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Wow, okay, that’s amazing lmao. Thanks!

Yeah, still didn’t work with command line parameters this time :(

Could you find it? :)

Thanks for playing!

It seems you hit some bug (selected spell doesn’t appear in the spell dial) - but that’s unrelated to the issue you were having. You were unable to cast Remedy because you don’t have enough energy, as indicated by the red flashing in the bar. Do you think I should make it more obvious in some other way? At the very least, it’s pending a sound effect. Not sure what is causing the actual bug shown yet as I haven’t seen it before, but I’ll try to reproduce it and fix it. Thanks for the VoD!

Tracking attacks are intentional and quite integral to combat as you’re mainly meant to use your dodge to quickly deal with them - watching your VoD it seems your dodge button is assigned to “Leer”, not sure what key that would be on your keyboard. It is Space Bar by default. I think the input name usually gets auto translated by the system for that one so maybe that’s what it’s called in your language.

I equiped axe and longsword at once, I didn’t find any ranged weapon (fell into the void and from what I could see I’d been to most rooms so didn’t start over).
I feel like movement keys would cause the same issue, yeah.

Turning VSync on and then back off crashes the game. Turning Alt VSync on crashes the game. Then turning on normal VSync crashes this time too. I dunno. Playing 0.8.1 on a windows 7, trying to stream on Discord at the same time, seems to work otherwise.
Your sprite can clip under buildings’ sprites, specially diagonal ones:
I still visually lose myself in the first level because everything is beige.
Tall buildings shimmer quite a bit when the camera moves, both on the rooftop edges and on the sides sometimes.

Looks cool.
UI feels clunky to navigate, what with containers being all the way to the left and inventory on the right. I don’t have three hands so please don’t bind inventory to i.
Why can one closet be accessed but not the other, at the start?
I find directional combat to be good in concept but in practice the camera seems to have a movement deadzone which, maybe regardless of it, feels like you need to do camera sways too large to properly aim, and then you need to re-aim your view at the enemy in time… how about letting me hold a mouse button where the camera will lock and I can just choose the move so to say? Admittedly I’ve not played other games with a system like this.
It seems that having multiple equipped weapons will make the one you swing collide with the one on your back. How does the game even choose which one to bring out?
Fighting always felt like I didn’t have enough time to parry or dodge… or I thought I did, but the game hit me anyway.

As it stands I feel there’s not that much reason to play, but I’ll keep an eye out for future updates.

Neat prototype, I’ve only got a couple things to say.

• Lower the audio, my ears are bleeding.
• Maybe there should be some visual indication in the pipe that the water can only flow one way, even if it’s just painting an arrow on it or something… as it is it’s just a pipe, and I mean a pipe is just a pipe, why can’t the water flow downhill?… oh, I have to reverse the input/output… It works just fine but the visual flair would make it make sense.
• Water sound doesn’t sound very watery.
• I felt only the last two levels were actually puzzles.
• You give no indication of being able to place the magnet mid air, or at all.

Any chance you can release a version that doesn’t require DX12

This new update sees companion Daemons introduced when casting spells, as well as some visual reworks and Training tutorial mission enhancements. There is also one new challenge added.

Thank you for playing! I’ve kept hearing the start-dialogue-again issue from some people, but many others (myself included) are unable to reproduce it. Can you give some details on your input method, and the situation under which it happened? Thank you!

Sorry to hear about the softlock! Can you tell me anything else you did before that happened? Was it right after entering it the first time? We had a softlock there in a previous version, but I thought it was fixed now.

Glad to hear you liked it!

These controls are very unlike traditional RTS games. Also, the test level is quite mind numbing… I look forward to playing in a future update though.

I like what I’m seeing but the game keeps crashing every other door, so I’ll wait for further updates.

I cannot tell when racoon enemies are attacking, and swinging the bat doesn’t feel too great… Aesthetic is alright though.

I’m on Windows 7. Terminal printout?

I always love seeing retro rally games, but I feel it also suffers from the common overly sensitive turn controls issue. It’s very easy to oversteer and hard to counter it without then overshooting in the other direction - some of this is the fun in these games, but too much and it just feels like you can’t have any real agency on your movement. Also, whenever you spin out and end up going backwards or so, it takes a couple seconds of holding forward until the car actually starts moving forward - this really feels like the wheels have lost all traction for a good bit there.

The game kills my computer’s audio when I press Space to close the tutorial at the very start.

This game looks really sick and it seems well made, but it’s way too hard for me. The only enemy I enjoyed was the slime, the rest all feel unfair because there’s no telling when they might attack.

I have tried both doorways but I really have no clue what’s going on at any time. I didn’t need to combine any items or do anything besides opening the red key bars door to escape the first level, and on the second level I cannot find a weapon so I can’t say there’s much combat to be done. Also, for some reason my dialogue got bugged after a while and I could only pick the third option or last if less.

The levels all just feel like an open field; the lack of a physical objective and terrain that is nondestructible makes any semblance of layout currently irrelevant; destructible buildings seem to only give you an advantage and enemies a disadvantage, and so it doesn’t feel like there’s any design to them. The… third? desert with water. level felt a bit more interesting with the water slowing you down and there being hovercrafts. What I think you should do is add in non-destructible terrain and physical objectives in the mission that you have to attack/defend/escort? or simply progress through the level to a goal, so that there is a reason to care about the terrain & certain spots can be better/worse to play around in. Destructible terrain would then act as a way to modify the battlefield as you play, but you would still be constrained to a degree on how you play in the level.

The visuals are very nice, but the gameplay feels quite dull for now. None of the environment feels relevant, and there’s not really any mechanics to counterplay elaborate enemies or anything like that, I can mostly just sit in place and shoot, and sitting in place elsewhere in a level doesn’t make a difference. I’m looking forward to the game being updated, though.

Updated once again with better inventory visuals and preventing input rebinds from being reset between scenes. Sorry!

Updated to fix issues such as the inventory disabling controller input when closed.

Neat little game but I feel it doesn’t do anything to go past the usual issue most/all tower defense games tend to have, which is that there is one correct way to win and it tends to be making a funnel. I guess that’s the genre though. I would like to see this expanded with a level editor and please let me rotate the camera, just because I think it looks neat. It would also solve typical issues like this:

Really love the visuals but please, more levels!

Afraid I cannot read PICO code, but I was wondering, is there anything being done to balance the fact that lower value numbers will be more combinable than high value ones? i.e. higher score or lower spawn rate, as I wasn’t able to tell.

Thanks for playing!

The full game will have a longer campaign mission with plenty to explore, cutscenes and fights.

Thanks for playing!

The way the combat works, you’re generally supposed to gain mana by shooting then dispatch enemies with the Harm spell.

Thanks for playing!

Can I ask, what do you mean by inputs not registering if Lea is doing an animation?

Thanks for playing!

On controller, you can use RT/R2 or whatever you rebind it to to use manual aim. This will always start you aiming in the direction the character is looking towards, instead of locking into enemies. You will still rotate though, it won’t aim relative to camera. Perhaps I’ll try it out, I admit it’s done this way out of familiarity with old tank control games.

Windows 7 but not a laptop, GeForce GTX 1060 3GB with an i5-4590 and 8GB Ram. “Old” by some standards I guess but usually runs anything great other than big triple As, DX11 limitations aside.

I think they were called “Aligned” “Missaligned” and “Eclipse” puzzles?

TLDR since we discussed in voicechat: The level is a massive step up since the last demo and I only dislike the overly long corridor on the top left, the amount of paths and structure around it feels appropriate. Going to the right first feels slightly easier. I wish I had some better way to not inadvertently try to fire an out of ammo gun. Update mouse sensitivity without restarting!!! Keep it up

Neat concept, I like the various mechanics involved with upgrading, maintaining, and swapping weapons with the turrets, make it much more involved than similar games in the genre(s).

Lags like hell on browser though, getting hit screenshakes for five seconds which might be related. Downloadable?

Fun to mess about with, not sure how much strategy there can be without some extra systems/features (like knowing the color 2 drops ahead). It feels like eventually it clears itself out without much thought, but not always.

I mean no offense but I’m not sure I understood half of what you said, so I’ll try to answer the question instead.

I understand that the game wants to have a layer of mystery over its mechanics that you simply intuit as you work your way through these first puzzles, but it needs to do something so that it actually clicks in. Doing the same thing five times and then hitting a brick wall is not exactly what I’d envision. By dedicated introduction I mean having a narrative/map progression clearly unlock or progress after you do a few of them. I see a lot of things around this first area but I cannot figure or do much with most of them, and the things I could solve led to nothing. I need something to grab onto so I can derive some meaning from my actions.

I hope this clears it up a bit.

Neat little prototype but I find it extremely hard to dodge bullets. That said I suck at this genre. I hope to see it again with more polish so I don’t immediately get obliterated.