Science Girls! (RPG, Win/Mac/Linux)

[Leon]

The game looks interesting. Also it seems this game should gather some decent word of mouth with it's "controversy" if this thread shows anything.

[zoombapup]

Played the demo, really liked the game. A couple of observations:

1) I would prefer if the enemies had some visible health so I could determine who to attack. But I realize this might be a sticky one.

2) I got down a few floors and had a battle with six round thingies, only there werent six because they kept multiplying. It was a real grind to get through them, but I finally did it and felt good afterwards.

3) The screems are a bit annoying. Probably because there's a lot of high frequency noise in em. Perhaps town them down a bit or give me a slider to do so? I like having them there, but its just overkill now.

4) The rooms as I cleared them seemed pretty empty and devoid of purpose other than for having a cel to kick off an encounter. Feels like the room should play some part in the combat or have something in it to aid/hinder me.

5) Needs a bit more feedback in the combat. Suggest some more particle effects for hits/misses and generally a bit more sparklies to let me know how I'm doing.

6) The characters in iso view need a bit of animation. Just a sort of breathing animation would do. So I feel theyre a bit more alive.

[papillon]

1) I would prefer if the enemies had some visible health so I could determine who to attack. But I realize this might be a sticky one.

Missy (Computer Girl) has a power that scans enemy data, which includes seeing their health, but you don't pick her up until after the demo. (Of course, it's questionable if it's worth wasting a turn of actual attack just to get data on the enemy, which is why the power also has a debuff attached.)

3) The screems are a bit annoying. Probably because there's a lot of high frequency noise in em. Perhaps town them down a bit or give me a slider to do so? I like having them there, but its just overkill now.

I'll have to check with the dev on that one. I know there's a slider for sound effects in general but I'm not sure how feasible it is to manually adjust only those effects.

And yes, more sparklies would be fun.

[papillon]

New demos are out with varied difficulty levels - so anyone who found it too tough to begin with, please check out the new settings and let me know how you get on. Thanks!

[Jack Norton]

Too tough? ugh... not really

[papillon]

Many people did! That's the problem with genre fans writing games.

(Me, I've just finally started playing Revenant Wings and I had to repeat the first mission with summoned-espers in it about five times before I stopped getting killed, and each time I had to go through all the lead-in dialog... I feel like SG was already much more friendly!)

[papillon]

Update adding slightly more fun with graphics - walking animations, varied battle backgrounds, a couple upgrades on special-power visuals.

It's still not super-flashy, and probably never will be since this is a no-budget project. Still, hopefully a bit easier on the eyes.

http://www.hanakogames.com/newcombat.jpg

http://www.hanakogames.com/science.shtml

[Indinera]

Are you the author of this? I thought not

[papillon]

That depends on how you define author. I worked on the game, and I'm selling it, but it's not 'my' game, it's the Caterpillar's.

[Indinera]

This is what I thought, thanks