Hey, first of all i want to thank you for your awesome comment, you spent a lot of time helping us to improve and I am really glad and proud reading your message. Thanks, I will try to bring you some answers about the gameplay.
Answers:
- (if I don’t answer to one of your point like the first one, you will receive the answer from our lead dev soon enough ^^)
- Thanks, glad you liked our design, our artist made it with photoshop by patching together existing files to have a “nice looking” background. We added the text a bit late, so we had not enough time to upgrade it, thanks for the advice!
- The music is made with FL studio (with not so much of knowledge and skills let’s be honest haha). Our second artist made our characters except the “basic foe”. We did not have enough time to change it, that's why the basic enemies are just a recolor of this one, they were supposed to be changed. It’s from https://love2d.org/wiki/Tutorial:Animation the tutorial of Love2D x) We made the dice rolling to explicitly fit the theme! We tried to not spend too much time on it.
- Our lead dev tried to make it as clear as possible, and this is one of his brilliant ideas. Glad you appreciated it.
- We tried to reduce the time of the roll to have two actions a second (approximately). We’d love to make an adaptive speed depending on how many dice are rolling at the same time, this feature was not implemented sadly.
(do not apologize for your comment, they are awesome btw!) Having a lot of dice rolling is a part of what we wanted, but yes, always having at least one action would be better for the game feel ^^ - The gameplay is not symmetrical. Every spell/action has a type “move” “attack” “support”, as you can see, your “attack” dice unlock the melee attack and the spell attack. Enemies have the same type of attack. But they are different as you saw. We have a runner, fast and not really threatening, the powerful mage with a lot of hp and deadly attack, the “oneshoter”, a red guy who wants your death haha. And so on. Not showing their abilities is a choice from us, both of our artists tested it and one of them understood every mechanic by playing “a lot” and the other one tested 3 levels and was not able to figure it out. At this moment we decided to not display enemies skills.
(spoiler: some heal have mana cost other are free :P) - Hahaha glad you liked it, audacity and some scream lead to that gasp!
- We had to make it more obvious, the quickest method was to display it in the corner, but yeah some juicy animation to make it even more obvious was needed here.
- It’s the core gameplay so far, avoid the attack as much as you can (since you know when they’ll occur with a list of dice) but do not miss you opportunity to hit the biggest threat. This balance is important to win every stage.
- Nice idea but you give too much power to the player, it’s deadly to skip for no reason, so you’ll have to think about it twice with our system ^^
- cf 6. , some spells cost 0! ;)
- True! They are still ennemies haha, but we will not remove the possibility to use all your mana one this boss you had so much trouble to kill! Tea-bag him by hitting is corpse !
- This sound occurs when you try to do something you are not allowed to, like using a spell with not enough mana or performing an action which is not on the current dice.
- We forgot to put it on the mouse click! :o Sorry we did not realize it!
- Some of them are (like the walking part) others are from the randomness of the dice haha. It can result in a deadly man to man fight or a loooong skip session, it’s all about the Rolling Dice!
- (player heal mana cost = 0 :P ) We definitely need to make a good “level up” animation to display it, yes! To pass the level 18 you need a loooot of luck haha, it’s not “the end”, every enemies have a “weight”, and every level pool is made of the sum of enemies weight. So level 18 pool is 20 (for example), a magician weight 10, that's why you have 2 magicians, but level 17 pool is 18 so you can only have one magician or zero! Adding more enemy type would result in a larger diversity of encounters and harder gameplay, that’s how we made it. ^^
- We learnt game design by playing, and watching a lot of content (youtube is our teacher), so we tried to put it in our game ^^ Glad you liked it!
- (tech problem :3)
- Our initial idea was to have a different AI type, yes. They all try to reach you and attack you, that’s it for now! But we wanted to have some of them able to block you, or take you from behind etc. Too much ambition for a game jam, we had to make compromise ^^
- We are all really happy and proud right now. Your analysis gave us a big smile :) Thanks a lot!
(Tech questions are not for me!! :P )
I’ll thank you one more time, and hope you had a good time playing our game!
Wish you the best, and sir, seriously, stay this awesome <3