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Norbert339223 days ago

add a line in the “more info” tab about the meaning of ↓ and ↑, it took me some time to discover those had a tooltip. Or maybe use ⌊…⌋ and ⌈…⌉ instead.
an option to disable/delay tooltips only for cards in your hand, those tend to cover other cards, so that you can’t click on them.
an option to play a card with one click, without selecting it first
maybe at all try to avoid tedious optimal play? Stuff like the pipette and cynicism can easily put you in a situation where you get something infinitely if you just prolong the battle and do the same thing over and over again. The simplest fix would be to put a limit to how much you can get with these cards, for example pipette could only work once per stage, and give more max health if that would make it too weak compared to other items.

Really good game btw.

AlSoKnown223 days ago (2 edits)

Excellent suggestions, thank you!

>add a line in the “more info” tab about the meaning of ↓ and ↑

Will do.

>use ⌊…⌋ and ⌈…⌉ instead.
I actually wanted to do this at first, but I am afraid these symbols may confuse less mathematically-inclined players. At least arrows have some vague intuitive meaning to everybody. I am unsure of this.

>an option to disable/delay tooltips
This option exists, Settings -> Hint delay. Set it to 5s and just press Ctrl whenever you want to see tooltip.
I am sorry for inconvenience -- do you have any ideas on how to make it more discoverable?
I also agree that current default is very annoying but I am afraid new players will be unable to discover tooltips at all if I increase it. I am still struggling to find optimal solution.

>an option to play a card with one click, without selecting it first
I will consider it. Don't you think it will cause too many accidental misclicks? On the other hand, is will not hurt to add an option.
Meanwhile, maybe you will like to play with keyboard? Press space to play selected card. Full keybindings are documented on 'More info' text tab.

>maybe at all try to avoid tedious optimal play
This requires deep discussion. In short, game has many 'grind to win' options, which is half-intentional.
While adding counter to items is indeed on my todo list (not just for this reason, simply to open more design space), fixing just those two cases is completely insufficient. For example, you can just as tediously gain infinite life by playing Weightlifting with Echo/Miracle/Swindle, or just Stop on Precipice.
One idea is to add some global 'turn limit' mechanics to prevent this together with various soft-locks. I vaguely considered ideas similar to 'sandstorm' form Bazaar, but so far has not come with good enough plan.

Norbert339223 days ago

Good point about the arrows. My first intuition about them was that they mean that the subject value is increased or decreased by the effect, they look a bit more “meta” than the rest of the formula, like the arrows evaluating the formula.
I meant an option that only affects tooltips specifically for cards in your hand during a stage. The current options also affect tooltips in all other contexts.
Currently the selecting of cards causes me to use persistent cards more often than I meant to sometimes, because I double click when I don’t mean to. Thanks for reminding me of the keyboard controls, will try that.
You have a good point about the tedious optimal play, that’s a valid approach to the game’s design that I’m just not used to. It’s not really an issue to me, I can always just decide to play with a conduct to avoid using certain cards in certain ways, or pretend there is a limit.

AlSoKnown213 days ago

New update implements your UI suggestions (as options in Settings), please tell me how they work for you.

Norbert339212 days ago

Works perfectly! Feels much less cumbersome to play with single clicks and no hints getting in the way, thx.

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