Unity Network Euphoria [v0.3.3d] [Synthetic Bliss]

[RegretfulBliss]

Cleared 0.3. Feels a lot like a demo.
A couple of nit-picks:
- changing the protagonist's name does nothing, the game still calls him "Lewis"
- the first puzzle with the heart-letters is a nice idea, but a bit too complicated for the first puzzle of the game. Many people won't be smart enough to solve it quickly. (Figuring out that you can overlay the letters is easy, but then you have to realize that it is supposed to be "Bjad" instead of "Bcad". j is the 10th letter in the alphabet, but you have to subtract 1, since it starts counting at 0.)
- the red-green sketch lines on Euphy's dialogue images look odd. Is it suposed to look like her projection is flickering? It's not coming across very well.
- typos: "buzz off untill", "in her own world at the momment"
- Annie jumps into her role as bodyguard + manager too quickly. Wasn't she just hired from a cleaning service?
- it's weird that Roxy doesn't react with emotion when you find her. She was in there for a long time and running out of food, right? A normal person would try to break out after a few days at least.
- why a vegetable cutting minigame? Extra mechanics like this are bottom priority.
- no saving the game (was addressed in other comments)

The animated H-scenes are great though, especially the cutscene with Euphy early on. Overall, the characters are likeable and the story is relatively coherent so far. Dialogue is mostly good.
A promising start, but still has a long way to go.

Hello! Thanks for the critique.


To address a few things-

The red green sketch work on Euphy aren't on purpose. Those sprites aren't done yet. They'll be cleaned up in the next update.

There are a few edits and extra bits of story I want to squeeze into the earlier parts of the game to fix how whiplashy the characters kinda are. I had to rush out a lot of the earlier updates of the game, and this caused me to fuck up some of the character writing. (This has been bugging me hardcore lol so i totally agree with your points about Annie especially).

The carrot game as you stated, is low priority. I'm not coming back to that until i actually implement the core gameplay loop. This will start after the "Intro" of the game, which will end shortly after where the content currently is in the current version.

I appreciate the feedback!

 

[Balkoth]

Hello! Thanks for the critique.


To address a few things-

The red green sketch work on Euphy aren't on purpose. Those sprites aren't done yet. They'll be cleaned up in the next update.

There are a few edits and extra bits of story I want to squeeze into the earlier parts of the game to fix how whiplashy the characters kinda are. I had to rush out a lot of the earlier updates of the game, and this caused me to fuck up some of the character writing. (This has been bugging me hardcore lol so i totally agree with your points about Annie especially).

The carrot game as you stated, is low priority. I'm not coming back to that until i actually implement the core gameplay loop. This will start after the "Intro" of the game, which will end shortly after where the content currently is in the current version.

I appreciate the feedback!

Hey there, I couple of things I wanted to say.

First: I found a bug? When you are supposed to go outside I went in back into the pool area and got stuck, see screenshot.

Second: I really like where this is going, characters looks great and the I enjoyed the dialogue.

Now, please please do not take this in the wrong way, but I sincerely hope this doesn't turn into another EraHunter and their... chaos. This game seriously looks like so much fun when it gets a good chunk of progress. I wish you luck in the development.

 

[Vega Cifer]

This game is hot, but yeah it has a lot of bugs. Not gonna lie I played this and wanted to enjoy the h-scenes while I was at it...but I've had to back out twice with there being no way to save

The second time, i got stuck in the pool like posted above. Got confused on the tool closet thing, unsure of what to do there...but yeah. After getting stuck I'd have to redo the game again, which isn't long, but after a few times lost that motivation. I'll come back later, or maybe when game updates again

Anyway this game can have potential, I like the animations and stuff

 

[AnItalianGoD]

please i need an update i love this game so much

 

[IrkinInc.]

Say...is there some tech magic way to play o android?

 

[DoKu_]

Just wanted to comment because when I was about to try the game I saw that you shipped the version with the debug data folder in it, and as it implies in the name you should NOT do that

In this case it doesn't really matter because it's only debug information, but sometimes Unity could generate automatically a backup of the entire source code of your game and you could upload it to the internet without noticing (like Fall Guys did) and in final release or advanced development stage of the project that could be a BIG issue.

Not trying to lecture anyone I'm not a developer myself, just trying to warn you with all the good will in the world in the case you didn't know.

 

[RegretfulBliss]

Just wanted to comment because when I was about to try the game I saw that you shipped the version with the debug data folder in it, and as it implies in the name you should NOT do that

In this case it doesn't really matter because it's only debug information, but sometimes Unity could generate automatically a backup of the entire source code of your game and you could upload it to the internet without noticing (like Fall Guys did) and in final release or advanced development stage of the project that could be a BIG issue.

Not trying to lecture anyone I'm not a developer myself, just trying to warn you with all the good will in the world in the case you didn't know.

oh shit thanks for letting me know. I knew i was forgetting something.

 

[traktorist123]

At one point, the game stopped responding to my actions - I couldn’t interact with doors. Then I decided to reload my save, and as a result, my quests got stuck. According to the quest, I need to go to the lobby to meet Annie, but when I go there, nothing happens, and the kitchen doesn’t open.

 

[mmmffgdf]

i got a virus varning from the gofile download on windows and google but nothing on virustotal when checking url/md5

 

[genericthing5]

save?

 

[IamSOdrunkBruhh]

man thanks a lot on not giving up on this.
Just wanted to say I appreciate you still working on this.

 

[HelloThere677]

Got a virus alert from the file when downloading. "Trojan:Script/Sabsik.FL.A!ml" . This is a safe file that Windows Defender is just sensitive against or something?

 

[Fabrziozi_01]

so there are some problems with the new version ig
1) once u load back in the game all the door are (again) blocked and u can't go troght them
2) once u unlocked the door for the city and u use it i see myself double and i can't go on with the story

 

[RemnantNick]

Really loving the game, though it feels like the updates don't add a lot if not remove content, unless I got myself stuck going for the shopping trip somehow.
Still one of few projects I follow, appreciate the work

 

[RegretfulBliss]

Really loving the game, though it feels like the updates don't add a lot if not remove content, unless I got myself stuck going for the shopping trip somehow.
Still one of few projects I follow, appreciate the work

There will be an another update next week that will fix more bugs and add a Halloween event. Then we're back to adding more actual story content.

 

[RegretfulBliss]

so there are some problems with the new version ig
1) once u load back in the game all the door are (again) blocked and u can't go troght them
2) once u unlocked the door for the city and u use it i see myself double and i can't go on with the story

Could you pass me your save file?

 

[RegretfulBliss]

At one point, the game stopped responding to my actions - I couldn’t interact with doors. Then I decided to reload my save, and as a result, my quests got stuck. According to the quest, I need to go to the lobby to meet Annie, but when I go there, nothing happens, and the kitchen doesn’t open.

Send me your save and ill take a look.

AppData\LocalLow\Synthetic Bliss

 

[RegretfulBliss]

I find it so funny that the best bug reporting happens on the piracy website and not on the game's itch page or official discord server. XD

 

[FooFita]

yea that letter puzzle is absolute garbagio

 

[AmyTheOne]

yea that letter puzzle is absolute garbagio

Strong disagree.
It took me a moment to realise you had to overlap the letters but it gave me an "aha!" moment and I felt clever. I liked that.