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[Beragon56]

Originally Posted by Dex

If that's how it works, then it's unsolvable, because board starts at 3. I just do not understand it at all. I'm not able to solve it.

 

"The correct color pattern of the rainbow in-game is: Green, Yellow, Red, Purple, Blue, Orange."]

 

"The numbers for said colors are: 3 Green, 4 Yellow, 6 Red, 2 Purple, 1 Blue, 5 Orange."]

This should hopefully help!

[kelvin205s]

Originally Posted by Godspeak

Your choice to make the game highly linear was a good one. This allows for more tightly designed segments and rules out a lot of the problems that can arise if players can return to areas with altered conditions.

That being said, I think your player signaling needs work, especially at the beginning. It isn't a lot of fun to go hunting around randomly hitting enter on stuff until something happens. Hiding things is fine, but having no indication that anything is hidden is not. I think this is why so many of your players had trouble with the water bucket segment. Another design strategy which actually comes from Mario games and that I use myself a lot is the four T's. Teach, Test, Twist, Toss. Teach is where you present the problem or puzzle in a very easy, solvable capacity with little to no way to fail. Test is similar, but we increase the difficulty and introduce the possibility of failure. Twist is where we add a new thing into the problem which "twists" it and makes it more difficult. This could be adding a time constraint, or some extra hazard that players need to avoid while they solve your puzzle. Finally, toss is just what it sounds like. Toss the puzzle and never use it again. This will keep your challenges interesting and avoid stagnation. I was not super thrilled to see the ice floor mechanic at the end with little changes to how it showed up in the first part.

Final thoughts: I think that a little bit of animation or feedback during the spanking scenes would be nice. This does not need to be sprite animation as I know how difficult that is, but maybe some subtle screen flashing or shaking. You could even use the prebuilt animations that RPG Maker comes with. Shrink down the standard attack one, change the sound to a smack sound, then call it in an event to play on the player character. I think this would make your spanking scenes a little bit more dynamic and a lot more fun to watch!

All in all, even without these alterations, what you've got here is solid and a really great first step. I hope to see more of your work here in the future!

Many thanks for the lesson on game design! I learned a lot from your feedback. I can see from the responses that player signaling is really a major problem in this game, and also some design and arrangement of events can be further improved. I hope I could work on these better in my next games. The idea of animation is amazing, and I will definitely give it a try!

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Originally Posted by Dex

I still don't get it. I would like to have some complete walktrough, because I'm not capable of solving this.

I hope you have already found the correct route from the comments above. In case that's still a problem,

 

you get the order of number 3>4>6>2>1>5 by correlating the color of the numbers and the order of the color in the rainbow (from in to out). Walk in the dice room from right to left with this order, and the gate will open when you press the button.

[Dex]

Originally Posted by kelvin205s

Many thanks for the lesson on game design! I learned a lot from your feedback. I can see from the responses that player signaling is really a major problem in this game, and also some design and arrangement of events can be further improved. I hope I could work on these better in my next games. The idea of animation is amazing, and I will definitely give it a try!

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I hope you have already found the correct route from the comments above. In case that's still a problem,

 

you get the order of number 3>4>6>2>1>5 by correlating the color of the numbers and the order of the color in the rainbow (from in to out). Walk in the dice room from right to left with this order, and the gate will open when you press the button.

Nope, still can't solve it. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Egit: Nevermind, "solved" it.

[Clessith]

How to do the tree puzzle. The enemies are too fast to get behind the tree...

[kelvin205s]

Originally Posted by Clessith

How to do the tree puzzle. The enemies are too fast to get behind the tree...

 

From Maple's advice, you will find out a hidden item at the first map behind a stone. Use it in the map with the tree spirits then you can get through it.

[Clessith]

Thanks! I figured it out on accident after walking away from it for today.

[stickthatbuttout]

The dice puzzle IS solvable without being able to see the colors. You just have to look for a repeating sequence of 6 numbers. You can identify the first and last numbers in the sequence by looking at the start and end spaces. From there, you just have to determine the order of the other 4 numbers. That's what I did because I didn't know what Maple was talking about with regards to being able to see colors.

[kelvin205s]

Originally Posted by stickthatbuttout

The dice puzzle IS solvable without being able to see the colors. You just have to look for a repeating sequence of 6 numbers. You can identify the first and last numbers in the sequence by looking at the start and end spaces. From there, you just have to determine the order of the other 4 numbers. That's what I did because I didn't know what Maple was talking about with regards to being able to see colors.

That's also a way to solve it

Honestly, the puzzles killed it for me, and looking around these comments, i think thats a common issue in a lot of them.

I think the first try will always have its problems, tho, so please dont feel discouraged, the best advice i could give is probably to listen to Godspeak's advice, and redesign some puzzles to make them a little more intuitive if thats possible.

Maybe an option to skip them could also work, considering the main content i tend to play this sites games is, after all, the scenes.

But any choice you take, i hope it goes well, good luck and ill be waiting your next update.

[Ken6789]

Hello, I need help with the dice puzzle, I know the series to follow, but there are several possible ways, and none of them work, when I press the button the door does not open