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Ex-DeathEvn has just released a demo version of his upcoming epic D-Mod, Fate of Destiny.

See the trailer for the full thing here!

Awesome, I'll try it when i come home.

This is excellent. Love it! Sooo looking forward to the full version.

Glad you enjoyed it!

Remember; Your feedback may have an impact on the full version!

Heh, you're still waiting on that, right?

Partially, yes
But I also mean anyone who plays FoD.

Haven't played far and probably won't, because I feel it's a bit of a waste to play demos completely, while to me they're only meant to show a glimpse of what to expect

Anyway, here's some feedback^^

I thought the splash screens at the start were a cool addition. Music is well picked. The intro is sort of mysterious, I like that The way of using teleports to disable the screen scroll effect takes some getting used to, but it's fine, doesn't feel better or worse to me It's faster in any case, which is nice when backtracking.

The UI is one thing I thought could use improving though. I thought the actual text (defense, health, ...) was a bit hard to read. Not that I don't know what it's supposed to say, I just think it detracts a little from the clean look. The sidebars and background are just fine though.

All in all I'm looking forward to seeing the full version

It's a pretty good demo but it still has a lot of issues. I'll give you a list.

You can walk into screen 367 from outside the wall and get yourself stuck in a screenlock.
The new spell kills all the fireballs when just one of them hits something.
The splash screens at the start are pretty cool but they're also annoying since you have to wait for them every time you start the D-Mod.
After Dink drinks the potion the woman apparently left but if you simply exit the cabin and enter again she's still there.
The oversized slime still has a small hardness box even though I told you how to fix this TWICE!
Some sprites freeze Dink when talked to/examined while there are still monsters around.
Some sprites like the arrows in screen 058 appear on top of Dink.

Regrettably, I've said it before though maybe not on the DN yet:
The demo was made from an OLDER version of the current work-in-progress game, so a few of the old issues remain the same.

I'll triple check to make sure those are fixed in the full version; Three of those I was not aware of. The long intro, I'll consider shortening to just one image before the titlescreen.

Alternatively, you could make a save at the title screen like so: save_game(99) and use if (game_exist(99) == 1) to see if it's the first time the player has viewed it before. That way you can keep all the fancy screens and just play them once.

Errm... If you want feedback shouldn't you fix all the problems you know of?

Releasing something that is broken will lead people to comment on the fact that it's broken, not on the quality of the story or the mapping. And I am kind of assuming that's where you'd like some feedback...

Erwin; Can you please state exactly which part of the wall you got stuck in? I recall having issues with the North wall but thought I'd fixed those for the screenlocked area.

I'm working on fixing all the bugs in the demo (and those I missed in both the demo and full) and will update the demo in a week or two.

Holy crap! This is good so far.

EDIT: It says "Unfinished". This does not bode well.