HELLO WOULD THE SENATOR OR CONGRESSMAN FROM YOUR STATE CARE TO TRY THE NEW ALPHA TEST OF OUR GAME, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! - A RECKLESS DISREGARD FOR GRAVITY? I AM POSTING HERE BECAUSE IT'S THE GAMEPLAY AND GAME DESIGN FORUM, AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR FEEDBACK ON GAMEPLAY. BUT NOT GAME DESIGN. OR GAME DESIGN BUT NOT GAMEPLAY. I THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

Oh boy! I think I have a headache. I am genuinely sorry. But not sorry enough, apparently. The ROUGH alpha test rough demo is here. All comments, critiques, and scathing remonstrations welcome.

Business as usual:
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Log of A7 Engine 7.70.0 run at Wed May 06 07:52:34 2009
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It may have been mentioned that many elected officials are less susceptible to "indirect" suggestion due to "conditioning".

Very nice game!

Runs on my Vista PC. installed it in d drive to be save that vista
does not hassle with the installation.

Some remarks:

Menu:

Controls: you should work over the Menu controlls.

I suggest that you map all menuactions onto the
-wasd+space(confirmkey)+escape(gobackkey),
-cursor+enter(confirmkey)+escape(gobackkey)

and (mouse-left confirmkey, mouse righ go-back-key)

keys in paralel.

right now the player has to jump between different
keys all the time.
You basically just need 4 direction keys, a confirmation key
and one "go back" key to jump to the previous menulevel.
They should stay the same thoughout the menu.



Ingame:

its all very nice already.

-show some parachute icon for the parachute.
-limit the time you can deploy the parachute. (countdown)
-let the player by able to deactivate the parachute.

-A replay function would be really cool, especially when the
player can change the camera angle then, and the jumper
drags behind a smoketrail

-add a "ghost flyer", where you record the best previous
jump in this map, and display it as a transparent
jumper when replaying the map. The player can try to
follow him then (like in a race)

-maby some effect of breaking (particles that fall with you
some time)
when breaking a "point-plate"

apart from that, a really nicely made casual game with
good sound and artwork.

Downloading... %100 Done!

In my brother's PC: 6 Errors.

In my PC it works! IT'S AWESOME!

I love the way the logo is scaled with music.

I completed all maps, ("Your Jackhole" was the hardest one, but i like it.)

it is pretty nice already, i guess menus will be polished/enhanced since this is the ugly alpha. and from what i can understand this is something between the real game and the demo.

I am not sure if you need bug reports in this state but there are some overlapping at some parts of the map causes some sorting error and texture flashing.(also in first map, begining from map selection, if you pull a p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p-p combo, it gets stuck at the begining of the map, the guy voice keeps loopiğng but camera doesnt move.also you can't start jumping)

what i can suggest is adding achievements. like, reach 100mph, kiss 10.000 objects total, travel 55635 meters total, finish a jump alive with %95 of your bones broken... there are plenty of achievemnts can be made up...
I don't know how this was in the Wondeful End Of the world, but if this also gets to steam, add steam support to achievements, people loves when the achievements are displayed on their profile page.

trying to do a nice trick, then doing it and smashing into a building right after, is fun!

@fogman: To make it work, install it in Documents.

I got it to work, runned it as administrator.
Very nice and quite polished for an alpha.

I absolutely love it.
That tapevoices sound thingy is so cool.
Keep it up.

On thing which i don't like is the loading time between the menu sections, it nearly needs 2 sec to go from map selection to the item select menu, doesn't sound much eh but its annoying somehow, especially as there is no loading time between finishing a jump and going back to the menu.

"AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAAlpha!!!" is looking like "Spartaaaa!"