Gorilla123: Oh, fuck it. It's no longer called Adventurine. I'll get a better name later today.

Smannesman: I suppose technically hours can be expressed in minutes...

HunchBluntley: But you might want to be careful about going too nuts changing things just because one or two people make snide remarks.

zeogold: My advice is that you feed us some more info on the thing along with some screenshots

ofthenexus: Your webpage has no real information.

I can glean:
-You are looking for dev-team, but want to interview, not community volunteer *jump in and work on what you want*.
-The game has a name
-You are simultaneously making two versions of the game, neither complete. One is Java, one is C# using dead-is-dead XNA.
-You are working on some degree of randomization.

There's nothing on your site that makes me inclined to even download. But I did, and I'm playing it right now.

I'm not trying to be mean, but I am letting you know that the current way you have presented this whole project is not good for prospective players. Check out the websites for other games, especially those not from big studios. Talk about gameplay, talk about features, talk about what you are working on, get technical if that's how you are most comfortable. You are the main attraction of your game right now, connecting with the players

As for the game itself:

The character creation is off-putting. The options are fine, but the presentation isn't good. Not being able to type capital letters in a name (SHIFT + letter fails), having to type the whole word (doesn't recognize single characters or abbreviations), not being able to click, having to spell out numbers (one instead of 1), no error checking on bad input, having to make choices that aren't explained and offer no visible feedback, all of this comes across as very amateur. The game also fails if I enter a bad choice, like say 'q' instead of 1. Oh, and I can enter a non-valid choice for type and end up with no character marker, or press a number outside of the given options and get to a blank screen. Input checking needs to go to the top of your list.

I can scroll all over the screen. I have no idea if what looks like walls should let me move through them, but intuitively it looks like a bug. I don't like that I have to walk through char creation every time, it's a bunch of steps that give no feedback, and I manage to break the input or otherwise freeze within a minute. It also feels like the all text to all graphics to all text presentation is a mess. Maybe have a portion of the screen be the map and put the text below that? Or something. Maybe color the text? Something in the presentation needs an overhaul.

I also couldn't figure out how to open inventory or stats or anything. All of the dungeon options have the same dialogue/intro sequence that doesn't skip back to a map or anything and doesn't let me progress. So far, it looks like a graphical enhanced choose your own, but I am intuiting that maybe it is meant to be an RPG/adventure dialogue/choice system.

There's not much game here, and that's fine, but there's plenty of broken in what's here that is very discouraging even for alpha. Honestly, it is probably too early to be begging for general players.

I hope some of this feedback helps you, and I know it comes across as very negative but just know I am trying to point you in directions to make it better. You have a character marker moving around a screen, and that's more than 90% of people who want to make games ever get started. It seems you are very passionate about this, and that's good, and I know there's more work than can be seen. Game dev is hard, and I wish you well. Lots of work, lots of polish, and hopefully you'll have this approaching what's in your mind.

ofthenexus: Thanks for taking it in the spirit it was given. Post here with your updates and we can celebrate.