How many part series is this going to be?

[b9thirty99]

Hey, this reminds me of Kings Quest games therefore I really want to play the game but I would like to know how many chapters are planned ?

[Orrery Games]

Hi MehKind. This game is the first of three chapters. Thanks for your question. :)

[b9thirty99]

Thank you sir. I am looking forward to play this.

[sp3lfanaaT]

Game runs on my crt monitor (old 17" monitor (1024x768 recommended setting)

Only one problem: seems the game is using too many fps? my cpu is at 50% all the time
since my cpu fan has been repalced its no longer a cpu fan thing.

i5 750 quad core 2.67 8 gb ram win7 geforce 750 ti 2 gb ram
maybe its the famous vsync?

a few other unity and visonaire created games had same problems, 1 unity game had it fixed by allowing the users to set the vsync options in the game menu.

Since the game uses an engine i think a vsync adjustment from the ingame menu would be needed to make sure all users can play without extreme cpu usage.

Thats the only question /suggestion i have, i have no other complaints, cause the game looks very good, the performance of the game engine is rather unoptimised
it would be great if i could play it without risking my cpu .




regards spelfanaat123

[markzwaan]

The game looks promising but I'm kind of worried about buying yet another indie episodic game which may or may not ever be completed. Especially since this seems to be your first ever project. Last year the developers behind "Blues and bullets" and "Missing: an interactive thriller" went out of business leaving us gamers with incomplete games. Other episodic games by indie developers have a tendency of being released at a snails pace; I'm still waiting for part six of the dream machine (first episode came out in 2012) and part five of Kentucky Route Zero (first episode came out in 2013). And let's not forget Broken Age by Double Fine, which also took it's sweet time to be released (funding completed in 2012, second episode was released in 2015) and was both wonderful (art and story) and disappointing (puzzles). So I'm very warily about putting my money into yet another indie point and click game knowing that it could years for the other two episodes to arrive (if they ever do). So I would like to know how far production is on the remaining two episodes. Have they even been sketched out? Are they largely done? Will everything depend on how well the first episode sells?

[sp3lfanaaT]

hi, so you worry that the game won't be finished ?
thats the risk with chapter based games, if these were 4 usd or euros one might take it easier as a loss if the product should stay unfinished, at 9.99 is gets rather expensive.

One example of chapter based game is:

Shadows on the Vatican ( 4 chapters planned) sofar 2 released i own both and am still waiting for 3 and 4 to arrive, so it is always a risk with chapter based games especially when sold at a high price like 9.99 or even more.

Anyway at the moment i have a more important issue: cpu eating at 50% , and it seems it is a visonaire thing.

[nobsterthelobster]

Originally posted by markzwaan:

The game looks promising but I'm kind of worried about buying yet another indie episodic game which may or may not ever be completed. Especially since this seems to be your first ever project. Last year the developers behind "Blues and bullets" and "Missing: an interactive thriller" went out of business leaving us gamers with incomplete games. Other episodic games by indie developers have a tendency of being released at a snails pace; I'm still waiting for part six of the dream machine (first episode came out in 2012) and part five of Kentucky Route Zero (first episode came out in 2013). And let's not forget Broken Age by Double Fine, which also took it's sweet time to be released (funding completed in 2012, second episode was released in 2015) and was both wonderful (art and story) and disappointing (puzzles). So I'm very warily about putting my money into yet another indie point and click game knowing that it could years for the other two episodes to arrive (if they ever do). So I would like to know how far production is on the remaining two episodes. Have they even been sketched out? Are they largely done? Will everything depend on how well the first episode sells?

Fanstatic post. Now I have something perfect to copy and paste into a number of game foruns. I'm not joking.

[sp3lfanaaT]

Fanstatic post. Now I have something perfect to copy and paste into a number of game foruns. I'm not joking. [/quote]


That will be a huge number cause chapters seems to be the big thing.
There is a sort of western theme adventure with a skinny girl if i am correct, it is 9.99 or more and uses chapters, i will search for the game then put the name here.

[LJS67]

Originally posted by markzwaan:

The game looks promising but I'm kind of worried about buying yet another indie episodic game which may or may not ever be completed. Especially since this seems to be your first ever project. Last year the developers behind "Blues and bullets" and "Missing: an interactive thriller" went out of business leaving us gamers with incomplete games. Other episodic games by indie developers have a tendency of being released at a snails pace; I'm still waiting for part six of the dream machine (first episode came out in 2012) and part five of Kentucky Route Zero (first episode came out in 2013). And let's not forget Broken Age by Double Fine, which also took it's sweet time to be released (funding completed in 2012, second episode was released in 2015) and was both wonderful (art and story) and disappointing (puzzles). So I'm very warily about putting my money into yet another indie point and click game knowing that it could years for the other two episodes to arrive (if they ever do). So I would like to know how far production is on the remaining two episodes. Have they even been sketched out? Are they largely done? Will everything depend on how well the first episode sells?

Great post. Wish the developers would have come in to reply. I get what you're saying and have Missing, Kentucky Route Zero and Broken Age in my library - so I get you. Been there!

Here's how I look at it though. And of course this is all dependent on your gaming budget. I survived the great drought of classic adventure games that occurred with the rise of console games. So I was just thrilled to see adventure games make a comeback. Unfortunately with delivery disasters like Broken Age and Asylum (coming in 2020 and was due in 2013???) funding isn't flooding in for indie developers. So for me, if a game looks good I purchase it. I hope my support helps fund future games. Sometimes that works. Sometimes not so much. But I'm trying because I don't want to see these types of games disappear again.

[Travis]

I understand the frustration of independent games not being completed, or taking much longer than expected. And this is not limited to video games. Indie board games, electronics devices, art, music...pretty much any independent creative effort.

But do you not understand why?

Independent studios cannot afford to make a full game right away. Not only because of lack of resources to finish a full game, but because of lack of cushion to survive the failure. They can't afford to put their eggs into large baskets.

Professional studios make games that underperform all the time, but they usually have the resources to survive such setbacks. An indie dev could easily destroy the lives of their entire staff if they risked it all on a full game release, only to have it fail to reach a necessary benchmark of sales.

So they need to test the market. Essentially, put out concept games. This inevitably will result in many games that don't finish. And even if a game does well, it may take a while for the rest to come out (because they need to build nearly from scratch, whereas big studio "episodic" games are actually fully complete before the first episode ever releases).

It's pretty much guaranteed by the laws of econcomics that games will be abandonded, and when it happens it can be quite a let-down. But just because something will "never be finished" doesn't mean what does exist is worthless. I prefer to see everything indie devs have to offer.

If you disagree, and think nothing should be released without a virtual guarantee that it will be finished, then perhaps perusing the indie scene is not for you. In any sort of independent creative field you will always encounter a lot of half-done and "incomplete" stuff. That's the very nature of experimentation, labors of love, niche markets, and art itself.

[sp3lfanaaT]

i think i have the game.... ( checking)
yes i have it but.... tbh (to be honest) i stopped playing and uninstalled the game because i think steam needs to run in order to play and thats a no, and the game takes too long before i see things 'evolve' its okay for a game to last long , but this one seem very long ....
Anyway i am more into HOG ( Hidden Object Games ) now, 1 to 3 hours, some are 7 hours so thats a nice balance.