This was really fun! I liked the little details of the slimes running in circles in the background, and the fantasy writing style does a lot to bring the world and slimes to life.
I think making the whole map more interesting to move through would be good, as right now it's battle, sprint super fast in a line to next battle, repeat, and I dont think the jarring speed boost would be necessary to keep a good flow if the map was a bit more handcrafted.
I do think there was a bit too much explaining in the tutorial dialog, and things like showing 2 enter key icons contributes to people glossing over this stuff.
I wasn't sure whether an item like the berry would "equip" it to apply to the spit or consume it that turn.
You certainly get a lot of loot. I hope this means there's a means to buy/sell items later on!
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Thanks for playing and the feedback.
Glad you enjoyed the world building. My partner is a storyteller who loves to make rich worlds where every character has a name and backstory.
We are working to update the art and add more variety to the backgrounds. As you progress we plan to have the environment change, with different types of trees, and then leaving the woods. For now we just have a bunch of pre-made segments that are 2 screen widths wide, which are randomly selected from. Later there will be a world map as well. Random events are also planned for while you travel.
We plan to redo the tutorial to streamline it in the future, now that we have the popup based one in place. The 2 "enter" icons are shown because the number pad enter is a different physical key, and so shows separately in the list.
At the moment there is no equipment for the Slimes. You eat all items to use them. For the player, all items are single use consumables. We are working to add a secondary, Slime focused, description to all items to help with the confusion on if the player should be able to equip the human weapons and armor on their Slime party,
We are working on ideas around shops, but the main use of all the extra loot is going to be fulfilling the main quest of feeding your Clan by sending it back. There is more to it than that, but that part is a WIP.