Hi.
i like it a lot.
only one problem is the spelling in the game.
sorry about that. i no i woudln't like to here that about one of my games but yeah that is one problem. apart from that i really like this game.
it is orijonal and i like that. yeah it is a yes no game but it is different and i really can't waitt for an update.
great game!

Hi Mike.

Nice use of sounds and congrats on getting a game up and running, however I do have some comments.

To me thus far, the game looks like a very early alpha version. I am not sure at the moment about what sort of game it is, sinse there was no way to check the map, find out what troops or peasants I had, what resources I had etc, it just seemed a series of rather quiz like questions (I wonder if you borrowed some code from your milionaire game), and it also didn't seem to make too much difference what I answered.

I'd be interested to know what you plan game wise. While obviously this was the tutorial mission and start of the game, it is very hard for me to actually pass a judgement on what sort of game this is or what you do in it, sinse this seemed just the interface for giving you the tutorial mission not anything of the actual gameplay of the game.

What their was worked fine, ---- I'm just not seeing a stratogy game at the moment, though you state that is what you are working on, ---- indeed you might considder having a more complete look at the coding for a stratogy game and perhaps showing something that at least shows the map and maybe unit creation and work before the next version, so that it's clear to people what you are working on.

The sounds were great, though i'd rather suggest you pick a different background, sinse the one you have sounds more like a creepy haunted factory than a village at war.

Also, was sapi supposed to speak the alert boxes? As it was, Sapi spoke the questions and comments from your minian, but the question alert boxes were spoken by Supernova.

Supernova was of course fine with these, I just wondered if you planned to have sapi read the lot and thus make the game a complete self voicing one, or to make it a screen reader game, perhaps eventually replacing sapi with speech files.

Other than those things, what there was worked absolutely fine, so your coding is obviously improving, ---- I just can't really see any game in this thus far, though I imagine that is what you are working on now.

You might indeed considder creating something simple to test coding before going for a full stratogy game, maybe a gamebook or a simple turn based combat stratogy game rather than a ful scale military affair like sound rts, sinse obviously you want to get your hand in and improve your skill, rather than rush into making something which doesn't come off quite as planned.

On the English issue, your actual speaking of English and phrasing is fine, ---- not quite what an English person would use, but that just makes it sound unique, rather than ununderstandable.

For instance the phrase "up to steam level" isn't an English phrase as far as I know, ---- unless it's the same thing as the phrase "full steam ahead" which means going for something absolutely energetically with all your might!

I do however like the phrase "at steam level" rather a lot! .

There is a miner spelling issue, ---- though of course English is a silly language to spell (i'm english and even I can't do it right all the time!), . For instance, choice is c h o i c e. If you have a copy of microsoft word, you might set the dictionary dropdown in the spellcheck to English, and then spellcheck your statements for the game in word before copying them into bgt.

You could also try google translator, sinse as well as translating it'll give you the spelling, especially if you just want a dudtch to English translation of a specific word.

I did even once hear of a free spelling and dictionary programm kicking around the net somewhere, ---- though I'm afraid I lost the link for it.

Apart from this, great to see that your coding is working out, and that you are up to steem level yourself! .

Hi Mike.

This wasn't intended as a put down or cryticism in the sense of "what your doing is bad" heck, I'm totally in favour of people creating practice games and you've done more than me so far .

If your planning more of a gamebook with a war theme, I'd suggest instead of worrying about stuff like numbers of soldiers, instead work on some sort of tactical turn based combat.

for instance, you are told what the enemy maneuver is, how many enemies attack, and need to decide how many and what units to send against them and what sort of tactics your units will use, sort of as if you are the general recieving battlefield reports.

once enemy are defeated, you are asked about capturing teretory, recruiting more troops or defending your position.

The art in the game obviously comes from knowing when you need to take which action, rather than spacially upon the map where units were.

That could make for quite an interesting game which was at the same time not too hard to program, ---- afterall turn based combat system such as those D&D and other tabletop games use are not overly complicated in terms of numbers, but can be a lot of fun in terms fof deciding what skills to use, when to attack or defend, how best to use your weapons etc.

So this would be my advice, sort of aime for a turn based strategical combat game with an overall war theme rather than trying to replicate sound rts.

Pluss of course, ---- well we have lots of map based stratogy games already! .

Well good luck on both counts. I'd advise asking your programming questions on the bgt forum, sinse then you might be able to understand stuff slightly better.

I really like the game! Playing....