Quote from: 123outerme on November 13, 2015, 02:01:28 pm

Are you guys going to need testers for the CSE version?

Insofar, the CSE port is just the base game with a compatibility layer tacked on. Escheron won't be properly ported to the CSE will full color support because that would necessitate a complete rewrite.

Whether or not @Geekboy1011 will want to submit a test release is entirely up to him.

That's understandable. Thanks for the quick response, and I look forward to the game's release

And I'm finally getting back to y'all again. Sorry about the delay; the end of the semester's been busy.
I've not tested a newer revision than 428 yet, so hopefully none of this is out of date, but I will start getting around to it after I post this.

Do you want the player to appear directly on top of the warp? Since you can enter some areas from multiple directions, I can't place the character one tile away from whatever direction they entered from. IMO, I just didn't think placing the player directly on top of the warp felt right.

I'm mainly interested in it being consistent, e.g. always in the same direction. I can see placing the player on top of the warp feeling weird.
On that note, it would be nice if exiting the airship didn't leave you on top of it, but doing so in a consistent direction is only feasible if the maps are set up right because you can land lots of places; off the top of my head I don't know if they are.

This is intentional. The arrow indicates a thought / sentence that exceeds the length of the window. When a thought / sentence is completed, any subsequent dialogs spawn new windows instead of being directed by arrows.

I hope that explanation made sense.

That makes sense. In that case, I might appreciate an indication when the entire dialog is done.
More importantly, I've been a bit annoyed when skimming through the dialogs and pressing [2ND] one too many times means reading through the entire thing again.

Do you have any thoughts on the game's aesthetics? e.g. World size, dungeon layouts, etc. Map designs are subject to change as well.

I have yet to have a strong opinion on this.
My initial opinion was that it all seemed good.  None of the levels are too small, I feel, and the largest ones are more difficult to get one's bearings in but it's not unmanageable. I like the variability.
I'll try to focus more on it in the future.

2. Treasure chest behavior is by design, though everyone else on the dev team is against me on this so... yeah. I'll fix it. On TODO list.

Alternatively, it would be cool if it opened and then closed again.

WONTFIX:
 Exit location to on top of airship autoboards airship. This behavior is critical for Asnoth and Arcanian Summit exit.

I'm actually fine with autoboarding, but it would be nice if exiting the ship onto the airship did this as well.

For most of those...uhh idk i have to look at the first one. The second one is because its the same info as used on the b/w one and not formatted. It is literately the same code. So the formatting is off.

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3) The dreadnaught confuses me in the balance of scripted and random encounters. The frequency of scripted encounters, in my opinion, would dictate there be fewer, if any, random encounters. I once went from a scripted encounter, took a single step, and ran in to a random one.

The scripted encounters shouldn't seem confusing, since you actually have to walk up to the guards and speak to them to initiate a battle.

Regardless, the Dreadnought is a late-game dungeon, so it's naturally more of a pain in the ass to navigate.

It's not the scripted encounters that seem confusing, just the rate of random encounters in relation to the number of scripted encounters. Regardless, if that's a design choice, it is your all's choice.

Has there been a new build released for testing yet? I don't think so based on the distribution website, but I can't really tell.