Ven VR Adventure
Ven VR Adventure - Monthly Venlog #7
Ven VR Adventure - (Not) Monthly Venlog #6
In this Venlog we want to show you some first impressions we saw and how we adapted to this.
Power Attack
When our first level "Village" was easily completed by many players, there were some users that had problems with poison shrooms:
Without this special move player died more times from them than from any other reason. That's why we have implemented additional tooltips at the beginning to remind, that there is such a move in game. After this patch users had less problems with our shrooms. That was one of many changes that normal user wouldn't see, but has a good effect and encourage them to go further.
Checkpoints
After release we saw a pattern, that players died at specific places or they just felt discouraged because they passed through not a small part of level and their death was a reason that they were angry not at themselves, but towards a game. It was just not fair for them. While we want to make this platformer a challenging one we didn't want people to throw our game at beginning or because they felt the game was not fair. But there were also platformer fans, who loved this challenge. And here we analyzed places, where people died often.
On this image you can see 2 tables, where in one we checked collected Eki and second deaths between checkpoints. It is data from "Soaring Snake",we show you here 5 players with different playstyles through the game (Note: one player failed here, because he had some problems with controllers).
Thanks to those tables we knew where we should focus and also rethink if venkids/checkpoints are in a good place. We have a tendency here that one specific Eki was not collected on the first try.
If we talk about checkpoints, space between 2nd and 3rd checkpoint was crucial. With that data, we decided that this is a great place for checkpoint in easy mode, a mode where we have more checkpoints and we get more lives by collecting crates and runes. In hard mode we made small changes, moved by one challenge etc.
Also, we added note that you won't start from the checkpoint you destroyed and there we will talk about the third point of this Venlog.
Level length/Camera distance
Why distance and level length are in same point? Because every change we wanted to make had an impact on the other one. Especially at first level, where players had many far views and didn't see Ven and they played this level ~15 minutes on average. It's too long for first level and when we made some changes we also shortened level. Thanks to that it is more enjoyable for more players, less boring and the players know, where to go, because with wide space we had previously it was more like open world game than true platformer, we wanted to make.
And that's all for today! Big thanks for reading through this Venlog, We hope that we answered some of your questions why we made some changes. There is a lot more to talk about, so follow our social media to be up to date!
Also additional note, sorry you must wait for language patch, but our work extends because of quest release, and additionally we test it there, because we want to give you the best experience we can.
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Yours,
Monologic Games
Camera Survey
while we are fully working on Oculus Quest, we are also thinking about improving our camera system in the game.
We are fully aware some players didn't like our camera for various reasons, like they can't control it or they can't go back. That was one of the reasons that they gave lower rates or just bounce from our game. Of course we want to improve our game so as many players as possible can have pleasant gameplay.
We have created a survey for you, where we ask you a few questions (5 minutes). We encourage all players who played this game and even didn't have any problems, so we can have precise results and deliver the best solution.
Survey:
Click here
Thanks in advance and have a nice day!