I am trying to tell you, to reduce size of the game, is to have a guide. A guide is NOT a walk through. A guide is two things. One, is a list of events happening on around x day. Second, is between events, what can be looked for, done, etc. for experience, money, and other things. Anything new can be added in, without a whole lot of change to the game. Just a simple text edit. Two separate guides, one free, one paid. Copy the free to the paid, and add in the paid parts, on the initial guide. Think outline. And outline guide will help everyone, including you, Vortexcannon.
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It is impossible to do. The reason is that the public is no longer limited equally to everyone. Even without Patreon/Club subscription some players get early access to new scenes, which are now in development. I use releases in waves, as Google does in their market, or Microsoft with windows.
As for the guide. Quests List describes all quests. And Achievements List will describe all the actions that you can do besides quests. For example, collectibles, leveling hero, pve/pvp missions and so on. It is available to everyone without restriction. Achievements are now in early development, I'll fill it with every build.
Last Man 2.61
Changelog and links to download in first post
As someone who has been interested in this game but held off by all the premium content, I just had a question about if there were any plans for one time payments to unlock all content for people who done want to pay what basically amounts to a monthly subscription.
The game looks awesome and everything I just dont want to pay so and so amount every month just to continue to enjoy all content
Naphala
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slowly but sooner F95 lose his main goal about free games here
game dev's advertisepaying games here and no one stop them.
game dev's advertisepaying games here and no one stop them.
You can just play the public version. I constantly add new content to it as soon as it is ready. Make donations only if you want.
This game is free.
Because this game works online. This is indicated in the first post.
One can hardly complain about developers trying to earn a buck. And even less if he or she tries to advertise it (the goal of this site isn't, in the end, to derive developers from earning money, but to offer everyone a chance to download those for free).
Hmm. I remember playing this game. I think I will give a premium account a chance.
Most of what he said was factually accurate.
He does have to log in, which turns some people off.
The save system is janky at best and completely against the user at worst.
The UI does leave a lot to be desired, especially the map.
Granted he was rude, and some of what he said was inaccurate but it wasn't that stupid.
I think you're just overly defensive because you're the developer. You're going to have to get used to the idea that people don't particularly like being forced online for a game that gameplay wise has no reason to be online, and a game that completely prevents you from cheating despite the fact that it's single player.
While the game is free, a more accurate description is "freemium." The reason you've forced online and made the save system like you have is specifically to milk as much money as possible for someone attempting to streamline their gameplay. It shouldn't come as a surprise to you that some people don't enjoy that.
He does have to log in, which turns some people off.
The save system is janky at best and completely against the user at worst.
The UI does leave a lot to be desired, especially the map.
Granted he was rude, and some of what he said was inaccurate but it wasn't that stupid.
I think you're just overly defensive because you're the developer. You're going to have to get used to the idea that people don't particularly like being forced online for a game that gameplay wise has no reason to be online, and a game that completely prevents you from cheating despite the fact that it's single player.
While the game is free, a more accurate description is "freemium." The reason you've forced online and made the save system like you have is specifically to milk as much money as possible for someone attempting to streamline their gameplay. It shouldn't come as a surprise to you that some people don't enjoy that.
BobTheWankerDK
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A guide, which is not a walk through, is an outline. I will give you an example, below.
Day 1, you should do this, or this.
Go to work
Go to the store, buy this.
Go home, and this will happen.
(premium content here)
(empty space to anything new)
Day 2, do the same on Day 1.
This will happen when at work...
A list of things to look forward to. The free one will not have the premium content in it. Two outlines, with places for new content. Keeps the download small. The free one can be posted here, and updated, easily, and quickly. The paid can be on your site, and updated just like the free one.
Day 1, you should do this, or this.
Go to work
Go to the store, buy this.
Go home, and this will happen.
(premium content here)
(empty space to anything new)
Day 2, do the same on Day 1.
This will happen when at work...
A list of things to look forward to. The free one will not have the premium content in it. Two outlines, with places for new content. Keeps the download small. The free one can be posted here, and updated, easily, and quickly. The paid can be on your site, and updated just like the free one.
@Crim
I work on the game alone, I do not have designers, artists, and so on. I am also not a professional. So of course this is not an AAA game. But the game has more than 250k players. So it is quite popular. And I spend a lot of energy on it. When a person comes with 0 messages, without playing a game, and says that game is bad, it is not criticism. To write that game A is better than game B, this is not a criticism too. This concerns not only my topic. Such people go to other threads too. Such people go to someone else's instagram and write to girls that they are ugly or fat. Of course I do not accept this.
I work on the game alone, I do not have designers, artists, and so on. I am also not a professional. So of course this is not an AAA game. But the game has more than 250k players. So it is quite popular. And I spend a lot of energy on it. When a person comes with 0 messages, without playing a game, and says that game is bad, it is not criticism. To write that game A is better than game B, this is not a criticism too. This concerns not only my topic. Such people go to other threads too. Such people go to someone else's instagram and write to girls that they are ugly or fat. Of course I do not accept this.
I always add one scene per week to have time to work on more features. Because I'm not working just on scenes. Most of the time this week I spent working on the Quests List and with the quests themselves. And with the features that appear next. Also, I have 3 more games besides Last Man.
If you have not received confirmation for your account, you need to contact me by email, as indicated on the site. I can not help you on the forum.
This is done using the quest system. On the map are marked places where you should go. The Quests List shows you what to do. Girls write you an SMS with reminders. If you notice in the game a place where all this does not work, then this is a bug, and just fill in the bugtracker. The game should work without any third-party guides.
As I said, some people get early access to content without subscribing to Patreon/Club. These are ordinary players, including from this forum. This is an automatic procedure, when I need more feedback. So everyone plays in a same client. In addition, there are not so much content in dev state, the game will not be smaller if I remove it from "public" build.
Thank you for deleting my factually correct comment.
Pointing out I have 0 comments is not an argument. Comparing your game to others is a valid criticism as they exist in the same genre and have similar development times and team sizes.
Saying that I didn't play the game may be true. I didn't see any "save game" buttons anywhere so when, some ways through chapter 1, game crashed and I could't find a way to load it, I stopped playing. I just didn't want to trudge throught the same path have without the skip function. Claiming that I played the game would be a bit of a stretch on my part.
I tried.
Pointing out I have 0 comments is not an argument. Comparing your game to others is a valid criticism as they exist in the same genre and have similar development times and team sizes.
Saying that I didn't play the game may be true. I didn't see any "save game" buttons anywhere so when, some ways through chapter 1, game crashed and I could't find a way to load it, I stopped playing. I just didn't want to trudge throught the same path have without the skip function. Claiming that I played the game would be a bit of a stretch on my part.
I tried.
You don't need designers, 99% of the visual content isn't yours. It's just clips from existing porn or stills/renders from existing places. For what little you do need, you could afford to pay someone if you really wanted.
Also, by definition you are a professional. I don't know if English is your first language but in order to qualify as a professional you need only to receive money for what you're doing. Which you do.
When most of what he said is accurate, of course it is a criticism. I have played the game and I expanded on what he said, and that's a criticism too.
To compare one thing to another is a legitimate way to criticise something. If I say Diablo 3 should have a roll system the same way Path of Exile does because it's better, you don't get to unilaterally claim that somehow that isn't critique of Diablo 3.
Honestly the game relies on RNG (RNG IS BAD.... like seriously... its bad! lol) i mean... i need to reload the save at least once or twice if the walktrough says "you're gonna receive an SMS from this character" and then i didn't... if your advice is to wait till it does and do something else... its not really recommended because the game got a day limit! and the thing you have to do is just gonna stack up and in the end you're not gonna be able to do them (because you're gonna get hit by another thing that doesn't trigger lol)
also... getting money in the game is also RNG...and the gain is pretty dang low even if you got perfect on it you get like... what? 5k? and sometime you need like...100k for this scene,50k for that scene,and 100k for this....its.. just... unbalanced especially since it need a freaking energy to do them and energy is important because if you run out... its sleep time for you...end of the day! and 1 day is important if you don't want to miss anything (so please increase the amount you get per game 40k-50k/energy sounds good enough)
ofc there's the option to "fuck it all and just play it blindly".....i wanted to...but my own self screaming "noooo don't do that you need to them all!" xD
also... getting money in the game is also RNG...and the gain is pretty dang low even if you got perfect on it you get like... what? 5k? and sometime you need like...100k for this scene,50k for that scene,and 100k for this....its.. just... unbalanced especially since it need a freaking energy to do them and energy is important because if you run out... its sleep time for you...end of the day! and 1 day is important if you don't want to miss anything (so please increase the amount you get per game 40k-50k/energy sounds good enough)
ofc there's the option to "fuck it all and just play it blindly".....i wanted to...but my own self screaming "noooo don't do that you need to them all!" xD
Walkthrough is just example, you do not need to follow it exactly. The game has enough days and money for all quests. You do not need to restart the game, all quests will trigger while you continue other tasks in game. Like a week ago I was able to finish game with 100% without cheats and restarts, no problem here.
EDIT: But ok, I will make a change to the next build: the seed number will be permanent, all quests will be pre-generated. Restarts will no longer needed (they will not change seed).
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