was a bit weird that Skill didn't unlock when clicking on the Skill, but only on the icon at the Top. Was initially thinking I needed 10 Points to unlock a Skill, not that its 10 Stages of a Skill. 

Why does moving into the top room return me to the Title? Could use a clearer differentiation between new Room and exiting.

+10 HP Belt doesn't work. Needs sound feedback on hitting/getting hit etc. No Idea what half of the Stats do, if you shorten them, a long explanation on hover, at least in the stat menu could work. Whats the difference betweeen Red.Dmg Rst.Dmg and Block? 

Your Skill menu is laid out pretty terribly, why are there small easily overseeable Arrows at the Bottom to change in Subtrees, but then not at the opposite end to change back into previous Tree, but instead the topleft has fixed directions? Why are there so many subtrees with so much space between every option? Makes it really tough to move through all of them to see which Tree to pursue. Also I can't move Skills/etc. back out from my Hotbar once assigned? Update: Found out I can rightclick them. Why doesn't drag and drop override whats on the Slot?

At least its rather clear what Stat affects which Stat, since its always the one on the Right, but why not have me level HpR directly then? Unless Stats can affect multiple other Stats, like in DS, at which Point a Highlight might be useful.

Why do I have to let go off moving before I can dash? Died at 3-3 ~lvl 20. Why is both your level (as in status) and your level(as in floorlevel) named level? 

Overall feels very clunky and slow, dodging seems useless, and with how much Points I had to investigate to get a build focused on a single spell feel okay-ish, I don't think it invites at all to any experimentation or going for "higher-level" skills. In the End, I just put 50 Points or so into spRegen to get some useable amount of Manaregen, and a few leftovers into health and healthregen to avoid getting oneshot, and to counteract burn a bit, and at the beginning 10 or so into accuracy since I thought I'd be going melee, which I weren't. As for Skills, 1 into lightning bolt to use it, 1 into poison bolt because I thought poison would do continous damage, and not just slow enemy regen a tiny bit, and 10 into spellcastspeed in lighting and poison. Or however close I got to 10 in both. Plan was to continue the same way until I had all spellcastspeeds for every tree, then max lightning bolt for damage. As for Stats, I wanted to reach 2 MpRegen which I did, so I could reliable regen my MP quickly enough to cast more or less continously, then dump everything into damage and occassionally health to keep up with not being oneshot. 

Inventory was just full of red and blue Potions, everything else was crap, so threw it away. Then I found the Vendor at 3-0, so that felt wasted, but its not like Vendor has anything useful anyway.

As for Equipment, nothing fancy, except for a legendary Wand for 10-20 spell damage or something.

Wow, just had a giant post typed up with a lot of feedback and accidentally left the page. Damnit that's annoying. I will try and recreate it...

Excellent core gameplay demo. You put a lot of work into the messaging and systems design. This is already fun, and I think once the actual game is built out on top of it, you will have a great game to show for it.

Some thoughts and feedback:

• I would increase the base zoom level. Most players wont alter it. Higher zoom feels a lot easier to control, because your click targets are bigger, and you can more clearly see what is happening.
• Increasing the click radius for enemies and items would be nice. Just makes things easier, and makes you feel more in control of whats happening.
• Highlighting an enemy or item when you hover over them would be a great feature. Right now I feel that it's a little hard to tell exactly whats going to happen when I click, when it isn't what I want it feels frustrating.
• Shift+click should be added, it makes ranged weapon use so much easier. When holding shift, every click should be an attack, not movement. It is especially important for kiting enemies with a ranged weapon.
• A little indicator on the ground when you click to move is a nice feature. Not crucial, but nice.

Great work dude, really looking forward to seeing this evolve.

that was fun. wish there was more item variety in the shop, though maybe that improves after stage 2.

adding a toggle for auto pick up for gold/potions would be nice. stopping after fighting to click each gold piece was a bit disruptive to the flow of things.

It works fine.

I can't figure out the skill menu. The first time I managed to get the bash skill, but the second time I can't invest into it despite having the 1 skill point needed.

When I hold mouse button to walk around and I hover over an enemy for a moment and move the mouse away, the character will lock into combat instead of walking again. That makes navigating around enemies annoying. It might be a matter of preferrence though.

appreciate that you improved the text scaling so quickly.

i liked the mechanic of combining spells and adjusting its strength to `craft-compose` spells, but this needs ingame explanation, had to do more experimentation then i`d like. the padlocks as you can see from many comments are not very intuitive, i`d get rid of it tbh... maybe have the skills light up when you have the points, then click on it to `learn` with a confirmation dialogue. locking-auto-attacking is a bit clunky. clickable ui elements(+  - < ) should probably be a little different then regular text. could not ever use the Vendor, reading the page it seems i need to be at a specific area, but did not find any.

poison felt like a weak branch, but perhaps it has effects that i did not understand

got to level 4 or 5 a few times but would eventually die. a bit weird because i felt like i was fighting the same enemies, but this time they just killed me instead of me killing them

leveling up needs some fluff. a bright effect on the character or something. must be eventfull, my first few runs i did not even notice that i had leveled up and could distribute attributes

with enough variety i think current graphics can work, this minimal style has its charm

nice, seems like you've got  most of the stuff you need  for this type of game done.

didn't find any bugs, I assume this is inspired by diablo maybe add a home town type location

So far, the combat works well, but it's a bit bland if I'm honest. With how sparse the enemies are I have the impression you want each encounter having it's weight instead of Diablo's slaughterfest but it's not really present at the moment. Being able to see enemy silhouettes through the fog of war is also pretty OP at the moment as with a ranged characters you can easily kill them before they are even able to get into your range of vision.

Some starting money or a way to select your starting equipment would be nice, as one run I started specing into spells but only found a wand at level 3 and had to make due with a bow until then.

Speaking of spells, right now I didn't really felt the need to upgrade them apart from Lightning bolt, as that was the only one that increased damage. Projectile speed doesn't really matter with how slow everything moves, and AOE felt unnecessary with how sparse the enemies are.

Stats seem fairly straightforward of what they do, though it feels like the point system is way too granular for the effects they give. Many times I had to dump 5 or so points into a stat before I saw a miniscule effect. Cutting down so you have less points to spend but each spending is meaningful might be better - at any rate, could be would be worth experimenting with.

Some kind of indicator on the main screen when you level up and have points to spend would be nice too. Many times I only realized I have points to spend after levleing up 3 or more times already.

Support/passive skills are also a bit confusing. The UI mentioned cost for them to cast but I wasn't able to draw them to the quickslot bar.

As for the quickslot bar, it would be nice if you could reorder already existing items there, so if you want to move something you don't have to delete and find it again in your skill book/inventory.

Still, for all it's faults a solid prototype so far.

Controls feel janky, having to accurately click to do perform each attack is tedious (after experimenting more I found out you can hold down shift to shoot in a given direction but it wasn't intuitive).  In my opinion it would be better to do it like POE and press a button to attack in the direction of your cursor. 

The skill tree was confusing, couldn't figure out how to buy a skill after leveling up. 

The bow draw animation that stops movement feels annoying too (muh realism isn't fun imo). 

I don't know if you're familiar with that game, but this feels a lot like Ragnarok Online. The weakest link currently is how bland and samey every room is. There needs to be more going on with the environment, both gameplay and graphics-wise. This better have a fully fledged grid overworld by the end.

I like the cute way-zoomed-out perspective, and the little sprites are cute too. 

I feel like the default accuracy on attacks is way too low, I had several times where I missed three or four times in a row, and on a small sample I averaged 50% accuracy. Personally that feels like a bad way to stretch combat, but there may be more that I'm missing (accuracy items etc). I would rather see the miss chance drop, which would truncate combat, and make your character more apparently fragile. When I did die, I was a bit disappointed to lose all progress, but I understand the logic in that I think too. 
Lastly, and most important, I think you need to add something for the player to do idly while moving. Some games allow you to jump for instance, even if it doesn't make you move faster. Adding a hotkey to press to make your character do something idly while moving would be nice, because the movement felt a little uneventful, even just being able to trigger a 2-frame animation on command would fix that I think.
Good work. I played on mute, so I can't comment on any sounds if they are present. 
OH, I also wanted to mention I really like the shadow enemies in the fog, that's a good effect and good value. Also, there was a gap that it looked liked I could fit through but I couldn't, consider closing it or letting the player go through. 

Aside from the obvious need for sound, one thing that kinda pissed me off was the fact that if I was moving and accidentally moved my mouse over a guy, I'd start trying to attack that guy instead. I want to have to click, not just mouse over them with the mouse button held down. I also never figured out if there was a hot swap button for the gear sets.

Hey, nice seeing your game here. I saw many of your updates. Your game has a quite unique look, specially the UI.
I usually dislike it when games use recolored enemies, but in your game its working well. Its like scorpion and sub zero.
Idk if it's a problem on my end, but on fullscreen my screen kept the same size with black borders around it.
I'd like to suggest the [optional] QoL to click on an enemy just once and have your character auto-attack it until told to so something else. I can't remember Poe/diablo having this, but Ragnarok online did, so for Auto-attack builds it was very useful. Just a thought.
What Evilous was pointing out is that players tend to go upwards in the first screen of games, so it feels a bit counter intuitive going downwards right in the beginning of your game. There is nothing wrong about it, but a good amount of players will probably go back to the new game screen (I know I did lol).

>Enemies won't aggro if you attack and miss, they just walk away

>Going to the top makes it a new game? It's really dumb at the start

Outside of that it is pretty fast. I would recommend the ability to use a keyboard as well in game instead of almost everything through the mouse. With all the menus that can be used. Keyboard shortcuts would be very good too. Since wanting to access the inventory has you pause in place, then click on it hoping you didn't click on the ground and then interacting with it. 100% it's like Diablo, but it needs some work to get there, especially with how small the enemies are where you can click on the ground by accident. Make the hit box bigger for enemies.

cool game. how do you allocate skill points? it says i have 2 points and clicking on full draw didn't do anything. do i have to be at a certain level?