Owmacohe / LastBreathOfANewEmpire

https://omch.itch.io/last-breath-of-a-new-empire
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Playtest - Luka! #2

Open Lukaterasu opened 2 years ago

Lukaterasu commented 2 years ago

I love the feel and concept of your game. The dialogue is super engaging and humorous. There is pressure for every decision as you do not know the value of each of your resources when you start. I also enjoy the freedom. The goal is sort of whatever you want it to be. You can help with the rise/fall of the empire.

Sadly, I couldn't play the whole game. After the third / fourth interaction, a bug occurs and the game freezes. I tried three times, it occurred every time. If you would like, I could send a video of what the bug looks like.

I wish I could've played more and bring the demise of the Empire!

Questions (answered from what I could play)

1. The game is meant to slowly feed the narrative to the player through these small dialogue interactions. From the limited amount that you’ve seen, do you think that a full-fledged narrative could be accomplished this way?

Yes! In fact, it would be a much more interesting approach.

2. Would this fare better as a 3D game with an actual shop environment? Or is the minimal UI a style of its own?

I like the existing, minimal style. I do not think 3D & crazy graphics would be necessary for this type of game.

3. Should the narrative stakes be lowered? In other words, is the story’s scope and worldbuilding too vast?

I couldn’t say, as I did not experience the full playthrough:(

Owmacohe commented 2 years ago

I only wrote 3 dialogue trees, so that's why the game stops functioning after they have been completed. Ideally, there would be more in a future iteration of the game.