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[absenter]

I played the demo. It's really well done! I don't have much in the way of criticism/help. It plays well and serves it's purpose.

[nikolaus]

The work never stops... startscreen & savegame stuff

[nikolaus]

No end to all the tedious work. The game now has a website:

ferdythecat.com

Still minimalist & copywriting sucks. Has to be improved gradually.

[nikolaus]

Touch controls for android version working like a charm!

[nikolaus]

Have a look at this

[mpolney]

I always find these sort of touch controls clumsy. I haven't played a block pusher on Android whose controls I was happy with. I might eventually want to port Incriminator to tablets, so I need to figure out an answer to this myself. One possibility is to have a higher level interface where travel is taken care of for you. In your case that'd mean setting it up so you can flick any pushable block in a valid direction and Ferdy would walk (without pushing anything else) to that block and push it in the direction you flicked it.

[nikolaus]

You're probably right, though it works better than I expected. The main point is that games not specifically designed for touch interfaces always hold some sort of compromise. The honest thing would be to remove the cat altogether, so it would make sense to actually push the blocks around with your fingers.


Anyway, your idea about auto-movement is nice. I dont know if I want to go that far, because it takes a sense of control away from the player. The quality of the game is that you actually have to choose the exact path yourself. We'll see..


Kind of stuck to the graphics. I am always trying to push this further, but then I have to follow along and redo more parts I thought to be finished before... Scratched the city world, think this river scenario might be more charming.

[mpolney]

The fireworks background is my favorite out of the lot.

A middle ground with the movement is something like Chocolate Castle, where you drag the character around with the mouse. The cat could be dragged along for movement only, then when it's next to a block you lift you finger then drag the block separately. That way you can move around quickly without accidentally messing the stage up. This is my current best idea for tablet controls for Incriminator.

[nikolaus]

More bold colors today

[Calined]

i really really like how you achieve such hmm "deepness" or "richness" with so little art that is not even related to the gameplay-puzzles and is basically just decoration of the blocky paths and blocky puzzles!

i guess once again this is an example of how less is more and how our brain starts imagining the rest.

neat!! =D

[nikolaus]

Thanks mate! You basically described what I was aiming at. :-)


Updated autumn forest, bit more smooth now + level view.

[Kurt]

I want to be Ferdy the Cat

[nikolaus]

Be warned, it is not an easy life

[nikolaus]

The level design is as good as completed! Hardest part of it all. 54 levels across 9 worlds. To build up anticipation, I am showcasing two more designs.

Are the colors too strong? I saw them on a screen other than my shitty ass dev laptop, my eyes hurt a bit.

Minor polishing, uncomfortable stuff left to do - hope to ship this in about 3 weeks!

[Glyph]

Looking very good. Ferdy needs more love <3
Also, this game inspired the game I made a few weeks ago (down in my signature). I'm looking forward to playing through it when it's finished

[Ultima Ratio Regum]

Very cool puzzle mechanic, and I like the look of the later levels a lot. The aesthetics of the worlds are really nice, and I don't think the colours on the blocks are too bright at all. In some ways it puts me in mind of Chip's Challenge. Look forward to playing the entire thing

[nikolaus]

Thanks guys!

I like my small but quality audience here.

[nikolaus]

The music is supposed to play backwards on undo. My musician beautifully prepared reverse mp3s of the songs to switch to on undo, but the library I am working with (LIBGDX) does not support setting the playback position of music.

Is there anybody with a deeper understanding of LIBGDX and Java who might be able to help me out? Im in need to get this working on desktop and android devices.

[mpolney]

I haven't used libgdx, but you can probably do it by writing raw samples to the device, using this class. However if you go this route you'll have to fetch the samples yourself using some kind of decoder. The gdx-audio extension seems to include such a decoder. Now, this is assuming that all of this works as advertised, and you'll have to reimplement some of the facilities you're currently getting from libgdx..

[nikolaus]

Thanks mpolney, for pointing me in that direction. It seems the libgdx audio extension decoders are not able to decode files from within the games assets directory. They have to be copied to an external storage beforehand. All of this does not sound healthy at all...