Clue Cabin

Alright, I just finished playing it. It took me around 5-10 minutes, but since you mentioned it's a short game, I don't really mind.

So first of all:

What I liked:

• The letter animation and sound of the speech bubbles. Gave me undertale vibes.
• The lighting: how the different sprites cast shadows, reacting to the light sources. Looks very polished.
• The art (I don't know if it's self-made, but if yes, then good job.
• Can't say much aboud the code, but everything feels fluent so there's that.
• Possible replayability with different words; sadly, the clues are always at the same places, but I know it would be a lot of work to change that and would kind of ruin the point of this being a learning project.

Possible Improvements:

• footstep sounds
• diagonal movement, but since it's only a small game, I am guessing it's not really worth it to add logic and sprite animations for that.

Negatives:

• too short, haha.

Conclusion:

Honestly, I think this is the perfect example of how one's first game should look like. Nothing big, but something short and sweet. Something you can improve your experience with. Most people want to create their dream game as a first project and tend to burn out. Keep making stuff and never give up!

"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

The player gets stuck when they interact with the plant if they are standing to the right of it. Great job my word was avalanche!

The concept is awesome, the art is incredible. My issue is that there's a lot of bugs and cripples in the game. Constant directions on the left top screen seem annoying, but not such as the need to click on the "Close" button when the text is showing. (AND WHY THERE'S A SCREENSHOT OF IT, SAYING THAT YOU NEED TO LEFT CLICK TO CLOSE THIS THING WHEN IN REALITY YOU NEED TO MOVE YOUR CURSOR ON THE "CLOSE" BUTTON?! I SUPPOSE IT'S A FEATURE FOR LUNIX?! BUT NOT FOR WINDOWS???)

The character may walk backwards at certain point...

I guess this game just needs to be polished further. It's playable but annoying.

Art 10/10

Concept 7/10 (Wish there were more hints lol. And, I guess, "hidden" clues were randomized. Kudos for password change though!!!)

Functionality 1/10

I had a really fun time playing this short experience, my only real gripe is that I kept hitting escape to close the dialoug menu out of muscle memory, and the game would insta close. Maybe a nag menu or something to stop that. Other than that I had a really good time!!