April – Fall of Faith

IT COMES IINTO THE GAME TO THE SCREEN HERE YOU press play but it won't let me press anything i have tried reinstalling it but it still own't work can anyone help me?

Hi WhatTheWaffle,

Just played your demo, I hope you don't mind me providing my feedback - I think feedback is a really important part of the game development process.

Things Done Well:

1. The art style is absolutely beautiful, and clearly the standout element of the game for me.
2. This art style is coupled to some equally excellent music which in summation lead to a real sense of depth and immersion with the game's world. In other words the theming is consistent and captivating.
3. The idea of the 'Other Side' is a good one and I enjoyed the moments where this was required. Inspired by the 'Upside Down' in 'Stranger Things' perhaps?

Areas for Improvement:

1. I feel the 'Other Side' element was drastically underused in the first portion of the game I played, and felt largely optional which is a shame - especially as this is literally the first thing you are taught in the game. 
2. My monitor's native resolution is 3840 x 1200. Your game detected this and scaled correctly, though this placed some critical GUI prompts for the on boarding / tutorial process in the very extreme lower corner of the display - which I initially missed. Whilst I appreciate this is a somewhat extreme resolution, when I changed to 1920 x 1080 in the games options it removed the GUI HUD entirely, making progress quite challenging. After some guess work it sorted itself out in the next room and no problems thereafter.
3. The current demo feels quite repetitive (completing the first area and using the portal stone takes you to a very similar looking area with yet more enemies) each level just feels like a massive series of fetch quests. I appreciate however that your roadmap includes more narrative and story driven elements between stages which I think would go a long way to providing a justification for the onward progress beyond just 'grinding.'
4. My gut feel is that the game would play better as a linear RPG without the roguelite elements and procedural generation. I feel the art style, XP system and crafting - if linked to a good story would be more than enough to carry this to success. From a personal perspective a game like this would appeal a lot more to me.

I hope the detailed feedback is useful, I am developing my own game so totally hope you take this in the manner it is intended - to help you make the best game possible!

All the best - Ben.

Hey there, i played your game demo, i absolutely enjoyed it, i have part 2 coming this week, it is such a great game!! love the art style as well!! Keep up the awesome work! =] <3 

do you know when the game may be released?

Gosh dangit, I try to be funny and snarky with all my comments but I haven't been this excited for a game to be released in years. How dare you ruin my sarcastic streaK!

My friend and I had a lot of fun playing this game! It had great music and was beautifully made.

Just got done with it.
Really fun. I liked the rougelike mechanics, however it would be nice if you were able to exit the game without having to start over from level 1 especially if you didn't die. Combat was fun especially when your dash deals damage. Item crafting is a nice touch.
It was a good demo, but I feel like things like drop rate for permanent items might have to be lowered or give the items a higher max level. I reached max level for all the items after about 2 hours of playing. So if this were a full game there wouldn't be much more to collect after a couple hours of play.

Otherwise, the style was great and gameplay was really enjoyable. Great job and can't wait to see what comes next.

Hi! This game was super cool and fun to play! The only things that I didn't really like were that I could not find out how to damage the lord of the roots for the life of me and I also can't minimize the game so if I want to play the game I have to play through it all at once or just give up the nonpermanent progress. But overall it's super cool and I'm looking forward to trying out different skill builds and seeing which one suits me best. I'd definitely buy it if the official version comes out with a price tag.

Is there a way to save porgress in game?

This is by far the cleanest and most beautiful game I have ever seen

Loved this so much. The art style is so pretty. Can't wait to see what else you can make :)

When I start it up I get stuck on the menu screen, I can't click anything. I can see the mouse but when I try to click "New Game" it just doesn't do anything. This game looks amazing and I love the music

why is it that when i boot it up..all i get is a black screen? is there a reason for this?

which engine did you use??

Amazing game

Can you tell me anything about the music? Do you currently have a dedicated composer, or are you using library music? Is the music in the game representative of what you hope it will be on release?

Why not linux version?,on the other hand, looks amazing congrats!!

I know this is kind of par for the course with this type of game, but I really enjoyed being able to build around my items in my second play through. It's kind of RNG gated because you have to get the item drops, so you can't really "target" what you want. But, I had plenty of crit items, so I went crit and attack speed, this combo was quite a bit of fun. Crit is always fun. But, I could've also focused on being tanky. Like I said, it's par for the course, but I really enjoyed it and the item system.

The dimensional shift ability is really, really cool. There aren't a whole lot of applications for its use currently, but I think this really shows some serious potential for creating interesting puzzles and boss mechanics. Once the full game releases, this is the mechanic I'm most excited to see again. Also will there be a dimensional being boss you have to fight? Cause I think that would be really,r eally cool. Somewhat challenging because you have to manage how many actions you have, but it'd be really cool.

Speaking of bosses, I loved the boss fight at the end of the demo. It took me a minute to figure out what I needed to do, but for the first boss in the game he was a fun fight. Use of the dimensional shift ability during the fight was well done. Ultimately I'm just glad it wasn't a tank and spank fight.

The game art is well done, some of the effects being employed are fantastic. Things like seeing the shadow of my character as she walks around the campfire, the glow on her arm and the tree leaves moving about are awesome. I also think the dimensional shift effect is super sick. 

Just a quick shoutout to the audio settings being appropriately setup. Didn't have to touch it, it was at perfect volume going in and it was majestic. 

One thing I didn't enjoy about the game was the experience or dimensional fragments you have to pick up. More often than I'd like I'd be running through a zone I previously cleared and would pick up straggling experience. That sucks, cause it's experience I could've missed out on and probably would have if I hadn't ran past through. I wish it was more traditional and just automatically funneled to you no matter what.

Something I did not include in the video was the lag I experienced throughout the game. For the most part the game ran at 60fps, but there would be instances where those frames would dip down to 20fps. I couldn't figure out what was causing it, but after seeing other comments I figured it probably wasn't on my end and something to do with the game. 

So overall I really enjoyed the demo. I look forward to playing the full release and future updates to the demo! keep up the good work, I can't wait to see where the game takes me. :)

You have me whole-heartedly invested