Thanks for playing DTG!

Glad you liked the genre like us :D Lvl28 is a great score! Thanks for taking the time to go so far!

Thanks for playing AxeWizard!

Wow another highscorer at lvl 38! Apologies that the scaling got really wonky the deeper you go. It was one thing we had not anticipated would take so much time to get right! As you've experienced, it got to a point where it's impossible to proceed further.

But a big thank you for sticking with it for so long. We really appreciate you spending time playing our game; it makes us happy! 

Thanks for playing chumchum!

Yea we wanted it to not shock the player right out of the gate, but it also became a problem where the game had unexpected difficulty spikes somewhere around the point you stopped!

There were also quite a big of enemies thought up by @junkgolem and drawn in by @solonka, and they are randomly spawned. So its possible you went on a lucky streak and kept getting the easier ones!

Thanks for playing Horned!

Wow looks like you found a good build to go about long runs! Yea right now there's no weighted chance of dropping loot that gives bonus to a good spread of stats, so it could be why you went long stretches without getting a good piece of defence equipment! You might have gotten really lucky and got a god roll on defence where the item base bonus coincided with the suffix defence bonus to give whooping amounts of defence!

Yes a lot of work went into the writing my @junkgolem!

To be fair, the pointy red hats often preferred by gnomes do make them somewhat more aerodynamic, hence the impressive distance.

Seriously though, we had a blast making this and I really enjoyed getting to write all the descriptions; it was a ton of fun coming up with silly jokes, and a refreshing break from the more serious writing I usually do. I'm glad you enjoyed the game, thank you for playing!

Hi Sesso! Regarding the wildcard: we weren't able to implement any wildcards in the last Wild Jam we did, so I'm really glad we were able to work at least one of them into our game this time. Hopefully we can incorporate even more in future attempts.

Thank you for playing our game, I'm glad you enjoyed it! 

Thanks for playing Britt!

We're very glad to be able to showcase all the writing that @junkgolem did for this project!  Everything was neatly catalogued on one excel sheet.

Yea i think web version doesn't support some of the fancier characters on some fonts! But you're right on the money; it's a TM!

Thank you for your kind words Britt! There were a couple points where I figured we had bitten off more than a week's worth of work and I wasn't sure we'd finish in time, so I'm really glad we were able to get a playable game submitted!

I am the culprit writer responsible for the various text descriptions in the game, so I'm pleased you liked them!

I did notice a couple issues with a handful of characters rendering strangely while playing offline (TM was in fact one of them), but it wouldn't surprise me if those characters simply didn't display at all in the web version. This is something I'd like to correct after the jam is completed, so thank you for pointing it out!

Thanks for playing Ryuku! Yes the enemies and loot types are the brainchild of @junkgolem, drawn to life by @solonka! Indeed, the transitions can get laborious as the game progresses, but thank you for bearing with us!

Thanks for playing Bjorn!

Indeed, the hardest thing for us this jam was on how to balance and scale the stats of both the player and enemies as the game progresses! Interestingly, the main culprit is always a skeleton! Thanks for bearing with us!

Thanks for playing dataanddragons!

Yes the unique art style is signature of our artist @solonka! Glad you love it too! Many thanks to the authors of the CC0 music we used (linked in our Itch page)

Balance and scaling was definitely our greatest challenge this jam! Severely under-estimated how difficult it would be to do it well; its likely an entire specialization by itself. Will definitely be thinking more of these technical pitfalls in future jams!

Thanks for playing Copecola!

Your suggestion reminded me that we did have a discussion on whether to make the debuffs reveal only on equip. But we ended up going with the revealed on drop route to make it abit more player-friendly. Our hardest challenge (and one that we didn't nail down from other comments) was the balance and scaling, so we were afraid adding more randomness would frustrate players even more. But agree fully with you that the masked suffix route would definitely have been more on theme with "unintended consequences" and  made the game more dynamic!

Thanks for playing Grumbumblior!

We're glad you had a good time. I too got 2-shot by a rogue skeleton dealing 200 dmg per hit to me in my final playtest. This was unintended I think (ironical, given the theme this jam haha).

Thanks for playing Rabbid!

Yea the contrast on the button could have been better! Initially we had wanted to force players into a choice, but we backed off last-minute as it would have been too savage XD

Thanks for playing Rood!

We realised the most challenging part of this game was to provide balance and scaling! Seems like level 20 is where things start to go haywire!

Definitely agree with speeding up the encounters, I think making the lootbox opening skippable would help.

Wow, I think 26 rounds is the highest I've heard of yet, well done! And there are more creatures than the ones you've likely seen, but some of them are rarer, in case you ever feel like taking another crack at your record! 

Thank you for checking out our game!

Thanks for playing Tourtiere!

We've been receiving feedback about a rogue skeleton running around that point in the game that's been a menace (I think this is an unintended effect), apologies on that!

Can't say I've played the games you mentioned before, but we're glad we triggered some nostalgia for you!

Glad you liked the visuals! We've had the fortune of having 2 visually talented teammates (@solonka and @junkgolem) for this jam :D

Thanks for playing BunEar!

I too was amazed by the number of creatures, equipment and backgrounds @solonka drew for this, together with the intro comic! @junkgolem put in a lot of effort into the text lore for every monster and equipment type, and we're glad you noticed them!

14 encounters is a great score! Thanks for spending time going through it!

Thanks for playing Delvan!

I too liked the visual elements chosen by our artist @solonka! And we do hope you had fun reading the lore and writing by our resident DM @junkgolem :D

Thanks for playing hatmix!

We've been receiving feedback about a rogue skeleton running around that point in the game that's been a menace (I think this is an unintended effect), apologies on that!. I missed out on making the loot opening sequence skippable! Agree that it can become tedious after a long run. Thanks for sticking thru it, 16 encounters on the first go is great!