Adventure To Fate: Core Quest

Tldr: best game of the year. Thanks! Will come with longer feedback later.

Yay! It apparently was indeed a bug, related to larger screen devices, like the Pro Max series of phones. I grabbed the update, and it works beautifully now. I thought I was going crazy there for a bit.

Looks cool! So far me and the spirit guard killed a young rat. I'm assuming it was still saying $4.99 because Apple hadn't actually charged me. I haven't gotten it on the phone yet but I assume that will work just fine. Seems to run perfectly well on my M2 Mini. Thanks for a cool game!

I've been having so much fun with this game. Thank you for creating such an amazing adventure. I also think that this could very well be the best game of the year.

It's a very niche market I get that but what if you had the arrows work like, well, arrows, up is north, left is west, right is east and down is south?

is there a way to do that through voiceover on the phone? have an up flick for north, left for west,, right for east, down for south? if there is, I might actually play the game again as I'd find that easier to work with than the way the arrow system works at the moment.

Keep in mind, as i'm one of the people who isn't playing the game at the moment, i'd ask those who are if they'd like this mode, if it's possible then i might check it out from there.

I hope what i'm saying makes sense, it's a bit late here and I'm tired.

I will be doing a live stream of this game on jacket FM once I get a fuel for it. It sounds very interesting.

OK, I’m stuck. I can make it to floor two but it’s only letting me go to square four.

On Mac, I'm just doing VO-end and then going back to get to the directional pad. If you VO arrow on and off directions, it tells you what's there, e.g. if I went north, so I'm still on the north button, if I VO arrow right and then left quickly, it will tell me what's north. It also tells you if you wait a second or two I think. I assume it would work the same on the phone, I should try it.

I realize this isn't quite as fast as using the arrows. But it does have the advantage of looking ahead, e.g. it tells you if the next room in whatever direction has an NPC, which often means a battle, also whether it's been explored or not. If you were just moving with the arrows, I don't think you'd get that, unless you added another set of keystrokes, e.g. ctrl-arrow to tell you whether or not you can move in that direction.

I assume the phone has the directional pad on an area of the screen, I'd assume the top or bottom. So tapping once with four fingers should put you there, or pretty close, no? I guess I should really try this thing on the phone at some point! Anyway I think my overall point is that gameplay is already pretty straightforward with the keyboard already. You can also use quick nav, I don't usually because I don't know if you can do VO-end without using the VO key in quick nav, so I just don't worry about it. But anyway if you can, that would mostly get you the arrows anyway, you'd just have to hit up and down to pick a direction on the pad..

How are you getting it to play on Mac? Every time I try launching it I get an errror about instruction something or other.

We can play this on mac? Cool! Is the progression somehow synced with both phone and mac?

I was planning to do a live stream of this game tomorrow at 7 PM US Eastern standard time. There’s also a way for me to invite others to the live stream I think as cohosts or guests, once I figure out how to do that in the future would you be interested in Maybe doing an interview with me on jacket FM? It wouldn’t really be anything formal. I would just be asking you general questions about the game maybe how it came to be etc..

OK, let me try to explain it a bit better. If you hit VO-end, you end up in the text of the action log. Hit VO left a time or two and you get to the direction pad, which reads as buttons for the direction, with search this room in the middle. So let's say I do VO space on east, and it moves to a new room. If I don't feel like waiting, I can do VO left, which puts me on south I think, then VO right really quick, which gets me back to east. At that point, it will say "hallway is to the east, and is unexplored".

If a quick demo would help I can probably put some audio up somewhere, if I can figure out how to record audio on the Mac, I haven't done it outside of music yet. So I don't know how to get it to record the output of the game and Voiceover.

It's a shame but I expected it.

I'm glad I supported your work though.

Thanks for the new game play. I surprised myself by quickly understanding the map layout and movement thanks to all your work with Voice Over right throughout the game. So I'll be sticking to the story, trying to fight my wizard to the Core. Love this game.

If you’re to do this update with leveling included, I think that you should have an option for the player to filter enemies by current level. I think if you keep the usual list of previous games, it will be difficult for the player to find the right enemy in order to progress.

How does the portal work? I can't figure that part out and every time I've died I've had to go all the way back through the dungeon to where I was. It's the only frustrating part about this game for me.

Hi, I had the same thing and I think it was my fault for not turning on Voice Over hints. If you flick through the first map you will hear portol room 22. Go there and search to bring up the option to go back to the floor you left.