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**In Living Color** for Coloruid badge.
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> *Originally posted by **[Tulrog](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9941064):***
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> This is disappointing.
Indeed, but it seems like many other people are having trouble with the interface for Caravaneer 2.
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Greg, I’d say that not badging Caravaneer 2 is a good decision. I don’t personally care whether the game is niche or just badly designed, but if you (and I mean, the person who has to badge it) can’t play it properly then please don’t badge it.
I’ve just had a short play with it, and I can only agree that the game is very confusing. Tutorials are a wall of text that doesn’t say enough, and often comes after you need it. I have the feeling it’s unneccesary incomprehensive for the sake of it, and while it might fit in the story it’s just too much work to get through them.
And yes, there’s a lot of “production values” with the game, it’s just that most of them went to the wrong places. It’s a “Jack of all trades” game, which is a shame.
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Yes. Caravaneer 2 is a complex game. (And on top of that it is hard too.)
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There is nothing wrong with Greg’s arguments. Took me quite some time to understand how the game works. At least understand it so far that I could actually play it somehow.
But I also see what happens to the game industry. The good devs move on to Steam or stores for mobile games and we are left with… well.. whatever is left. Getting a great full scale free game is rather rare these days.
I understand that badges are mainly a tool to draw Kong players to certain games. But to me they are also a reward to the developer for good work. Caravaneer 2 took years to develop and once you are past the stage of confusion it’s an interesting and challenging game. On top of that it has a really unique feel to it. Definitely not a copy of a copy of a copy.
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So yeah. It’s neither outrageous nor unfair that C2 doesn’t get even an easy badge. It’s just disappointing. Not more and not less.
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I would say C2 is so disappointing in the first hour that it can never get an easy badge.
Lemme see if I can explain my first hour of playing (and I’ve just done that a few hours ago, but i’ve forgotten much since):
- a wall of text.
- another wall of text.
- a kinda tutorial, tells me to not touch anything
- a town
- a cutscene, talks with lots of options
- the town again, way too complex, skipped
- going to next town
- another tutorial, this time it tells me to avoid any fights
- of course by the time someone attacks me i have no time to avoid
- a fighting sequence, most of the time i clicked on the wrong places, cos of the gui not explaining anything
- a boring fight, oh no more bullets
- won
- a loot scene, no tutorial or anything (tutorial of this screen is in the next town)
- next town
- another boring random chat
None of the above was fun! So, yeah, it’s a very disappointing game. I’ve even seen MMOs that does this better by only allowing to click “Next” for the first 150 turns.
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After 15 or so minutes I was already lost and didn’t bother to continue playing it.
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> *Originally posted by **[KLouD\_KoNNeCteD](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9940952):***
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> **In Living Color** for Coloruid badge.
If it wasn’t already used in Live Puzzle.
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Bit easy for a medium badge personally.
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> *Originally posted by **[back900](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9942911):***
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> Bit easy for a medium badge personally.
And there I sat like an idiot before I figured it out. Medium for me please.
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Sounds more like no badge for us today
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I just put the badge up in Coloruid, but our system seems bugged — the badge isn’t showing up anywhere, and it doesn’t seem to be earnable. I’m worried that I’ll break things further if I fiddle with it, but hopefully we can get this figured out on Monday.
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It shows up under recently badged games, but not under all badges/achievements and not on the game page. Weird.
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> *Originally posted by **[Tetsuo\_Shima](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9943709):***
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> It shows up under recently badged games, but not under all badges/achievements and not on the game page. Weird.
It shows up now – but not on the game page.
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Well, I was hoping that this was just a caching issue and it would magically clear up later, but it looks like it’s still not showing up anywhere on the game page, and it’s not earnable. But it is showing up in the “recently badged games” list, which is a bit misleading. Sooo… I’m just going to delete the achievement, and put it back up on Monday once our programming team has a chance to look at what’s bugged here.
I literally just dumped this issue on our programmers after 5:00 on a Friday, so this is somewhere between 100% and 100% my fault.
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Hope you didn’t accidentally delete the entire badge page, cuz now I’m getting a page not found kongbot error on the entire achievement page. But yeh, something is definitely up, or down, depending how you look at it. ^^
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> *Originally posted by **[greg](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9944030):***
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> Well, I was hoping that this was just a caching issue and it would magically clear up later, but it looks like it’s still not showing up anywhere on the game page, and it’s not earnable. But it is showing up in the “recently badged games” list, which is a bit misleading. Sooo… I’m just going to delete the achievement, and put it back up on Monday once our programming team has a chance to look at what’s bugged here.
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> I literally just dumped this issue on our programmers after 5:00 on a Friday, so this is somewhere between 100% and 100% my fault.
Lol, 0 badges, it says.
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> *Originally posted by **[Tetsuo\_Shima](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9944036):***
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> Hope you didn’t accidentally delete the entire badge page, cuz now I’m getting a page not found kongbot error on the entire achievement page. But yeh, something is definitely up, or down, depending how you look at it. ^^
Are you talking about this page? [http://www.kongregate.com/badges](http://www.kongregate.com/badges)
It’s working fine for me. Is anyone else having problems?
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> *Originally posted by **[greg](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9944222):***
> > *Originally posted by **[Tetsuo\_Shima](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9944036):***
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> > Hope you didn’t accidentally delete the entire badge page, cuz now I’m getting a page not found kongbot error on the entire achievement page. But yeh, something is definitely up, or down, depending how you look at it. ^^
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> Are you talking about this page? [http://www.kongregate.com/badges](http://www.kongregate.com/badges)
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> It’s working fine for me. Is anyone else having problems?
It is fine for me, and that’s what I thought he was referring to.
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Interesting.
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> *Originally posted by **[Gabidou99](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9944350):***
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> Interesting.
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“I cannot get past level 1, can anyone help me?”
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> *Originally posted by **[uzzbuzz](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9944227):***
> > *Originally posted by **[greg](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9944222):***
> > > *Originally posted by **[Tetsuo\_Shima](/forums/1/topics/380539?page=187#posts-9944036):***
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> > > Hope you didn’t accidentally delete the entire badge page, cuz now I’m getting a page not found kongbot error on the entire achievement page. But yeh, something is definitely up, or down, depending how you look at it. ^^
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> > Are you talking about this page? [http://www.kongregate.com/badges](http://www.kongregate.com/badges)
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> It is fine for me, and that’s what I thought he was referring to.
It was what I was talking about. It was completely down for a while right after Greg posted his removal update. My comment was posted 2 minutes after Greg’s. A while later it was fine again. Clearly something fishy is going on with the badges. But I’m sure they’ll dig right in on monday. ^^
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Ok, here’s what I think about Colourid.
It’s a short, but very nice and relaxing puzzle game for losing some minutes. I don’t really think it’s worth a Medium badge for completion, as I did all the levels in 5-10 minutes without problems. Definitely an Easy badge is good enough, but then if there were more and harder levels, a Medium was right.
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