Xau finally gets a demo!

Lilith-In-Starlight

A few days ago, I finished working on a demo of the game I showcased here a year ago. It should be a little more representative of what the final game would be like. It has slightly more than 100 puzzles, and four unique mechanics.

You can check out the demo here:
https://sadblockgames.itch.io/xau

I'd love to hear your thoughts about it!

The game's character standing in front of a tree

ffaf

I recall the early alpha and loving it, will for sure try this and write feedback!

Lilith-In-Starlight

I hope you enjoy this demo as well :>

ffaf

As per old demo, I am really enjoying this and I believe the vibes make the game as much as the puzzle. The second instruction says “hold”, maybe check with your testers if “drag” not more immediate.

I think puzzle difficulty is slightly higher this time, I am going through the “dice” ones and I am not sure I correctly made how the “tick” beams operate.

I suggest everyone to give this a go!

Peter

I tried your new demo, but it has some problems. It opens in windowed mode, but it is set a bit to the right and down so not the whole window is visible. And it has no window borders so I can't move it.

Good thing: It runs with Godot (4.1 I think) where other Godot (older version) games failed on my PC.

Lilith-In-Starlight

Peter Try re-opening the game without changing to another window before it goes full screen. This is an issue some players have had, I have no idea what could actually be causing it, so I assume it's a Godot problem

Peter

No, that didn't help. It never goes full-screen. I waited some time anyway, but no :( I hear a sound and when the mouse pointer is over the window, it is like a bird or bat or so, flapping its wings. Everything as it should (I guess) except that a big part of it is out of sight.

I, too, guess it is a Godot problem.

I could report it as a bug to Godot, but I doubt they will accept a bug report like "Xau doesn't run".

(BTW it's on Linux.)

Lilith-In-Starlight

Peter hm. another thing you could try is pausing the game (pressing the Escape key) and switching to fullscreen manually. This has worked for some people as well

Peter

It showed that Godot is drawing the "fullscreen" from the start-x/y-coordinate of the window (instead of the top-left of the screen). I managed to solve it by turning off fullscreen and pulling the window to the top-left of the desktop, then fullscreen works fine.

Then pressing SPACE when the game signalizes it, turns some things red. Unfortunately clicking or holding the left mouse button (when the game wants it) doesn't do anything. Or so it seems to me. Is this another bug or part of the puzzle?

ffaf

Peter Then pressing SPACE when the game signalizes it, turns some things red. Unfortunately clicking or holding the left mouse button (when the game wants it) doesn't do anything. Or so it seems to me. Is this another bug or part of the puzzle?

You need to hold and drag (in this case, to connect those two dots).

It is not that clear from the instructions, in my opinion it should be made clearer.

Lilith-In-Starlight

Yes, from here on out, everything is a puzzle

Peter

Thanks for the hint. I see why Lilith doesn't say what to do: Because it's a puzzle. But it is too hard for me (at least without the hint).