I didn't particularly mind the intro being made that way, especially since it isn't used again in the main part of the game. I guess Nifflas wanted to set the tone of the story as not too serious from the start to avoid sounding too pretentious.

I think that's valid - I'm glad it's not repeated a lot in the game. I guess sword and sworcery's complete annihilation of mood just made me go 'oh god not this again' and drop it.

It worked well in Sword & Sworcery and didn't distract from the immersiveness at all. I feel that it's right for Knytt Underground too, especially since so many of the stories in the game connects to my own life. I can of course not design a game so that everybody will like it, but then, I don't feel that I have to either. At least I wrote the story the way I wanted it to be.

I think that's right and I think you should design the game the way you want. I utterly disagree with you about sword and sworcery - I think it was the worst waste of brilliant atmosphere and music that I've come across, in my lifetime - but everybody's brain (and game) is different.
To be clear, I've liked all of your previous games (bar Saira- wasn't my cup of tea). I think part of what I liked about some of them is they left the space in between the text tell the story. There was a short, glib smash of text right at the start, just to give a vague worldview, but the sheer bulk of weight was behind what filled that space.
Anyway, my 2c.

With the comment as bare as it is, it just comes off as a flat-out insult to the creator and it's fans.  

Utter rubbish. The author I can understand, but the fans - I opened it up for discussion. If you're pissed with that, you'll get pissed with anything. Cultural bluntness is relative I feel.

I'm not sure I wanna make words up, it works a bit better when spoken than written. Sod is a bit tricky, in a situation where a character gets totally upset and want to scream out "FUUUUUUUUUCK!!!" it's kinda hard with "sod".

I personally find 'CRAAAAAAAAAAAP!!!' works well as a replacement, and is funnier to boot.
M@

If goth poetry came alive, it would look and play like this.
Viscerally horrible, and beautiful/freaksome.
Best music/sound I've seen in indie gaming.

Not for faint of heart.

Both games here:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=5395.0

I recommend playing All of our friends are Dead first.
The author had nightmares and basically used them as inspiration to write these games-

AAOFAD:



Au Sable...

Loved the game. Didn't find the controls particularly sticky or annoying.
Definitely play the translated version.
Way fucken funny.

I remember this game: pretty solid and with a nice atmosphere, although I found some parts to be a little hard to go through because of the controls.

The wall-climbing sections are particularly difficult to figure out, but if you basically don't push left and right, and wait for yourself to roll into the curve, you climb pretty quick.

Quote from: metamorphosis on March 05, 2011, 06:40:16

Minor bug:
The first star in perpetuum factory cannot be reached if you do not play into that level from  the previous level, as you powers (speed up/slow down) will not be available.

Your powers are different per level, and each star is reachable. Are you sure you're doing it the right way?

Read what I wrote again.
If you play through the previous level and enter the star level through that level, you will have access to your powers. If you don't, you won't.
I'm not a retard.

[EDIT: I played through before going back to get the stars. At this point the powers were not available in said level without playing through from previous. Having now collected all stars, powers are available from scratch in said level - however, I don't know whether this is a flag being accidentally set from another level, or a glitch]

To get something on steam you have to be able to integrate the steamworks stuff into the code. You can't do that with MMF AFAIK. Therefore it'd have to be in C++ or other 'languaged' form (ie. post port to wiiware) before it'd be viable, even if steam wanted it (and they have a lot of control).

Wait, it's not already written in C++? What the hell did they write it in then, if it functions on both Wii and PC?