i've checked your creator page and it seems that you've created several games with a theme of magic. what do you actually know about this subject? are you just making it up for your games, or do you think your a neopagan or something?
This game has been giving me the Tetris effect in my head since I started playing it. It is so addictive and has a ton of potential! I would love to see even more tiles and effects added, even possibly a longer game mode. I find when I beat a game, I'm almost disappointed because I wanted to keep going and see my build pop off in further rounds.
The style and theme is also fun and makes the game that much better and unique, it really adds personality to each tile. It is really fun to try different build synergies and see what combos work well, what I have the most fun with (even if not optimal), and try to get better at builds I struggle with.
Seriously, I'm really enjoying this and every time I close the tab, I find myself reopening it throughout the day to play just oneeee more game!
Thank you so much for writing! I love that tetris effect feeling, I'm really happy that hellscaper is doing that for you. What are some of your favorite builds so far? 👀
I really like Cerberus, Rat, Rat King, Deer, Tombstone, and Doppelganger mix. Its fun to try to place things just right and when you get a big absorb with Rat King its so satisfying. Usually Cerberus doesn't work too well with Rat King, but its a cute dog so I have a hard time passing it up lol. Really just all the tiles that have some animal on them are probably my favourites cause they are cute. I like the angels and vampires, too, though I have never managed to get a full pack of vamps haha.
I just played a pretty good game with Ghoul, Reaper, Human, Golem, and Temple in it. The builds with Cinder and Fire type cards I have a hard time with and have been trying to get better. I do like to use the bonfire with the fangs (forgot if those are the actual names of the cards) and absorb the bonfire points before they diminish, but thats the only fire card I have played with much success.
What about you, do you have a favourite build to play and/or favourite tile to design?
That's awesome! I'm glad those animal synergies are paying off - until recently rat king only absorbed rats so it was kinda narrow, i think it was a good change to broaden the effect. Agreed its hard to make work with cerberus. Fire decks are tricky, they used to revolve around cinders but i changed that so now im not sure. My favorite has got to be deer + tombstone - so silly to set up little point machines.
Deer and tombstone is a really fun combo to get. And the rat king change does sound like it made it a lot more viable.
I'd love to see even more done with the game if that ends up being a direction you wanna take it and enjoy working on it. I haven't ever played Dorfromantik, but I love Slay the Spire and it also has a similar vibe to Backpack Hero. Maybe if all three had a very weird baby lol. Either way, I've been having a ton of fun and definitely gives that Spire dopamine I can see myself coming back to get again and again.
It's a good idea! We considered it while we were developing the game. Currently, the balance of the pieces is too delicate to implement something like this (for instance, if you had a relic like "all darkness pieces get +1" it would be way too strong, because 1 point is worth a lot, especially when you get to apply it to many pieces. If we wanted to implement these kinds of effects, we'd have to increase the points of all the pieces to have more fine-grained control. We liked the chunkiness of the small numbers so we decided against adding the passive upgrades. If I made another game like this I might consider designing it to accommodate passive upgrades like many other games in the genre
this game is so much fun and there is so much potential here! It would be incredibly interesting if you experimented with different sizes and shapes of the map and you could make like a challenge mode with levels where you have to succeed with a certain deck. I would also absolutely love to see a gamemode that gives you access to all the cards and allows you to experiment with different decks to see what might work. this is a great game with potential to become even greater.
I don't have the bandwidth to support this project right now buuuuuut I really love all the attention hellscaper is getting right now! (it's one of my favorite games I've made). I whipped up a windows downloadable version for you but I don't have much time to support it if there are extra bugs compared to the web version (hopefully there won't be :D)
It was such a BLAST playing this game, really, I loved it so much !!! I immediately recommended it to a friend who is a card game/deck building enthousiast.
The only (really tiny) thing I'm kind of disappointed about is the fact that I wanted to have the possibility to try freely things in the end...? Like having a litteral deck builder at the end where we could try synergies and things like that.
Anyway, 10/10 game, so fun to play, sorry for sharing my tiny disappointment, and most importantly, thank you so much for the creation of that game and all the work poured into it. Awesome game, truly.
Wow, this comment made my day - thank you so much for sharing! I'm really glad you liked it.
That's a fun idea about a sort of training / creative mode to try out different builds, I'll put that on our features wishlist if we get a chance to return to this game.
Thank you so much! We'd love it if you made a video on it.
Also - question for you - it seems like a lot of people recently have found this game via google search, meaning they saw it somewhere else first and searched for it. I'm super curious where they found it! Are you one of those people? How'd you hear about the game? (or anyone else scrolling into the comments please feel free to chime in!) If someone is saying nice things about the game somewhere we'd love to go say hi and thank them
I bet they learned about it from retromation (being able to premote roguelikes in this way is kinda the reason I became a youtuber, I just want to share awesome games)
also... can you let me know about the unity situation?
Ah, yeah! I did see that a while ago but wasn't sure about a recent uptick, oh well!
By unity situation I assume you're talking about their per-install fee? That is, of course, very concerning for us as game developers who use Unity. We're hoping they walk the changes back, but even if they do we'll be considering other engines as our trust has been shattered. Realistically, at our scale, we won't be affected much but going forward we want to work with game engines which don't add extra terms retroactively. Does that answer your question?
Similarly when winning a round on the last turn, if you place another block onto the old board (before the new board pops up, because it's nice to get rid of unwanted blocks) it will force a loss.
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nice game !
some of my best recorded runs .
i've checked your creator page and it seems that you've created several games with a theme of magic. what do you actually know about this subject? are you just making it up for your games, or do you think your a neopagan or something?
Oh, yeah I actually am a wizard. Nice job figuring that out!
(I just think it's a cool theme)
ok. using it as a cool theme is cool. just checking, man.
This game has been giving me the Tetris effect in my head since I started playing it. It is so addictive and has a ton of potential! I would love to see even more tiles and effects added, even possibly a longer game mode. I find when I beat a game, I'm almost disappointed because I wanted to keep going and see my build pop off in further rounds.
The style and theme is also fun and makes the game that much better and unique, it really adds personality to each tile. It is really fun to try different build synergies and see what combos work well, what I have the most fun with (even if not optimal), and try to get better at builds I struggle with.
Seriously, I'm really enjoying this and every time I close the tab, I find myself reopening it throughout the day to play just oneeee more game!
Thank you so much for writing! I love that tetris effect feeling, I'm really happy that hellscaper is doing that for you. What are some of your favorite builds so far? 👀
I really like Cerberus, Rat, Rat King, Deer, Tombstone, and Doppelganger mix. Its fun to try to place things just right and when you get a big absorb with Rat King its so satisfying. Usually Cerberus doesn't work too well with Rat King, but its a cute dog so I have a hard time passing it up lol. Really just all the tiles that have some animal on them are probably my favourites cause they are cute. I like the angels and vampires, too, though I have never managed to get a full pack of vamps haha.
I just played a pretty good game with Ghoul, Reaper, Human, Golem, and Temple in it. The builds with Cinder and Fire type cards I have a hard time with and have been trying to get better. I do like to use the bonfire with the fangs (forgot if those are the actual names of the cards) and absorb the bonfire points before they diminish, but thats the only fire card I have played with much success.
What about you, do you have a favourite build to play and/or favourite tile to design?
That's awesome! I'm glad those animal synergies are paying off - until recently rat king only absorbed rats so it was kinda narrow, i think it was a good change to broaden the effect. Agreed its hard to make work with cerberus. Fire decks are tricky, they used to revolve around cinders but i changed that so now im not sure. My favorite has got to be deer + tombstone - so silly to set up little point machines.
Deer and tombstone is a really fun combo to get. And the rat king change does sound like it made it a lot more viable.
I'd love to see even more done with the game if that ends up being a direction you wanna take it and enjoy working on it. I haven't ever played Dorfromantik, but I love Slay the Spire and it also has a similar vibe to Backpack Hero. Maybe if all three had a very weird baby lol. Either way, I've been having a ton of fun and definitely gives that Spire dopamine I can see myself coming back to get again and again.
idea: after completing a city, you get to choose between a selection of passive upgrades
It's a good idea! We considered it while we were developing the game. Currently, the balance of the pieces is too delicate to implement something like this (for instance, if you had a relic like "all darkness pieces get +1" it would be way too strong, because 1 point is worth a lot, especially when you get to apply it to many pieces. If we wanted to implement these kinds of effects, we'd have to increase the points of all the pieces to have more fine-grained control. We liked the chunkiness of the small numbers so we decided against adding the passive upgrades. If I made another game like this I might consider designing it to accommodate passive upgrades like many other games in the genre
this game is so much fun and there is so much potential here! It would be incredibly interesting if you experimented with different sizes and shapes of the map and you could make like a challenge mode with levels where you have to succeed with a certain deck. I would also absolutely love to see a gamemode that gives you access to all the cards and allows you to experiment with different decks to see what might work. this is a great game with potential to become even greater.
Thank you! :))
can you add a windows download version?
I don't have the bandwidth to support this project right now buuuuuut I really love all the attention hellscaper is getting right now! (it's one of my favorite games I've made). I whipped up a windows downloadable version for you but I don't have much time to support it if there are extra bugs compared to the web version (hopefully there won't be :D)
alright, thanks <3
This game is SO GREAT and I intend to keep coming back to get better - woww I love it!
Thank you! I'm glad you like it :)
When transforming oilslick after it's adjacent to blood river, the hellfire's score isn't doubled.
Thanks for the bug report!
It was such a BLAST playing this game, really, I loved it so much !!! I immediately recommended it to a friend who is a card game/deck building enthousiast.
The only (really tiny) thing I'm kind of disappointed about is the fact that I wanted to have the possibility to try freely things in the end...? Like having a litteral deck builder at the end where we could try synergies and things like that.
Anyway, 10/10 game, so fun to play, sorry for sharing my tiny disappointment, and most importantly, thank you so much for the creation of that game and all the work poured into it. Awesome game, truly.
Wow, this comment made my day - thank you so much for sharing! I'm really glad you liked it.
That's a fun idea about a sort of training / creative mode to try out different builds, I'll put that on our features wishlist if we get a chance to return to this game.
Thank YOU for playing :)
this game is really good... I should make a video on it (....bit sure about the unity issue tho)
Thank you so much! We'd love it if you made a video on it.
Also - question for you - it seems like a lot of people recently have found this game via google search, meaning they saw it somewhere else first and searched for it. I'm super curious where they found it! Are you one of those people? How'd you hear about the game? (or anyone else scrolling into the comments please feel free to chime in!) If someone is saying nice things about the game somewhere we'd love to go say hi and thank them
I bet they learned about it from retromation (being able to premote roguelikes in this way is kinda the reason I became a youtuber, I just want to share awesome games)
also... can you let me know about the unity situation?Ah, yeah! I did see that a while ago but wasn't sure about a recent uptick, oh well!
By unity situation I assume you're talking about their per-install fee? That is, of course, very concerning for us as game developers who use Unity. We're hoping they walk the changes back, but even if they do we'll be considering other engines as our trust has been shattered. Realistically, at our scale, we won't be affected much but going forward we want to work with game engines which don't add extra terms retroactively. Does that answer your question?
it does, thank you for explaining <3
Sometimes there's an unwanted feature that skips next round if enough points are made in the last move. So yeah, I won!
Similarly when winning a round on the last turn, if you place another block onto the old board (before the new board pops up, because it's nice to get rid of unwanted blocks) it will force a loss.
I'm sorry about this, if we are in a spot to return to this project this will be the first bug we fix!
I was not able to beat the game but I enjoyed the game overall! Liked the game concept, mechanics, and design. Hope this game gets more recognition!
Thank you so much for playing and recording a video!!!