means about 9 to 10 hours of fun, yay. Thanks again. <3 Recommended the game on Steam and will be throwing some money your way soon.
I might also buy a Ronald Jenkees album off Bandcamp, so thanks as well for the introduction to him.
Oh, and the puntacular item names and descriptions are - something. I'm leaning toward good.
Don't think I'll be tackling the higher difficulties, as I get my fingers tangled up on medium on the faster songs as is. Once I mess up bad I start panicking and everything unravels. Never gets frustrating though, which is quite nice.
I'll be grinding drops to craft the last few items and finish this one up, which means about 9 to 10 hours of fun, yay. Thanks again. <3 Recommended the game on Steam and will be throwing some money your way soon.
I might also buy a Ronald Jenkees album off Bandcamp, so thanks as well for the introduction to him.
Oh, and the puntacular item names and descriptions are - something. I'm leaning toward good.
Wait, what?bobs99 ... said:Woah, I thought a failed synth didnt delete items. Wtf, I wasted a TON of exp on a failed Half Prism synth, the synth failed and I lost the items.
What does that thing do anyway? I really dont like how the Item with like 14% chance to drop must be the last bit for the key. Damn you Feep!
Hold on; I have to get to the bottom of this. Can you please send me your savefile? I'll investigate it and re-add your Crystal Shards to your inventory for you.
You can find the savefile at steam/userdata/somenumber/200910/remote/steamsave.sav. Send it to iridium@playiridium.com
As for cj, you might want to try running the XNA redistributable manually. You can find xna40_redist at steam/steamapps/common/Sequence...this has been a problem for a small number of people. Also be sure that you have the latest version of Windows Media Player available on your machine.
bobs...onGaf
Member
Feep said:
Sorry I went ahead and re-earned those shards again. I will still send across my savefile if you need it to debug BUT as the for shards im cool.
I did exit the game the moment after the synth failed. Not sure if that would affect it? I reopened the game to try and resynth and the items were gone.
Oh! Ahahahah.bobs99 ... said:Sorry I went ahead and re-earned those shards again. I will still send across my savefile if you need it to debug BUT as the for shards im cool.
I did exit the game the moment after the synth failed. Not sure if that would affect it? I reopened the game to try and resynth and the items were gone.
The game strongly discourages this. It saves your results immediately, but doesn't return your ingredients until after the spell animation finishes. There's no resetting and trying again.
Bad player! Bad!
bobs...onGaf
Member
Feep said:
Haha glad to know it wasn't a glitch. I sent the email across, but you can just discard it.
Yeah, I did try a cheeky reload, im still sore about losing SO much exp on a synth that had such a high chance to pass. Grr.
Neither Prism is needed till the very end of the game, I might add. Hold off for now, and save your XP. = Dbobs99 ... said:Haha glad to know it wasn't a glitch. I sent the email across, but you can just discard it.
Yeah, I did try a cheeky reload, im still sore about losing SO much exp on a synth that had such a high chance to pass. Grr.
ShadyLurker
Member
Just finished the game. It was one of the most original I've played in a long time.
I loved the humour throughout, but it took itself seriously enough at the right moments to make the story meaningful too. It's a tough balance to find, but I think you hit the sweet spot. Good job on the item descriptions, they all made me at least crack a smile. Not often a game can do that in the menus.
I liked the relationship development between Naia and Ky a lot. The back-and-forth playful jabs at one another reminded me a lot of my own relationship :lol. It really made it feel "authentic" to me though, not a sappy romance. The VA was all very well done really. I thought
in particular played their roles very well.
The gameplay was great too. Once my brain got the keys memorized I was zooming between windows mid-spell, catching a few MP or saving some heavy damage, then frantically switching back to hit those last few gems. It made it very intense on the harder difficulties.
The music was all stellar, and matches the style and tone of the game so well. It really makes the game what is. "Disorganized Fun" and "Stay Crunchy" will forever be in my head I think lol.
Finally, thanks again for the free code, to be honest I probably wouldn't have paid much attention and passed up a truly awesome game. I'll be sure to hit that donate button when I have some spare moneys around, it's definitely deserving. You can be sure I'll be there day one for you next project too (please tell me you're working on it).
I loved the humour throughout, but it took itself seriously enough at the right moments to make the story meaningful too. It's a tough balance to find, but I think you hit the sweet spot. Good job on the item descriptions, they all made me at least crack a smile. Not often a game can do that in the menus.
I liked the relationship development between Naia and Ky a lot. The back-and-forth playful jabs at one another reminded me a lot of my own relationship :lol. It really made it feel "authentic" to me though, not a sappy romance. The VA was all very well done really. I thought
Mir and Aaron
The gameplay was great too. Once my brain got the keys memorized I was zooming between windows mid-spell, catching a few MP or saving some heavy damage, then frantically switching back to hit those last few gems. It made it very intense on the harder difficulties.
The music was all stellar, and matches the style and tone of the game so well. It really makes the game what is. "Disorganized Fun" and "Stay Crunchy" will forever be in my head I think lol.
Finally, thanks again for the free code, to be honest I probably wouldn't have paid much attention and passed up a truly awesome game. I'll be sure to hit that donate button when I have some spare moneys around, it's definitely deserving. You can be sure I'll be there day one for you next project too (please tell me you're working on it).
It was our pleasure. See, this was kind of the rationale behind the giveaway...there's no way you would have bought this game, but you might donate, and even if you don't, I have a fan for the future. = DShadyLurker said:
And we're already in preproduction of our next game (though obviously it's on hold at the moment for all these fixes). It's gonna be insane. I can't wait to show you guys.
MatthewB92
Member
WTF of it.
Funny thing is he wasn't playing on hard lol.
Funny thing is he wasn't playing on hard lol.
Goddamnit Feep you caught me
seriously though, the reddit page is just full of loving for your game brah
Kong Fisso
Banned
It's fun. Reminds me of Frequency for PS2 with the multiple lanes. Were you inspired by that when developing Sequence?
bobs...onGaf
Member
Hey Feep did you manage to sneak turning off spell effects and fixing the fps into todays patch? Its really laggy just switching between the fields at times. I know that was a low priority but was just wondering if perhaps I should wait for the patch before trying to continue?
Cast Arclight. How many notes are in the spell?yarden24 said:
3 - Easy
5 - Medium
7 - Hard
13 - Spasmodic
If your difficulty got locked to easy (this bug will be corrected today), please send me your savefile at iridium@playiridium.com and I'll fix it for you! Your savefile can be found at steam/userdata/somenumber/200910/remote/steamsave.sav.
toxicgonzo
Taxes?! Isn't this the line for Metallica?
"Guns improve video game sales" <-- That made me laugh.
I'm loving this game. It has so much potential for sequels.
I'm loving this game. It has so much potential for sequels.
Dear, GAF! I need you!
We're beta testing a patch that should go live later today. Unfortunately, this patch STILL doesn't fix the twitchy windowed mode...but we're so close on that, we just need to very carefully construct a script to write a registry value. However, changes for this patch:
- Anti-mashing algorithm will no longer interfere with higher-end Hard/Spasmodic play
- Slight decrease in combo/accuracy requirements for learning spells
- Players will be able to reunlock the ability to change difficulty level after defeating the secret boss
- The achievement "Iris" can be more easily obtained on any hardware configuration
- Fixed a bug where using the mouse scroll wheel under certain circumstances would crash the game
- Fixed a bug that would cause a player's difficulty to revert to easy under certain circumstances
- The achievement "Meant For Each Other" will now unlock properly
- Crashes will now cause a "errorlog.txt" file to appear in the same directory as the .exe, allowing much easier debugging of player crashes
- Slightly decreased the volume of the "spell is now ready" sound effect
To grab the beta patch:
Give it a shot for me! Let me know if anything is horribly, horribly wrong.
We're beta testing a patch that should go live later today. Unfortunately, this patch STILL doesn't fix the twitchy windowed mode...but we're so close on that, we just need to very carefully construct a script to write a registry value. However, changes for this patch:
- Anti-mashing algorithm will no longer interfere with higher-end Hard/Spasmodic play
- Slight decrease in combo/accuracy requirements for learning spells
- Players will be able to reunlock the ability to change difficulty level after defeating the secret boss
- The achievement "Iris" can be more easily obtained on any hardware configuration
- Fixed a bug where using the mouse scroll wheel under certain circumstances would crash the game
- Fixed a bug that would cause a player's difficulty to revert to easy under certain circumstances
- The achievement "Meant For Each Other" will now unlock properly
- Crashes will now cause a "errorlog.txt" file to appear in the same directory as the .exe, allowing much easier debugging of player crashes
- Slightly decreased the volume of the "spell is now ready" sound effect
To grab the beta patch:
Give it a shot for me! Let me know if anything is horribly, horribly wrong.
Frankenstrat
Member
Good to hear that there'll be a fix for the issue regarding windowed. It gets annoying when I click on the steam chat window out of reflex only to have my game crash. Thankfully the game saves a ton, so I never lose progress
narcosis219
Member
Lol, Floor 5 Guardian Effect actually makes me play better :lol
That is currently "hot" on the gaming section of reddit right now so thats probably going to result in a few sales.
Also there was a WTF video on it recommending people to buy it.
Also there was a WTF video on it recommending people to buy it.
CornBurrito
Member
narcosis219 said:
Is that the one that
speeds things up?
Yeah it helped me too lol.
djplaeskool
Member
Obsessed said:
Yes. As a IIDX player, that actually helped me out a lot.
narcosis219
Member
Mapping my keys to ASDF worked wonders for me actually. I always got mixed up between up and down. Now it's just all in a row like on the screen.
Is this cheating? =P
Is this cheating? =P
bobs...onGaf
Member
Feep said:
You gave away the suprise.
No seriously thats pretty cool. What exactly can you see as a developer? What can you do?
Fixed.Feep said:
But thank you!I played with the beta patch a bit... Seems fine to me, haven't run into any issues.
- Unlocked the difficulty option after beating the extra boss, it's a little goofy that the text still has the warning about not being able to change once past Floor 3.
- The lowered accuracy goal on the Luminary Scroll and whatever you did to the anti-mashing algorithms let me learn the spell finally, so I appreciate that. xD
- The Iris achievement, haha... nice!
This makes Sequence the first game that I've gotten 100% Steam achievements on, huzzah.
I grabbed a couple of gift copies for friends, hopefully they enjoy the game as much as I did.And 2 things...
Earlier in the thread, you mentioned that you could play a song DDR style by going to the Bonus section and holding the 2 analog sticks and hitting Y. Any chance you'll add an equivalent mapping for keyboard so we don't have to hook up a 360 controller?
I also agree with everyone that liked Floor 5's Guardian effect, haha. Would love to have a high speed modifier...
You mean the one I already added? = DExMachina said:
Highlight the song you want, and hold down '4' and '6', and then press '1'. (These keys will change if you have re-bound your keys. Use the keys for Spell 4, Spell 6, and Spell 1.)
And we're going to add gem speed modifiers hopefully by the end of the week. = D