Infinite Orienteering: The Hiker's Path

The game is fun, and represents oreienteering realy good. At the and of the run you are displayed a map and animated path where you were wandering, or didn't :) The map control and overview ingame is perfect, you have everything you need to orient your self. Random maps are great, the generation system still needs to be improved, but for this kind of game it is a perfect solution for unlimited play. Maps should be more challenging, now almost everything is passable, you just adjust your course and go straight to the next check point. There should be more impassable terraing, but not just in the form of randomly placed fances and walls, it should be more natural, like extreamly dense vegetation or very steep terrain, clifs, rivers. The tall grass is slowing you down which is great, it makes you look for a better path, but would prefere more dense vegetation graphics for that, like bushes for example, that should be more realistic. Considering maps are randomly generated orienterring trail could always be placed at the center, there is no need the trail to be near the edge of the map, you potentionaly should never see the end of the map, unless really lost. There is room for some…

I would love to see development on this continue. Even now its pretty good for learning how to read maps and keep track of your own location. Things I would like to see in the game, from higher priority to lower: [list] [*][u]Improve basic game options[/u] - like video settings, audio, control bindings, language, etc. [*][u]Saving and sharing replays[/u] - to compare with other people (the trailer shows something that looks like this but I could not see anything in-game) [*][u]Terrain generation customisation[/u] - For instance, I can see lakes are possible from the store screenshots but after generating ~10 maps I had yet to see one. It would also be cool to generate a really mountainous map. [*][u]Map generation customisation[/u] - like adjusting contour interval, scale, maybe even the vegetation classification. [*][u]Add assets[/u] - for a game like this more assets will pretty much always be better. More varieties of trees, more rocks, bushes, grass, etc. If it can be done well randomly generating assets is also an option. [*][u]Dev mode movement[/u] - in dev mode after you release a movement key you will keep moving for a bit. [/list]

Good start, hope that this eventually evolves to something even great! I like the idea very much because other similar games have just one or few maps and it gets boring. Few suggestions: 1. Would really enjoy if the map could be instantly replayed after finishing, so a friend group could compete right away in the same track. 2. The thick green could be with way taller grass or small trees to represent the very slow speed the game gives. 3. Standard moving speed could be a hair faster. 4. Would be cool in the future to see higher elevation elements and rocky cliffs. 5. Night orienteering light ray should bleed a little more to the surroundings not just the circle in the middle.

Movement is far too slow. The compass doesn’t allow you to take a bearing using the compass housing. Not recommended... :(

The graphics are fair for the price, but the movement speed is way too slow. Sprinting barely adds any speed, yet it triggers an annoying camera sway/head bobbing effect that makes the experience frustrating. I recommend the developers increase the base speed and add an option to disable camera shaking.

Probably the best orienteering experience game there is. It really makes you feeeel like you are orienteering. It's a little rough around the edges in its current EA state but the ambition and feel is there for certain. Endless maps and a lot of fun ahead for sure.