Thanks!

The next build might help a little with the framerate. I’ve identified that a massive animated hypnotic spiral texture does actually have a detrimental effect on performance, which was a sad discovery.

Thanks for organising these uni gamejams as well, and for generally being encouraging.

For what it’s worth I’ve been hugely impressed by the progress you made between the first uni jam and the last. I’m definitely excited to see what you come up with at the next one!

The issue was that the game used a blank slate protagonist to let the player insert themselves into the story, but the story wasn’t about the player, it was about this specific mercenary that is never introduced to us, and that we never learn anything about the motivations of.

So we have me, inserted into this war-torn country, made emotionally involved with it by the opening sequence, and then forced to make decisions that I strongly opposed.

But I’m not even proposing a solution at this point, because the only way to solve this issue while preserving the immersion and emotional investment that created it that I can see would be to expand the game to include the choices I wanted to make.

Whereas the more common approach would be to simply have the character speak, explain their motivation in cutscenes, and generally make the game into a generic game with an average videogame’s crappy story that I would probably have felt nothing for, and certainly not have been inspired to write about.

What there is of Far Cry 2 is still infinitely better than the way the majority of games handle this stuff.