Thanks for offering feedback! Noting it all down :-)
- Autosaving more often would be good - the fact it doesn't autosave after a rest like in many games is a bit of a nasty surprise the first time one dies.
- On the main map, it'd be useful to have the game clock more visible, if it was there I couldn't see it.
- A lot of hotkeys could be improved for ease of use. Having I for Inventory consistently available (both in & out of combat) would have made the game handling a lot easier.
- It's a bit odd for me having 1 switching between "first option on a menu" and "leave/drop/ignore" when it comes to chests.
- Chests seem to be permanent AFAICT, so you can drop things in them then return later? It'd be good to make that clear since so many games don't have that feature. Maybe the old guy in the lighthouse could tell you that you can put stuff in the chest downstairs, that would've been useful for not getting overencumbered with crab chitin anyway.
- My magician seemed a bit underpowered compared to the cleric & fighter companions I picked up who by the later part of the playthrough were doing basically all the work. It was often a bit dispiriting when the more powerful spells often had really really weedy results, but maybe I was just very unlucky on the RNG.
- It feels weird that one can't flee from combat. I would be really in favour of this addition: one could have it so it's a roll against stats and, if failed, the character has to wait 5 or 10 rounds before trying again? But either way, especially since it's easy to come across enemies and not be sure of their power early on in the game, I think this would be a good addition.
- A few quests need better explanations in the quest log, so e.g. on the gathering food for refugees it still told me "talk to the cook" even after I'd done so & I never knew how much food I needed. Also for finding Froggert I think the girl said something about where to look in the original dialogue that wasn't then in the quest log.
- Seriously where IS Froggert? My party nearly starved to death wandering around looking for that thing.
Have fixed the typos you noted!
There will be autosaving at rest and when you change maps. I just need to polish the saving a bit so it's a wee bit faster.
Yeah the clock should perhaps visible!
Hotkeys: Noted!
Chests are persistant yes!
Yeah spell effects are too swingy so I need to make the range more narrow for the effect.
Fleeing from initiated combat will not be implemented in a normal case (I THINK at least). FOr scripting purposes I need to be able to presume that if a character initiates a combat with an NPC, either the game ends or the opponent gets defeated. HOWEVER I intend to make it possible to sneak by or flee from random encounters before they trigger.
Yeah quests need lots of work.
Froggert is hidden in a barrel near the cook :-)
