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yeah. make a prequel about the knight who killed the first creature of the relic and his quest to do so, and maybe add in some more explanations and finish it off by making you end up where he can be found in seedling.

I haven’t played MGS, but I know what you’re talking about, and I understand wanting that kind of thing. Honestly, though, it just wasn’t really what I was going for XD I wanted you to kill everything and do all of that stuff for a couple reasons: 1) your character doesn’t know better. You have a sense of morality because you’ve lived life, but you’re just playing through the role of a character that doesn’t have that sense of morality. He’s doing what is easiest, which is to just brute-force it. 2) It would have made me have to add a lot to the game, which would have taken more time, and also taken away from it a bit. There’s not really a moral or effect to the game if you go “oh, I’ll be nice” after killing the first boss, and then just go through the game doing that haha. I dunno, I understand what you’re talking about, but I’m happier that I didn’t add a “nice” way of beating the game, even in retrospect.

Seedling was a great game, but i have to agree, just having the option of not killing the bosses would have been nice. a good example is the game Endevor. your character doesn’t know any better, and neither do you, but you still get a choice, blood bath or hippy.

Yeah I wonder what the ice monster was. But if there was a sequel to seedling, I wonder if watcher would be there or not, since you could either kill him or not, and at first I thought goreback was the frozen monster but that wouldn’t make sense because he was slayed by sardol ( I think) and that goreback was a relic monster and he wouldn’t be evil

I’m really enjoying your guys’ analyses of the game! I have been thinking about doing another game, but I’m not sure if I’m up for it quite yet. I may do a prequel of Sardol’s escapades, or I may continue along the storyline of Shrum (my name for the character, even though it’s never explicity said in-game) if I decide to do a sequel.

Oh boy, you wouldn’t believe. Also telling them that the green key is in Rostef and that they didn’t fall down the hole too soon. Telling them that they aren’t stuck because the rock fell in the green key room too, as well as the fact you CAN beat the Shieldspire with just your sword. It would probably shock you to hear how many “bugs” I hear about in a day XD

Ah man, I should’ve thought of that! I could’ve even added a little spot behind the Oracle’s tree that was a secret place that you could drop into the room where you can activate the door. Would’ve been awesome! Where were you when I was making it XD

To make a game with a certain “feel” to it is really a pretty touchy-feely process. The whole game has to be centered around it, as you have to make sure nothing breaks the “feel” you’re making. I can’t give you any direct instructions on how to do this other than trying to pick out a small part of a movie, game, book, song, etc. that really describes the feeling you want. For example, LoZ:LttP really captured the sense of discovery and imagination I wanted in Seedling—to pinpoint it, I loved falling down the whole in the beginning, because it added a whole new dimension to the game that I didn’t know about. It meant that there were alternative entrances to things, like hidden areas, as well as an underground to much of the world. Basically, it made me realize that there was more than met the eye, and that discovery was crucial. For that, I basically tried to mirror that feeling with my own elements in Seedling, and that’s why a lot of people relate it to LoZ—it gives the same feeling, while still being different.

I wish I could give you more of a script for how to do it, but that really is the best I can do!

You can get through the part with the block and the swinging hammer. You have to hit the block from across the pit, and then go around and hit it again in the same direction while avoiding the hammer. It’s tough, but you can do it.