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[uzudil]

Hi all,

I'm looking for playtesters for my game Enalim. If you enjoyed playing 90s PC rpg-s like Ultima, Wizardry, etc. you might like this one too.




The game is built for desktop OS-s, I have windows and mac executables building nightly (linux is possible, let me know.)

The game is in the alpha stage of development. It's technically complete but there are lots of rough edges and many side-quests/areas are not finished yet.

I'm looking for feedback on:
- the story: is it engaging? What would you change, etc. (I'm sure there are many things misspelled...)
- the graphics/game style: I'm going for that 90s esthetic... What do you think?
- the music/sound: too much? Not enough?
- any problems/issues running the game (or praise if it works!)

You can download the nightly build here:
https://uzudil.itch.io/enalim

If there is interest I can do a devlog topic on the code/tools (the plan is to open source it after completion).

I appreciate the feedback, thanks!
--U

[Naeval2]

Count with my sword

[jbarrios]

Hey uzudil,

I played your game.

I like the retro Ultima style.

I like that there are tons of items to pick up that have little use.  It makes the world feel lived in.

You may consider adding a combat encounter earlier to help hook the player.

Overall nice job.

[uzudil]

Good idea and thanks for the feedback! Maybe I'll add some combat on the initial island area.

Thanks,
--U

[Thaumaturge]

If I may, let me request a Linux version!

I'm interested in trying out the game--but, well, I primarily use Ubuntu Linux!

[uzudil]

I built the game on Ubuntu 22.04 (running in a vm on my mac) and the title screen works but after that I just get a black screen. 

This distro has OpenGL 4.5 (according to glxinfo) which is more than enough to run the game.

See if it works for you: https://we.tl/t-PWcnsFh8S6
(link will expire at some point)

[uzudil]

The daily builds now also produce a linux binary (built on Ubuntu 22.04) which is uploaded to itch.io:
https://uzudil.itch.io/enalim

Thanks,
-U

[Thaumaturge]

I'll download the itch version and hopefully try it out tonight, I intend! ^_^

[Thaumaturge]

Okay, so I've tried out the Linux version, and have a few thoughts:

First of all, the visuals are almost painfully Ultima VII. Whether this is a good or bad thing is a matter of personal preference, of course.

I will say, I'm not sure that I'm a fan of having even background elements be outlined--it makes it that much harder to pick out what's actually important, as well as introducing superfluous noise to the scene, I feel.

Otherwise in visual matters, I'm not sure of how far along you are there, and thus whether you're looking for more feedback on that sort of thing. Would you like more thoughts there, or would they be premature at this point in development?

In terms of gameplay, the basics seem to work well enough.

Buuuut... I'll confess that I'm stuck. And quite early on, as well!

So, I've reached the second island, and have ventured through the caves and talked with the monks. So far so good!

I wasn't able to defeat more than a few rats--the knife that I found didn't seem to do much damage, and I don't seem to have many hitpoints--but I slipped by them. (I think that I was hoping for a better weapon to be found.)

But then I was given a key by the monks, opened a door--and was killed by green creatures.

Now, I am aware of the spell that I was given!

... I just can't seem to get it to work.

It seems that if I click on it to select it, I can potentially then click on something in the world--but so far I've found no valid targets; every attempt has been met with a "no entry" cursor. I somewhat expected to use it on myself--but I can't seem to click on myself without instead opening the character screen (I think that it is).

There are some icons below the spell's entry, which I thought might indicate reagents--but I haven't managed to decipher them.

I feel like I'm missing something--but I don't know what it is. :/

So, would you tell me please: where am I going wrong?

I'm interested to try out more of the game, but without a means to progress that's proving troublesome!

[uzudil]

First, thank you for the detailed reply! Yeah it looks like Ultima VII... it's something I have to get out of my system, I guess. 

For the spell trouble:
- equip the spellbook
- press M to select a spell (this is optional since you only have 1 spell at first)
- use it like a weapon: stand near the enemy and press Y

I'm currently working on adding gamepad/controller support and redoing the UI so hopefully magic use will be more intuitive in the future. I hope with this you can get past the initial section of the game and make it to Trinest where you can gain a party member. 

Oh also, one of the monks offers free healing... you can keep going back and get healed between rounds of combat.

If you're interested in more playtesting or even contributing to the game, send me an email at hunhm1 at gmail.

I'm glad the game works on Linux! The engine is written in go (which can compile to linux) but it does rely on native libraries for sound and graphics.

Thanks!