Resonant Tale | Playdate | "It paid for our wedding rings!"

Orange Thief Games wrote:In Resonant Tale you'll play as the hooded adventurer Leit, waking up on a wave-washed beach in a mysterious new land. Explore the musically inspired world, befriend its unusual inhabitants, and discover your part in restoring the world to harmony. Beyond the sights, sounds and secrets of the surface four trap laden levels await, from escaping the depths of a castle dungeon to exploring an abandoned mountaintop temple. Wielding sword, arrows and bombs, will you discover all of the world's hidden treasures and reunite the sacred bells?

Made with Pulp, the web-based game editor for Playdate, Resonant Tale pushes the boundaries of what's possible with the engine and aims to surprise and delight through its depth of content and attention to detail. Featuring 2-3 hours of gameplay for a casual playthrough (and much more for the committed completionist), 30+ original music tracks, autosave, assistance options, and even an unlockable "hardcore" mode, Resonant Tale sets out to deliver a no filler full game experience.

aayl1 wrote:.

OrangeRKN wrote:.

jawa_ wrote:> Orange Thief is GRcade's very own OrangeRKN!

OrangeRKN wrote:(Did you screenshot the trailer for those screens?! You could just grab the ones off the itch page! Those still have the bottom of the HUD, which I have also made the mistake of cutting off on screenshots before

There's also a nicer high-res logo on the itch page...)

OrangeRKN wrote:...Anyway, as I said in the playdate thread, when the game is released I'll send anyone here who wants it an itch promo code and tell you how to install the Playdate Simulator to play the game on PC

site23 wrote:Could it be fun for a few of us who play it on release to get together on a call - with RKN, on Aaron's stream? - to chat & discuss it? If you guys think this is a good idea I'd be up for it!

jawa_ wrote:I did take 'em from the trailer! I've just added in the ones from the game page, though!

I love the in-game version of the logo; it has a real "dot matrix" style to it that adds to the Playdate feel .

jawa_ wrote:But... I must be acting like a dumbass, as I can't identify how to download the Simulator software. It's not Pulp/SDK, is it?

OrangeRKN wrote:

site23 wrote:Could it be fun for a few of us who play it on release to get together on a call - with RKN, on Aaron's stream? - to chat & discuss it? If you guys think this is a good idea I'd be up for it!

I am definitely up for that! It was really fun doing similar with Aaron playing Unawakening. Resonant Tale is a significantly longer game with playtesters so far coming in around 2-3 hours to beat it and pushing 5 hours for 100% on a first playthrough, so I'm not sure what the best format would be. It's packed with secrets and easter eggs many of which are easy to miss (deliberately so - there's enough that you're bound to find a few but those you do find should feel like genuine discoveries, at least I hope!) and I wonder if a second playthrough with me acting as a secrets guide might be a cool way to do it? You'll get to see stuff you missed if you've already played it and a second playthrough is a lot quicker for knowing the puzzle solutions and the like!

OrangeRKN wrote:

jawa_ wrote:But... I must be acting like a dumbass, as I can't identify how to download the Simulator software. It's not Pulp/SDK, is it?

The Simulator is packed in with the SDK, so you'll just need to download and install the SDK and that'll add the Playdate Simulator app. You can ignore the rest of the SDK stuff!

It's intended as a developer tool really (which makes sense, panic want to sell consoles, not have everyone playing on their computer) but there's nothing wrong with using it like this

aayl1 wrote:Yeah I had a great time doing that with Unawakening!

I reckon we do something like you suggested - perhaps if anyone who wants to join the voice discussion plays the game through in advance and then I can stream a second playthrough while we discuss/I get chaperoned around by OR.

aayl1 wrote:But also I regularly stream for like 6 hours at a time so very happy to do it as a first playthrough if that's not too tedious (I really enjoyed the novelty of experiencing a game for the first time while also talking to the dev haha)

OrangeRKN wrote:

aayl1 wrote:But also I regularly stream for like 6 hours at a time so very happy to do it as a first playthrough if that's not too tedious (I really enjoyed the novelty of experiencing a game for the first time while also talking to the dev haha)

Why not both??

I'd love to see you stream a first playthrough but wouldn't want to interrupt the flow of it telling you how to do things! I'm also not sure I could 100% commit to being there live for the whole thing, timings depending.

OrangeRKN wrote:Beating jawa to the news announcement... releasing Tuesday 12th September on Catalog, the Playdate's official storefront!

Really excited to be on the store, it's like it's a proper game or something?!