https://namatakahashi.itch.io/oo

I played this game. It reminded me of ElecHead, another such platformer.

There are things about the game that are really lovely. It's a cute concept. i assume that if I kept playing I would get more bombs or something? It's well-executed. The design is there.

Some comments read:

"I keep coming back to this demo, I love it, you nailed the game feel"

"That was a lot of fun!  It was just the right amount of tricky to make you think but not get frustrating.  Can't wait for the full game."

Whenever I play a game like this it so makes me itch to kill gameplay. What is it about Öoo? Maybe, I think, being super explicit about my complaints will help clarify my grudge?

I just don't think the puzzles advance very quickly, they're not very interesting (to me), it's like a magic trick I've seen a thousand times before. That would all be fine, except that I suppose there might, potentially, actually be an interesting innovative magic trick down the line and there's no way for me to get there without subjecting myself to an unknown amount of utterly rote content. Content.

The comment I quoted second is a gem. "the right amount of tricky to make you think but not get frustrating".

I wonder, am I complaining about flow in general, or is my cry to kill gameplay only a sadness that the common flow window targeted by most game designers is now so misaligned with where I'm at?

The art is cute, the juicefeel is there, etc. I just don't want to do these basic puzzles. I don't want to do any puzzles. I don't want the structure of the game to be "Do boring tasks". I would be happier, in theory, in a room with this mechanic and no exits. Can't I just enjoy blowing up some bombs? Do I have to have a sense of longing, of what-if for bombing my way up from the starting room when I get a second bomb, as I know I will?

Am I against gameplay or just predictable gameplay?

i added a nice header image and chose a new flatter theme, i am in the process of turning this house into a home

i guess what i mean to say by saying that is how the hell do i write a guidebook when i am like 75% on the cards instead of 100%??? it's a necessity, i think i need to figure out a process by which i'll write the guide book rather than trying to figure out what i should write.

intermediary steps.

i didn't write, publish, or include a guide book, but it feels very important. i still don't really know what *my* tarot practice is like so i don't know how i could possibly help someone else learn their first steps... or maybe that's ok? maybe i am going to write a very beginnerish little book with starting points that mostly says "hey i dunno you just gotta figure it out"

i'm not a book learner, that's for sure. i learn by doing! i guess i could write tht in my book.

i think i am not yet satisfied with the deck. some cards, like the eight of cups, are really good and have really good interpretive space. but others, like i think the ten of coins, are a bit more iffy to me. i know what they're supposed to say but i am unconvinced that they're saying them.

 

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Hi droqen it's page!
 
I'm posting! I don't know why but this is kinda hard...

there's a website for my tarot deck now, i'm going to sell some copies tomorrow (or, later today) and they will point people to that website, which will point people here. i guess?

hello! droqen here! i'm droqen!
at long last, i made... a public forum. please, feel free to make an account. if weird stuff starts happening i will block off new accounts but for now the floodgates are open.

i love forums. my newforum has served as a nice notebook for many years now, and i needed a place for the tarot, and, uh, yeah! here we are! i'm going spend some time making this one look nice and suit me, but for now it's just going to stay this default theme.

let's make the internet weird again