Bruh, those graphics were incredible! There was an issue with the UI in the menu and level select. Otherwise, this was really good. Great job. :)
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Graphics | #84 | 4.195 | 4.195 |
| Innovation | #244 | 3.402 | 3.402 |
| Game Design | #421 | 3.310 | 3.310 |
| Overall | #468 | 3.174 | 3.174 |
| Fun | #494 | 3.126 | 3.126 |
| Audio | #687 | 2.782 | 2.782 |
| Theme | #1063 | 2.230 | 2.230 |
Ranked from 87 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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--- About the Game ---
Rougelite adventure game. Reality has been shattered. Fight enemies to collect reality shards to restore things. Four enemies to fight plus a boss!
--- How to Play ---
Click on the circles in the overworld to fight the next enemy.
In combat, roll dice at the start of your turn with the energy you have. Dice will come out of your bank. Hover over the dice in the tube to view the potential dice you can roll.
After rolling, drag and drop the dices into the tiles and then click on the rune to activate them. Different tiles have different effects, hover over the runes to read the description.
Once you have no more energy, you can end your turn and wait for the enemy to complete their turn. You can end your turn early to stockpile on energy.
--- About the Authors --
We are a team of three - two unity programmers (one does music too) and a graphics artist. Our team has interest in continuing the project so your feedback would be appreciated!
Did you write all the code and made all the assets from scratch?
Yes, all of the code, music, and graphics were design from our team.
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2 years ago(+1)
Hey thanks for playing and thanks for taking the time on an amazing review! We will be continuing work on this project so this is great stuff! Seeing you took a significant amount of effort on this review, I think its fair to do the same with my response!
- I totally agree with your point on this. Sound effects will help both with feedback and user satisfaction. We will certainty be adding it.
- I've seen this complaint a couple of times. I statically set the resolution for Itch.io (which in hindsight was a bad call). So I think a solution of increasing the font size and making it more scalable will fix this.
- This was one of those unfortunate time constraint things. This was at the top of our list to develop next, but simply ran out of time. It feels bad because it makes the reward system feel very meaningless in it's current state.
- There was a couple status effects you could apply to the enemy. Though, your callout is still valid because you have no way of knowing which rune you were picking for a reward. This certainty needs to be fixed!
- Hmm this is a going point. I don't think we did implement any of these so thanks for the suggestion! We will look into this one.
- This is unfortunately due to the bad UI for the rewards system. These are actually different dice with different faces. Of course, you would have no way of knowing this in the current state of things. The die faces also show up in a tooltip if you over the dice in the tube next to the energy indicator... again, it should be more visible. This needs to change (both in displaying dice in combat and rewards). Though, I think presenting this may be challenging, since it's a 3D object. I could just simply show each face side by side, but that feels like maybe not the best option. Any thoughts here?
Thanks again for the great feedback!
Thanks for the response! Ok, I didn't realize my dice were different (but I were suprised to see I sometimes got numbers higher than 6 - this explains it). Well, perhaps when you hover the dice you just get a "one row x cols" table folding out showing all the sides (unless you plan to have 20 sided dice, in which case you may have to make it a 5x4 grid, for example)?
Another thought. I ended up just rolling all my dice first, then activating one rune at the time with full knowledge of what my different numbers were. Now that I understand there will ve drastically different dice types, one thought is: Would it be more nervous and exiting if you had to use each dice before rolling the next? And should each rune only be usable once per turn? Perhaps this will call for more risk taking but also be more rewarding and more nerve wrecking?
Hey thanks for playing man! I appreciate the compliments, though I think we scoped too much, which leads into your complaint on the mechanics - which I agree.
The mechanics do need a lot of work - audio feedback, more animations, and just an overall better UI/UX. But your callout is interesting, I have not got that specific feedback yet. I think you are right, the dice shouldn't just disappear. Do you have any thoughts on how to improve this part? Maybe an animation for the dice going away or something?
This is really well done and gives off slay the spire vibes. The only issue i have gameplay wise is that you cant hover over the random runes you gain after each fight to see what they do, which means I wasn't able to properly build up a synergistic deck and just picking random runes instead. Unless its a bug where the hover text didnt appear. I do feel that the UI could be made bigger, the health bars at the top are pretty small and hard to look at.
I did also encounter bugs though, like the game freezing at times and i took multiple copies of a rune if i spam clicked a rune in the rewards screen. It seems that you made your WebGL build compressed, which can lead to issues like the game not being able to run on some web browsers (I couldnt run it on Safari and got an error message shown below). Load times would also be much longer, but that didnt get affected as much since this is only a 2d card game.
You can disable the compression settings here, and I recommend doing this for all unity WebGL games:
File > Build settings > WebGL > Player settings > Publishing settings > Compression format > Disabled
This is amazing feedback! Yeah it really is too bad you cant see the descriptions of the rewards - we had every intention of doing so, but ran out of time... if we just had one more hour to work on it! Sorry you encountered so many bugs.
Thanks so much for the feedback on the build compression. I will admit, I just tinkered with it until it works, so thanks for teaching me something new! Our team will be continuing the project (probably starting from scratch - the code base got out of hand) so this information will for sure come in handy.
Thanks for playing, and thanks for taking the time to give such solid and detailed feedback!
2 years ago(+1)
Thanks! Good suggestions. I agree, I doesn't fit the theme very well - we were going to make it more story based but ran out of time
Thanks for playing! And good point! We actually did have a click system where dice would swap like you describe, but we switched it to drag and drop and adding the swap feature was a lower priority. But the good news is our team is going to continue working on the project. So it will be more polished for sure!
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