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I have sneaked out the iteration 8 of Pirate Quest!!! Check it out! This is by far the best release of PQ! Now onwards pirate friends!!! Lets digg out iteration 9 from your feedback! |
Submitted by dntoll
Fri, 11/23/2007 - 08:47
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Iteration 8 feedback
A bit better performance but still pretty unplayable on my gf2 mx. The mouse pointer lags behind a bit. Also the fonts letters are just semitransparent black rectangles. just saying. noone uses these old cards anymore though.
btw, is the location of tortuga also randomized this time around?
and my mother wonders if theres a way to make things easier. after 5 treasures it gets too hard for her. the locks and obstacles make things take a very long time because you can only make rows in a specific direction.
so to level out the challenge a bit, something more than the cannon must be available to give a better chance to get rid of those tricky squares. maybe a bit more time can be given.. or somehow make the cannon have the classic match-3 superpowers like horizontal line blast, vertical, bigger boom. also even blast away ONE square. an extra hard to get special shot. you could pick them up after making lines like clicking on the bombs that appear only it makes the cannon have one supershot of a certain type instead? perhaps a few difficulty levels? you can finish the game in easy with lots of time, play it again with less time and so on...
Iteration 8 feedback
Wow, a lot of stuff has happened on hUb since I last had a look! Now that the GripShift project is winding down I can spend more time thinking about other games
Played the Pirate Quest trial until the time ran out. Well, actually my girlfriend played most of it
She really liked it and just made it to Tortuga. She also thought it was quite easy (like it probably should be for the duration of the trial) but then again she plays "match three tiles" games all the time on neopets.
* Outstanding graphics and sound! A would-be-nice thought on the sound is to have warcraft 2-style comments from the pirate/units when you click them, ie. they become more and more annoyed if you harass them by clicking repeatedly
* We never saw what the purpose of the grog was (but I later discovered it by accident when exiting a puzzle). Could do with an explanation?
* Looked real solid and had no technical gliitches at all, the only obvious things I could see going wrong was text (Aye! and Nej! (Nay?) as options on exit puzzle dialog, dig spelled digg, text overflowing dialog boxes).
* Very cool to get special items such as the cannon! It's a tiny bit like [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle_quest[/url]
Awesome work overall!
Iteration 8 feedback
Superb feedback!
Thanx!
My guess is that we alphablend everything and that is the cause of bad performance on that geforce 2 mx card. It can also be the 1024*1024 texture size? But I dont really know... :oops:
I agree that the grogg needs more explanation as well as the map-switches...
I think you get something that will help you after 6 or 7 treasures, that will make the maps a bit easier... But I think the idea of replaying the game again with less time is good!!! So first time is medium-easy next time is harder... And one highscore per dificulty...
The spelling errors are probably mine :oops:
It is nice to hear from you again washout!
Iteration 8 feedback
det går lite lättare att spela nu, men det är fortfarande väldig segt. musen hänger inte med. i rutan för avstängning där det förfrågas om jag vill köpa hamnar texten på de två sista raderna utanför rutan.
Iteration 8 feedback
Ok I have just released a buggfix for Pirate Quest
Issues I hope is solved are:
[list]Black boxes instead of text and no text showing
If reference rasterizer is used a warning message is shown first[/list:u]
Iteration 8 feedback
As a language fascist I feel a bit awkward at this sentence: "You have found goldbars on one of them you see a map! It leads us to pirate bay" (I know this is silly, I just couldn't ignore it
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My suggestion is:
You have found [i]gold bars[/i]! On one of them you see a map! It leads us to [i]a pirate bay[/i] (or [i]Pirate Bay[/i] if it's a noun).
Iteration 8 feedback
yay text works!
I like the new effects and graphics and sound. great work!
Iteration 8 feedback
Thanx for the feedback!
Nice image there indiecosmic!
We are working hard with the 9th iteration, which I hope you will like!
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