PyWeek - Richard - feedback

Fun	Prod	Inno	Comments
3	2	3	This could be turned into a cool game, but right now, there's just too many crash bugs and interface issues.
2	3	2	I like the introduction! The characters all look rather too happy considering what's going on, though... Production is rather inconsistent. The music is good and the cute-style characters are very nice, but the visuals are let down somewhat by the main map, and very badly by the rudimentary shop and inventory screens. The gameplay I found rather tedious. I'm not a big fan of these kinds of turn-based party-oriented RPGs with screens full of statistics to watch. Some things that might help to make the gameplay smoother: - Visual indications of the health of the characters and whether they have AP left, so you don't have to keep looking across at the stats all the time. - Auto-centering on the active character I found jarring -- might be better not to do that and let the player scroll explicitly when he wants. - The difference between live and dead enemies is rather subtle and hard to see. Performance: There are some signs that my system is struggling a little to cope with this game -- the sound is choppy sometimes, and during battle it seems to miss mouse clicks unless I hold the button down for a moment or two. This makes me think something is amiss, since this kind of game shouldn't come anywhere near taxing my system (Mac G4, dual 1.2GHz, ATI Radeon 9000 Pro).
4	3	3	As cute as the pyweek version. Unfortunatley there's also little new stuff... yes - the menu, the shadow effect, the interface improvements, code-cleanup, .. - alright, alright. It's just not quite finished and polished.

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This could be turned into a cool game, but right now, there's just too many crash bugs and interface issues.

I like the introduction! The characters all look rather too happy considering what's going
on, though...

Production is rather inconsistent. The music is good and the cute-style characters are very
nice, but the visuals are let down somewhat by the main map, and very badly by the rudimentary
shop and inventory screens.

The gameplay I found rather tedious. I'm not a big fan of these kinds of turn-based
party-oriented RPGs with screens full of statistics to watch. Some things that might
help to make the gameplay smoother:

- Visual indications of the health of the characters and whether they have AP left, so you
don't have to keep looking across at the stats all the time.

- Auto-centering on the active character I found jarring -- might be better not to do that
and let the player scroll explicitly when he wants.

- The difference between live and dead enemies is rather subtle and hard to see.

Performance: There are some signs that my system is struggling a little to cope with this game
-- the sound is choppy sometimes, and during battle it seems to miss mouse clicks unless I hold
the button down for a moment or two. This makes me think something is amiss, since this kind of
game shouldn't come anywhere near taxing my system (Mac G4, dual 1.2GHz, ATI Radeon 9000 Pro).

As cute as the pyweek version. Unfortunatley there's also little new stuff... yes - the menu, the shadow effect, the interface improvements, code-cleanup, .. - alright, alright. It's just not quite finished and polished.