5K demo D/Ls - Week #28
October 16-22, 2022
I'll start with a little bit of good news. In the 10 days the demo is on Steam it got 5,000 downloads!
It got some mentions in a few adventure games sites, even though I didn't send out a press release yet.
Here's one of them: Adventure Game Hotspot
All in all a very good start!
My work this week revolved mostly around fixing some bugs and issues with the linux build.
I had help from some good guys in the Steam linux community who tested my many fix attempts, till I got it right.
I'm happy to say all issues have been resolved!
I continued working on chapter 2, we got a new character and a little Monkey Island wink.
Some other things I worked on:
- I added the option for reversed item combination. Up until now you had to combine the items in a certain way. For example to make the list, you would have to use the pen on the papers. Which if you think about, in a logical way, you do want to use the pen on the paper and not the paper on the pen. But from a UX point of view it was a little limiting.
- I fixed another inconsistency in the intro. Yet again, the infamous green shirt. In the original design I made the shirt sleeves longer, reaching the elbows. In the camp fire scene the sleeves were short. So I made the sleeves longer in all 3 camera angles.
- I once again extended the size of the park scene. So when talking to Lily there is enough space on the left to center them into view.
- Dialogue texts are now aligned to the center instead of left.
- Fixed some intro subtitles placement issues.
- Bug - Fast skipping through the last part of the intro (Mikey in bed) could cause the lights to stay off during the whole dialogue.
- Bug - Not getting the right dialogue message when trying to go under the bar door.