The game is working on Firefox for me now too, on PC, btw (saw the comment below), I previously was not working a couple of weeks ago, I've had the game in my 'to check later' for a while and kept checking back XD
:D Really love what's here so far!
Feedback wise, it would be nice to be able to see what the fossil ratings are before setting them out? unless i'm missing something, it seems like you have to set the fossil out to then examine it to see what it's rating is and such, it would be nice to be able to compare all of that stuff beforehand!
Things also got a liiitle repetitive, but that's expected for an early beta type of thing, I do wish that the puzzle type minigame for fossils was a little more common, I liked that more than the pickaxe/chiseling one!
Really loved this game, I can't wait to see where it goes! The graphics are adorable and the game play loop is rewarding while still having a lot of room to play with if more mechanics are added later down the line. The randomized bones/layouts at each dig site kept things from getting repetitive, and it didn't take me too long to complete both large fossils. Having information plaques on each fossil in game was also cool, I liked learning about them! I did manage to get the game working on firefox. I use a mac, maybe that bug is PC only?
Some suggestions (that you are by no means obligated to listen to!):
> having the direction you dig rely on the direction you're clicking instead of the last pressed direction input. It might just be a skill issue on my part, but I would miss my targeted dirt block so often because I would unthinkingly readjust a step vertically and not turn back.
> fun hats/costumes you can buy for the little guy (maybe fun hats for the large fossils too. if you are feeling whimsical.)
> some sort of explanation for how ratings work with fossil upgrades. I had a fossil get upgraded from bronze to gold, but visitors still treated it as bronze. Maybe I missed that you have to manually put the new fossil out or something?
>Another use for duplicate fossils could be some sort of npc quest where you're tasked to find a specific fossil for them to buy. It'd also give the player another avenue for money.
> Some sort of brush-the-dirt-off-of-the-fossil minigame like the puzzle minigame could be fun, if you're interested in adding more of those.
> someone else mentioned the remove display function being broken on mac, I experienced that as well
> gigantopithecus fossils (china) would be cool to include, if you're looking for more sites around the world.
Hi hallowclave. Thanks for playing and taking the time to provide such awesome feedback. I will try to address all your points, please forgive me if I miss something!
Firefox on mac working... Thats weird... but good news I guess. I don't know what's up with firefox and I've spent so much time trying to get it to work. I've almost given up at this point...
Digging Direction We're planning on completely reworking how these mechanics work so that you click on a block to dig it out. We might not get to this super super soon but it is in the plans.
Cosmetics Definitely on our radar to add cosmetics AND character customization when you start the game.
Fossil Ratings This is a bit confusing. There are individual ratings for the fossils and then an overall rating for the exhibits. If you pick up a gold fossil and you already have a bronze fossil in an exhibit, it will automatically replace that fossil with the higher quality one BUT that doesn't necessarily mean your exhibit quality will go up.
The exhibit quality only goes up if enough fossils are of a high quality.
We'll work on making this clearer :-)
Duplicate Fossils
We have thought about duplicate fossils. But until you can do something with them it would just confuse the player. In future we might allow the player to get duplicate fossils and sell/trade them with other paleontologists. We're thinking about how to deal with this...
Brush-the-dirt-off-of-the-fossil minigame
Totally on our radar and in our plans! Great minds think alike. We're just still working on figuring out what kind of mechanics we want to add here and how to make it fun. We might make bones degrade slowly over time and then you have to maintain them? Something like this is coming soon though!
Broken Hotkey on mac
Sorry... I'll add an alternate key for mac in the next update I just forgot for the previous one :-(
Gigantopithecus
Looks awesome!!! We've got such a humungous backlog of dinosaurs and fossils we want to add and it takes quite a while (about 4 days of hard work) to add each dino... so we'll try our best to add Gigantopithecus.
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The game is working on Firefox for me now too, on PC, btw (saw the comment below), I previously was not working a couple of weeks ago, I've had the game in my 'to check later' for a while and kept checking back XD
:D Really love what's here so far!
Feedback wise, it would be nice to be able to see what the fossil ratings are before setting them out? unless i'm missing something, it seems like you have to set the fossil out to then examine it to see what it's rating is and such, it would be nice to be able to compare all of that stuff beforehand!
Things also got a liiitle repetitive, but that's expected for an early beta type of thing, I do wish that the puzzle type minigame for fossils was a little more common, I liked that more than the pickaxe/chiseling one!
Really loved this game, I can't wait to see where it goes! The graphics are adorable and the game play loop is rewarding while still having a lot of room to play with if more mechanics are added later down the line. The randomized bones/layouts at each dig site kept things from getting repetitive, and it didn't take me too long to complete both large fossils. Having information plaques on each fossil in game was also cool, I liked learning about them! I did manage to get the game working on firefox. I use a mac, maybe that bug is PC only?
Some suggestions (that you are by no means obligated to listen to!):
> having the direction you dig rely on the direction you're clicking instead of the last pressed direction input. It might just be a skill issue on my part, but I would miss my targeted dirt block so often because I would unthinkingly readjust a step vertically and not turn back.
> fun hats/costumes you can buy for the little guy (maybe fun hats for the large fossils too. if you are feeling whimsical.)
> some sort of explanation for how ratings work with fossil upgrades. I had a fossil get upgraded from bronze to gold, but visitors still treated it as bronze. Maybe I missed that you have to manually put the new fossil out or something?
>Another use for duplicate fossils could be some sort of npc quest where you're tasked to find a specific fossil for them to buy. It'd also give the player another avenue for money.
> Some sort of brush-the-dirt-off-of-the-fossil minigame like the puzzle minigame could be fun, if you're interested in adding more of those.
> someone else mentioned the remove display function being broken on mac, I experienced that as well
> gigantopithecus fossils (china) would be cool to include, if you're looking for more sites around the world.
Hi hallowclave. Thanks for playing and taking the time to provide such awesome feedback. I will try to address all your points, please forgive me if I miss something!
Firefox on mac working...
Thats weird... but good news I guess. I don't know what's up with firefox and I've spent so much time trying to get it to work. I've almost given up at this point...
Digging Direction
We're planning on completely reworking how these mechanics work so that you click on a block to dig it out. We might not get to this super super soon but it is in the plans.
Cosmetics
Definitely on our radar to add cosmetics AND character customization when you start the game.
Fossil Ratings
This is a bit confusing. There are individual ratings for the fossils and then an overall rating for the exhibits. If you pick up a gold fossil and you already have a bronze fossil in an exhibit, it will automatically replace that fossil with the higher quality one BUT that doesn't necessarily mean your exhibit quality will go up.
The exhibit quality only goes up if enough fossils are of a high quality.
We'll work on making this clearer :-)
Duplicate Fossils
We have thought about duplicate fossils. But until you can do something with them it would just confuse the player. In future we might allow the player to get duplicate fossils and sell/trade them with other paleontologists. We're thinking about how to deal with this...
Brush-the-dirt-off-of-the-fossil minigame
Totally on our radar and in our plans! Great minds think alike. We're just still working on figuring out what kind of mechanics we want to add here and how to make it fun. We might make bones degrade slowly over time and then you have to maintain them? Something like this is coming soon though!
Broken Hotkey on mac
Sorry... I'll add an alternate key for mac in the next update I just forgot for the previous one :-(
Gigantopithecus
Looks awesome!!! We've got such a humungous backlog of dinosaurs and fossils we want to add and it takes quite a while (about 4 days of hard work) to add each dino... so we'll try our best to add Gigantopithecus.
Thanks for playing!