Steam Next Fest Demo
The demo for Pictoglyph is available to download. In hindsight I shouldn't have opted in to participate in this Next Fest - I seriously underestimated the time it would take me to sort some game breaking bugs - perhaps the October Next Fest would have been a better choice. I will
The demo for Pictoglyph is available to download. In hindsight I shouldn't have opted in to participate in this Next Fest - I seriously underestimated the time it would take me to sort some game breaking bugs - perhaps the October Next Fest would have been a better choice.
I will take this is as a lesson for the future. I will leave the demo available for download after the Fest finishes.
The demo is a basic slice of the game - its main purpose to gather feedback on the puzzle ruleset. It will be full of bugs (if you wish to submit any bug reports, please do so in this thread - very much appreciate it) There are various animations missing/buggy etc.
The final version will include:
Music/Sounds
Interactive Tutorial
Save Functionality
Plethora of Interface Options
Also, just a quick shout out to Steam Staff, who approved the initial upload of my Demo Build in record time.
Original post 
The player first clicks a clue tile to begin marking tiles they have worked out to be part of the Snake Shape. The clue tile could be any one of the tiles of that shape of course. While marking, the tiles appear to have a red border. Once the player is finished marking tiles for that shape (to cancel they can click the Clue Tile again or right click etc) The tiles flip back, lose the red border and become 'normal'.
As there could be many of the same "Snake" shapes in the puzzle, the red border around the tiles you're currently marking helps the player keep track of which shape they're actually interacting with. I'm finding that explaining this sounds more complicated than it is in practice. I cannot wait for feedback from the demo once that is out.
Also, please note, all the animations/symbols/tile sprites etc, will have a couple of art passes (one for the Demo, then a final one for release) so the final game will look slightly different.
Thanks for reading.
