Love this one! Having a kinda puzzle Sinistar is a hilarious concept. Almost feels like a platformer even though it's all -minos.
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Beat it on my first try.
Didn't totally understand the ruleset; sometimes I'd have the three colors in a row or column, or an L shape, and sometimes they'd merge, and sometimes not.
Feels like the visual effects should be more snappy, punchy, and illustrative of the matches made. The squishy fade-out stuff makes the feedback vague an unsatisfying.
Read this for book club. It's amazing! Thrills and chills, strong character voices, best presentation I've seen in a photo-background VN... I am recommending this to everyone I know even though the URL and embed both say "cockhole" in them.
Sorry to frame well-wishes as dependent on your ability to Output Great Works, but: hope you're doing well, Cockhole! You made a great VN. If you came back, even just to say, "Working on a VN was hell, never expect anything from me again!" I would clap like a seal.
I enjoyed this. At first I was like, "Ugh, everything has so much health!" But it's fun to devise new ways to herd enemies and move through fights on my way to destroy rafflesias... Still no idea if that does anything, but every trip toward a rafflesia feels like its own mini dungeon crawl, and I love that.
Thank you.
In the meantime, I slapped together something in line with what I expected, plus some jokers for fun: https://imgur.com/a/cj5FemH
"This discounted PDF edition's goal is to serve as an accessible alternative to the deck version, not 1-to-1 visual verisimilitude." This reply is infuriating and comes off like upselling.
Putting aside the proportions of cards, which is fair: the print-and-play PDF is missing 12 cards. You've already formatted the physical game so its prompts and rules map onto a 52 playing card deck, yet the print-and-play template only includes the 40 prompt cards.
I know the print-and-play will not be exactly 1-to-1 because I don't have an industrial color printer at home, but all printable components in the physical edition should be represented in the print-and-play format. That should go without saying.
If you can't guarantee the rules cards will be formatted as printable cards in this download, can I get a refund without paying you more money first?
When printed (and when compared on my computer to other print-and-play), cards aren't the same size (or proportion) as Bicycle-brand playing cards/MtG cards, which is what I expect as a standard size; they're notably less wide and slightly less tall. They're different in proportion, even, to the card back art on this itch.io page. Luckily I had some Scottish playing cards around to sleeve the prints with. Is this on purpose? And could you include PDFs that are truly (US?) standard size?
Would you please include a download for the contents of "Tacklebox Zine.pdf" in the same format as "Tacklebox Print-and-Play.pdf"? I'm having difficulties formatting the pages from "Tacklebox Zine.pdf" as cards. I'm frustrated this isn't the case when the deck sold on your online shop (and featured in the Quinns Quest video) includes rules on cards.
If you do the above, please consider giving those cards the rank and suit of the unrepresented face cards and jokers from a typical playing card pack. I'm bringing Tacklebox on a trip and it would be lovely if it doubled as a normal playing card deck for convenience. To this end, a black fill for the spade and club glyphs would be lovely for clarity.
It'd also be useful if there was a file with the same information as "Tacklebox Zine.pdf" formatted as a zine (that fits inside a playing card tuck box) instead of all separate pages that I have to reckon with on my own (which seems unusual).
And one last thing, and this is a nitpick: I wish the rank and value were in the top left and bottom right like a normal playing card.