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DiePoolNudel21 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Really, really cool game. It kept popping back into my head, which is why I’ve already played it several times.

I didn’t play Dragonsweeper, but I really like how enemies interact with the world here. The roguelike approach and building your own build (revealing them, increasing XP, etc.) is something I found very cool.

I’m personally not a big fan of characters only differing by their starting item.

What I do really like is that you can see enemies early that you can’t (or don’t have to) defeat yet, and then encounter them later and understand their purpose.

Sometimes it was a bit frustrating to me, similar to Minesweeper. One moment of inattention and booom, game over. I think that has its charm (with mimics, bombs, etc.) and i liked it, But as an exampel, attacking a revealed enemy with 5 HP when you only have 3 lives left, just because you weren’t paying attention, feels unnecessarily punishing. (Maybe a small confirmation pop up would help)
Also: why isn’t XP collected automatically after defeating an enemy?

Anyway… this turned into half a bible😅
Cool game, I had a lot of fun! :D

P.S.: I’m absolutely not a fan of Ai art; "Are we players really worth being presented with cheap, soulless Ai art?"

Christian Nava21 days ago (1 edit) (-1)

Hey thanks for playing and for the suggestions. I'll keep them in mind.

As for the AI art - all I can say is that I'm not an artist and I believe that because of it you got to play my idea. I like to think my 'soul' was in the code/design of the game. I'll rephrase it as you have -- "As a developer, is my worth only how well I can draw?"

Claire Morwood6 days ago (2 edits)

Interesting to see your take on dragonsweeper, it's definitely a cool concept to extend the gameplay like this! Also cool to see such an active community around your game. On the AI note, have you considered using some of the free game asset packs from other developers on Itch if you do not want / are not able to create art yourself? There's a huge variety, and you would be supporting other developers' creative work in the process, rather than supporting AI. Here's a link to assets tagged as free and pixel art as an example https://itch.io/game-assets/free/tag-no-ai/tag-pixel-art (edited my reply to add the no-ai tag to that url too!)

Christian Nava6 days ago (2 edits)

Thanks for playing and for the actual constructive take on the AI use. I should say that I would LOVE to have real art instead. The main issue is that even with asset packs, it's hard (near impossible) to completely source art that I need so that it's all a relatively consistent style across the entire game. The ideal scenario is I find someone who can create it as a free/revshare contributor, as I work on this mostly for fun myself. I understand the reality, though, that I can't ask for so much time commitment like that of a stranger.