nice
I like it, it looks pretty good, nice work
Reviews for "AUTOMATON Prt 1"
A little more work from good towards the great
I loved the music, who is author of it? The gamestyle was well in the steampunk genre, which is all the rage now, I like it too. On graphics - why the proferssor has no hands? I imagine it'd be a bit difficult for him to live without them. Also, the movements where a bit too slow, a little faster next time. The puzzles where way too easy - i didn't need the hints on the board to solve the code lock, more challenge (but no pixelhunting, please). Loved the jokes of fnord and drugstore - so makings of decent plot - don't ruin it, spending extra hours on plot is worth more than extra hours on making something prettier. Overall - good work, I expect the next part to be more polished and longer. This could be the making of great series!
littleNorwegians responds:
Mr Crumpet has hands. You will see them in part 2. He hides them.
Since this is part one i let the player learn instead of being challenged.
Don't worry. I WON'T SCREW UP THE STORY! It's the soul of the game. The fuel that keeps you running.
And im glad you realize that this is part 1 and that i will evolve and make better stuff.
PS:Ben Houge is the composer. It's from the arcanum soundtrack.
Thank you konrads for your review.
Have a nice day ;)
Good start
I think this series really has promise, but there're a few issues I found.
Firstly, the game moves at a really slow pace. The animations for each action that you do seem to take a little too long, and each room only has about three actions needed.
Also, while the music is totally bitchin, I think you need more sound effects.
I don't know if you mean for it to be like this, but since you use a lot of similar textures for things, everything on screen sorta seems to blends together.
Otherwise, I think this will end up being a great series. I love steampunk, and your story actually seems pretty interesting.
Not bad, if a bit easy
That was enjoyable. Thanks! The puzzles were a bit on the simple side. Also, the entire narrative would benefit (greatly) from a spell and grammar check- the story is broken up by a lot of bad sentence fragments, and shifting tone (from somewhat formal, to starting lines with 'so' etc...).
ex:
The instruction page changes tense from "woke up" to "know nothing" and then back to "all you knew"...
"the most special about the automaton..."
"want's"
"TO FIND THE EGG'S"
etc. . .
I normally don't spend much time criticizing spelling and grammar, but this is an attempt at a narrative, and should be proof-read.
The game itself was enjoyable- would benefit from less blunt hints and more deceptive puzzles. Plenty to like, plenty to improve. Good stuff.
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Can't figure out what to do in the Library :O I got the superglue and saw the Gov't book and the Fnord (lulz) book... what do?
6/10 for art
2/10 for music (annoying/repetitive)
0/10 for grammar. L2Engrish
4/10 for dialogue, events and humour
Overall I give this a 7/10.