I think the player needs to receive customization items faster or through other methods. I also ended up with 5 front left leg items before I got any options for 4 other slots. several rounds there was no reason to change the current loadout either because the options were too few or would have no impact.
I liked the models and animations, though with how many times the judging takes place I would have appreciated a faster animation or a speed up or skip.
Hello,
thanks for playing my game, the unlocking of parts should be 1 part almost every contest, I think the total chance of getting a part is above 70%, the parts are given random though, so you may receive 4 leg parts before a mane part, I might change this, I understand your opinion. I didn't make too many parts, just over 50 if you count each individual leg, I have a short attention span and was tired after working on it for 5 days. this is something I could easily add, and my other game Breeding Pool which this customization was based on features over 200 parts now. the game is in favour of the player winning, I thought making it easy would be better for such casual game. speeding up or skipping the contests are also a good idea, I might change that in the future.
I appreciate your feedback!
A faster rate for the first few days might help then, that way you can quickly build a small collection. maybe at first it's 100% to get one item and 70% to get a second. if you roll them at the same time, you could also make sure they roll for different parts, that way there's some guarantee of a spread. you could reduce the odds on getting the second part to 0, then reduce the odds on rolling one. By gut I'd only reduce when items is obtained. rate of reduction would depend on total number of items
you could also weight the odds of the parts based on the power, and boost the rewards based on performance in the judging, i.e. first place increases the odds on rarer parts or increases the likelihood of additional parts. But those are ideas for later, or maybe already in Breeding Pool.
I know I got a bit unlucky here, and I'm not worried if there are only 50ish parts for a game jam game. That's enough to get the idea across.
