Gameplay is not discoverable

[Poikilos]

Some of these I can fix, and some can be made into sub-issues.

• Make it more clear what to do in included levels, or make tutorial level at top of list (I tried "duel to death" while making these notes and other issues I'll post today).
• I immediately get "... could not create a bed" (Can't understand the words, but text says "Spider1 could not create a bed". See voice notes under "Assets" below
• Then get hammered with many "Those weaklings are tired. They need rest." over and over.
• It isn't clear where you can build until you figure it out it is only in hallways you make.
  • It should say "You can only build on ..." because I can't build in the initial room nor in natural caves (?)
• It isn't clear how to build a cannon trap--nothing worked. Maybe I tried to build on the wrong kind of tile.
• I don't know how to get back to making hallways (right click?? button not available on some macs).
  • There is no hallway button (or room, if that is the same...naming is unclear).
  • There is no indication of why hallways aren't being built after ordered, when you apparently need to summon workers, but the game doesn't tell you when you are out of workers but have work marked.
• It isn't clear what a "room" even is, so I don't know what the room reclaim mode would do. Is that one square? To me it looks like I'm digging one square of a hallway not making a room.
• When I order a hallway, it isn't clear what will make spiders start building.
• The spiders run back and forth between the two structures, but...
  • It isn't clear why
  • It isn't clear what the two structures are.
• When I click a button, nothing happens, so it isn't clear why until I discover myself "Summon Worker" is actually a mode, not a command, and I have to click.
• It isn't clear how to get more gold, and if you can't it should tell you that you can't.
• I run out of gold building hallways and can't do anything.
• Says creature could not create a bed, so I would assume bed creation is automatic if I do something, not sure what, but there is also a create bed mode.

Versions & Hardware

• OpenDungeons-0.7.1-Linux64 & OpenDungeonsPlus-0.7.1 flatpak
• Linux Mint 22.1 Xia based on Ubuntu 24.04 noble based on trixie/sid
• Intel graphics, Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz CPU

[tomluchowski]

Lot's of hints, I play for so long with OD , that sometimes I don't notice how counterintuitive the user interface is ...

[tomluchowski]

What do you call spiders ? You mean minions ? The tiny gray-violet creatures with an axe right ? BTW they are the only one creatures which don't need beds.

[Poikilos]

If I thought they were spiders and they weren't that's part of the camera issue apparently. I only played once so far when I woke up at 3am one time, so I'll look again but chances are camera and/or graphics need to make their appearance more readable.

[Poikilos]

I recall now, the text on the screen actually said "Spider1" or "Spider3" needs rest or needed something. But the voiceover was generic ("The weaklings need rest" I think was the one).