I'd be happy to take a look. Feel free to email me at hoffman.jeremy98@gmail.com
I'm pretty happy with the gem designs, but I'd be curious to see what ideas you had, and I do want to reskin the GUI eventually.
The almanac should also have some kind of unlock-to-view thing. I'd say that all non-composite stones get unlocked in the almanac when you get them (e.g. you can view 13 in the almanac when you beat the 13-prime master) and composite stones get unlocked when you craft them. (e.g. you can view 6 after you create the 6-gem, by merging a 2 and 3 gem together)
When you hover over the first card in your deck, sometimes it says “View your deck” instead of saying what the first stone does. This is annoying
Save data is saved in the path "idbfs/Strategems". Maybe you have high-privacy browser settings set to wipe this data when closing your browser? Have other browser-based Unity games been saving fine for you?
(For me, using a Private Window in Firefox results in new save files which last for only that window, so it may be something similar to that.)
I've now played through the game, 100%ing it except for the Efficient achievement (reach the tournament in 20 matches) which seems pretty impossible on Hard.
It was a great game, so kudos for making it. Could well be/become a commercial title.
I have a whole bunch of additional feedback (incl. bug reports), but I can't copy & paste it here into the itch.io text editor because it's full of imgur links which I can't prevent from being turned into embedded images. Do you happen to have an email address or something where I could send the feedback instead?PS: Fair enough re: the X-cost card explosion thing. I do recommend making the game fail state more obvious, though, because players can't really distinguish between "this is a clever intentional fail state" and "this random web app just froze".
Thanks! You can send it to hoffman.jeremy##@gmail.com where ## is the card that burns a tile and also removes all burn and freeze from the board.
FWIW when testing Efficient I finished Hard in 17 or 18 matches in just one try... though that was a few years ago. Tip: If you can solve battle 5 right off the bat, it should be reasonable. (But not easy!) Note that puzzle battles do not count toward your total.
Good point about the explosion, I'll see about adding some more visual effects, maybe some dust or something.
Hey there, I've mailed you my feedback. Hopefully you'll find some of it useful!
> Good point about the explosion, I'll see about adding some more visual effects, maybe some dust or something.
Re: the explosion, the animation is fine - slightly unconventional, but fine. The thing that tripped me up was that the white screen afterwards is blank and thus easily confused with the web equivalent of a bluescreen. It would be much clearer if there was a classic video-game-esque "You Died" or "Game Over" or a skull image or something, ideally with a button prompt ("press Esc/F5") since most player inputs don't do anything in this game state. Or if that seems too gimmicky, anything but a static and monocolored screen would be preferable.
