- The terrain is allright, but the huge human town had nothing to do.. At least add some easter eggs here and there.
- Maybe some flavour tooltips for the runes, the time-rune didn't display in the spell-book, but instead opens it. (Im assuming it has the same command string)
- I got killed by the spider and after two times I gave up and cheated my way through.
- Maybe give the player some gold to buy torches.
- The transparency of the hero attachment can be fixed by importing an alpha texture over the unit's normal texture (assuming you used the non-teamcoloured villager-man and you import a different portrait).
- In general; if you want feedback, don't protect the map.
- The cinematics are non-skippable; you should start to work out a system for this while you're in the early stages. It's a pain in the ass to add in later.. I use a main and a skip trigger for each cinematic, using a boolean variable to check if the cinematic is still running (check between all relevant actions/camera movements). If the player skips a cinematic I set the boolean to false so the next check will skip the remaining cinematic actions.
- I love the puzzle aspect and you should continue to diversify this part. The fire spell can light the campfires, why not add more puzzle solutions to the other spells: The earthquake could clear rock-chunks for example. You could also light various other objects, like burning a stack of hay or another type of torch. Example puzzle; light two torches to reveal a hidden chest in the middle. You may want to get some inspiration from those old point and click adventure games. The combinations between spells should be in a hints section under quests, especially in alpha testing we don't have the patience to test every other combination.
- Maybe make some quest items that can be used like interact. Example: A gear that can be inserted in a mechanic to repair an engine. If you want, you could create a little equipment system with quest items, weapons and food in various categories. You may also consider giving NPC's a one-slot inventory so you can drop quest items in them (make a trigger that returns the item incase the player chooses the wrong item).
- Make interact target destructibles to widen the number of possibilities: light candles, open boxes, flip switches, move crates etc. For instance; I added Carry and Drop actions in an old project of mine: Stuff like hay and meat could be carried an placed on key points to create a flammable beacon or load a pressure switch. You can narrow the target field to 'debris' for interactable doodads, 'bridge', 'wall' and 'tree' for special-target destructibles like flamable stuff and 'decoration' for anything else.
- Modify item models, so that you can click them ingame and pick them up. I can imagine the spearmodel to be an item that can be equipped, the armor rack could be picked up as piece of armor, some books in the priest-room a random tome of somesorts and bottles could be used like blizzard's rune of mana.
Btw very original map, keep up the good work.
Anyway, I'm going to download the map now and review it later.
