Hello!
I played about 6 runs of your game, I did not manage to beat the first boss. I have some feedback for you!
- Words at the top of the screen are getting cut off in my browser. I am on Linux and using FireFox.
- Small bug possibly: When you click a critter or enemy that is out of range and then go to crafting menu, when you switch back it will shake again. Not a huge deal but I thought I'd mention it!
- When you finish a level with more items in your 'pending loot' than can fit in your inventory you lose the extras. I understand why, but since there's no way to discard crafting materials, and selling a crafted item returns your crafting materials, it would be nice if you could choose to lose things from your inventory to gain the new things?
- I think you should be able to see your remaining taps on the crafting screen, since crafting costs taps
- It's pretty hard to collect meat and especially leather in the outer ring, because the critters seem to move around randomly. I was sometimes losing a tap or even 2 trying to kill a cow, only for it to wander off and those taps were wasted. This seems important because having a boomerang, which needs leather to craft, is very helpful in the inner ring!
- There was a mute button in your menu for muting sound effects, but I never heard any sound effects? Not sure if you didn't get to them or they're not playing for some reason.
- No way to return to main menu from in game? I guess you can just reload the page, but having a button would be nice.
- The description of the ward charm item says it prevents enemy 'answers'. I believe this should read 'attacks'.
- Tutorial could use a little work:
- It was not immediately obvious to me how to get to the crafting menu after the tutorial ended
- I thought the critters in the outer rings were enemies at first, neither the tutorial or the how to play mention inner vs outer ring
- The tutorial mentioned 'luring in' a wolf. I thought this was a mechanic at first, but it just means to wait for the wolf to get to you. This could be made a little clearer?
- I don't think your UI shows what ring you're on in the inner ring? Unless I just didn't understand it. I took some screenshots of this:
- Inner ring, not sure which level out of 4 (possibly 3/4 but it's very hard to see):
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' - Outer ring, very clearly level 2 out of 4:
- Finally - difficulty. I could not beat the first boss, I tried a few strategies. Maybe it would be possible with a lot of ward charms, but the boss hits for around the same amount as the healing item heals for, so if you're out of ward charms and get to low health you're basically just wasting taps on using healing items until you run out then die.
Hopefully none of that sounded too negative, I mean it to be constructive! Overall, I think your game was really fun and a neat idea! If I could get past the first boss I could see myself playing it in my free time!
Have a wonderful day and good luck in the Jam!