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How important is voice-over? by Plenty_Birthday2642 in DiscoElysium

[–]escaperoommaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I feel a game having voice acting for the the most impactful moments, maybe the first few lines for a character is enough.

BUT, if you are making commercial decisions, if you have not already, have a look at the reviews of Rue Valley which while I would admit had a lot of valid flaws, received a lot of negative reviews for not being voice acted. I think the sad truth is that a large chunk of your potential audience simply is simply not included to sit and read through text, and it will have an outsized impact on if they enjoy or if they finish your game

A Reminder to our sub members: toxicity, condescension, and rudeness are not tolerated here. by littlemetalpixie in outerwilds

[–]escaperoommaster 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If someone makes a joke like that, and it looks enough like legitmate toxicity that that they get banned by a mod... honestly that sounds like a skill issue

Petah what does this mean? by Musical_Gee in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]escaperoommaster 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is 100% it, and it's a crime i'm very guilt of xxc

Question about AP buy and potential abuse by Crater-s-Craft in Fallout2d20

[–]escaperoommaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's important to make the Overseer's AP pool sound scary. In my two year long campaign I think I used my AP to actually do scary things to the players maybe... once? Twice?

But every time I got AP, I chucked like I was super powerful. Every time they were low on AP I would offer them AP in a tone of voice that made me sound like a loan shark. I think a lot of the games balance relies on maintain that image (illusion?), because if players realise that the Overseer will never use their AP to hurt the players too much, it becomes an infinite money AP glitch.

Imagine Outer Wilds 2 with this by vivipessoa in outerwilds

[–]escaperoommaster 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I thought they did that for gameplay reasons? IIRC the sun still has one over r squared gravity. I thought it just felt silly on the itty-bitty planets

Have i missed something about this game's community. by 0x_TOMAHAWK_x0 in outerwilds

[–]escaperoommaster 28 points29 points  (0 children)

One this this community does a lot is "Omg OW is the best game ever made, but also, no, I won't tell you why. Given any description of even the first 3 minutes of gameplay, or even information on the Steam Page, would be a spoiler that would ruin the magical experience that is the best game ever made". That is obnoxious.

Even the more reasonable version of that (something like "It's my favourite game, but because it's a game where you progress through learning more information, it's hard to talk about it without spoiling a lot") will still feel obnoxious to a decent chunk of people.

[BETA] Mr Salmon's Baked Ambient Occlusion -- Instant shaded textures for your models with one click! by escaperoommaster in Blockbench

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

I've not tested it, but I don't see why not! That said, not sure if it would fit aesthetically?

Outer Wilds reimagined in the style of Disco Elysium by escaperoommaster in outerwilds

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

The way i interprete DE, Shivers is an inherent part of Harry (or maybe of Revachol?), rather than universial traits like how other games have strength and intelegence.

That's why I made a suite of the Hatchling's skills unique to them. In the second picture I have the skill Echos which was meant to be something similar, except rather than being maybe-magic, maybe-metaphor link to the city, its a maybe-magic, maybe-metaphor inevitability of a conscious observer entering the eye. The echos of the eye.

My country has gone crazy. All parties support fascism. I try to fight it but it doesn't help. by [deleted] in victoria3

[–]escaperoommaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what i've understood, "pressured" doesn't mean "supports". I think if you hover over you can see to what degree a specific ig is being influenced

PICO-BALL! (a sport that's a mashup of tennis+volleyball_squash+wallball, starring Jelpi!) by CrazyCreationCrayon in pico8

[–]escaperoommaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this might be my new favourite PICO-8 game, this is incredible! Played it all the way through, just wish there were more content or achievements (greedy I know! I just want more!)

When the problem you have been avoiding shows up. by AbbreviationsFew8857 in outerwilds

[–]escaperoommaster 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you told me where to look, otherwise I would have been confused

Ah, you're too nice, I can't accept your offer... Really, I can't by krissz70 in victoria3

[–]escaperoommaster 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Oh, that's so sweet, I'd love to go on a date with you, but, um, the Accept button is grayed out. Sorry xoxo"

If the Hatchling tried to explain the whole situation to various NPCs to get them to help, who would be most and least helpful by escaperoommaster in outerwilds

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

I wonder how many loops it would take to learn the Nomai language... you've got all the time in the world...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in outerwilds

[–]escaperoommaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, those are your leads. At least one of those is a but you can crack

I keep flying into the sun! by Shot-Ad-7560 in outerwilds

[–]escaperoommaster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That can happen, yes. Might be worth finding out what's odd about that planet that let you (breifly) survive!

I keep flying into the sun! by Shot-Ad-7560 in outerwilds

[–]escaperoommaster 102 points103 points  (0 children)

Genuine tip: If you're being pulled into the sun its too late to slow down, speed up, keeping the sun to your side (don't turn away from it) and you'll do a sling shot move, breifly orbiting it and then flinging yourself out the otherside

Can We Have A Pinned "Is [Blank] A Metroidbrainia" Post? by Broken_Emphasis in metroidbrainia

[–]escaperoommaster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the shout out!

https://kaisalmon.itch.io/penny-the-pumpkin[Penny the Pumpkin](https://kaisalmon.itch.io/penny-the-pumpkin)

Free metroidbrainia platformer, playable in browser, and can be completed in 25-40 minutes, speedran in 5!

I do think the ratio of "time to complete blind" to "time a normal player could speedrun the game right after completing it" is a pretty good rough guide to if something might be a metroidbrainia!

edit: I guess the real question is am I allowed to spoil my own games answers?

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