THEREXMAN221'S PROFILE

author=bicfarmer
Short horror game. It's pretty dark and there are some ear screeching noises, but it's a pretty basic game so dont expect anything fancy. Only thing I can say is that it was hard to see the green thing in the grassy green forest but I think that was intended.

P.S. Near the end of the game there is a missing file (Audio/BGM/Rumor)

author=Bakadere
Are you looking for any beta-testers? I could help if you are!

author=Liberty
I did an LP of it on a stream the other night (I'll post the video up when I make it public) and enjoyed it. There's a fair few spelling issues and errors in the writing, but the general game itself is good. (I did get to do the "I'm on the wall" dance a few times.)

I liked the change to the mirror world - that was handled quite well, with the reflected maps.

I can't say I liked where it ended since it was kinda a mean cliff-hanger - perhaps after one of the story segments would have been better so that you'd be wanting to know more after getting to know a bit, but I can understand why you would hang it there - makes it a lot easier to just throw up a little 'intro' for each room so that people can pick any of the doors to start from.

It has promise. >.<)b


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author=Dragnfly
A pretty sweet mapping technique is to consider the light sources. Like InfectionFiles said, there's the amount of light sources. But it's also good to consider the source of the light itself, though this may be way more detail than you're looking for.

Another important thing to consider is the events and actors. If a room is pitch black and we can see the character just fine it looks weird. Of course this is advanced stuff so devs need to gauge of the nice little touches are worth the extra work. Often not.

Biolumenescance is more like a glow, illuminating very little and with soft, usually tinted colour. In natural areas, for humans it's damn-near useless but it's great for giving atmosphere. Even if you're in the Waitomo Glowworm Caves it's still pretty dark (photos tend to lighten it up a bit. Trust me. You still can't see crap.) This is because they're not illuminating so they can see. They're illuminating to attract other things.

Fire is the next brightest. Torches, for example, allow complete darkness beyond the range of the fire, allowing underground tunnels and such to have areas of light and areas of absolute dark layered kind of like stripes.

Electric lighting, especially overhead electric lighting, is usually enough to light an entire room with a single bulb. For example my apartment has a two-bulb fixture on the ceiling in the living area and another two-bulb fixture in the kitchen area which I usually don't even use. I just measured and the light covers at least a 6.5m radius (it'd be a 13m diameter or more but the room isn't that big). If you really think about it most of our closet lights are super overkill. My closet hasn't had a bulb in it in two years because the room light is sufficient. Closets are the first bulb I take when other bulbs burn out.

And then of course we have celestial lighting, meaning the sun, moon and stars. Stars don't illuminate shit. Never consider a starry sky on it's own to be a light source. Add in the moon and you get nice overall coverage with very soft shadows since the overall light level is still low. Then of course there's the sun. A room at ground level or higher with a window will still be light pretty well by the sun alone. Also, even when obstructed sunlight still has strong seepage, especially compared to fire. Ironic that.

So yeah, likely WAY more info than anyone will ever likely use but information is ammunition and I had fun writing it. Feel free to debate.

author=Dragnfly
She's likely talking about the jarring nature of conflicting sprite styles if it switches between the two mid-game. Even for dream sequences or whatnot it's pretty jarring. Expect people to be recommending you stick to one or the other.

Not that I can offer much of a better solution, sadly. Sprite art is kicking my butt so bad on my project that I'm trying completely unorthodox methods. Spriting is so freakin hard.