Dexter Stardust : Adventures in Outer Space

Dexter Stardust : Adventures in Outer Space

Is this episodic or a complete game?
The 'season 1' business on the demo main menu makes mey wary. The large majority of episodic adventure games get abandoned long before being finished. That's just the reality, no matter how vehement developers always are that they'll be different. So these days I've learned to stay far away from any P&C games that aren't in a complete, fully released state.
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dexterteamgames  [Разработчик] 22 фев. 2022 г. в 13:46 
Hello Judge,

Thank you for reaching out. I appreciate your question and your concern. You bring up a great point! Episodic games are tricky. Sometimes we get to see them completed, like "A Journey Down", and sometimes not, like "Fester Mudd".

My game, comes with 5 episodes, all at once, all in the same game. You can think of them like chapters, but I call them episodes, to give it more of a Saturday morning cartoon feeling. There's even an episode select on the Main Menu.

Even so, Episode 4 (the last episode in this game) does end with another "To Be Continued" and the story is left open. If it's any consolation, I am already 1/3 into the sequel, which is a genre change -- it's adventure platformer. Same characters, and it picks up immediately after this game finishes.

As I told another Steam gamer who asked a similar question -- I'd love it if you gave Dexter Stardust a chance, but I understand if this kind of story-telling is not for you. No hard feelings! Games exist on Steam in perpetuity, so maybe once the Dexter saga is complete you can come back and play all of them back-to-back!

Let me know if you have any more questions. Take care.
Автор сообщения: dexterteamgames
Hello Judge,

Thank you for reaching out. I appreciate your question and your concern. You bring up a great point! Episodic games are tricky. Sometimes we get to see them completed, like "A Journey Down", and sometimes not, like "Fester Mudd".

My game, comes with 5 episodes, all at once, all in the same game. You can think of them like chapters, but I call them episodes, to give it more of a Saturday morning cartoon feeling. There's even an episode select on the Main Menu.

Even so, Episode 4 (the last episode in this game) does end with another "To Be Continued" and the story is left open. If it's any consolation, I am already 1/3 into the sequel, which is a genre change -- it's adventure platformer. Same characters, and it picks up immediately after this game finishes.

As I told another Steam gamer who asked a similar question -- I'd love it if you gave Dexter Stardust a chance, but I understand if this kind of story-telling is not for you. No hard feelings! Games exist on Steam in perpetuity, so maybe once the Dexter saga is complete you can come back and play all of them back-to-back!

Let me know if you have any more questions. Take care.

You killed me with the sequel will be a platformer. Good luck!
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You killed me with the sequel will be a platformer. Good luck!

Me too :( And i would think that over 90% of all the other players. Unwise decision if you ask me.
Отредактировано Kuulintu; 8 мар. 2022 г. в 11:43
Yeah, that's immediate 'ignore' button for me too. I hate platformers and won't be in a situation where I would have to play one to get the ending of an incomplete adventure game.
Was so excited to pick this up but I’m just confounded by this decision. Sad.
yeah i loved the first season and love the point and click adventure, A second season should follow the same format another point and click adventure, doing a platformer unless it is puzzle based will put of a lot of people, including myself, i also hope you take on board what the fans want complete this story as a point and click adventure game, and then maybe do a different Dexter game that is a platformer.
These threads keep popping up, and they make no sense. Did you ever think that it's more cost-effective for a developer to release games in pieces? Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, games get abandoned because people like you don't buy them because they want the whole game first?
Did you wait until all seven Harry Potter books were out before reading the first one? Do you wait until a show releases all the seasons before you might watch an episode?
One of the best games I've ever played was Hand of Glory, and it never mentioned there was a sequel. The ending left more questions than answers, and I didn't care for it. The developer might make one in the future. But it doesn't change how awesome the game was or my enjoyment when playing it.
Sure, the sequel not being point-and-click is weird, but maybe it'll be awesome. The developer wants to try something different. The sequel to MechaNika was not point-and-click, because it wouldn't make sense.
Not buying a game because it may not end the way you like is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. If you think you might enjoy the game, buy it and support the developer.
Отредактировано graphixela; 9 апр. 2022 г. в 20:25
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These threads keep popping up, and they make no sense. Did you ever think that it's more cost-effective for a developer to release games in pieces? Did you ever think that maybe, just maybe, games get abandoned because people like you don't buy them because they want the whole game first?
Did you wait until all seven Harry Potter books were out before reading the first one? Do you wait until a show releases all the seasons before you might watch an episode?
One of the best games I've ever played was Hand of Glory, and it never mentioned there was a sequel. The ending left more questions than answers, and I didn't care for it. The developer might make one in the future. But it doesn't change how awesome the game was or my enjoyment when playing it.
Sure, the sequel not being point-and-click is weird, but maybe it'll be awesome. The developer wants to try something different. The sequel to MechaNika was not point-and-click, because it wouldn't make sense.
Not buying a game because it may not end the way you like is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard. If you think you might enjoy the game, buy it and support the developer.

You do you. As for me, I have zero interest in playing or watching or reading the beginning volumes of an incomplete, abandoned series. And I don't are whether that is financially detrimental to the developer or writer or director or whatever. That's not my problem, and I don't care about 'supporting' developers. They're business people, not charities. It's a simple fact that the overwhelming majority of 'episodic' games get abandoned before being finished, so I will not have anything to do with an episodic game unless and until it is complete.
i spoke to the dev he assures me that even with the change to a platformer there will still be puzzles and a great story to so am going to give it a chance
Автор сообщения: GamesMaster
i spoke to the dev he assures me that even with the change to a platformer there will still be puzzles and a great story to so am going to give it a chance

I'm not. If it's a platformer, I'm not playing it. I hate platformers. I don't care if they add puzzles on top of the platforming, and I don't are if the story is better than War and Peace, if I still have to platform it's a hard no for me.
I'm no friend of the "platformer sequel follows a point'n'click game" idea. Though, I'm willing to give it a chance - if it's playable (could be checked through a demo) I consider buying it.

Lots of platformers I played had the flaw the jumps had to be timed *very* precisely and just a millisecond too early or too late lets the jump fail fatally.
Also if the movement via controller is processed as "Stand ... Run ... Stand" instead of analogue speed "Stand - slow - fast - run" it would be a "nope" from me as well.

But as said, I'm willing to give it a chance.
Автор сообщения: dexterteamgames
it's adventure platformer. Same characters,
There is this other game series (with Dan and Ben) that changed to an adventure puzzle platformer in "Lair of the Clockwork God"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060600/Lair_of_the_Clockwork_God/
I really enjoyed that one, although I'm no into platformers as well.
Отредактировано Nice to Have; 18 мая. 2022 г. в 4:18
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Автор сообщения: dexterteamgames
it's adventure platformer. Same characters,
There is this other game series (with Dan and Ben) that changed to an adventure puzzle platformer in "Lair of the Clockwork God"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1060600/Lair_of_the_Clockwork_God/
I really enjoyed that one, although I'm no into platformers as well.

It pained me to see them go in that direction, especially since the first two quite good P&C games showed a lot of appreciation of and knowledge of the history of the genre in the easter egg references and character comments. But this was a hard NO from me when I saw it was half platformer, and I get the sense from various forum posts around different sites that it alienated a lot of other former fans also.
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