Reading the negative reviews of this game feels a bit like bizarro land. This is a game that does something truly unique with its combat/movement mechanics and everybody complains its weird to navigate because they are not used to it. Yes, thats the point of doing something new. You initially unlock a power that allows you to "fly" away from your sword and then command your sword back to you, which works as movement mechanic, as well as combat option as everything your sword touches takes damage. In the beginning you are trying to play this game as another platformer, which is a bit jarring, but once you let the games mechanics take over, it really feels cool to explore this world within the boundaries set by the game. You unlock a variety of new forms and can even go for the ultimative challenge of a peaceful run. Every new area becomes a bit of a puzzle how you can traverse it efficiently with the different movement/power options given to you. Really enjoying this. 4/5
Thanks for the efforts you put on bundle for racial justice reviews. There are so many I think I will spend a life to try it all.
About Mable in the woods, I don't think people don't like it because mechanics are new. But more because they are new and multiple. Which make it complex to master.
This is making a gameplay ambitious.
Why does people may not click? That's very simple answer: the level design does not hold the gameplay enough to give a nice learning curve.
Next to this we have good physics, a good looking game, well animated pixel art, nice music and sounds.
So as player you can be curious to play through. But I bet that majority of the players will not because of the complex gameplay.
I can absolutely see how it might bounce off some players, but I was really surprised to see so many negative reviews on bigger and smaller gaming sites complaining about the same thing. I reviewed and looked at Indie games for many many years and I kinda expect people to do that for websites to be able to look past "This is different, I dont want it". Really jarring in this case.
Its a bit janky here and there, sure, but I absolutely applaud it for trying something new and with its unique mechanics even simple level obstacles feel like an entirely different challenge than most platformers. Super cool.
I made a second episode since the first one did so well, this has been the first game in a while that i really enjoyed recording and playing. Thanks for making such a stupidly fun game!
I actually couldn't get it to run as a native app on mac, but installing & launching through the itch desktop app did the trick (as others have pointed out). Go to itch's home page, then click "download app" if you don't have it already. It sort of behaves like a launcher / manager for your itch games, similar to the steam one. (I'm not entirely sure WHY this works, I tried a while to get the normal download & run of the game to work but failed)
I wouldn't count on the game continuing to work on macOS Catalina or higher though, it's supposedly a 32-bit application which means it's no longer officially supported by macOS. I suspect this is why the game won't run normally, and whatever trick itch & steam launcers use to get it open anyways may not work forever. Ideally, the devs would release a new 64-bit version of the game for macOS, I bet this would resolve the issue completely.
I love the game so far, especially the creative use of movement mechanics but also the overall artstyle. Sadly, there's a glitch preventing me from playing it with my gamepad. When I try to change abilities the gui flashes up for a moment and then disappears again so I can't use the other abilities. I'm on Debian with a ps4 gamepad.
I'm on OSX Mojave (so is my daughter). We both downloaded the app and attempted to open it, but it says that it's "damaged". We didn't get any notices about it not being from the app store, it won't even get that far.
I had similar troubles! I found two ways around it, however. The first is to simply use the itch app, you can find it towards the bottom left corner of the home page. If you want the game you've already downloaded to work, however, you might need to use some Terminal code. I'd recommend you look that up, but you can certainly ask me if it's needed!
So hey, just downloaded this game today and it's quite cute, fun art style, neat gameplay. But I softlocked within the first hour and will definitely have to restart my save.
- Spoilers Beyond -
So I got the village key, popped into the well, wandered around until I hopped over some phoenixes, got past the pillars to the elevator upwards, and door to a key room. Head up the elevator, explore, find a key, use the key to open a different locked door that leads to a hole too high for me to reach. Find a wizard, beat him, find the lava, cheese my way over the lava to find nothing, and now the elevator down disappears and I have to spend 3 minutes just spamming the attack button to get down there again. Seems like this game has so much potential, but a fair bit of jank.
I quite enjoyed the game for about two hours, but I fear I may have softlocked my save.
- SPOILER SPACE -
After obtaining stone form, I entered the caves. I collected the first key (the first one I've ever seen), and took the path up to the outside world, and spent the key opening the well. I got a lovely cutscene, but now I don't have a key to progress through the caves.
I have searched everywhere I can find that I can get to, retracing my steps, talking to NPCs (the dialogues is quite nice, btw), and everything I could think of, and I think other than starting a fresh save I'm stuck.
I hope I'm missing something, because I was really enjoying the game up to this point and would like to recommend it.
Hey there! I’m using Fedora and it seems I am missing libcrypto1.0.0.so. Apparently it’s not easy (maybe even not possible anymore) to install the library, since the library is deprecated. Due to IMO OpenSSL’s complex release management, it’s hard to build the lib from source. Could you update the game with a newer version of the library or could you include the lib statically or add the .so to the Linux version of the game as zip? Thanks in advance :)
ok, i think that need some text explaining all this
the situation when the library changes the number of the interface is a fairly common occurrence. and really manually building the previous version of the program / library is quite a time-consuming action therefore, in such a case, in "good" distributions there are packages of previous versions whose files do not conflict with the current e.g. `openssl` and` openssl-1.0`, `lib32-openssl` `lib32-openssl-1.0` on arch so theoretically soon when openssl will be 1.5 version we can see openssl-1.0 openssl-1.1 openssl-1.2 openssl-1.3 openssl-1.4 openssl and all this will work well and not interfere with each other
So just a weird little thing I noticed. In the options the controller layout picture is that of an Xbox controller, with the left stick to the upper left of the d-pad, but the icons on the face buttons are those of a PS4 controller.
Additionally, sometimes the button prompts for interact actions are wrong. When talking to people an X button is displayed, meaning the bottom face button. But pressing that button turns you into a fairy, the actual button to press is the left face button. This displayed button prompt is correct when walking into houses, where it displays a square to mean the left face button.
Here ya guys go. I really enjoyed playing this!! Its a super fun game with a very original idea of combat and movement mechanics. Its simplistic music gives me the nostalgia of playing Legend of Zelda: Twilight princess when i got it on the Wii in the 5th grade. Great job, and continue with the great work.
Hi! Mac user here, whenever I try to open the application it says '“Mable_v_4” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.' Any idea how to fix this?
Hi, I just bought the game, and the Linux version doesn't seem to work for me (I'm running on Arch Linux). The error message tells me libcrypto.so.1.0.0 can not be found. After further investigation, it seems that I have the version libcrypto.so.1.1 . It doesn't seem to be the only shared library related problem unfortunately. I really can not downgrade my system, would there be any solution ? Maybe just a more recent Linux export of the game would do the trick ?
Hey, you need to install openssl-1.0 to get libcrypto.so.1.0, as well as libcurl-gnutls for the error that came up for me afterwards. I was able to launch after getting these two installed.
Hello, I just bought your game here. Its displayed properly in my itch library - but when doing Download > Install there it just keeps telling me "no compatible uploads found for this title".
There seems to be something missing from your side - the offered download link is not vaild. So i bought, but cannot play - pretty embarrassing. Would be nice to have this fixed - thx!
Ok, thanks for letting us know about this issue. Did you download the PC, Mac, or Linux version? The PC and Linux versions are both in a zip file, so you might have to extract those locally before launching from your itch.io library.
The itch.io app and launcher are new and we hadn't tested this when we launched the game on itch. If you continue to have problems, hit me up at andy@graffitigames.com and I can get you a Steam key instead.
After receiving your post, i checked out Mable once again in my itch-lib - whatever has happened the past week, the missing "install"-option for Mable is back. The direct downloads for the .zip archives are back working too.
So whoever fixed this, thanks - sorry to bother. Im downloading just now & looking forward to play.
So I've downloaded the Mac OS version a couple of times now, and every time I try to launch the game it pops up with : Did something go wrong with the Mac upload? Looking forward to playing the game!
As of 9/14/19 issue has been solved by the link in laikaproj's reply ************** Unfortunately, I am still running into the same issue. Just to test it out I've downloaded a couple of other games with mac versions off of Itch , but both of those were able to unzip and open. When I extract the zip there is no indication of anything going wrong during extraction.
Hey! I'm not the dev on the project but I ran into this issue on my own game. The solution should be to change your Mac OS security settings to allow all applications. Unfortunately Apple has hidden this option away pretty heavily so you'll have to go through some steps to enable it: http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/27/allow-apps-from-anywhere-macos-gatekeeper/
I thought I had found everything there was, didn't know about that command line code! It finally allowed me to open the game! Thanks! Now I just gotta wait after work tomorrow to dig in!
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Reading the negative reviews of this game feels a bit like bizarro land. This is a game that does something truly unique with its combat/movement mechanics and everybody complains its weird to navigate because they are not used to it. Yes, thats the point of doing something new. You initially unlock a power that allows you to "fly" away from your sword and then command your sword back to you, which works as movement mechanic, as well as combat option as everything your sword touches takes damage. In the beginning you are trying to play this game as another platformer, which is a bit jarring, but once you let the games mechanics take over, it really feels cool to explore this world within the boundaries set by the game. You unlock a variety of new forms and can even go for the ultimative challenge of a peaceful run. Every new area becomes a bit of a puzzle how you can traverse it efficiently with the different movement/power options given to you. Really enjoying this. 4/5
More Racial Justice bundle impressions and ranking:
https://itch.io/c/915453/quick-impressions-bundle-for-racial-justice
Thanks for the efforts you put on bundle for racial justice reviews. There are so many I think I will spend a life to try it all.
About Mable in the woods, I don't think people don't like it because mechanics are new. But more because they are new and multiple. Which make it complex to master.
This is making a gameplay ambitious.
Why does people may not click? That's very simple answer: the level design does not hold the gameplay enough to give a nice learning curve.
Next to this we have good physics, a good looking game, well animated pixel art, nice music and sounds.
So as player you can be curious to play through. But I bet that majority of the players will not because of the complex gameplay.
I can absolutely see how it might bounce off some players, but I was really surprised to see so many negative reviews on bigger and smaller gaming sites complaining about the same thing. I reviewed and looked at Indie games for many many years and I kinda expect people to do that for websites to be able to look past "This is different, I dont want it". Really jarring in this case.
Its a bit janky here and there, sure, but I absolutely applaud it for trying something new and with its unique mechanics even simple level obstacles feel like an entirely different challenge than most platformers. Super cool.
The game won't load from the itch app on linux, even tho I got it through the Racial Justice Bundle.
I bought the racial justice bundle and it says this is one of the games in it. But the site wants me to buy it again. What do I do?
you have to click download on the page they sent you on email
how'd you fix the "can't run on Mac" issue?
I actually couldn't get it to run as a native app on mac, but installing & launching through the itch desktop app did the trick (as others have pointed out). Go to itch's home page, then click "download app" if you don't have it already. It sort of behaves like a launcher / manager for your itch games, similar to the steam one.
(I'm not entirely sure WHY this works, I tried a while to get the normal download & run of the game to work but failed)
I wouldn't count on the game continuing to work on macOS Catalina or higher though, it's supposedly a 32-bit application which means it's no longer officially supported by macOS. I suspect this is why the game won't run normally, and whatever trick itch & steam launcers use to get it open anyways may not work forever. Ideally, the devs would release a new 64-bit version of the game for macOS, I bet this would resolve the issue completely.
I love the game so far, especially the creative use of movement mechanics but also the overall artstyle. Sadly, there's a glitch preventing me from playing it with my gamepad. When I try to change abilities the gui flashes up for a moment and then disappears again so I can't use the other abilities. I'm on Debian with a ps4 gamepad.
I'm on OSX Mojave (so is my daughter). We both downloaded the app and attempted to open it, but it says that it's "damaged". We didn't get any notices about it not being from the app store, it won't even get that far.
Is there something else we need to do?
Same here! Argh, we were really looking forward to playing it. :(
I had similar troubles! I found two ways around it, however. The first is to simply use the itch app, you can find it towards the bottom left corner of the home page. If you want the game you've already downloaded to work, however, you might need to use some Terminal code. I'd recommend you look that up, but you can certainly ask me if it's needed!
Oh great, thank you for that. We shall try it.
Downloading the Itch App worked a treat - I didn't realise there was one. The game installed fine. Thanks so much again
Glad to hear it!
In my pacifist playtrough I got stuck here.
I can't go to the bossroom and I can't backtrack from here and I don't know where to go from here. Can I do something about this or am I softlocked.
PS: beat the game normally and killed everything. I really enjoyed that playtrough, great game.
So hey, just downloaded this game today and it's quite cute, fun art style, neat gameplay. But I softlocked within the first hour and will definitely have to restart my save.
- Spoilers Beyond -
So I got the village key, popped into the well, wandered around until I hopped over some phoenixes, got past the pillars to the elevator upwards, and door to a key room. Head up the elevator, explore, find a key, use the key to open a different locked door that leads to a hole too high for me to reach. Find a wizard, beat him, find the lava, cheese my way over the lava to find nothing, and now the elevator down disappears and I have to spend 3 minutes just spamming the attack button to get down there again. Seems like this game has so much potential, but a fair bit of jank.
Oh my god I love it!
I quite enjoyed the game for about two hours, but I fear I may have softlocked my save.
- SPOILER SPACE -
After obtaining stone form, I entered the caves. I collected the first key (the first one I've ever seen), and took the path up to the outside world, and spent the key opening the well. I got a lovely cutscene, but now I don't have a key to progress through the caves.
I have searched everywhere I can find that I can get to, retracing my steps, talking to NPCs (the dialogues is quite nice, btw), and everything I could think of, and I think other than starting a fresh save I'm stuck.
I hope I'm missing something, because I was really enjoying the game up to this point and would like to recommend it.
If you want to see what happened, there's a VOD at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/647943070
Hey there! I’m using Fedora and it seems I am missing libcrypto1.0.0.so. Apparently it’s not easy (maybe even not possible anymore) to install the library, since the library is deprecated. Due to IMO OpenSSL’s complex release management, it’s hard to build the lib from source. Could you update the game with a newer version of the library or could you include the lib statically or add the .so to the Linux version of the game as zip? Thanks in advance :)
the game is made on the gamemaker 2 engine, so I don’t think that a rebuild is possible or makes sense
I have the same problem. I'm on Manjaro. Maybe it's possible for the dev to release the game as an AppImage?
oh just install the required packages
fedora `compat-openssl10`
arch `openssl-1.0`
should be enough
ok, i think that need some text explaining all this
the situation when the library changes the number of the interface is a fairly common occurrence.
and really manually building the previous version of the program / library is quite a time-consuming action
therefore, in such a case, in "good" distributions there are packages of previous versions whose files do not conflict with the current
e.g. `openssl` and` openssl-1.0`, `lib32-openssl` `lib32-openssl-1.0` on arch
so theoretically soon when openssl will be 1.5 version we can see
openssl-1.0 openssl-1.1 openssl-1.2 openssl-1.3 openssl-1.4 openssl and all this will work well and not interfere with each other
On Fedora 32, I went to /usr/lib64 as root and ran:
ln -s libcrypto.so.10 libcrypto.so.1.0.0
Alas the game does not detect the PS4 controller.ln -s libcurl.so.4 libcurl-gnutls.so.4
ln -s libssl.so.10 libssl.so.1.0.0
So just a weird little thing I noticed. In the options the controller layout picture is that of an Xbox controller, with the left stick to the upper left of the d-pad, but the icons on the face buttons are those of a PS4 controller.
Additionally, sometimes the button prompts for interact actions are wrong. When talking to people an X button is displayed, meaning the bottom face button. But pressing that button turns you into a fairy, the actual button to press is the left face button. This displayed button prompt is correct when walking into houses, where it displays a square to mean the left face button.
-Doctor Cobbley
Hi! Mac user here, whenever I try to open the application it says '“Mable_v_4” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash.' Any idea how to fix this?
im having the same issue as well!
use the itch app, I had the same issue but downloading through the app resolves it!
Thanks! That looks like it worked for me too.
Thanks for the tip! Worked, also the launcher is pretty nice.
Hi, I just bought the game, and the Linux version doesn't seem to work for me (I'm running on Arch Linux). The error message tells me libcrypto.so.1.0.0 can not be found. After further investigation, it seems that I have the version libcrypto.so.1.1 . It doesn't seem to be the only shared library related problem unfortunately. I really can not downgrade my system, would there be any solution ? Maybe just a more recent Linux export of the game would do the trick ?
Hey, you need to install openssl-1.0 to get libcrypto.so.1.0, as well as libcurl-gnutls for the error that came up for me afterwards. I was able to launch after getting these two installed.
Hello, I just bought your game here. Its displayed properly in my itch library - but when doing Download > Install there it just keeps telling me "no compatible uploads found for this title".
There seems to be something missing from your side - the offered download link is not vaild. So i bought, but cannot play - pretty embarrassing. Would be nice to have this fixed - thx!
Ok, thanks for letting us know about this issue. Did you download the PC, Mac, or Linux version? The PC and Linux versions are both in a zip file, so you might have to extract those locally before launching from your itch.io library.
The itch.io app and launcher are new and we hadn't tested this when we launched the game on itch. If you continue to have problems, hit me up at andy@graffitigames.com and I can get you a Steam key instead.
Thanks!
Andy
Hello, dear Andy
After receiving your post, i checked out Mable once again in my itch-lib - whatever has happened the past week, the missing "install"-option for Mable is back. The direct downloads for the .zip archives are back working too.
So whoever fixed this, thanks - sorry to bother. Im downloading just now & looking forward to play.
Hey, thank you for letting us know about the issue regardless. I'm happy that it worked itself out.
Thanks!
So I've downloaded the Mac OS version a couple of times now, and every time I try to launch the game it pops up with :
Did something go wrong with the Mac upload? Looking forward to playing the game!
I am opening this on a 2016 Mac Book Pro.
We have a new Mac OS X version. Please reply if you're still having issues!
As of 9/14/19 issue has been solved by the link in laikaproj's reply
**************
Unfortunately, I am still running into the same issue. Just to test it out I've downloaded a couple of other games with mac versions off of Itch , but both of those were able to unzip and open. When I extract the zip there is no indication of anything going wrong during extraction.
Hey! I'm not the dev on the project but I ran into this issue on my own game. The solution should be to change your Mac OS security settings to allow all applications. Unfortunately Apple has hidden this option away pretty heavily so you'll have to go through some steps to enable it: http://osxdaily.com/2016/09/27/allow-apps-from-anywhere-macos-gatekeeper/
That *should* fix it ;)
I thought I had found everything there was, didn't know about that command line code! It finally allowed me to open the game! Thanks! Now I just gotta wait after work tomorrow to dig in!
I need to know. Why MAC?
One reason: Ease of access. I am very rarely on my PC these days, and on my MAC more often than not when I am on a computer.