What's up?

Since the initial upload and a subsequent technical patch we've had the opportunity to listen to some feedback about our game at our uni. (In case you stumbled upon this without knowing, here you go. This game has been created as part of a course to quickly go through all stages of gamedev.)

We tried to find out where our game's strengths lie and listened closely to what could be improved. Throughout the playtests, one very interesting whisper came to our ears. Since we didn't have time to explain some mechanics, players would hit a brick wall while playing. Some however, did actually figure it out completely naturally and would end up appreciating the little handholding. Exploring this direction of mystery and puzzle solving is intriguing, but our team is currently strained of time to truly follow up on any decent vision that could go there. Don't get your hopes up for that any time soon, sadly.

Testing gave us some other insight too! Sometimes inputs didn't feel like they registered  clearly. The atmosphere is there, but felt a little flat. A round of play commonly felt like an endless game, which it isn't.  We hope to address as much stuff as we can with this update and use the time ahead to figure out if and how this little game could evolve as the semester starts coming to a close.

What's new?

Mechanics

• A noteblock, that explains things.
  
• Requested messages are now displayed on a new device in the upper right corner.
• Entered characters are now written on the printer.
• There now is an indicator, that shows when a dot will become a dash while holding the input.
• Each message now needs to be sent within a given timeframe.
  

Visuals

• Some snazzy new animations.
• Visual effects for surroundings and devices. 
• A few UI improvements, further stabilizing things.

Builds

Web, Android and Windows versions have been updated. The windows build in particular has been disabled for a while, didn't notice that, sorry!

All right, that's about it. Thanks a plenty for reading all the way until here, hope to post some more soon!