I really enjoyed the game and am looking foward to the full realease. I was just wondering if you were ever planing on making the letters bigger. My screen is pretty small so there were times when I couldn't read.
Hello ! Thank you for playing Orphan Age ! Text size is one of our biggest weakness, lot of people asking us to fix that and we will do ! It's a long work because there's lot of texts in the game and modifying size will transform/change all the interfaces ^^'
Of course we hope that our game will work on as much computers as possible, I think that the demo already works under windows 7-8 but we don't have any computer with win7-8 to test it ^^'
Great game! I really enjoyed it! Survive as an orphan and making your own group. It reminded me of warcraft abit (I know it is not related to the topic). You can have 1 kid do that, and another kid do this. As for the price I'd have to say no as it is still updating, as much as I would want to buy this game, but for now its a no due to the game still updating. Thanks for releasing a demo though, it gave me a insight view of how it is played and I got to experience the gameplay and mechanics of Orphan Age! Good lucky to your team and future update towards the game, I will be looking foward to it :)
Hope you don't mind I made a video on Orphan Age, I just wanted to share my experience and first time playthrough.
First, you should know that I love every kind of 4X, strategy or management games.
So I really happy that you made a demo version that we can try out. This is a very rare things nowadays!
So I tried out the demo, and...I really-really-really pissed of, because of the HYPE you pushing; that your game is BENDING THE 4X GENRE! It turned out, that I don't play a SINGLE SECOND with your game, because I literally rage-quit at the character screen, and immediately deleted the whole thing!
The reason(s) why: The text is so small, that it is Impossible to read anything, so I switched to the smallest possible resolution, because IN EVERY SINGLE GAME EVER, if you use smaller resolution the text become LARGER. I don't know what happening in your game, but the text are the same incredibly small. Literally just made out of 2 or 3 pixels and they smudged (antialiased, regardless it is turned off!). I can't even imagine what happens if I switch to larger resolutions...Maybe it is recommended to use an electron-microscope to read the text?
I started the game with the tutorial, of course, and it said if I move my mouse cursor over something it shows what it is. So I moved the cursor over a trait, and it started to write out the text about that trait, and about the 3rd row of text, the already incredibly small text become even smaller! What? Can you tell me how we supposed to read that text that is LITERALLY just a smudgy spot on my screen made out of 2-3 pixels? I never see this kind of thing what your game doing, why don't you simply just using normal fonts, so they can be read?
The next thing that made me hate your game on the first place, is those so annoyingly over-bloomed neon everything! Even the first comment on Youtube complaining about it! It literally made the whole thing ugly as hell.
Oh, and if I already mentioned the word UGLY, I tell you what is the 3rd thing (and the worst in your game) what made me "never-want-to-see-this-thingy-again".
The characters!
When I scroll through the possible characters at the character-screen, I totally understand why those kids become orphaned! 100% that their parents leave them behind; nobody want those so incredibly ugly, retarded faced abominations as their kids! Sorry, but this is the truth, they are ugly as f...! If I look at the title screen, the same that is here in the top of the page, with that 3 kid; that make those in-game character EVEN WORST! The title screen is a really masterpiece of art, I just can't believe how you managed to make them so bad looking?
I think you never will change and fix all what I mentioned, so I think you lose another customer who wanted to buy your game at first glance! Or prove me wrong!
THANK YOU THAT YOU MADE A DEMO, SO I DON'T LOOSE ANY MONEY!
Thank you very much for testing the demo and sharing your point of view with us! :) We love receiving negative reviews because they allow us to improve the game. I have to tell you that you just played an early version of the game (the problems with resolutions and texts sizes are known and will be fixed asap) so a lot of things will be polished with the feedbacks of the community ;)
I would encourage you to view the Open Bugs Tracker and join our Discord server. This way you'll see the work that is going to fix the issues, and you'll also be able to chat to our community who will testify to the amount of work going in. Bugs are being fixed daily, you have our promise on that.
Don't worry though, we'll definitely be proving you wrong ;)
Very interesting theme and idea for an 4X-like game. I found the different classes interesting and worth trying, otherwise the character options seem to have good variance too. The game itself looks really brilliant, even with the settings that make it run well on my system. Overall, a great demo.
I'd like to invite your game to our annual Game Development World Championship!
I'm not usually into these micromanagement sims, but this one managed to capture me. I think it was the mix of the cyberpunk aesthetic and the idea of it being only kids. I don't think I got a lot done in the demo, mainly because I was learning the ropes, but it seems like you've got a pretty solid set of systems here. I'm genuinely curious how the story will play out through the campaign.
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Really nice and very cool game! little more big letters and everything is perfect <3
P.S. save game don't works? Yesterday i save game, today i wanted to continue game but continue and load buttons doesn't worked. :(
Hey UHDG ! Thanks for your support !
Unfortunately Save & Load are locked in the demo :/
I really enjoyed the game and am looking foward to the full realease. I was just wondering if you were ever planing on making the letters bigger. My screen is pretty small so there were times when I couldn't read.
Hello ! Thank you for playing Orphan Age !
Text size is one of our biggest weakness, lot of people asking us to fix that and we will do ! It's a long work because there's lot of texts in the game and modifying size will transform/change all the interfaces ^^'
Spanish pls
Hey,
The game is still early in it's development so localisation hasn't happened yet. We'll keep you updated ;)
is it not out yet?
Hi Sandpixie, the game is still in development, we will launch a private alpha in 2 weeks on Steam and an Early Access will be launch this winter! :)
oh cool! could it possibly be on windows 7 or 8? not everyone uses window 10 ya know D:
Of course we hope that our game will work on as much computers as possible, I think that the demo already works under windows 7-8 but we don't have any computer with win7-8 to test it ^^'
awesome! haha oh we shall see then :P
yay! it's working on my windows 7 :D <3 btw is the player character a boy or a girl?? don't want to end up naming a girl mike or something :'D
ahah cool to read that !
The first one selected is a boy then a girl, a boy, a girl ....
Great game! I really enjoyed it! Survive as an orphan and making your own group. It reminded me of warcraft abit (I know it is not related to the topic). You can have 1 kid do that, and another kid do this. As for the price I'd have to say no as it is still updating, as much as I would want to buy this game, but for now its a no due to the game still updating. Thanks for releasing a demo though, it gave me a insight view of how it is played and I got to experience the gameplay and mechanics of Orphan Age! Good lucky to your team and future update towards the game, I will be looking foward to it :)
Hope you don't mind I made a video on Orphan Age, I just wanted to share my experience and first time playthrough.
Thank you so much for your support and for YT video you made ! :D
Hey Layar!
Just wanted to share my experience! Thx!
Hey Myerax,
Would you mind if we shared this video across our social networks?
Hey KrisWB. Go ahead!
First, you should know that I love every kind of 4X, strategy or management games.
So I really happy that you made a demo version that we can try out. This is a very rare things nowadays!
So I tried out the demo, and...I really-really-really pissed of, because of the HYPE you pushing; that your game is BENDING THE 4X GENRE! It turned out, that I don't play a SINGLE SECOND with your game, because I literally rage-quit at the character screen, and immediately deleted the whole thing!
The reason(s) why:
The text is so small, that it is Impossible to read anything, so I switched to the smallest possible resolution, because IN EVERY SINGLE GAME EVER, if you use smaller resolution the text become LARGER. I don't know what happening in your game, but the text are the same incredibly small. Literally just made out of 2 or 3 pixels and they smudged (antialiased, regardless it is turned off!). I can't even imagine what happens if I switch to larger resolutions...Maybe it is recommended to use an electron-microscope to read the text?
I started the game with the tutorial, of course, and it said if I move my mouse cursor over something it shows what it is. So I moved the cursor over a trait, and it started to write out the text about that trait, and about the 3rd row of text, the already incredibly small text become even smaller! What? Can you tell me how we supposed to read that text that is LITERALLY just a smudgy spot on my screen made out of 2-3 pixels? I never see this kind of thing what your game doing, why don't you simply just using normal fonts, so they can be read?
The next thing that made me hate your game on the first place, is those so annoyingly over-bloomed neon everything! Even the first comment on Youtube complaining about it! It literally made the whole thing ugly as hell.
Oh, and if I already mentioned the word UGLY, I tell you what is the 3rd thing (and the worst in your game) what made me "never-want-to-see-this-thingy-again".
The characters!
When I scroll through the possible characters at the character-screen, I totally understand why those kids become orphaned! 100% that their parents leave them behind; nobody want those so incredibly ugly, retarded faced abominations as their kids! Sorry, but this is the truth, they are ugly as f...! If I look at the title screen, the same that is here in the top of the page, with that 3 kid; that make those in-game character EVEN WORST! The title screen is a really masterpiece of art, I just can't believe how you managed to make them so bad looking?
I think you never will change and fix all what I mentioned, so I think you lose another customer who wanted to buy your game at first glance! Or prove me wrong!
THANK YOU THAT YOU MADE A DEMO, SO I DON'T LOOSE ANY MONEY!
Thank you very much for testing the demo and sharing your point of view with us! :)
We love receiving negative reviews because they allow us to improve the game. I have to tell you that you just played an early version of the game (the problems with resolutions and texts sizes are known and will be fixed asap) so a lot of things will be polished with the feedbacks of the community ;)
Hey Gofri,
I would encourage you to view the Open Bugs Tracker and join our Discord server. This way you'll see the work that is going to fix the issues, and you'll also be able to chat to our community who will testify to the amount of work going in. Bugs are being fixed daily, you have our promise on that.
Don't worry though, we'll definitely be proving you wrong ;)
very nice
Thank you Linasi ! :)
wowie this look nice and unique! i like the style of the game too!
Thank you ! :)
Thank you :D
wooaahh
:D
Very interesting theme and idea for an 4X-like game. I found the different classes interesting and worth trying, otherwise the character options seem to have good variance too. The game itself looks really brilliant, even with the settings that make it run well on my system. Overall, a great demo.
I'd like to invite your game to our annual Game Development World Championship!
Thanks GDWC. Please DM me with details :)
I'm not usually into these micromanagement sims, but this one managed to capture me. I think it was the mix of the cyberpunk aesthetic and the idea of it being only kids. I don't think I got a lot done in the demo, mainly because I was learning the ropes, but it seems like you've got a pretty solid set of systems here. I'm genuinely curious how the story will play out through the campaign.
Thanks CoalFire! Great video, thank you for sharing.
We can't wait t share the full game with you all :)
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