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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0007254 | Valley 1 | Suggestion - Room Ideas/Complaints | Apr 26, 2012 1:27 pm | Apr 27, 2012 8:31 am | |
| Reporter | Penumbra | Assigned To | |||
| Status | considering | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0007254: Secret Doors | ||||
| Description | Don't quite know how these would look. Wouldn't be on the map or scouted. Hidden switches to open doors? All I know is that finding them is really, really fun. Just so long as nothing required is on the other side. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | Feature Suggestion | ||||
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Only sometimes. It's an awesome game, don't get me wrong. But secrets should secrets, and puzzles should be puzzles. They do both very, very right, but sometimes a secret is the lynchpin in a puzzle and I find that annoying. That is a game that is all about the hidden buttons, I know, and it's really fun to find them when I feel like looking for them. All I'm saying for AVWW is, don't put the lock in an overlord castle on the other side of a secret door, almost anything else at all would be fair game. Edit: I think I may have come off a little harsh on Grimrock. It's a different game. Every situation is very custom tailored. There are usually nice hints as to where to find your secrets, and a reduced search space. It's quite clever and well done. Something like that can't work here, because of the infinite nature of everything. Maybe a few hand crafted rooms, but they would repeat eventually. Coming up with dynamic, infinite puzzles is really hard in a platforming game. Sudoku works, but even then, hand crafted works better than random. Edit 2: removed the snarky line against Grimrock. Isn't warranted or conducive to this topic. |
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Yeah, you're right, so I deleted my comment about it. ;) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Apr 26, 2012 1:27 pm | Penumbra | New Issue | |
| Apr 26, 2012 4:22 pm | tigersfan | Internal Weight | => Feature Suggestion |
| Apr 26, 2012 4:22 pm | tigersfan | Status | new => considering |
| Apr 26, 2012 5:02 pm | Penumbra | Note Added: 0022779 | |
| Apr 26, 2012 5:11 pm | Penumbra | Note Edited: 0022779 | |
| Apr 26, 2012 5:11 pm | Penumbra | Description Updated | |
| Apr 26, 2012 5:12 pm | Penumbra | Note Edited: 0022779 | |
| Apr 26, 2012 5:12 pm | Penumbra | Note Edited: 0022779 | |
| Apr 27, 2012 8:31 am | tigersfan | Note Added: 0022810 |
