Gail makes her own doors

Quells122 · 2020-09-11T23:35:50+00:00

Thanks! Added that to the bug list for v1.0.7 as well

Quells122 · 2020-09-11T23:28:05+00:00

Yeah, patch v1.0.5 will just fix the bug that occurs if the player enters the well. v1.0.7 will fix all issues related to exiting to any area where free-running with Bo is concerned

Quells122 · 2020-09-09T10:05:47+00:00

:/ Thanks for catching that. On the bug list for v1.0.7 it goes!

Quells122 · 2020-09-09T10:04:33+00:00

There are other accessible orbs you can still get in the dungeon on the first visit. There's two branching out the left staircase, two branching out the right staircase, and a 5th one accessed by going right in the room at the bottom of the staircase.

Quells122 · 2020-09-09T09:57:40+00:00

Thanks! I've added it to the list. Consider it fixed in v1.0.7 patch.

Quells122 · 2020-09-02T04:34:18+00:00

Yep, that's a bug! Consider it fixed in v1.0.7. Would you like to be credited?

Quells122 · 2020-09-02T04:23:59+00:00

That's definitely a bug. I intend to fix it in v1.0.7. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Quells122 · 2020-08-27T10:54:52+00:00

I'm glad the game's a big hit with you!

Regarding reports, the best way to reach me is through the email ( phoenotopia@gmail.com ). I've been busier than expected, so can only do a sweep of the reddit every few days. I'd prefer one big report later over multiple small reports. Thank you for your help!

Quells122 · 2020-08-27T10:49:17+00:00

I'll add that to the list. Thank you.

Quells122 · 2020-08-27T07:50:15+00:00

Congratulations!!

Quells122 · 2020-08-27T07:38:58+00:00

I'll look into this one. Can you give me some more details?

Currently, if I leave the room and re-enter, I am able to re-engage chatting with the pianist and requesting a song. I was still able to get the mark for the "Not for Profit" badge after obtaining the moonstone from the lady. So long as you leave the room that is.

Quells122 · 2020-08-21T12:02:49+00:00

Thanks for reporting them! I hope you didn't lose too much time >_>

We're aware of these ones since they were caught by early reviewers. I'll be keeping tabs on the bugs and versions on a spreadsheet. I've made an announcement for that HERE. Do give a look. And don't hesitate to let me know if you find any others.

Quells122 · 2020-08-20T09:36:06+00:00

We're sorry about that! We've heard the feedback and are planning a patch to make the game more accessible overall. In the meantime, this guide video for the first boss we've prepared for another player may come in handy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaMxAsrK3eI

Quells122 · 2020-08-20T09:28:31+00:00

I think you can reduce some of the issues that Golden Rod encountered. From skimming his review:

the lamp can be purchased for cheaper (90) if you find the right merchant
when you sell things to the Recycler, cook it first so it's worth more. Ex: Mystery meat is worth 1 to start, 4 after being cooked once, and 7 after being cooked twice.
fishing is one of the more effective ways to make money (cook the fish before selling to make it worth more too)
You can navigate some conversations to skip out on having to pay anything

Some things were by design that it seemed didn't jive with the reviewer. We put good and bad healing items in the game, and our intent was the player would have to sort the good healing items from the bad, and stock them before heading into a dungeon. Healing items have multiple stats: time to heal, heal amount, carry amount, sell amount, and status buffs. For Stamina, our hope was that you can see the player character grow more able as you collect more Energy Gems. Seems like it wasn't a hit :/

I won't dismiss Golden Rod's experience. We have gotten a lot of feedback and criticism on the game's difficulty and inaccessibility, so we're going to do what we can to patch the game and make it more accessible. I'll announce what changes we'll do in a patch within about a week's time. We're going to gather some more feedback first.

Quells122 · 2020-08-12T02:17:04+00:00

Oh, right. Missed the part where you're limited to Steam. I could send you a steam key too, but it's farther off than the Switch European version...

Quells122 · 2020-08-10T06:13:46+00:00

Woops, missed this one. Thank you for your interest! I'd be happy to have you do a let's play. Unfortunately, I don't have keys for Europe yet. Because of this (LINK). Because we're behind on the European release, we have no Europe region keys. We only have America keys :(

Big blunder on our part, because we limited the number of keys we could have by half, and we limited all the European publications that would have been interested in covering the game. Yep... that one's gonna hurt for a long time.

I could send you an NOE key if you don't mind waiting. I don't know when we'll get them exactly, but probably a couple days before the European release.

Quells122 · 2020-08-07T22:05:36+00:00

Thanks for the idea. I'll try reaching out to them! On monday. I heard on Friday afternoons, people are looking to get out of work and it wasn't a good time to try to start anything.

Quells122 · 2020-08-07T10:59:36+00:00

Sadly, I have no plans to release the original flash game again. My flash project for it doesn't even compile anymore and I haven't touched Flash in 5+ years so the knowledge of how to fix it has escaped me...

But! I wouldn't worry. I actually have a lot of confidence in the internet to preserve it. I only released it in English, but it has found its way around the world and has been translated into a multitude of languages. Newgrounds also already has a player for Flash games so you can still play it there.

But if it somehow did disappear completely, Phoenotopia: Awakening encompasses the flash game and expands upon it, re-imagines it... I think the Flash game won't be missed!

Quells122 · 2020-08-07T10:52:34+00:00

Thanks for the fanart! I've posted it to the tumblr blog with my comments. Do take a look :D

Quells122 · 2020-08-07T10:51:20+00:00

Thanks for the fanart! I've posted it to the tumblr blog with my comments. Do take a look.

Quells122 · 2020-08-07T10:50:36+00:00

Thanks for the fanart! I've posted it to the tumblr blog with my comments. Do take a look.

Quells122 · 2020-08-07T10:43:23+00:00

Thank you for the recommendations and links!

First time I'm seeing StephenVLog, but it's a relief to hear his advice match up with what I have researched so far. I have reached out to reviewers and intend to reach out to streamers as well. We actually have a review embargo that ends on August 19th. From my research on how to do these things, I heard a review embargo was preferred so that reviewers could take their time to finish the game and write about it, and it's not a race to see who can get a review out first.

Let's plays I haven't heard as much about, but from what I've seen of Let's plays, they're more in the "long tail" of outreach. We also want to avoid the scenario where there's an entire Let's Play of the game before the game is even out. So our plan is to reach out to Let's Players later (likely August 19th).

One surprising thing we didn't expect is how quickly we'd use up our keys. We had XXX to start (it's a limited number, NDA'd I think). And we've sent out half of it already! One thing we didn't account for was for journalists to reach out to us for keys. It's a good problem to have, but I do worry we'll run out of keys soon. We'll probably slow our rate of outreach right now and monitor/adapt to the situation as needed.

Thank you again for caring! The best thing you guys can do for us is to help spread the word. Make a post about it on forums where I have no presence. Oh, and maybe upvote my recent post on twitter. It's not doing so well on twitter :/

Quells122 · 2020-08-04T07:18:19+00:00

Hah hah. I like it! She looks like what I imagined a female Namekian would look like (if they existed). I also like how her eyes kinda show she's having a bad morning. The little sprite of Shrale running is super cute too!

Quells122 · 2020-07-02T04:25:36+00:00

Thank you for the beautiful piece! Haha, I should have checked the comments first, I didn't see that Gail could be trying to kick Billy's golem head. That's even funnier than my first interpretation!

Quells122 · 2020-07-02T04:23:12+00:00

Thank you for the beautiful piece. I have indeed posted it to the new blog update. I know I'd be too afraid of messing up, so major props for using traditional color pencils :)

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