Thanks for your in-depth comment on the game! It means a lot that you took so much time to give us feedback on our submission!
- Regarding the art: Orkfaeller already gave you a explanation. As the artist, he's much more qualified than me to answer that!
- Regarding the tutorial: We can all agree that we didn't do a great job here. Our initial reasoning behind this approach was to incorporate a funny character (the goblin as a lickspittle) to help players understand the game. After implementing it, we saw the flaws in this approach. We even placed a sign in the game to help visualize the most critical part as a last second implementation. Redesigning the tutorial any further wasn't possible because it was already late at night with no time left for changes, sadly. In the future, we'll go with more straightforward tutorials with an unskippable window if one is necessary.
- Regarding the mission objective: To be honest, this wasn't on my radar at all, but I agree. A small text box with the objective as a reminder would be easy to implement and is industry standard. It definitely should have been in there.
- Regarding the fullscreen problem: I'd also love a few more details on this because this bug never occurred during testing.
- Regarding the RTS farming: I can totally see where you're coming from. I have the exact same feeling about it. In theory, it sounded really original. However, during the design and programming process, I quickly realized that it felt like Zerg gameplay in StarCraft II. Even though some small tweaks made it a bit better, I never lost the feeling that the idea needed a bit more time in the oven. We're currently discussing internally what changes we could make to further embrace the farming aspect while keeping the RTS core.
Thanks again for your feedback. I can't express how much these kinds of discussions help us refine our skills.
I'm always down for further discussion, and as soon as I have time, I'll gladly take a look at your game to leave some feedback as well—it's the least I can do!
Cheers!