R.B. Ashton
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Toyeater Beta Release is Now Available
🕑 Added 2024-12-13 17:47:48 +0000 UTCJust in time for the weekend, I’ve finally managed to get the beta for Toyeater ready! About 24,000 words, almost 400 images and a dynamic interactive game engine!
It includes plenty of opportunities to get eaten or squashed, and you can play as a nutcracker soldier or a ballerina princess.
The plan is to beta test it this week, in time for the full release on Thursday, 19th December. It’ll be available for Tier 3 subscribers on Patreon shortly, and I’ll also message out a link to any active members with over $15 spend (if you think you should've got it and haven't, drop me a message).
The full release will also be available for Tier 3 when it goes public, and it’ll be up on both my website and itch.io for £12.99. That’s the launch price, for Christmas, as I said it would be, but that’ll go up to £14.99 in January.
I’ll put out some more info and promotional material next week, including some images and maybe an animation, but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to complete a demo this side of Christmas. We’ll see. (And no it won’t be available on mobile for now; I’ve had trouble getting that working.)
I think the game’s mostly in place, but I’d appreciate any feedback at all in the meantime.
The game has a rather complex system, where actions early on can have lasting consequences, and you often need to be in a specific place at a specific time to generate certain outcomes.
With that in mind, I think it might also be quite challenging to complete, so I’d welcome any thoughts on how difficult it is. I will be producing a hints and tips page on my website to help with that. For now, though, I’ll just let it speak for itself and see how people get on.
It’s taken a lot of doing and left my mind a bit swimming so I’m well in need of a break, but there are a few things I plan to add for the full release that aren’t there in the beta. The hints page is one, but I’m also looking into:
A discoverable telescope, to show some of the far-off action closer up
Adding/adjusting sounds
Visible player arms for certain scenes (e.g. when climbing or pleading for mercy…)
A nicer looking GUI
And probably some other things I’m forgetting right now. But for now, time for me to slink back into the shadows…
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R.B. Ashton
Thanks!
Turboman500
Love your work, and your ideas!
R.B. Ashton
You can send me a private message on here, thanks - though perhaps no harm in a few comments here either to save some repeats.
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