Mithos56

January 26th Weekly Update (Patreon)

Published:

2020-01-26 17:01:00

Imported:

2021-01

Content

I worked on a few things this week, most of them small quality of life things.

The big thing I tried to tackle was making the small puzzle in the dungeon easier to understand. People seem to have been confused by it.

As opposed to reworking the puzzle, I first want to see if giving players some build up will help them understand it better.

Now, when you enter the area, there are a few easier puzzles that are similar in nature you must overcome to get through. I hope by ramping things up like this, it will make it more obvious what the solution is to the more difficult puzzle that already exists.

If that doesn't work, I will likely change that puzzle to reveal a treasure as opposed to opening the door out of the area.

There are a few other adjustments that I made to some other difficulty stuff, but its nothing significant at the moment.

I'm still working out the final area of the level. The difficulty is trying to build/find the proper assets for the area. Once I have those, that should fall into place rather quickly.

Files

Trying to make tutorial puzzle easier

In my wip tutorial/verticle slice style level, people were having difficulty with a puzzle I had added that involves throwing a bomb onto a track to blow something up. Instead of removing it, I wanted to first maybe try to build up to it more. So to that effect I built a couple puzzles before it that used the same principle. I just hope it makes it easier to figure out. If not I may just make the puzzle reveal a treasure instead of open the door forward. You can follow my game development here: https://www.patreon.com/Mithos56 (NSFW)