Devlog #17 - First Patch

Hey guys !

Damn it's been a while, almost a month since the release !

For a game without any communication budget, the sales are doing good, and the release opened new door for me : 

• co-hosted Twitch streams, 
• discovered some gameplay videos from people that didn't warn me
• got an article on the first video game french website (https://www.jeuxvideo.com/videos/1535492/essence-of-the-tjikko-un-jeu-de-puzzle-...) 
• I am gonna participate to my first salon in Bordeaux with https://twitter.com/IndieGameF

And this week I published a update to fix some bugs , add a minimap and minor changes.

For the debug, I fixed :

• The Bulbomatic player detection : with a long playthrough the events were messing around and the player couldn't get the bulbs needed for his progress. Guess I didn't playtested strongly enough^^
• The prompts in the Settings menu were a total mess : I was asking too many confirmation and the widget focus didn't follow. I just removed the useless questions (in the end, the player knows the settings are not applied if the screen or the music stay the same)
• I discovered that stranger player had to apply again their language, so I added the culture to the player data (hope it didn't screwed the player saves xD)
• Keyboard control calibration : I didn't test enough the game with a keyboard, so I fixed the main issues but I couldn't redesign the whole game to fit for keyboard control... There is some issues that can not be fully fixed.

And it wasn't anticipated, but I took some time also to add the minimap.

First of all, I wanted that players had to make up there own mind map of the place, but some floors could be quite "miss-leading ". So I thought of a compromise :

• the player wont get the full map, 
• it will appear after one minute on the floor
• the zoom will give player only hints about the walls nearby 
• its design will be a bit blurred, wavy to look like an imprecise idea of the surroundings.

So here we are ! Now I am full focus on the communication and learning how to fund my studio and hopefully the next game I publish will be the Essence Of The Tjikko full adventure :D

See ya !