2k/3 - Void: A game I have been working on for 10+ Years

Your game zip includes a shortcut you made for yourself that won’t work on other people’s computers. People who are less tech-savvy may think the game is broken. Also, it appears to include your full name, if you care about that.

Then, inside the actual game folder, there are three executables (and another shortcut), so it’s really not clear how to run the game. I looked at the properties of the non-functional shortcut outside the game folder, and presumed it’s RPG_RT.exe - but there’s really no reason for those others to be in there at all.

I played as far as the second half of the cave, after getting teleported out of the room. It took over 20 minutes to get to actual gameplay with battles, which feels quite long.

At the beginning of the game, you see the first map and hear the music start before the opening cutscene starts. You should, instead, put the player start location on a blank map and transfer while the screen is faded out.

The king’s sprite is missing the black outline on some parts. Notably, when he turns to face upward, his collar blends in with the color and texture of the floor, making it look like he has no neck and his head is floating above his shoulders.

Oreus’ sprite also looks weird - there’s some dark blue shape by his face. But it’s strange because it’s not in the same position when he’s facing up as when he’s facing right, so it bobs up and down. I also have no idea what it’s supposed to be, so it looks like there’s this blue flower attached to the end of his nose.

Oh! I see when he’s facing down that it’s supposed to be his staff. That is really not visually obvious in the other directions.

The dialogue is formatted very oddly in the message window. You consistently insert line breaks far before the actual end of the line, so there’s all this empty space on the right side of the window, which looks odd.

Then, the one time you don’t do that is after the temple sinks and there’s a scene with blue dots in the background - the word “beginning” is cut off by the right edge of the window. (then thrice more during the conversation with Chauncer)

Maps are rather empty-looking. For how large they are, and how much empty space there is, it would be nice to break up the floor tiles more often with some scatter terrain or details.

Even things like houses are kind of bizarrely empty - there are houses that have a table with chairs, a bench, and one bureau. Where does anyone cook? Sleep?

You don’t appear to be using a script to handle your two-tile-tall characters. For example, if you walk up against a bed from below it, the top of your head vanishes underneath.

In battle, it looks odd for the enemies to have skill messages saying “the enemy” - for example, “Frozen Wisper [sic] attacks the enemy” makes me think it’s attacking itself.

When your actors dodge an attack, it plays the hit SE instead of the dodge SE that enemies play.

It’s really not visually obvious that the crooked brown line on the wall in the cave is something you can climb up.

Something is wrong in the move route when you’re hopping over the first stone in the cave. The sprite sometimes goes way too high and there appears to be an extra jump after you jump off the stone.

The language has a lot of errors. Not even getting into subtleties of grammar, there are tons of typos and blatantly misspelled words.

Ellipses should only have three dots in them. You often have four or five.

Some of the graphical effects are well done, like the sinking of the temple and the dot scene zooming into the planet, but the game would be a lot more interesting if you worked on the empty maps and put some basic effort into the script - even pasting all the text into Microsoft Word or Google Docs and running spell check would be a big improvement.