The Book of Alia - Lucifers Dog (WIP) a medieval tale of kings and queens / Demo link in OP

While I do believe that it has a lot of potential, I have to agree with some of the posters here; it feels rushed, some of the dialogues are akward and unnatural; they succeed in providing us with the information intended but feel too much like reading from a script rather than natural speech. Taking some time to polish the demo will certainly be beneficial to your goal; which as you said is to gauge up the interest for the game. If the demo does not reflect the quality of the finished game at least in some part then it’s impossible to say for sure how interested people will be.

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Thanks for the comments all, a few minor tweaks have been added to the demo link, the prolog which was missing is now included (was a missing scene) with a small grammar sweep, but there is much more to do on this front mind!

the game still finishes at Lord bart because i want to get the first demo complete before moving on so you won’t be able to progress from this point for now.

Timescale;

Demo re-written by mid march, and if still positive i’ll move onto chapter 2 by end of march.

once again thanks for taking the time to read :slight_smile:

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I can look for the mistakes ,and you could change them, if you wanted?

I could help you with writing and coding if you want? I have some experiences in both area XD Altought i’m busy with my own wips so i will not have lots of free time. If you are up to it DM me and we will discuss about it.

@Kenneth_McGrew

So I was looking into whether you should change Dame to Lady. I’ve been doing some research and both titles are pretty much the same.

So in my opinion feel you should change Dame to Lady. Just because the title feels… I don’t know… it just feels right. I don’t have a proper word for it. But its entirely up to you to change it or not.

On the other hand loving the prologue. Didn’t do a grammar sweep as yet. I’m just looking to see if everything fits.

@Book_Devourer That’s a kind offer, i think im getting somewhere now with some amendments, there is still a bit of capitalisation to complete so probably ignore that for now but yes that would be great thanks.

@TheBlackSamourai at the minute i need to get a massive mind dump of info down into some form of flow, i may take you up on the offer in the future, but at the minute i need to get a scribbled skeleton style mess typed out and then refine it, that’s kind of how i work so if that appeals to you it might work.

@Bulk_Biceps good idea, lord/lady but there isnt one for none gender specific, do you have any ideas there? - i’ve been scouring peerage and all-sorts but best i got is “ruler” which i don’t particularly feel it does it any justice.

just a quick update too, few amendments to the intro, some text re-writes and i’ve unlocked the final page so it should now get to an end game screen rather than an error, the remaining chapters i’ve written are still locked though, hopefully the “demo” is in a better place now.

i’ve also slipped an image in there to help illustrate Alia, perhaps this would be useful in the stats so the player can recall it. thoughts welcome on that (its a working image which will get illustrated)

link is in the OP of course.

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I’ll get to it in about 20 mins

Firstly, great story. I am pretty excited to play the full polished game, assuming you make it through till the end. This is precisely the type of game I’d like to play in the medical genre especially being a fan of Swamp Castle and Great Tournament games. I hope you add detailed castle and estate management aspects like managing economy, agriculture, etc basically some level of micromanagement.

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About to start

Prologue
(I probably am being a bit pedantic with these)


Lack of comma


1.Lack of comma
2.Lack of full stop(or period,I don’t quite know the American word)
3.Desert has one S, otherwise it is a pudding
4.You need a semi-colon,or a new sentence


1.Lack of capital
2.Lack of comma
3.Semi-colon or a new sentence
4.Lack of comma
5.Lack of comma
6.There are a few options;a dash would probably be best
7.Semi-colon or new sentence


1.Semi-colon or new sentence
2.Comma

theres a bug on scene three too at the minute when talking to Edward, and i can’t seem to resolve it :frowning:

i updated the file but dashing don keeps coming up with the same error, ill try and fix it tomorrow with a fresh mind as its working in CSide.

Beautiful drawing

Next load


1.It’s,not its
2.Lack of comma
3.Lack of full stop.
4.Lack of capital
5.Lack of comma
6.Lack of comma
7.Lack of full stop


1.Semi-colon or full stop
2.Lack of capital
3.Lack of comma
4.Blacksmith’s,not Blacksmiths
5.Semi-colon or new sentence
6.Semi-colon or new sentence
7.Semi-colon or new sentence

image
1.Wasn’t,not wast
2.Lack of Comma
3.Lack of Comma
4.Lack of Comma


1.Lack of comma
2.Semi-colon or new sentence
3.Lack of comma
4.Lack of full stop
5.Lack of capital


1.Semi-colon,new sentence,or “…from view,as it…”
2.Lack of comma
3.Lack of comma
4.Lack of capital


1.Lack of capital


1.Two for the price of one;Lack of comma,and Lord needs a capital.
2.Lack of Capital

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I’ll do the next check tommorrow.Also,am I basically the grammar guy now?

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@Book_Devourer many thanks for the input, hold off on the others as i need to do another basic sweep on the next scene :+1:

I’ve re-edited (just not uploaded yet as I’m testing it all works)


Can’t open stats

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Grammar Guy reporting in.

Let me know when to do the next sweep.

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Check out this thread — there’s a nifty list of gender-neutral terms for nobility in the first post. :slight_smile: You might find something that suits your world better there.

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Sounds interesting I’ll try it

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I’ve been looking, haven’t found anything. But ruler seems to be the best option right know. Unless someone else knows, I’m drawing on a blank here.

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Grammar Guy reporting in.

I won’t be able to do many sweeps today.