fine fine but this playground of a game is amazing and my bipolar rant above was anger from a person who wants this game to thrive lol.  I cant download it or play it now for some reason.  Im trying to understand the mechanics on my own since ive come to realize I was a bit harsh on you after reading your humbling response.  Can you put up a download button please, I would like to record me playing it after I figure it out.  That way others can understand the game and play it, and we can get you and the game some much needed traffic.  That way maybe in the future, you can post it to Steam and make a profit.  It has a wonderful structure to it and deserves to be seen.  

is there a reason that common sense is lacking so much that a dev could not put a tutorial or directions that made sense for this game.  I mean if we cant play it...who the hell cares about your updates.  As a publisher who gets many submissions to our company from Indie Devs....the single biggest issue with them that makes us deny their game is this here. We view it as a lack of intelligence.  There is directions to press E or space.  Thats it. Its sad because this is game suicide for you.  You need to rethink your approach here. 

Mr. Dev: Im still confused on waiting for the Odd Realm remake that was spoken of. I really want to buy this game man, but am so confused as to whether or not I should wait for the remake or whatever is coming to buy it so I dont have to repurchase it then.  What do you suggest Mr. Developer. 

To the Developer. Going to be a long post but I feel I need to give you advice that I pray you take or have already done in the game because I feel its important.  I dont waste my time usually doing this but this comes from my heart and I believe in you.  So here it is:

 This game has the art and graphics of the top devs in the world.  I am stunned.  You have a genius in you that can be unrivaled if Rootborn  has a good mechanical feel to it.  The big issue with games that have great art and seem like they might go far...as well as make the creator very wealthy...is that the mechanics are terrible.  I work for a big publisher scouting talent like yours, so I know when I see greatness.  But that isnt why I am here.  I am here to say that I feel the game is so beautiful that I am going to wait before playing it and give it a bit.  I end up playing right away, when I see games that have potential and then am so upset lol.  I jump the gun and realize that the dev has tried too hard to make the game different.  That simply means games like Stardew Valley, Starbound, Littlewood,  among many others, have the same thing in common.   They made everything intuitive in the game, left no questions unanswered on elements in the game, have gamepad support,  proper accessibility options, and allow the player to rebind the keys/buttons to make the game their own.  They dont take too much power out of the player's hands, by making things overly difficult, or make them stop playing due to difficulty leveling, or finding much trouble earning rewards. This is usually due to enemies attacking too often, too hard/aggressively, and even attacking at all.  Players sometimes like to choose to turn attacks on or off when creating things in this genre. 

Another huge issue:  Developers that create games like Rootborn do not allow players to decide if they want to keep all game content in full...when they die.  Permadeath can be suicide for a dev, if they have a game like this and dont let players decide in the main menu options, if they want this mechanic or not.  That is, if the dev feels perma-death of some sort, should be in the game.  Ive heard so many players complain about loving perma death but the ability to turn it off, is what makes the game ALIVE for them. It feels so good to choose to die over and over if they want, and just respawn somewhere with all their items and progress. This goes hand in hand with the importance of having a great meta upgrade system that is expansive and ensures progress, as well as re-playability.  Also known as: the need for players to come back to the game over and over lol.   Another thing that can help these games be profitable and loved by many is to have  very easy menus, bars, controls, and tutorials. Having the option to use mouse to do every action except walking and a few others...is something that is done rarely but when it is...it benefits the dev greatly.  Meaning, allowing the screen to have clickable boxes or bars to choose items, craft, view inventory, and then use another mouse button to attack and do actions.  I see alot of devs who will make it so that tons of buttons on the kb need to be used to do most anything, and I find it totally unnecessary to have to complete actions using any keyboard key if I dont want to.  Why do I have to press E, space bar, enter etc...and not be allowed to change the key even..to loot something.  Why cant we just use the mouse and move on. Thats what I mean. 

 I reiterate what I said above, concerning movement, controls, feel of gameplay, and other things that seem like common sense, or are familiar with players who love this genre.  If you allow players to relax and just play on their terms, (I see the fishing picture there and no enemies are lurking...that is great) they will come to Rootborn and never leave.  

-Dixie

game doesnt work on Steam. Just crashes when it gets to menu.  Also..there is a balance issue with the game on Itch.  lol  you cant earn any money really cause the oxygen goes away as you go up even. So you have to only go a few digs down then up with half the oxygen supply.  Its like dumb math that doesnt make sense.  Please fix it so that it makes sense like other mining games do.  

I think even a 4 year old who is making a new game would know to put out a weapon for us to see when we enter the game.  Demo or not..there is no excuse for this type of stupidity.  Not a single person has found one.  Just overkill on the zombies who are too fast and one shot you.  This isnt fun.  There are too many veggies that have too many steps to be able to use them instead of a common sense bar at the bottom to use them.  Im a publisher, and I have to agree with others trying this game..you are a troll as no one is this slow in the head.  The obviously bad key bindings that arent intuitive, and the lack of ability to be able to just use the mouse to do actions.  I dont have a weapon she says but in your brainless video...you show her with one.  Just why....please remove yourself from this site or fix the game.  I am sure you have played other games like this before, made by the smallest minded people.  Just do what they did.  

unplayable due to the fact you cant set your own button bindings, nothing makes sense...its like you think we can read your mind and know what all the crap is on the bottom of the screen.  We cant use the mouse to just click on a bar either.  Is this a joke man?  The instructions make no sense on controls btw, there are 7 bars, none say what they are or what to do and the first 3 are unusable.  Take the game down or rework it like every other OWSC game is made.  Simple and everything is clickable.

im here just as you uploaded the new version.  I love it, but would be grateful if I could use a gamepad at some point. But the more immediate things to be addressed include things like: I want to be able to  hold down the left mouse button to attack or collect resources. The repeated clicking is driving me nuts. Next, I love purple, but dark on dark is a bad color scheme for this page. Dark purple with dark green and black makes this whole page so dark, I had to turn my gamma up or I couldn't see anything.  You should change it to white with black font, so more people will be able to visit this page and read it properly.  Before I go any further, I wanted to let you know that as a pub-hunter, (Large publishing companies that employ scouts/marketing reps to find talented Indie Devs to back/support; tend to call their scouts like me; pub-hunters.) that your game has tons of promise and you should put it up on Steam and build on it.  You could make a tidy profit off of it. Moving on:  There isnt too much info given to the players, regarding the build menu and other things in the game. So I suggest you make a hover over feature, that gives a description. Right now, we have no idea what each craftable object or building is, when pressing tab, or what they do even. I am looking for a pickaxe or workbench to craft more tools but dont see anything that looks like one. There is a tower with a flag, for instance. It says it costs 0 wood but I cant place it.  That non stop clock countdown is PTSD terrifying, and the perma death should be an option maybe. Losing all progress is the worst feeling ever to me lol. So can you help a girl out please, and make perma death an option via the settings menus. Or allow the players to choose to save their game every 5 mins or something. There is no pause button either, I tried everything, but the game wont pause with any keys or on screen options.  In fact you have to die in order to exit the game.  And the fog of war seems to be broken.  It is supposed to clear away, or remove the black covered parts after you walk in that area.  It doesnt do that here.

game is broken.  cant do a thing.  wont pick up anything and the night stops for no reason quickly.  This game sucks a donkey dick man.  Reroll your career. 

how do you level up.  This game blows a big one

hello, the tent button is missing please fix the game.  Also can you let us download it to windows.  Please continue expanding on this game, put it on Steam.  Its a great game.  Just need to balance the game out a bit I think.   The enemies are too strong and the wall health goes down too fast.  Make a way for us to extend the wall's health, and also upgrade the damage the villagers do.  The house always wins with this game.  It ends in villagers death because the odds are always on the game's sides.  

there should be a way to attack the enemies using the mouse or something since the towers dont do much damage and the coin drop rate is so low.  It makes the game unbalanced.  The damage done vs the enemy strength is really far apart.  Fun game tho. 

game doesnt work. wont run html file pls do it as .exe or something

why here when most of us want this on our pc?  please put a downloadable version for pc not an apk

Hello Stumpbeard.  It is obvious many people want to play this game and are interested.  Without proper tutorial and instructions, players come to play it then notice the problems and just close the page without playing.  They automatically scroll down to see if the dev put the normal expected info there.  It is not a big issue, but we can overlook the fact you used out of date azerty type keys xz etc and arrows for this game when most people in this day and age use qwerty.  We cant even choose to use wasd if we want but that isnt a huge deal because the game is so small.  I had a hard time with understanding the aiming part and it said to aim with A which makes no sense because you are saying also to use xz.  Did you consider you cant aim really without a mouse or some of the other keys.  My kb is a small one so I dont have a numberpad.  But I think it would be a good idea to just allow us to use mouse only or the wasdqezc whatever to aim that way you can do it in 8 directions. But I think to solve all the issues because we love this game man, is to just allow the  mouse to be used and give a short tutorial.  Or allow us to rebind keys.  You could expand this game srsly and put it for sale on Steam.  Id pay 10 bucks for it.  

it says to crouch to get health back.  How do you crouch pls.  

Game is not playable. I tried everything under the sun to use the axe I crafted and it didnt chop a single thing.  This is not a good start.  You do know that we are not mind readers right?  So why would you assume players just happen to  know what keys on the keyboard to use, and what buttons on the mouse to use?  Did you ever think for a second we would need a short note of what buttons did what and how to use items.  A lot of players know what controls to use for these games, as they learn them to be the standard in this genre over time.  So I did of course try all the common sense buttons or keys: Tab, M, I, B, C, E, R F, K, J, Space, 1234 and arrows.  Not one thing worked.  Really think you should work on your people skills since you are a developer making games for others to play. By people skills,  I dont mean being friendly etc...I mean literally working to help people learn the skills to play your games.  Please fix it asap so we can enjoy this gem of a game.  

game sucks omg so buggy nothing works. 

Love your talent and what you have done with PS.  Please put it on Steam and continue work on it with the community's help.  We think you have something HUGE here.  Many of us want to help and get this game where it should be via social media etc.  But right now cant because you have no download for it or Steam page.  Help us help you mate.  You have done something genius with this game, in the fact it is so similar to other games in this genre...yet so different and has new mechanics/ideas in it others dont.  You need to see the possibilities here.  The only reason I am here is because a dev who made a game on Steam that has now made him a millionaire....played this real quick.  He came to me and told me that it is incredible and asked for me to help you to get it on Steam.  That is saying alot because this dev....who wont be named as it is rude to name drop....doesnt give compliments like that often. 

this is not a game that should be on this platform solely without full gamepad support.  You need to allow us to download it.  Bugs are less of an issue on windows.  Also the game rewards very little for level of immediate difficulty and some of the imbalance players face.  The damage done to the hero IS ALOT and it scales up way too fast.  You need to raise the drop rates of everything, and the gold, exp drops are so little it will take a grind session like no other to get anywhere.  I played for hours and earned 5 gold.  Please fix this game because it has the kind of promise and special thing that VS had.  It is amazing.  You just need to let us feel good about what we earn and want to play more.  Personally when i saw the speed of which I leveld and the gold/currency earned..I didnt want to play anymore for a moment out of frustration lol.  I found that the controls were really hard and felt wonky without proper gamepad support and the inability to run it on my windows.  Otherwise I really want to play and have fun. If you put this on Steam you would make a killing when this goes for sale.  In EA or demo stage..you would get alot of community support and ideas/help to shape this game to where it should be.  Trust me....this game could blow up the genre and make other games out now cry in the wake of its' success. 

please add gamepad support for the downloadable version at least so I can use my xbox 360 controller.  Or put on Steam. 

This game's page said there was an update 7 days ago and yet I only see a file to be downloaded from 98 days ago.  Please upload the newest version for the players who bought your game.  

your a moron for not listening to the masses of people that simply wanted a click to interact put in and for you to make it user friendly/non alien.  You do realize no one uses the buttons you assigned for this game?  That just shows you are bad at this (and obviously not self aware) and imo should re-roll your career choice or hobby.....whatever this bad idea of a game is in your simple life. 

you know also...i saw the support button and almost went to click it to send you a hefty donation since it looks amazing.  But opted out to do so because I cant see the screen, and there is no tutorial.  Put in the things I requested and I will donate.  

a bit frustrated atm.  what is the point of having this game on here if no one can play it.  You give no instructions of what to do.  All I can do is move around.  Your video tells nothing. It needs a full tutorial and the ability to scroll in.  You can see a thing on the screen.  Why would you put this game up, and not make it playable?  It looks like so much fun yet I cant play it.  Please let us know the proper keys to use to move around and how to use each of the things in the menu on the right.  You need to also make the actions apparent by having a hover over description.  Not just the tile name on the bottom left.  How do I get resources.  How do i stay alive.  How do i do anything.   Also..please fix any of the translation issues.  Some things are not in English.

im so confused i either need a hug or need an explanation lol.  Poppants, did Dawnfolk steal your art style and game code etc. The game is identical to yours...well it was..till DF added so much new content it overwhelmed the game.  So was thinking they need their knee caps busted for this.  And also I saw on your Steam page this game but its now in 3d? So there are 2 versions now of your game right?  This original finished minimalistic and then the new version coming?  Ok well lemme know if you want me to take care of the guys over at Dawnfolk.  I GOT YOU BRO

was wondering if the dev can respond here? I bought this game a year ago and havent gotten any updates or anything.  I was wondering if it has gamepad support now and other things fixed that were kind of wonky before.

Edit 20 minutes later: I just saw that it says game updated Sept. 2024 under the more information drop down menu above.  But when I go to download the game again under my purchased games, it says I can only download the old 2023 version that has no updates or fixes.I mean if people are buying a game...at least a few updates or bug fixes should happen.I know you are a good dev though so I hope I dont have to worry about the game being abandoned after purchases were made.  

Another edit, 1 hour from the last edit: So I figured Id wait to hear back from you and just play the old version anyway.  So I tried to redownload the game and for some reason it says blocked in the URL bar when the new page opens to download the game. I have tried everything. I was so wanting to download it...that I turned off all protection on my pc lol and and on chrome.  Basically I made my pc open to the world for a minute to get this to download. But it appears i dont have power over my own pc haha.  Because that blocked insecure content is still there in the URL box.  ugh