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Are you paying Gregory to work for you? If not, this is pretty much on the level of “this band was so much better when it had fewer fans and I could feel special.”

I’ve got projects in the queue, but they’re all larger. I do plan to put out some smaller stuff as well, but I’ve been working on other things at the moment.

This year I’ve done pretty well on posting on the blog once a week in addition to TASOAE. It’s entirely possible that you won’t see anything else for a while, since I’m working on longer stuff.

I’ve only been in this career for a year and a half. I won’t worry too much about a “slump” of a few months.

I’m still a fan, and I think you can still have the potential to make great games, but you’ve fallen into a bit of a slump it seems.

As a game, it’s flawed. But you knew that already. It’s still inspirational. :)

(lambda lambda lambda)

And the suicidal runs were also important, you’re right. I waited too long to write this one up, and so I forgot many of the details.

Also, we did take at least one other defensive action before the large attack. We sealed up the “control room” to prevent a possible strategic attack on it. I think there may have been another, but can’t quite recall.

I think you’ve also missed a very important part of the assault–the suicidal runs by kobolds against the front gate. Although it had very little gameplay impact since it was handled by the NPC guards, it does provide good characterization of the situation we were facing and the fanaticism (or perhaps fear) the dragon inspired in his followers.

I keep playing just because I see the author’s name. I only like Mell’s part. The race discourage me by giving nothing on first run. Naaij’s part more like frustrating to me than being fun. The first conversation indicate that the character wants to collect all artifacts so I feel obligated to complete that– and immediately unable to accomplish it. Feels another discouragement. Perhaps this one missing a proper difficulty curve and some more brew of exploration– even those boards with some texts like ‘rift garden’ could make it better.

Just like the others already say, the story need some closure. This one doesn’t feel like it is end, it doesn’t even feel like a hanging ending (or whatever it supposed to be called) but feels like there is a missing level somewhere. Unfortunately, my hand already cramp enough that I don’t want to repeat the levels. Perhaps it just me– the one who can’t even withstand VVVVVV demo, but I think the difficulty breaks the whole feeling conveyed in this game.

About the graphic, I think I can see what you trying to perceive. By making it as simple as possible, players would be more focused to the other elements of the game and it give a lot of freedom to interpret stuffs.

I have a question. Many of your games have a special feeling to them. The stories are quite thought through and you really get sucked into them. Like in Bars of Black and White I really thought I would go crazy, despite the graphics not looking very realistic. Do you have any specific games that you have got some inspiration from? Similar games that draw you into the story?

In the same way I enjoy your other games, namely The Majesty of Colors and Bars of Black and White. Neither have very special game mechanics but the surreal stories really intrigued me. I actually probably won’t play any of these games more than once (after trying all endings in Majesty of Colors) but when playing them I felt a really cool surreal feeling.

I say ’surreal’ a lot but that’s because it’s the only word that comes to mind to describe those games.

Anyway, I’d just like to thank you for making those games, and this one. Playing them was definitely an experience. :)