Some help needed. :)

[endasil]

I am making a small game as a school project and am in need of some beta testing and feedback. So if you would have any boring moment, please download http://www.dragonrealmsoftware.com/avadon/doa.zip

If you decide to test it, please read the text file included.

Everyone who downloads it and gets it will get their name in the credit screen listed as beta testers.

[magick1]

This thread should be in offtopic, I think.

Beta/bug testing is always fun, downloading as I write this

[hans1976]

My first thought was: scam! virus!
But these forums have all your personal information before you can post here. I will check it out soon, I think.

[endasil]

Well, if someone posted a message like this on the forum, and i wondered if it was trustworthy or not, i would ask around in game about the character.

Endasil is my name both on forum and in game.


You could also check at gamedev forum, and see that people there have tested the game without their computer exploding. As you see i posted the same link there as i posted here.

Gamedev forum:
http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums ... _id=294026

[magick1]

Was a fun game to play

A few suggestions:

Alternative camera movement keys, maybe on the numpad, for people who don't have a qwerty style keyboard.
I use a Dvorak layout, meaning that "a" and "s" are at opposite ends on the keyboard.

Dark actor, dark objekts on a dark baground. While this fits the theme of the game (I presume), it is a eye strainer in the long run.

Marking on the exit for easier navigation.

Remove the resolve of areas already done, if you enter them again.

A save and load game option.

Fullscreen, not sure if that is possible with the dev tools used.

And a possible bug, the music stop after a while.

Did I mention that the game is fun?

[xenofur]

it's quite nice indeed, some things tho: try running the mp3s through mp3gain, musics stopss here too, it's kinda difficult to see where the figure is pointing, camera movement could be faster

[dam23]

Just dl'd, will give it a try tomorrow, after some rest

[endasil]

A few improvements have been made to the game now based on feedback from various beta testers. Give it a try and give some feedback.

Should be easier to see character, gravity switches and puzzle blocks aswell as what exit you should take.

More improvments will come during the week.

[xenofur]

music still stops roughly in the 3rd level(this puts a serious dent into motivation for me =))
strong point: the sounds, very well made and enjoyable, would be nice if there were more ^^
good improvements on visibility, have no problems to determine his facing now
camera still feels sluggish, also a button to set the camera behind you or even an option to let it always point into the direction you are facing would be nice
a compass would be helpful, it happened twice already to me that i wandered back into level 1 accidently ^^
some kind of grid or something to better gauge the positions of the blocks would be helpful, esp. when playing with the camera near to the ground
the esc menu was borked on my comp, completely black except for the currently selected text

[endasil]

Thank you very much for your feedback.

Music should be fixed tomorrow, it seems like many feel that this is rather high priority.

Sound: Where would you like to have additional sounds?

Going back: I thought having the camera zoom in on the right one was enougn, but apparantly not. Compass is an interesting way of solving it.

Menu: The menu is black? Tried the game on 3 computers and can't reproduce the error. Do you have any instant messenger? It would be helpful if i could do tweaks to try to solve it and get immediat feedback on the result. Hard for me to solve when i can't break it here.