Quoting: lelorrainAs for my game budget, last June, I had to promise to my better half that I would not buy a game for NINE months! I admit that over the years I collected over 300 games in the last 30 years! What! That's just about one game a month! :wink:

Fight fire with fire. Withhold sex until you're allowed to buy games again!

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Sort of mini review of the demo

I quite like the graphics and the art direction. The darker, gory parts, sort of reminded me of American McGee's Alice, that's a plus. I was however disappointed with the actual gameplay. I was expecting something clever with the whole two souls sharing one body bit, some sort of hook to differentiate them from other adventure games, but it is pretty standard stuff. Story wise, it's a bit hard to tell from so short a demo.

Another thing. I who regularly takes a sledgehammer to the Queen's English should probably not be in any position to critizise* this, but feel I must. The English in the dialogue, the grammar and sentence structure, is quite awkward. Even to somebody who is not native to the language it's remarkably noticeable. It should be a priority, and hopefully an inexpensive task, to have someone proofread and improve all dialogue, especially since the Kickstarter only have voice acting as a stretch goal.

This might like a very negative review but overall I think it does show promise.

* Muphry's law!

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Quoting: wvstolzingEDIT: Another perspective puzzler in development - https://twitter.com/mattstark256/status/1213156890475212800?s=20 [External Link] - looks really interesting. The developer has posted a couple more updates in the Summer in his twitter feed.

Oh, thanks for posting this, very cool! Seems to be called Viewfinder [External Link]?

Speaking of interesting puzzle games, I wonder if Miegakure [External Link] will ever be released? It's been in development for 11(!) years now. Not DNF bad, but it is getting up there in years.

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GPU Maker: So we have this cool new GPU, accelerated ray tracing, infinity cache, mesh shaders. Photo realistic graphics really.
Gamer: Shut up! I'm fighting ascii snails!
GPU Maker: ...
Gamer: ASCII SNAILS!!!1

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This thread is a goldmine, so many cool wads to try!

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Dang that's quick. I just got the notification from Steam that it is available!

Demo was a lot of fun, felt like part Portal, with a little bit of the Stanley Parable mixed in? It's a buy, but probably for next month. Already over budget here.

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There's a demo out now:
https://jolly-roger-productions.itch.io/littleghost [External Link]

It's only available for Windows 10 for now. We're thinking about building a version for Linux soon.

Edit: Works in Proton, but it's less of a demo and more of proof of concept. You can move around, pick things up, and solve a simple puzzle.

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: TheLinuxPlebIs there going to be any ARM version? I think i saw somewhere that this is x86 only.

Pretty sure PCSX2 is all open source, so in theory just needs a recompile. I don't think it's one of those emulators that are coded in a way they won't even work on 64bit systems.

It was actually only recently ported to 64bit, and porting to ARM or other platforms seems to be a thorny issue: https://github.com/PCSX2/pcsx2/issues/2915 [External Link]

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I wonder what it is with billionaires and their affinity for launching things into space [External Link]? Did Scrooge McDuck suffer from the same complex? What will I launch into space when my bank account ticks over nine digits? Serious questions these!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySo all that Deep Link murfle . . . can anybody tell me if that stuff actually means something or if it's just marketing-speak?

I just assumed someone at marketing forgot to take take their dried frog pills?

Still, the line about "unlocking creativity in thin-and-light laptops" is deeply disconcerting. I prefer it if I was the creative one and my laptop stuck to cold calculating logic.

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