Regarding your review of Recolonizer:
- Thank you so much for taking the time! And good to hear you had a decent time with the game. I am watching the video and responding to certain points as I see them!
- Not sure if it was the case at time of recording, but I added a setting to control camera move speed with the keyboard, which seemed to be too high in your video. But now you can at least control it...
- The buy-UI fails to update when you get money, but I am pretty sure you can still buy it if you click it... Sorry!
- Indeed the progression is quite weak at the moment. There's no communication in the UI, and there's no real progress between levels. My upcoming major updates should address this in the next few months:
- Infinite waves: I'll overhaul the wave system to show which wave we're in, whether it's the last wave, and a button to call the next wave. By design, it should be able to procedurally call in waves for a new arcade mode.
- A real campaign mode: I'll introduce a real campaign mechanic, where you have your ship which carries your cannons and money, allowing you to bring some of your defenses and cash to the next level, giving a better sense of progression.
- The combination of these two should enable an interesting mode where you bring your campaign ship to defend an island on arcade mode, putting your defenses to the test, and increasing replayability.
As for the written feedback:
- Good to hear the design of the upgrades and cannons + placement locations had the intended effect of promoting strategization!
- Thanks for the feedback regarding booty collection, I agree 100%, and in fact the booty collection ship is a tower that is not yet in the works, but it's in the pipeline as an idea I want to work on.
- Good feedback on the positioning of the location selection buttons. Originally the only interaction you could do from the map view was collecting booty, but I accidentally enabled upgrades from there, and liked it, so I kept it. I'll address this in a future update.
Thanks again for the review trade, and I hope you come back to Recolonizer at some point! :)