Your other points are mostly well-taken, but your comment here is completely unfair. ALT-TAB problems generally are indeed often system-specific, but usually not specific to one single person. Often there are millions of people who don't see the problem and millions of people who do see the problem. Generally speaking.

It is nonetheless an ALT-TAB programming error; as usual, saying "it works for me" is not a logical way to disprove someone's bug report.

Yeah I agree with that part; people go overboard with rating things badly due to relatively small issues. ALT-TAB is important but not worth a star or more. If they eventually fix it anyway.
That is, of course, a gross exaggeration. Many AAA studios have their own engine, the rest may use Unreal Engine -- it's technically superior in various ways to Unity, although of course there are lots of good games made with Unity and other engines.

And beyond that, there are *dozens* of game engines in use, some better than others, some put to good use, some not. There are still games being made with no game engine at all, just as a by the way.

As for reporting home, if it's known that it's merely for anonymous reporting of statistics, that can raise suspicions, but it's not the worst kind. Calling out the mobs with pitchforks and torches to storm the castle should be reserved for the (many) cases where there's a worse invasion of privacy.

Certainly it should be opt-in rather than opt-out or permanently on, but it sounds like it's getting turned off, so no big deal.

I hope you are not arguing against efficiency and optimization?

As above, that's irrelevant; one person's experience doesn't inherently invalidate another person's issues.

Of course I am not. But demanding that CPU or GPU is possibly not used by a game imo is a bit more than simple optimization. Optimization is all about using the hardware as efficient as possible - it's not about not using it at all. Imo the term "abuse" in case of simple CPU use is a bit too much.

Also true but I heard many feednacks including some of people with much lower specs and the game is running flawlessly. Add to this that the user complaining about performance never even tried the game or the free demo and is purely talking about some listed specs.
How about "I never heard this cpomplaint and I heard a lot of feedback" instead? The user should have contacted support - blaming this on a game and decribing it in a review as if this is somethimg that'S probably about to happen for everyone is just unfair.

That's (anonymous statistics) is exactly what happens in this case and the programmer already said that he will diable it in the next update.

You can't really say "the game" is not at fault for things "the engine" does. If someone runs the game, they are running the engine, and apparently getting spied on. I'm very glad to hear that this will be patched out, but at the moment this is a perfectly valid complaint that people should know about before buying and running this game. It should absolutely be in reviews.

Been looking forward to this!

you worked on teh game, right?
(not you, mr black. yes! i know who it is!)

I kind of agree but in this case the devs sinply did not know that the engine would do this. Anyway it SHOULD already have been fixed with tha actual update.
In case you are talking to me. No, I did not work on the game (other than beta testing and offering some localisation fixes).

The quality of the art and cutscenes and animation and just little cool effects in the game is very impressive. Really happy kickstarter backer. Also the different responses for different items and the hint system is also really good. Still in Chapter 5, so will wait to the end to speak more about the story, but so far I am really happy that I backed this game on kickstarter and I hope the developers are successful with this release.

You can make lots of great games on Unity, but why to make a 2D point n click adventure game on Unity, is a real mystery to me :)

I think I suddenly know why, from what I've seen playing a bit of the free 2D point n click "Backbone Prologue" on Steam: it allows for a bunch of visual effects that would otherwise be impractical with animated 2D pixel art. I noticed several such over a just a few initial minutes: sunlight through a window caused a heat shimmer in the air, city neon lights reflected dynamically from a puddle in the street that vibrated with foot traffic, etc.

Such things are luxuries in a sense, and hopefully can be turned off in lower end systems, but they make scenes feel a lot more alive. (I can't say "realistic", since that game features a racoon detective and other anthropomorphic animals walking on two legs going about their lives in a dystopian Vancouver.)

After writing that, I now see on their store page a description of this that I hadn't read before: "The breathtaking combination of high resolution pixel art and 3D effects like dynamic lighting, pouring rain, volumetric fog and neon lights bring the sprawling city to life. "

And having seen all that, looking at the Gibbous page, it *does* tersely say "Dynamic lighting, real time reflections", which really should be expanded since it's not super suggestive.

Great answer indeed. And this must be the case. Now if it is worth it, it's a whole another story :)

There's an extra option in Gibbous inside the game menu to turn off additional visual effects to make it run on lower end systems as well.

Nice, just as it should. Thanks.

(And unlike "Backbone Prologue", which has no options and was unsurprisingly reported to run somewhat poorly on an old 9800 GT -- but it's basically just a free demo for the upcoming full game, so probably that will change.)

As far as I know (also from feedbacks) it should run well on most cards. it might however have some problems with integrated cards ... especially regarding some demanding cutscenes. But that's only what I heard. The devs at the moment are on it fixing reported bugs, adding features that have been asked and they also tried to patched out the unwanted Unity connection by turning off hardware statistics. Unfortunately so far only the Galaxy version has been updated yesterday. Afaik the offline installers are still handled by GOG. Created a support ticket to remind them to update those as well. The newest version is 1.3.

Achievemets should also arrive this week.