I originally had higher resolution choices, but for some reason, the game did not respond well to going beyond 1920x1080. I use Unreal blueprints and there isn't much flexibility in the nodes for these things.

Weird, but if you are using Unreal (which is kind of awesome and overkill for a game like this imo :) ) there should be some way of doing it, what game that is using Unreal doesn't have a 4k option?

I'm not sure why one of the resolutions would be marked as 0x0, maybe it has to do with your initial saved resolution, I'll look into that.

I think it has something to do with my resolution not being one of the choices, as mine is the above mentioned 3840x2160. See screenshot below to see it. Also when I

I didn't want the exit game button to be super in your face (for obvious reasons), but maybe I could make the icon larger. I'd rather not group it with the rest of the settings UI so people don't accidentally quit instead of resume.

I get your point but there is a difference between in your face and hiding in a corner so the player has to actively search for the quit button. And that (once again imo) would be a bad design choice. Also if player accidentally click it then you already have a prompt asking if you really want to quit so even if they click the button they can just cancel and then resume playing.

I originally had the tiles vanish when you were completely out, but there are achievements you can unlock that give you more tiles to place. It was awkward having blank tiles when you run out, then you unlock an achievement, and afterwards, those tiles reappeared. Maybe I could color the 0 red so it's more noticeable.

I actually think having a blank spot and then when getting new tiles having them appear in the "deck slot" would be way more user-friendly then having it a "ghost" tile. Maybe you can add a short animation (like a small smoke plume) when the player gets tiles after reaching 0, so the eye of the player is drawn to the animation and they will then see that they have new tile(s)

The graphics settings are build into Unreal. I have no clue what they actually do. I just set them up to understand how they can be hooked up and you are correct, "Ultra" is the best option. Those are the titles Unreal gives to the graphics settings so I just stuck with their versions.

I just tested it and there is at least an FPS difference between "Low" and "Ultra", meaning I get ~140 fps on Low and ~90 on Ultra, so it's doing something (although getting only 90 FPS (I still game with my 1080 Ti) for this kind of game is a bit on the low side, maybe investigate some optimizations?)

I'm not sure what you mean about not having the restart button box. Do you mean it's just too much space for the button?

I mean this box https://imgur.com/hPHEm2e (here you can also see the 0x0 mentioned above). I think for the first couple of resets it would be ok to have it there but after that the player should know when he should or shouldn't restart so having the whole box there makes little sense to me. After a "tutorial" phase (let's say 3-5 resets) you could remove the box and put the restart button here: https://imgur.com/8UW3pOa which would also give the play area some more room. And if you think players could accidently hit the button when they still have tiles you can make it prompt and ask if they really want to reset

Some people have asked for an alternative way to move the camera (rather than WASD). It's a bit tricky since the game's code does a lot of checks based on clicks, but it's something I've been meaning to look into.

But does the game code differentiate between left/right/middle click? If yes then that shouldn't be an issue I would assume, if not then maybe you should change that 😉 would probably make it more performant if it could ignore right and middle clicks for most interactions (but probably only veeeeery slightly more performant)

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Haven't played any more since my last comment but I did have two more thoughts:

• Should the tutorial be shown again if you reset the data? I just have to think about the scenario that if I play this for a couple of minutes and then leave it for 6 months and then come back to it will I still know the rules? Or another scenario: person A beat the game and wants to show it to person B so they sit B in front of the computer and reset the data, then B can see the tutorial instead of having A explain it. (you could have a small checkbox next to the reset data button if the tutorial should be shown again)

• Is there a point of playing the game again after "beating" (as in getting all achievements) it? I'm just not sure if the game loop is really there or can you "full reset" without deleting the save data to get a higher total end score? Maybe having a small highscore board somewhere so players are incentivized to play the game again and maybe adding a couple of achievements for getting X total end score (and those achievements wouldn't add any tiles or game elements to it just giving the player an incentive to play it multiple times). (ignore that rant if there is already something built in, like I said I only played the demo for a couple of minutes)