It took a bit of playing around to figure out how to interact with the blocks, but I was eventually able to. I love the lighting effects in this game!
Similar to other comments here, I do wish I knew how to strategize "what to mine" better. Though I understood that mining costs BLD, and that you get stat increases, I didn't have a clear sense of strategy or reward besides intrinsic curiosity.
That being said, looks and plays awesome.
Hey, thank you!
I think that if there is a fundamental problem here, it might be with the game's incentive structure. One, highrolling on a given floor has a very high expected value that affects the player for the rest of the game -- two, I think the game is not good at communicating the future value of a skill you receive.
One of the games I was inspired by is a little minigame collection named Chinese Parents which has a very similar skill progression system, and their approach was basically to do two things:
There were many, many presentational problems with this, and the numerical balancing of the game was somewhat flawed -- but I think the fundamental idea was really good, and I think the combination of choices they made caused the game to overall tend towards specialized builds.
I think if I were to develop this further I would probably come up with a system that accomplishes the same thing, but via a more simulationist set of interactions than Chinese Parents used. ("These three thralls _already exist_ in the world -- you won't see more unless you woo them -- as a special deal, you can woo them with a skill that would not usually be effective for that purpose.")
