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how to go through door?

Hey quite a big fan of yours here!
I\’ll put my two cents in.

Two things I noticed

1. It just seems a little odd to me, but you can’t really see Henry’s unless you jump into the air.

2. I’m running Firefox on a Mac (Leopard). I was at the door and was wondering if it worked, so I pressed standard action keys for games. What I noticed is that when I pressed shift, the colors changed to negatives.

Some ideas
Since this game is going to be called Grief, I think it would be a great idea to have 5 chapters that correspond with the five stages of grief. Each chapter, adding to the story of Henry. It would be very cool if at the end, everything started piecing together.

Try to put more subtle things, such as you did in ToCM, such as the green box (Kathryn’s grave) the flowers, (flowers on Kathryn’s grave) and the clones, (meetings with his physcologist).

Final thing, on Kongregate I posted a comment on ToCM under the name of Deathrizen to let people know about the sequel that everyone has been waiting for.

If you want to credit me, put my name as JasnK

I liked the way it looked and depending on the story Jack may be a good character. I just wish I knew how to get in the door

door door door!!! how to get through i will evantually find out? lol this time around the controls seem much easier to use and its not as confusing as before. ^^ keep going at it XD

i think it is a good start, but i think you should keep the zoomed out view as in the old one. Also the box spawning thing is a thing i like, if u arent planning it already, you should make some levels which has a limited use of these boxes =).

From Mournous

I only just recently played TCoM. It was one of the best story games I’ve played on the net. Just a few suggestions.

1. I understand this is just a demo, but make sure you include the white writing on the level. It really added to the game.

2. The background looks a little bit ominous. This may part of the story, but it does create a very different mood to TCoM. I was expecting an insane asylum or something when I heard it would focus on Henry.

3. I managed to get permanently lodged in platform in my first jump. It didn’t happen again, but I recommend looking into it.

4. The box thing has a few problems. Firstly, the boxes spawn at apparently random rotations, which makes it decidedly difficult to stack them. Secondly, Henry doesn’t do very well walking over the boxes, and I managed to bury him permanently with only five boxes.

However, aside from those little nasties, I am definitely looking forward to Grief. I’m not sure whether this has been said, but when is it going to be published?

Quite a good demo.
Apologies, but I’ll have to rant a small amount before I go onto a more… detailed opinion on the demo.

Your previous games have been very fun to play. Company in particular. The story was very nice, and to me seemed like it had a minimalist’s approach to it. That’s not a bad thing, of course. The music you had fit in quite well and, as everyone has said, the player finds him/herself easily fitting into the role of this lonesome, thinking person always searching for greener pastures… or rather, greener doors.

Again, apologies, but I might as well gush when given the chance. For the demo, I found that the physics seemed solid enough, and didn’t seem to lag or slowdown at all. Though the character art isn’t final, I think it still looks very nice, if not something not as… mainstream as other games I’ve seen.

For complaints or bugs, I’m sorry to say that I don’t really have any to report. The boxes showed up when clicked and didn’t get stuck in the air, the jumping wasn’t annoying, though I did have an issue of clipping through the corners of a few platforms near the door.
As a whole, I’m looking forward to this and CiD. Kudos to your finished projects and good luck for ongoing ones.

I went to the door and spawned a crap load of boxes to the space next to it and they all seemed to want to arrange themselves too neatly after you cram them all together. And if you spawn too many, they will do whatever it takes to be all neat and start shaking like crazy. I think they shouldn\’t try to force themselves to be perfect and uniform. They should land on their corners and stay that way if other boxes get pushed onto them and not mold themselves into straight lines.

Very nice, I don\’t think the VCam should be zoomed in so much though, when playing The Company of Myself I think the way it was so zoomed out reflected his own feeling about himself that he was small and insignificant. The movement wasn\’t amazing, but I realize this only a beta. You have to get speed to jump up a platform. I liked how you could use boxes but for the final product I suggest making them so the player only has a limited amount of boxes.

I couldn’t figure out how to jump, so I just spawned a tower of boxes under Jack’s feet to get up to the door. Then I couldn’t open the door.

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