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#1 22 NOV 2004 at 4:49am
Andromus Guild Master Posts : 5538 Joined: 6 NOV 2002 Status : Offline	Well, I just wrapped up The Arrangement. Not a great game, but not terrible. There were a couple of really annoying points about it, though. But first, what I liked: The premise. A missing wife, a diabolical argreement, and a madman toying around with you and her. Good stuff, it kept me glued to the screen (at least for the first half) eager to find out what was going to happen next wondering how I was going to get out it. Fortey's voice actor, John Bell. He gave a deliciously evil sounding performance, just about perfect for the character. As a something of a connoisseur in the over the top evil laugh myself, I found myself practically taking notes from his performance -- well done. What I didn't like: I said I liked the premise and the first half of the game. Unfortunately, that was negated in the second half by some fairly tepid puzzling, and some unusually frustrating pixel hunting. I spent more time trying to find two or three obscure hot spots than I did working on the rest of the puzzles in the game, I think. That's just wrong. Another thing marring my enjoyment of the premise was the off putting ending. I won't spoil it here, but it just didn't work for me at all. OK, it sounds like I didn't like it, I suppose. Let's say I liked how the game started but not how it ended. And I must remember I'm talking about the work of a single person, not a development team. Keeping in mind Michael Clark's first game Harvest (which I preferred to this) and the promise The Arrangement started out with, I'm still very interested to see what he comes up with next.
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#2 22 NOV 2004 at 9:25pm
mbc841 Space Cadet Posts : 194 Joined: 10 OCT 2002 Status : Online	Hey Andromus, thanks for the feedback! I'm glad you played "The Arrangement". I really learned alot about what works and what doesn't work with both of my games. You can be sure, I'll apply all lessons learned to my next game! Mike [url=http://www.justadventure.com/IndependentDevs/TheArrangement/index.htm][[img]http://www.justadventure.com/IndependentDevs/TheArrangement/Graphics/banner1.jpg[/img][/url]
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#3 23 NOV 2004 at 1:41am
Jenny100 Guild Master Posts : 3510 Joined: 12 OCT 2002 Status : Offline	*Originally Posted By Andromus (22 NOV 2004 4:49am)* Another thing marring my enjoyment of the premise was the off putting ending. I won't spoil it here, but it just didn't work for me at all. What kind of ending would you have liked? How would you have ended it?
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#4 23 NOV 2004 at 1:52am
Ivinia Guild Master Posts : 4459 Joined: 7 JUN 2003 Location: US Status : Offline	*Originally Posted By Jenny100 (23 NOV 2004 1:41am)* What kind of ending would you have liked? How would you have ended it? His answer to that may spoil a bit of the real ending! Personally, I was a bit neutral on the ending... I'm also the guy who buys B movie 10-packs at Best Buy for $5.99 because I love the cheesy plots in them.
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#5 23 NOV 2004 at 2:26am
Andromus Guild Master Posts : 5538 Joined: 6 NOV 2002 Status : Offline	*Originally Posted By Jenny100 (23 NOV 2004 1:41am)* What kind of ending would you have liked? How would you have ended it? Highlight the box to read. Spoilers Follow: I wanted to see Richard find a way to gradually turn the tables on Fortrey, so that all of a sudden Fortrey finds out he's not in control anymore. That would have been pretty satisfying after dealing with Fortrey's cockiness for the whole game, albeit more straight forward. I would have also preferred everything to be real instead of a dream, but even that I would have possibly accepted if the game hadn't ended on a sort of ambiguous note anyway.
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#6 23 NOV 2004 at 3:04am
jalex Schattenjger Posts : 2503 Joined: 5 MAR 2003 Status : Offline	I thought it was a great game too. My favorite still is Harvest as well though. I am interested in hearing about the next one too.
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#7 23 NOV 2004 at 4:35am
Ivinia Guild Master Posts : 4459 Joined: 7 JUN 2003 Location: US Status : Offline	Andromus - Excellent ideas. I have to agree that would have been more interesting. I thoroughly enjoyed the game and the ending never bothered me as much as it seemed to bother some others. I think your idea would have added a fun element.
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#8 23 NOV 2004 at 7:06am
Jenny100 Guild Master Posts : 3510 Joined: 12 OCT 2002 Status : Offline	I have to agree that Andromus' ending would have been interesting, and probably fewer people would have complained about it. How do you make spoiler bits invisible until highlighted like Andromus did?
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#9 23 NOV 2004 at 4:50pm
billy7777 Intergalactic Janitor Posts : 39 Joined: 5 AUG 2004 Status : Online	make quote text same color as quotebox background You can actually insert other colors not shown from dropdown color list box. I think its ltgray or something i got it close using #eeeeee http://www.lasthalfofdarkness.com/beyond
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#10 23 NOV 2004 at 11:20pm
Andromus Guild Master Posts : 5538 Joined: 6 NOV 2002 Status : Offline	Yup, what Billy said. Except the color code I used is DEE7EF.
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#11 24 NOV 2004 at 5:58am
Jenny100 Guild Master Posts : 3510 Joined: 12 OCT 2002 Status : Offline	[color=#DEE7EF]spoiler color test[/#DEE7EF] Why isn't that working?
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#12 24 NOV 2004 at 9:17am
Holmqvist Intergalactic Janitor Posts : 23 Joined: 2 JUN 2004 Status : Online	do like this: color=#eeeeee spoiler-text /color add [] around the tags.. / Jacob
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#13 24 NOV 2004 at 8:51pm
Jenny100 Guild Master Posts : 3510 Joined: 12 OCT 2002 Status : Offline	spoiler color test
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