Hi. I'd like to take a moment to answer each point of this, and express what is happening, and where my thoughts and plans are going with this. Certainly, constructive opinions and suggestions like this is well taken. After all this is the first release, and many things are going to be updated, fixed, changed, as time goes on.
Quote First off, I like the more fluid jumping motion evident in the older demo. pressing the space bar and the up arrow to jump makes no sense to me as a gamer, and is really confusing. End Quote I'm not certain I understand why you might be confused, but suggestions on improvements are welcome. Remember it is not just space+up, but the left and right arrow keys can be used like space+left to jump up and to the left. The numpad keys work the same way with the 0 as the modifier, and 4, 6, and 8 as your direction keys. Quote Second, I didn't like the lack of feedback I got on certain situations. I'm climing a ladder, I hear a gem. I jump up to pick up the gem as I get to the top of the ladder, and I fall to my death. End Quote You do need to be at the top of the ladder to get the gems. I'm not exactly sure how you fell to your death, but this certainly does need more testing. I do know if you walk off the side of a ladder you will fall to your death. Usually, you can jump off ladders and do fine. I'd welcome some more details on the exact steps you took to produce the fall. That way I can figure out if this is a bug or simply the way the game works. Quote I understand that there is a more realistic touch, but how was I supposed to know that jumping off a ladder would result in something like this? End Quote As stated earlier actually you can usually jump off of ladders and do fine. I would like some more user feedback on the steps taken to produce the fall so I can figure out exactly what happened. Quote further more, I didn't even know I wasn't at the top even though it certainly sounded like I was. To then continue on about lack of feedback. I'm about to jump over a snake that wants to bite me. Well. I take a nice huge jump, and plummit to my doom again. End Quote As this has never happened in my in house testing I am suspecting you are doing something differently than the inhouse testers. For example, you mention a huge jump. There is no such thing. Press space and right arrow will jump you 4 feet in that direction. If you are continuing to hold down the arrow key and then I'm suspecting what we have is a bug. Quote Unfortunately, I wasn't aware that there was a ledge, and/or a rope. End Quote. Certainly, review and feedback isn't perfect. Although, this release was assuming that most players were familiar with the original Monty release so less detail was placed on review at this point. I will be at some point in the future adding a review command to review and look around, but it is not yet a part of Alpha 1. Quote There is one more thing that was a little confusing. The read me file. I understand that this is a demo, and that things wil change and so forth. But documentation shouldn't leaveme with unanswer questions. For isntance. I didn't knwo that jumping on a snake would kill me or that I could actually step off a ladder. Maybe I missed an important line, but I'm not sure. End Quote Well, this is the entire point of Alpha testing. Finding out where users got confused,, what needs fixing, and what still needs to be documented. Thanks. _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
