A Place In The Sun

Started by tor.brandt, Fri 16/12/2016 15:52:43

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tor.brandt

Presenting
A Place In The Sun










Details:
320x200 resolution
32-bit colours
Original music score
Chatter-free (no speech)
30-45 minutes gameplay
Game entry page

A big thank you to my great testers, slasher, Creamy, Grok, xBRANEx & arj0n who helped make this game so much better!

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Mandle

AWESOME!!!

I have only two more days until I'm off for winter holidays for a few weeks, so I can't wait to play this game then when I have the time to soak it all!

Slasher

Congratulations on the release (nod)

tor.brandt

Quote from: Mandle on Fri 16/12/2016 16:19:07
AWESOME!!!

I have only two more days until I'm off for winter holidays for a few weeks, so I can't wait to play this game then when I have the time to soak it all!

Hope you'll enjoy it :-D

tor.brandt

Quote from: slasher on Fri 16/12/2016 17:41:02
Congratulations on the release (nod)

Thanks! :-D

And thanks again for testing, it's been a huge help!

TheBlindRabbit

Congratz tor.brandt :)
I've been following the project from afar and I'm glad it's finally out.
Will definitely play this! (nod)
Play Tester for SilverSpook's Neofeud !

DBoyWheeler

Neato!  I may have to try this sometime.

tor.brandt

Quote from: TheBlindRabbit on Fri 16/12/2016 19:27:41
Congratz tor.brandt :)
I've been following the project from afar and I'm glad it's finally out.
Will definitely play this! (nod)

Thanks! Hope you'll enjoy it:-D

tor.brandt

Quote from: DBoyWheeler on Fri 16/12/2016 19:57:44
Neato!  I may have to try this sometime.

You really should (laugh)

arj0n

Congratz on the release of this little gem, tor!

tor.brandt

Quote from: arj0n on Fri 16/12/2016 21:06:43
Congratz on the release of this little gem, tor!

Thanks!
And thank you for your testing as well, it really helped a lot :-D

marko33

Did I just witness a death? guess the man will never learn


tor.brandt

Quote from: marko33 on Sat 17/12/2016 12:16:11
Did I just witness a death? guess the man will never learn

Careful with the spoilers there (laugh)

Danvzare

Yay, congratulations on the release! :-D
Downloading now. ;)

tor.brandt

Quote from: Danvzare on Sat 17/12/2016 15:57:29
Yay, congratulations on the release! :-D
Downloading now. ;)

Thanks!

Hope you'll enjoy it :-D

Haggis

#15
Lovely little game - stylish artwork and colour scheme and, while few in number, the sound and music are very effective at contributing to the atmosphere. Simple but effective plot too.

Will PM some further feedback.

tor.brandt

Quote from: Haggis on Sat 17/12/2016 19:00:54
Lovely little game - stylish artwork and colour scheme and, while few in number, the sound and music are very effective at contributing to the atmosphere. Simple but effective plot too.

Will PM some further feedback.

Thanks!

I'm glad you liked it :-D

Shadow1000

I was NOT expecting that...

This game is excellent in every way. The simple colours and graphics are beautiful. The puzzles are well-designed and pace the game and story at a perfect rate.

But what really stands out is the emotions that this game evokes. I was very moved in the first few minutes because this game is so REAL. I think we all know someone who is so focused on work and has little ambition past work, no life, relationships or common sense that life really amounts to very little. I don't get emotional easily but it was hard not to empathize with the character.

My only points where you can improve the game is that the player should be able to skip the speech. I found it taking too long for the speech to finish and it got a bit annoying. As well, the music seemed appropriately depressing BUT I think there is one note in the score that is played constantly and I found that to be really grating.

Otherwise, my overview of the game is: I haven't used the words "must play" in a long time. Well done!

SHADOW

tor.brandt

Quote from: Shadow1000 on Sun 18/12/2016 05:10:38
I was NOT expecting that...

Thank you so much for your nice words!
This really makes all those hard hours of work worth it :-D

I'm so happy that my game has touched you, that's all I can really ask for.

Regarding speech skip, you CAN actually skip speech by pressing Return :-D
You can also use W, L, P, and U to select the verb modes.
Those are all in the manual PDF included in the game folder, but perhaps I should have included a small controls section on the start screen as well...

Thank you for taking the time to review my game :-D

Shadow1000

Quote from: tor.brandt on Sun 18/12/2016 09:48:09

Thank you so much for your nice words!
This really makes all those hard hours of work worth it :-D


I'm happy to hear that!

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Regarding speech skip, you CAN actually skip speech by pressing Return :-D
You can also use W, L, P, and U to select the verb modes.
Those are all in the manual PDF included in the game folder, but perhaps I should have included a small controls section on the start screen as well...

Indeed. Like most people, I don't usually read manuals, I just wing it. It happens to be that I started reading the manual and at some point I thought "ok, yeah...I know how to play an AGS game!" and I didn't bother to finish reading.

You're right that since it's documented that I have no right to complain. However, one thing I learned a LONG time ago about releasing any product is that it's much better to provide something the user is used to and expects than something not expected even if documented.

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Thank you for taking the time to review my game :-D

Most welcome! It was a pleasure to play.

Do you agree with my analysis of the character or was I off from what was intended?

SHADOW

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