{"author_link":"\/users\/finn-truman","author_name":"Finn Truman","author_uid":"1010453","comments":[{"author_name":"jac_B","author_uid":"1077171","time":"2018-12-04T03:15:27Z","epoch":1543893327,"modified":1543893327,"text":"Guys, you're damn crazy. It has to be a lot of work for such small amount of time. At the beginnig I thought that it will be hard to understand rules of game like this but it actually wasn't any problem. I like the game but unfortunately it crashed in the end of first battle after sacrificing one of the group. So I haven't played whole game so far, but maybe I'll try it at least once again.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Finn Truman","author_uid":"1010453","time":"2018-12-04T11:34:03Z","epoch":1543923243,"modified":1543923243,"text":"@jac-b Omg thank you so much. There has been an overhanging feeling of anxiety from day 1 that this was too much with too little time, but to hear someone say they liked it has made me so incredibly happy","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"AmigoPadilha","author_uid":"1035748","time":"2018-12-04T12:23:36Z","epoch":1543926216,"modified":1543926216,"text":"Awesome game, really nice to play. Had a good time evaluating it =)!\nGreat job guys!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"JdH","author_uid":"1123252","time":"2018-12-04T13:06:28Z","epoch":1543928788,"modified":1543928788,"text":"Nice - I like the art.\nSadly the bugs hit huge on me. First the barbarian buttons missing and then the next round the draw event crash just after clicking a barbarian ability.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"kloscunha","author_uid":"1008358","time":"2018-12-04T19:17:22Z","epoch":1543951042,"modified":1543951042,"text":"Nice, Darkest Dungeon-esque proposal here.\nI'd advise in using sans-serif, less curly fonts, as they're easier to read :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Sempiternal","author_uid":"1053153","time":"2018-12-04T19:20:20Z","epoch":1543951220,"modified":1543951220,"text":"A really neat game overall but sadly I've encountered the same crash on the draw event","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"thedarkmagi","author_uid":1013980,"time":"2018-12-04T19:56:38Z","epoch":1543953398,"modified":1543953398,"text":"this was good fun, it's a shame about the bugs, I experienced the draw event issue and a bug where the ranger couldn't attack the only enemy with there first ability, which I had done before in the run ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Luka Roli","author_uid":"1125492","time":"2018-12-04T22:24:55Z","epoch":1543962295,"modified":1543962295,"text":"The intro cut off before I could read the last sentence D: The game looks a bit weard with everything on top being a shade of brown, you could have made the characters stand out a bit with some brightness tweaking or small coloration. I can't really tell what the abilities do just form looking at them. Instead of coloring them based on the character, you could base the color on ability types (red for damage, green for health...). Also I have never played Darkest Dungeon so I had no idea what some statuses meant.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Finn Truman","author_uid":"1010453","time":"2018-12-04T22:30:32Z","epoch":1543962632,"modified":1544082796,"text":"@luka-roli We were torn between making the intro text last longer or shorter.\n\nThe brown filter is to make it look like it has a sepia tone so it looks like an old photograph, emphasising the fact its an old tale being retold. But I do acknowledge the characters kind of blend into the background.\n\nThe abilities have some descriptive text if you mouse over them.\n\nThese status effects don't appear in Darkest Dungeon, we made them. We couldn't make a tutorial because we ran out of time, so to compromise we made a txt file of game terms included with the file.\nThank you for your criticism!","likes":2,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Finn Truman","author_uid":"1010453","time":"2018-12-04T22:32:54Z","epoch":1543962774,"modified":1543962774,"text":"@amigopadilha @jdh @kloscunha @sempiternal @thedarkmagi\nThank you guys for playing our game! We're thrilled to hear you enjoyed what you managed to play of it :stuck_out_tongue: \nI'm so sorry that the game is as buggy as it is. We tried so hard to fix it but it's a stealth bug; we couldn't intentionally trigger it, so we couldn't find out what under what conditions it operates :frowning2: ","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Luka Roli","author_uid":"1125492","time":"2018-12-04T22:37:34Z","epoch":1543963054,"modified":1543963054,"text":"@finn-truman I didn't notice the txt file, that's a nice way around it. Good job on the game anyway, you managed to do a lot in this short time.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"stellaryyan2","author_uid":"1113532","time":"2018-12-05T10:20:38Z","epoch":1544005238,"modified":1544005238,"text":"A great game with Darkest Dungeon fight mechanism, although I can't finish my game because some bugs.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Finn Truman","author_uid":"1010453","time":"2018-12-05T11:01:32Z","epoch":1544007692,"modified":1544007692,"text":"@amigopadilha @jdh @kloscunha @sempiternal @thedarkmagi @stellaryyan2 \nI have fixed some bugs and uploaded a new version. Besides the bug fixes, no other changes have been made.\nI do not expect you to play the game a second time (I know we've all got a lot of games to get through!), but if you did want to try again, the option is there!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ruba","author_uid":"1031590","time":"2018-12-05T16:30:15Z","epoch":1544027415,"modified":1544027415,"text":"Found myself playing it for 20 minutes, which is very nice result for LD game. Congrats - very nice gameplay.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Myrrhe","author_uid":"1097195","time":"2018-12-05T21:31:47Z","epoch":1544045507,"modified":1544045508,"text":"A fun little game. The graphism are a bit simple, but they are coherent and explicit.\nI find the difficulty well balanced.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Vivien Fargette","author_uid":"1126051","time":"2018-12-05T22:18:35Z","epoch":1544048315,"modified":1544048315,"text":"Awesome game, the story is simple but efficient, the ennemies are various, the music is good and the sacrifices are hard to decide. Maybe an help with what will sacrificed characters will provide, especially around the archer as one of his ability need the reduce armor to be applied but can not apply it by himself.\n\nBig big fan of your game :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Jevgeni Orehhov","author_uid":"1125741","time":"2018-12-05T22:21:45Z","epoch":1544048505,"modified":1544048505,"text":"It maybe not the beautiful game out there but I love roguelikes. Cool game for 3 devs.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"zgragselus","author_uid":"1001394","time":"2018-12-09T00:35:51Z","epoch":1544315751,"modified":1544315751,"text":"Good game, I enjoyed it.\n\nIt did crash few times while playing it though (in 3rd battle) - couldn't really get past it.\n\nGood job!","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"ted","author_uid":"1001617","time":"2018-12-15T03:48:24Z","epoch":1544845704,"modified":1544846828,"text":"A demake of Darkest Dungeons in a weekend is not an easy task! Good job, and good choice. :)","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Bonelazy","author_uid":"1033874","time":"2018-12-17T20:22:42Z","epoch":1545078162,"modified":1545078162,"text":"The Darkest Dungeon inspiration is definitely there. The graphics are nice, even though bottom panel UI could be better. The game itself is really fun but a bit slow. I played until sacrificing the 2nd hero but it was too long already so I had to shut it down. Got a bit repetitive at that point. Maybe the game could have been a bit shorter :)\n\nThe scope of the game is huge, and you have accomplished a great deal in such a short time. Very well done.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Finn Truman","author_uid":"1010453","time":"2018-12-18T09:18:57Z","epoch":1545124737,"modified":1545124737,"text":"@bonelazy Thank you for your feedback! I think we definitely took on too much with this project, we were still \"making\" it right up until the last day, there wasn't much time for polish. So the bottom panel does look a bit naff.\n\nThe game is certainly much longer than we were expecting. It felt faster for us because in the dev build we could just right click on people to kill them to skip fights so we could test later ones. That and we know the best synergies. So we never found out just how long it was XD\n\nThe designer wanted even more mechanics, if you can believe that. There was going to be an \"imbue\" mechanic where when a character dies their spirit could bless a living character and they would gain an ability that that spirit had when they were alive. That had to be scrapped.\n\nWe also wanted some exploration to break up the fights in between. The fights do overstay their welcome and some exploration would have helped, but of course, there was no time for that.","likes":1,"format":"md"},{"author_name":"Doey","author_uid":"1102462","time":"2018-12-24T18:57:48Z","epoch":1545677868,"modified":1545677868,"text":"Enjoyed playing it! Fun mechanics and a style of game I really enjoy!","likes":1,"format":"md"}],"format":"md","images":["ld43\/123013-a331ac0b21e4817af04d38251eeb7246.png"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/finnttruman.itch.io\/the-forgotten-four","text":"Windows"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"40302","g_author":"1010453","g_event":"LD43","g_eventkey":"71","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"223136","g_title":"The Forgotten Four","g_status":"USEAR3","g_place":"544","g_commentcount":"22","g_site2_node_id":"123013","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":{"n_key":"123013","n_urlkey":"223136","n_parent":"120415","n_path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/the-forgotten-four","n_slug":"the-forgotten-four","n_type":"item","n_subtype":"game","n_subsubtype":"jam","n_author":"10453","n_created":"1542977510","n_modified":"1544912768","n_version":"413947","n_status":"COMMIT"},"node":{"id":123013,"parent":120415,"superparent":9,"author":10453,"type":"item","subtype":"game","subsubtype":"jam","published":"2018-12-04T02:03:07Z","created":"2018-11-23T12:51:50Z","modified":"2018-12-15T22:26:08Z","version":413947,"slug":"the-forgotten-four","name":"The Forgotten Four","body":"![ForgottenFourBanner.png](\/\/\/raw\/0f8\/2\/z\/1e0a2.png)\n\nDelve deep into the Temple of the Blood God as a group of heroes known only as The Forgotten Four. Willing to give anything to save their people from a cursed plague, they will fight the Blood Gods minions, and make great sacrifices for the greater good in this turn based combat game inspired by Darkest Dungeon.\n\n- - -\n\n## Credits\n\nArtwork by Amy Cotton\n\nProgramming by Finn Truman\n\nGame Design by Matt Heinrich\n\n- - -\n\n## Known Issues\n\n- The Barbarian's Mighty Cleave and the Ranger's Barbed Barrage can sometimes not hit as many enemies as the ability is meant to.\n\n- The Temple Guardians have wide hitboxes, which can overlap with another enemy's. So when you click on the latter you might click the Temple Guardian instead.\n\n- The Blood Nightmare and Plagued Bloodhorror's sprites cover up the green targetting ring that appears when choosing an ability that needs to select a target. Rest assured, your ranged and spirit abilities can hit them!\n\n- Some spirit cooldown abilities do not go on to cooldown.\n\n- The final boss has some incorrect behaviour. It tries to use some abilities early and can make melee attacks from too far away.\n\n- Damage indicators sometimes overlap. This is most prevalent at the start of a combatant's turn that has multiple status effects applied to them.\n\n- Very rare game crash caused by a draw event. Requires a restart. This might have been fixed, but since we do not know what conditions the bug operates under, we can only speculate.\n\nPlease let us know if you encounter any more issues!","meta":{"author":[10453,10940,10480],"link-01-tag":"42337","cover":"\/\/\/content\/0f8\/2\/z\/1dffd.png","grade-06-out":"1","grade-07-out":"1","allow-anonymous-comments":"1","link-01":"https:\/\/finnttruman.itch.io\/the-forgotten-four","link-01-name":"Windows"},"path":"\/events\/ludum-dare\/43\/the-forgotten-four","parents":[1,5,9,120415],"love":0,"notes":22,"notes-timestamp":"2018-12-24T18:57:48Z","grade":{"grade-01":33,"grade-02":33,"grade-03":33,"grade-04":33,"grade-05":33,"grade-08":33},"magic":{"cool":120.96106376586,"feedback":28,"given":34.75,"grade":33,"grade-01-average":3.403,"grade-01-result":544,"grade-02-average":3.355,"grade-02-result":435,"grade-03-average":2.581,"grade-03-result":936,"grade-04-average":3.113,"grade-04-result":748,"grade-05-average":3.177,"grade-05-result":685,"grade-08-average":3.484,"grade-08-result":382,"smart":21.543108701099}},"text":"![ForgottenFourBanner.png](\/\/\/raw\/0f8\/2\/z\/1e0a2.png)\n\nDelve deep into the Temple of the Blood God as a group of heroes known only as The Forgotten Four. Willing to give anything to save their people from a cursed plague, they will fight the Blood Gods minions, and make great sacrifices for the greater good in this turn based combat game inspired by Darkest Dungeon.\n\n- - -\n\n## Credits\n\nArtwork by Amy Cotton\n\nProgramming by Finn Truman\n\nGame Design by Matt Heinrich\n\n- - -\n\n## Known Issues\n\n- The Barbarian's Mighty Cleave and the Ranger's Barbed Barrage can sometimes not hit as many enemies as the ability is meant to.\n\n- The Temple Guardians have wide hitboxes, which can overlap with another enemy's. So when you click on the latter you might click the Temple Guardian instead.\n\n- The Blood Nightmare and Plagued Bloodhorror's sprites cover up the green targetting ring that appears when choosing an ability that needs to select a target. Rest assured, your ranged and spirit abilities can hit them!\n\n- Some spirit cooldown abilities do not go on to cooldown.\n\n- The final boss has some incorrect behaviour. It tries to use some abilities early and can make melee attacks from too far away.\n\n- Damage indicators sometimes overlap. This is most prevalent at the start of a combatant's turn that has multiple status effects applied to them.\n\n- Very rare game crash caused by a draw event. Requires a restart. This might have been fixed, but since we do not know what conditions the bug operates under, we can only speculate.\n\nPlease let us know if you encounter any more issues!","title":"The Forgotten Four"}