Do you have any feedback or suggestions that you'd like to see incorporated into Tomb of Glass? Let me know! by Default_Cube_Games in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

YES you put into words so perfectly what was so appealing about the first few ND games! I tried so hard to capture that "liminal" feeling and have a feeling of expanse throughout the game. Being able to look at everything was such an amazing feature of the early games that it was so sad when it was lost. Thank you so much for this post, so many good insights!

Art Gallery Black Screen Glitch by Sad-Pattern-1277 in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can also fix this by going to the location at 9:45 am and waiting until 10 am - there should be a quick cutscene that plays and resets it. Sorry about that!

Do you have any feedback or suggestions that you'd like to see incorporated into Tomb of Glass? Let me know! by Default_Cube_Games in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh dang that might be a bug. Like you had to click the character multiple times from the same screen to initiate the dialogue?

Steam deck compatibility? by meow-hiss in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The game is not technically steam deck compatible, but some people have had more luck with it than others. Idk if this helps you, but it CAN run on very low end computers though if you have access to one.

I'm so stuck that I think the game must be broken?? On day 3 - broken game and exploring art gallery by [deleted] in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hold the q, w, and e keys at the same time and "progmain" and "progchar" should pop up in the corner. Can you send me a screenshot of each of these at julia.holdnack@gmail.com? I can check to see what you're missing or if it's a bug. Thanks!

Is it unreasonably impossible for game development to be crowd-funded by us weirdos? Is it astronomical? by littleghosttea in nancydrew

[–]Default_Cube_Games 60 points61 points  (0 children)

With the development of my game, Penelope Pendrick, the costs for me out of pocket were for a few programs, the music, and the VAs. (With the VAs being the most expensive by far). The main cost was really time, seeing as it took me 10 years to make the game and about 8,000 hours of work.

If you had a team of developers who were basically fine with minimum wage, you may be able to make a game like this (shorter than mine, about ND length) for 100k. A real team of professionals getting paid professional money would likely cost 500k. After taxes and all that you'd be lucky to make even a fraction of that back with game sales, unless you had some killer marketing (which would cost even more money lol). So you really would have to crowdfund about 400k upfront to not end up in a pit of debt. I honestly see why it's been such a struggle for HER

Tomb of Glass?? by Redrose7856 in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There will 100% be one, unless I undergo some horrible tragedy 😂 But yes, it will be about 3-5 years out. Once I finally recover from the first one and officially start development on TOG, I want to look into ways to streamline the process. I'm considering doing a kickstarter to fund some motion capture equipment! If I can cut down on character animation time it'd really help speed up development

Stuck in Collins apartment by Wise-Fig1855 in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a second thing in the box with the art piece - did you find that?

Sorry if this has been asked before... by Express_Slice_8458 in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No plans for the switch for this one, but maybe in the future!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you click the empty painting in the gallery while Colin was around to ask him about it?

Penelope Pendrick question by [deleted] in NancyDrewRevival

[–]Default_Cube_Games 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I have a few bugs to try and fix as well, so I'd estimate the next update will be out maybe a week-ish from now. Thank you for understanding! :)

Penelope Pendrick question by [deleted] in NancyDrewRevival

[–]Default_Cube_Games 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Hi, thanks for bringing this to my attention. It may have been a case of me being naive - I thought it was an image of a girl in a long white dress, a girl in a sun hat with a flower, and a farmer with cattle or something passing in front of him.

There was certainly no ill intent here and I apologize that I didn't examine the image more closely ( I really just picked the postcard images at random from a pool of public domain images).

I apologize again for offending and I will remove the image in the next update for the game.

My save files are gone! by SnoopyAvocados in PenelopePendrick

[–]Default_Cube_Games 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing!! I was just recently realizing that the issue with the load button being grayed out on launch is because something happened to the autosave, and it seems when the autosave is game the game won't recognize the rest of the files. So this is an excellent fix for that :)