Have you considered implementing a crafting system, where defeated ships leave behind materials and items like iron, bronze, phosphorous (for incendiary weapons), "energy emanators" (for force fields and energy-based weapons), gyroscopes (for radar and maybe homing/knight weapons), etc?
I think this would pair especially well with upgradeable weapons like Mk2 and Mk3's
Hi! That's a really interesting idea! I hadn't considered that, one thing that I did think of is giving people the ability to combine weapons together to forge new more powerful weapons.
Could you please add more weapon groups? I find that 3 isn't enough. Maybe instead of arrows use colored shapes, like red green and blue combined with triangle square and circle to make 9 groups total.
Maybe a new weapon could be added like a "knight" cannon that hooks or homes to hit a target around structures.
Thank you! I'll think about ways to add more groups!
Speaking of a homing weapon, I actually do have a prototype for that lying around. I just have to think about how to add it without affecting the balance of the game too much, it could be overpowered. Maybe a knight cannon like you're suggesting would be easier to fit into the game!
I also think Macrocosm mode would be a lot more enjoyable if land blocks were ⅛ the size (½ width) they are right now, so hills are more of a gradient. Still keep buildings the same size which would now be a 2x2 footprint. I find that the current size of blocks doesn't allow for much creativity and I get bored very easily. It would also open the door to smaller buildings for aesthetic purposes like bridges and sidewalks.
I’ll consider your suggestions! I may not find the time to make the changes to macro mode anytime soon, though. The macro mode is definitely the weakest part of the game right now
It seems like when multiple missiles hit a target at the same time, not all of them are counted so it only destroys one block. Can you fix this? An easy and cool looking solution would be for weapon groups to fire in succession 100ms apart from left to right or top to bottom, so it's like a wave and they don't all land at exactly the same time.
I can work on changing this, the reason I haven’t fixed it already is that changing the logic would also make enemy missiles that land at the same time do even more damage, making the game harder for the player.
When selecting a weapon target for a weapon group, there’s a barrage mode that you can enable by tapping the right shoulder button, causing the weapons to fire one after another. I’ll play around with the 100ms spacing idea as well!
Zone 3, upgraded my ship in the shop, and after exit to sky map there's softlock when i try to visit any location and error when i try to save and return to menu. After L+R+SEL+START on error screen and playing adventures it restores progress before visiting shop.
Sorry, emulator I'm using doesn't support exporting state.
Thank you! I was able to recover some data from the save file, but unfortunately, I have not been able to reproduce the issue exactly. I am sorry about the bug and I will look into it more when I find some free time! Thank you for letting me know about the issue, I try to fix all issues with the game wherever possible.
Also, after closing error (L+R+SEL+START) and playing again (as i said, it restores data before going to shop), if you go to shop and buy anything again, the same problem will occur.
And another thing: if you buy anything from store, and there's no space for it on your island, game will kinda softlock in "choose place" state. (not freeze, but softlock: you can interact, but can't exit choosing place state)
Btw i entered in storm instead of shop>exit and won! I didn't even repair anything during combat, storm was easier than i excepted)
About the shop soft lock: I will fix the shop to prevent this from happening, perhaps by giving the player extra terrain if there's no space. The "choose place" selection still lets you access the salvage menu, so you can remove blocks with the B button, although I admit that this isn't obvious.
Great job winning! The hard difficulty has a more challenging version of the final boss.
Just wanted to leave a quick comment about how wonderfull this game is. The Audio is captavating, the graphics are enchanting and the gameplay keeps me comeing back. Welldone.
oh, now i get it!! thanks so much for the reply. yes, I'm LOVING the game, just beat the storm king and you can view my first macro freebuild island here 🥳 https://skylandgame.io/sr/inspect?d=River_Temple
Nice, thanks for letting me know! So you're still actively developing it? I gave the previous version a small shot on the Miyoo Mini but want to keep it now until my Analogue Pocket arrives (hopefully in december). Can't wait to play it then. =)
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Have you considered implementing a crafting system, where defeated ships leave behind materials and items like iron, bronze, phosphorous (for incendiary weapons), "energy emanators" (for force fields and energy-based weapons), gyroscopes (for radar and maybe homing/knight weapons), etc?
I think this would pair especially well with upgradeable weapons like Mk2 and Mk3's
Hi! That's a really interesting idea! I hadn't considered that, one thing that I did think of is giving people the ability to combine weapons together to forge new more powerful weapons.
I love this game!!
Could you please add more weapon groups? I find that 3 isn't enough. Maybe instead of arrows use colored shapes, like red green and blue combined with triangle square and circle to make 9 groups total.
Maybe a new weapon could be added like a "knight" cannon that hooks or homes to hit a target around structures.
Thank you! I'll think about ways to add more groups!
Speaking of a homing weapon, I actually do have a prototype for that lying around. I just have to think about how to add it without affecting the balance of the game too much, it could be overpowered. Maybe a knight cannon like you're suggesting would be easier to fit into the game!
Very cool!
I also think Macrocosm mode would be a lot more enjoyable if land blocks were ⅛ the size (½ width) they are right now, so hills are more of a gradient. Still keep buildings the same size which would now be a 2x2 footprint. I find that the current size of blocks doesn't allow for much creativity and I get bored very easily. It would also open the door to smaller buildings for aesthetic purposes like bridges and sidewalks.
I’ll consider your suggestions! I may not find the time to make the changes to macro mode anytime soon, though. The macro mode is definitely the weakest part of the game right now
It seems like when multiple missiles hit a target at the same time, not all of them are counted so it only destroys one block. Can you fix this? An easy and cool looking solution would be for weapon groups to fire in succession 100ms apart from left to right or top to bottom, so it's like a wave and they don't all land at exactly the same time.
I can work on changing this, the reason I haven’t fixed it already is that changing the logic would also make enemy missiles that land at the same time do even more damage, making the game harder for the player.
When selecting a weapon target for a weapon group, there’s a barrage mode that you can enable by tapping the right shoulder button, causing the weapons to fire one after another. I’ll play around with the 100ms spacing idea as well!
Zone 3, upgraded my ship in the shop, and after exit to sky map there's softlock when i try to visit any location and error when i try to save and return to menu. After L+R+SEL+START on error screen and playing adventures it restores progress before visiting shop.
Sorry, emulator I'm using doesn't support exporting state.
Thanks for finding this! Do you have any way of sending me the broken save file? Which version of the game do you have?
I don't this it's enough, but that's all i could find as my emulator doesn't supprt export/import and i don't want to root my device.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zymFzgRU6WkxRrz3qJ1WtMuXvEGGAg3G/view?usp=drive...
Version: from itch.io's page
Thank you! I was able to recover some data from the save file, but unfortunately, I have not been able to reproduce the issue exactly. I am sorry about the bug and I will look into it more when I find some free time! Thank you for letting me know about the issue, I try to fix all issues with the game wherever possible.
Also, after closing error (L+R+SEL+START) and playing again (as i said, it restores data before going to shop), if you go to shop and buy anything again, the same problem will occur.
And another thing: if you buy anything from store, and there's no space for it on your island, game will kinda softlock in "choose place" state. (not freeze, but softlock: you can interact, but can't exit choosing place state)
Btw i entered in storm instead of shop>exit and won! I didn't even repair anything during combat, storm was easier than i excepted)
I'm gonna try higher difficulty.
About the shop soft lock: I will fix the shop to prevent this from happening, perhaps by giving the player extra terrain if there's no space. The "choose place" selection still lets you access the salvage menu, so you can remove blocks with the B button, although I admit that this isn't obvious.
Great job winning! The hard difficulty has a more challenging version of the final boss.
Just wanted to leave a quick comment about how wonderfull this game is. The Audio is captavating, the graphics are enchanting and the gameplay keeps me comeing back. Welldone.
Thank you! I've been working on it for a long time. Enjoy :)
hi there!! stuck on macrocosm mode, can you help? i need basalt to build houses, but i need 60 productivity to mine any basalt 😨
love the game!!! so fun!!!
PS using the beta from the .io site
Glad you're enjoying it!
In the macro mode, mining regular grassy terrain also gives you 10 stone:
If you want to build without any resource requirements, there's also a creative mode in the extras menu:
oh, now i get it!! thanks so much for the reply. yes, I'm LOVING the game, just beat the storm king and you can view my first macro freebuild island here 🥳 https://skylandgame.io/sr/inspect?d=River_Temple
Does skyland use your BPCore engine?
It doesn't, I mainly used C++, unfortunately it's not possible to make a large gba game of this size in lua due to cpu and ram limits.
ok thank you! That’s very helpful to know 😊
Such a lovely game! Really amazing!
Thank you! There's actually a new version with lots of updates, available here: https://skylandgame.io/beta/
Wow thanks for the fast reply. Is this the january release from GitHub or even newer?
Much newer! I've been working on the code from a private repository, it's about 2000 commits ahead of the public repository from last year's gba jam.
Nice, thanks for letting me know! So you're still actively developing it? I gave the previous version a small shot on the Miyoo Mini but want to keep it now until my Analogue Pocket arrives (hopefully in december). Can't wait to play it then. =)
Oh wow, a homebrew game with rumble support. That's awesome.