Seeking Feedback on Timecrest: The Door

Since I'm use to the oddities of Voiceover, it matters not to me personally, because if I want to know how a word is spelled, especially when VO seems to pronounce it incorrectly, I just use the rotor and spell it character by character. Also, it's my understanding that iOS 10 is going to give VO users the ability to correct words. However, I would guess that most people would prefer the words pronounced correctly without having to do something about an unclear word.

Hi! I'm only on Chapter 4 of TimeCrest as I write this, but I must say this is an excellent game, I'm really enjoying it, in spite of the scary bits. I haven't worked out Ash's gender yet, but to me Ash is a male name, and I can imagine him as a rather impulsive teenager, wanting to do things straight away without always thinking of the dangers involved. To get to more practical things, I just read earlier in this thread that the developers are considering changing the spelling of characters' names for VoiceOver users who use speech, and I can kind of see the logic in that, but I personally wouldn't be happy with such a change: I use speech myself, not knowing whether the voice i use pronounces names correctly or not, but every so often, when I read an unfamiliar name, I go through it character by character to find out how it's spelled, and I would want to get the correct spelling using speech when i do that, as I am unlikely ever to have a braille display which is compatible with my iPhone. If you really want to include braille and speech modes for VoiceOver users, please add a default mode so that spellings of character names won't change for speech users if they don't want them to.

I use a Braille display, so if we could get some audio clips of how they are pronounced?

How about a beep or a hoosh sound when the message is completely sent? This would give VoiceOver users a good way to know if Ash is still talking, and I would imagine for sighted users it may be a good key if they aren't necessarily looking at their phone for a few seconds either. I'm not sure if any sighted folks would be interested in a text-only game? Either way, the beeps that play when Ash is sending a message are cool but it'd be even nicer if we could get a sound that indicates when all of Ash's messages are sent so we can go read them and act accordingly.

I think all of these suggestions will work quite nicely. Can't wait to see them implemented.

Hi,

I've started playing the gamg and so far, am liking it pretty much. I have noticed something though with regards to the push notifications. When I'm done playing for the evening, I'll shut off the app, usually in a part of the game where I have to wait for Ash, when he is doing something for a long period of time. While the app is completely turned off, I get notifications from the app, things that Ash is saying, but when I re-open the app, there is no new messages from Ash, but after a few seconds, they start popping up. What is even weirder, while the app is completely turned off, I'll get like 10 to 25 messages from Ash, but when opening the app and I start getting messages from Ash, I might get like 2 or 5 messages before I have to make a selection.

I am not sure if this is a glitch or if it is designed this way, but just thought I would mention it.

Thanks for the accessibility improvements, as I did try and play with the app a month ago and compared to that version, there has been many improvements.

Keep up the great work!

Good morning, I finally installed and played this wonderfully fun game. My ideas are about the same as most others, but I figured the more feedback you had on the same issues, the better you to know there are common problems. First, I don't always like music in the backfround. I find it distracting and hard to hear the prompts. I'd like to see a volume slider option for those who like the music, but I'd also like to see an option for turning it off for those of us who don't like it. Also, please label all your buttons. This way, we don't have to keep clicking on the button to see what it does. We wouldn't havew to just try memorizing all of them. I'm 57 and my memory is not what it once was. (lol) And, yes, as many others have said, text comments on what is going on with Ash would be helpful. I'd like to personally thank you and every other developer who cares enough to make their apps accessible to us. I love all of you. Blessings to you.

A while ago an enquiry was made as to weather our friend Ash was male or female. I'd submit the following, as it seems to me an easy oversight with a story this massive:
"And is the… really XXXX brother?"
This was seen at the beginning of chapter 6.

Hi!
First of all, thanks for this great game!
I want to ask if you are interested on making this game in other languages, Spanish for example. If you are interested I can ofcourse help to make it, or make it. So any answer is welcome. Thanks again! :)

Hi people.
How much are important to have time crystals? I mean, I know that they are in app purchases, but what can I do with them? I know to skip time, and buying music, but its all? Or something else. That gives me another question. That its the only way to get gold? Thanks!

Time crystals are used to skip timers, buy music tracks, purchase gold, and buy the teleport generator. They are not essential to playing the game. I bought about $6 or $7 worth of them to support the developers and give me some more gold.

How much costs the teleport and how it works? Where I can buy it? Thanks! And I'll see if I can buy time crystals, ofcourse to support this project

Teleport Orbs and the Teleport Generator means the same?
Thanks!

How much it cost?

I like Roger Mendenhall, he's hilarious at times. A.C. AKA Alistar Crane, is kind of a little rude and grumpy at times (I hate how he grabs Ash's collar). And he calls some people fools, LOL.
Eh lees is not really that much of my style, but she can be funny.
Chro nose is one of my favorites.
Riley is just the best of all.
And Ash, is also my favorite character. I think of Ash as a girl at the age of 20 or 18 or somewhere around there.

Yes I do use a braille display.
However, I like using my braille display 70 percent of the time with the Speech on. That's why I prefer using Pronunciation Mode.
Hint for those players who are almost to at least chapter 6: Choose your path wisely, however do know someone will die in both. Or if your path is different you could have both of them survive... find out as you journey through the story, for I can't give away a spoiler.

Ash gave me the drink made from dragon berries. How do I use it?

Hello, First, I'd like to thank you for the great effort toward making Timecrest accessible to the blind community. What an awesome job! The Pronunciation Mode is a very innovative and useful touch to the ap. It helps us to learn how certain names are intended to be pronounced. Making the feature "optional" is also very appreciated. I have a suggestion at that point: Could you please add the names of the spells that Ash can't (yet?) cast, such as "Aquatas" and "Umbratas" to the pronunciation list? Slightly out-of-topic, but what is the exact procedure of earning some time crystals using our Twitter accounts? Thanks again, and hope to see more games that are playable by the blind and visually impaired. keep up the good work.

How do you prevent riley from dieing?

SPOILER! Do not read past this point unless you want major spoilers.

You need to go with Roger instead of Riley.

Hello,

I was wondering if there were any issues with the page where you buy time crystals? Last year, when iOS 10 was released, I decided to format my phone and start over with a fresh install, but was unaware that I had to save my game in Timecrest. Thankfully, the developpers at Sneaky Crab were nice enough to restore all the previous crystals I had bought, and now I would like to buy more but am unable to proceed. When swiping with VoiceOver, I hear that there are four "Buy" buttons, and three options. The first option is for about 1,000 crystals, the second one says "in progress" and the third option is for 18,000 crystals. I am not sure if the order that items are focused on when swiping with one finger from the top left corner to the right, if they follow a logical order. When I swipe to the right, I get the first button, then the 1,000 crystals option, then another button, then the "in progress" text, then another button, then the option for 18,000 and then another final button. Perhaps more work might need to be done on this page. Either then that, I am loving the game, well, now that I have to start over, it gives me a chance to do things differently. Thanks again for the work.

Hi,
Is there a way to get time crystals/gold with free video adds in a earn time crystals page. I mean, above the buy time crystals thing there should be a earn free crystals/gold by watching video adds.
Just my thoughts!

I truly love the game by the way.
I'm on chap 5 and can't wait!

Ah, true. That makes sense

Ah, got ya. that makes perfect sense! Still love the game tremendously

I had a small question with regards to memory remnants. Now I played through the game from chapters 1 to 10 and when I had to restart, I decided to start from chapter 6 as I wanted to max out my relationships with AC and Elyse and didn't wish to start from the very beginning. Now when I restarted at chapter 6, the section at the bottom that refers to the memory oracle indicated that in order to get a new memory remnant, I had to get to chapter 1. Thinking nothing of it, I continued my game and figured that once I got to chapter 7, that I would get my memory remnant, but to my surprise, I didn't and the memory oracle section at the bottom was still indicating that I had to get to chapter 1 in order to get a memory remnant.

Now I am not certain if this is by design but I do not think it is fair to have to restart the game from the very beginning in order to resume getting memory remnant. Since all I wished to do was to build my relationships, I figured it wasn't necessary to start from the very beginning as you only meet the gang starting from chapter 6.

Now maybe this is by design and maybe I won't have any choice but to start from the very beginning, but you would think that since you get one everytime you move to a new chapter, that even if you restarted from the middle of the game, that you would still get memory remnants everytime you went from chapter to chapter. Just a thought. I am loving the game though and am looking forward to maxing out my relationships with all characters so that when we get to that point, I will be able to explore those segment of stories.

Thanks!

I think I only went to lial once, during my first play through and once in chapter 3 during my second play through. I don't think I went through now during my third play through, actually in chapter 5 I don't think I was given that option I don't remember now.

Hi, that is fine, I was just curious as to why I couldn't collect any more remnants starting at chapter 6 and do understand why you guys chose to design it that way. I have been to Lyle on several occasions and never figured out how to branch out to the story where the town is destroyed.

Anyways, keep up the great work. Any hints as to when TC3 will be hitting the app store? I am just itching to continue the story and to learn even more. I will restart back at chapter 1, thankfully I saved my game prior to starting back at chapter 6, so I can just reload the game and choose to start back at chapter 1. Thanks!