Feedback

Like before I’ve received a great feedback from the players. There were lots of comments and lots of new interesting ideas (special thanks to Xelanoimis, Tramponline and Myles Blasonato).

There was a bug in the demo that blocked the game if one of the Wiseman dialog options was chosen a second time . I’ve fixed it and updated the demo for download.

Following your advises I’ve also changed few things in the gameplay:

- the background in the inventory window was changed;

- inventory items are now without a pixel perfect mask (you can select an item just by clicking on the appropriate slot);

- right mouse click also skips dialog text;

- the mouse cursor is now hidden during the noninteractive parts of game;.

I you have more ideas how to improve the game I will gladly hear them.

Interview by Hardy

Igor Hardy has recently made an interview with me abort the game „the Trader of Stories”. You can read it on his website.

New demo release!

It took longer then I’ve expected but the demo is finally complete. What’s new? Pretty much. The first location with the Wiseman was extended and a new location was added. Along come two new characters to talk to, some riddles to solve and a main menu to… well, use.
Like before you can download the demo from my portfolio from the "freebies" section or by clicking directly on this link.

www.rudowscy.com/marek/files/theTraderofStories.zip

Your feedback was great and it had really big influence on the gameplay. I know I can count on more. Every comment shall be appreciated.

If by starting the demo you will receive an information about missing a file named d3dx9_34.dll you can fix it with the help of this link.

Have a nice game!

Education is the key to success

I’ve planned to release the next demo by now but my beta testers (huge thanks!) have suggested me some changes which I’m trying to bring into effect. Please be patient.

In the meantime I’m working on a new location which shell be Adalbert’s library (the books Myosotis have used to persuade the Wiseman came from Adalbert). He’s a scholar and he’s living in an old library. Although a new building for the university library was erected students still prefer to use the old one. Especially that its owner eagerly serves with them advise.

Below is a conceptual sketch and the final drawing for this location. Firstly I didn’t indent to make it such a busy place but then I thought that the students would bring a little more life to it. The building itself was inspired by a library I found in Poland in the city of Jelenia Gora.

conceptual sketch

final drawing

Main menu

Quick look on the main menu I was talking about previously. It will show at the beginning of the game and every time a player will hit the “escape” key.

main menu

load window

quit window

Game poster #01

I’m working now on a main menu for the game which I will show in a few days. But for now, being tired of programming, I decided to make myself a brake and draw an illustration for the game, something like a game poster. I’ll probably make some more in the future.
This one presents two half faces. One is Myosotis (the main hero of the game) and the second belongs to Griffe (who was described a post ago).

Griffe

He may look like an evil boss character our hero could meet at the end of the game but looks can be misleading. That doesn’t mean that he does not have anything on his conscience, but on the other hand – who hasn’t? The real reason why he’s not an evil boss character is that this game doesn’t have any. Is the world a better place without them? Not necessarily cause evil can handle itself easily without them.

So who is this guy? Well, one more mystery to solve, that's for sure.

I’m not certain how to name him. He’s original name I gave him years ago was Griffe, which means “Claw” in French. Maybe I’ll stay with that or maybe You have some ideas?