Unity Abandoned The Potion Room [v0.50a] [PinkFuton]

[cooldude33]

Ok, so I've played through the new version and it's great, I just have one issue with the wording in the "Pink Potions", unless it's supposed to be on purpose?

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It had me a bit confused and I spent a few minutes trying other ingredients that might seem pink and/or smelly until I realized I actually had the right ingredients the first time, just in the wrong order

 

[DarkKrusty]

so, are the Harpy eggs the Doxy eggs? cause I cant seem to see any more ingrediants apart from whats on the table and the hair on the shelf.

 

[HUNDmiau]

The droxy eggs are left of the sulfur

 

[DarkKrusty]

The droxy eggs are left of the sulfur

OH! I did not see those, well blended in

 

[PinkFuton]

Ok, so I've played through the new version and it's great, I just have one issue with the wording in the "Pink Potions", unless it's supposed to be on purpose?

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It had me a bit confused and I spent a few minutes trying other ingredients that might seem pink and/or smelly until I realized I actually had the right ingredients the first time, just in the wrong order

Thanks! You're right it does make it seem like a different order. I'll reword it next update. I need to come up with more ideas on how to communicate the ingredients in non obvious ways.

 

[RandyNewman]

so, are the Harpy eggs the Doxy eggs? cause I cant seem to see any more ingrediants apart from whats on the table and the hair on the shelf.

They are the black powder next to the sulfur and the cauldron, a bit hard to spot.

 

[DarkKrusty]

Thanks! You're right it does make it seem like a different order. I'll reword it next update. I need to come up with more ideas on how to communicate the ingredients in non obvious ways.

nah leave it like that, adds to the ditsy air head thing the potion does.

 

[RandyNewman]

Really like this game so far, it seems that the text for the pink recipe is cutting off right as she says something about wanting to suck on something and heading over to somewhere

 

[cooldude33]

OH! I did not see those, well blended in

It took me a while to spot them too. For anyone else about to play the game

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Thanks! You're right it does make it seem like a different order. I'll reword it next update. I need to come up with more ideas on how to communicate the ingredients in non obvious ways.

I figured out the right order by looking at the names mentioned in the book, the first name starts with a C and the second name starts with an S. I have no idea if you made this intentional or not, but that's one way to communicate the ingredient in a non-obvious way.

As for other ideas, perhaps word puzzles? Something to decipher, fun but not too difficult? Consider the other potion book you added where the words are faded and incomplete so the reader has to deduce the ingredient from the letters that are left.

You shouldn't worry about that for now, I think the bookshelf is a bigger priority right now because soon enough there won't be space left on it.

nah leave it like that, adds to the ditsy air head thing the potion does.

Perhaps it's better to leave it that way, yeah. Makes it more interesting.

 

[PinkFuton]

nah leave it like that, adds to the ditsy air head thing the potion does.

Yeah I think I will, it seems like most will get to the answer in the end.

Really like this game so far, it seems that the text for the pink recipe is cutting off right as she says something about wanting to suck on something and heading over to somewhere

Thanks! The idea for the page text is that it's supposed to be a page from an actual book, so the sentence continues on the "next page" even though the player never sees it. I may change it though if it just looks like I forgot to finish the sentence.

It took me a while to spot them too. For anyone else about to play the game

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I figured out the right order by looking at the names mentioned in the book, the first name starts with a C and the second name starts with an S. I have no idea if you made this intentional or not, but that's one way to communicate the ingredient in a non-obvious way.

As for other ideas, perhaps word puzzles? Something to decipher, fun but not too difficult? Consider the other potion book you added where the words are faded and incomplete so the reader has to deduce the ingredient from the letters that are left.

You shouldn't worry about that for now, I think the bookshelf is a bigger priority right now because soon enough there won't be space left on it.


Perhaps it's better to leave it that way, yeah.

Haha, I mean, I could pretend it was on purpose. I was hoping most people associate sulfur with smelling bad and that's about it. Word puzzles are a good shout, I just remembered I had an idea for a coded messages also. And yes the bookshelf is looking more and more small, I will have to do something about it.

 

[wyguuty]

Anyone figuried of the purity potion yet.

 

[cooldude33]

Anyone figuried of the purity potion yet.

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[wyguuty]

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Thank you

 

[ViviX12]

a new, promising, and pixel-art game? oh yeah sign me in

 

[cooldude33]

The idea for the page text is that it's supposed to be a page from an actual book, so the sentence continues on the "next page" even though the player never sees it. I may change it though if it just looks like I forgot to finish the sentence.

I think maybe adding "..." or a dash at the end might make it seem more obvious that it's supposed to cut off. "Heading over..." or "Heading over-" something like that.

 

[MyStupidPornAccount]

It would be awesome if in this future larger game there were transformative potions that didn't just stay within a singular scene, making hermoine a bimbo then just playing the rest of the game like that would be awesome. Taking more than one in the larger game and retaining the effects so long as they don't conflict would be great too. It would be alot of re doing animations but man it would be cool.

 

[PinkFuton]

It would be awesome if in this future larger game there were transformative potions that didn't just stay within a singular scene, making hermoine a bimbo then just playing the rest of the game like that would be awesome. Taking more than one in the larger game and retaining the effects so long as they don't conflict would be great too. It would be alot of re doing animations but man it would be cool.

I'd love to be able to something like that but in a full game it would be way too much work. In a larger game I would want Hermione to be able to walk, run, play with potions, cast spells etc. etc. all with their own animations. Adding a transformation would mean I would have to do all the animation work again. And any time I wanted to add an animation to normal Hermione, say jumping over a fence, then I would have to do twice/thrice/quadruple the work depending on how many transformations there are.

That said, I hope to have smaller questlines where you stay transformed for short periods. This is all much further down the line though.

 

[ViviX12]

I'm liking this game
the art is good, animations very smooth, although simple
personal preference, I wish bit more happened in the animation since the text doesn't do as much for me
and I don't exactly like it being HP based, especially one of main characters, never been into HP, but again, just a personal thing
beside that, I also like the puzzle element, which even though not really challenging, still feels rewarding when you can solve it yourself
I hope the development goes smooth :D

 

[Bad Robot]

I am pleasantly surprised by this game. Especially that you kept your promise of updating it quickly. I really like how you are doing the animations. There is something very satisfying about the animations for the books landing on the table.

I agree with the post above about there needing to be some kind of indication that the text for the bimbo potion is over. Ellipses would probably work, but I prefer the idea of her making a comment like "Maybe I can get one of those cute Slytherin boys to help me out." and just leaving it at that.

I'm really impressed with what I'm seeing so far, and the idea of a full game is exciting. Keep up the good work!

 

[ViviX12]

another thought I had: it'd be much better if some more animations ended as short loops rather than still images, like the splash fail
for example making the breast expansion one into a breathing loop, would make it so much better to look at