I just released a jam game featuring some animals from this pack. Really great art featuring variety of animations, shapes, and colors that made it easy to work with. Thanks!
Dark Souls can be completed on RL1 because mechanical mastery supercedes the need for numerical advantage. But in your game, it seems like you need to have a) mechanical mastery, AND b) numerical advantage in order to win.
When you died repeatedly to the Asylum Demon in DS1, did you need to come back with more levels? No; it was a lesson that not all battles need be tackled head-on.
When you lose in NeuralNX, what’s the lesson? If the AI is just going to crush you optimally each time, I suspect it’s not the same challenge as Dark Souls, and it will feel distinctly unfair. If you didn’t even see their kit and abilities, do players even have the tools to learn?
I recently released an abstract strategy game with a powerful AI, too. It started out with pure minimax and topographically sorted heuristic factors. This squeezed the fun out of the game as it was way, way too hard.
I eventually switched to a weights-based heuristic so I could use softmax over the results. This produced N different-feeling variations of the AI, and let me variably weaken by nudging tau.
What kind of knobs does your AI have? In my experience, full blast mechanically optimal AI is distinctly unfun.
The quality and versatility of these icons cannot be understated. I used them in my most recent project, Morris 2, an abstract strategy game inspired by Nine-Men’s Morris:
In the game, the icons represent the various abilities, and are a major part of the game’s look-and-feel. You are credited in the game on the credits screen, with a link to your home page. Thank you for your art!
I just released a jam game, Ministry of Order, featuring sound effects entirely from this package. You are credited on the main screen of the game, as well as in the repository’s README. Thank you for the accessible, high quality sounds!
I just released a jam game, Ministry of Order, featuring “Gloomy Factory” as the background track. You are credited on the main screen of the game, as well as in the repository’s README. Thanks for the fantastic tunes!
Mouthwateringly high level of polish! You made room solid for gameplay and narrative, tying it all together with a dynamic, cohesive art style. My first playthrough I ended up soft-locking myself by feeding all my villagers though… a little too much consumption. I’m stealing the 3-level volume knob for my future games!
Despite not being finished, it’s a solid concept with lots of mechanical space. If your goal was to practice game design, I think you achieved it! The coconut drink low poly model made me seriously thirsty.
Reminded me a bit of brewing concoctions in Kingdom Come: Deliverance! As a Russian speaker, I thought the voice acting was fantastic, too. Unfortunately I had a hard time figuring out how to stir slowly, and the game seemingly reset itself or crashed - but the narrator picked up the ball and called me out for leaving LOL.
Empty corporate simulation indeed! Reminds me of liminal spaces with a touch of Abiotic Factor. I had a hard time figuring out where to look up the replicator codes, but was able to get through quite a few orders after that!
The sounds really stood out to me - sharp, arcade-like, with great variety and contrast. The shader coupled with a rounded frame is also clever, making it seem like you’re seeing the entire game through an electron microscope. Great job!
Super cute. Any chance you could add the source file? I’d like to remix it so that you can walk and shoot at the same time, but it’s quite difficult without the original layers.
Totally agree with you on all counts! I admit I ran out of time to further decorate the gym or implement settings, but all of those (especially integrating game state, high scores, etc. as gym decorations) are likely the next steps for this scene.
Hey! Discord was a fun community this time around - hopefully I’ll see you there next time too! Thanks for trying it out. Looking forward to playing yours next!
Nailed the atmosphere. I was pretty spooked! I think the audio could have been more nuanced. I also had some performance issues at the beginning. Great entry!
Great variety of effects here. I would have liked to see representation of a few more magical elements, specifically earth and water/ice, to fill out the spectrum. But if that's coming in a future pack - count me in.
Thanks for trying again. I'll see what I can do. By the way, feel free to join the Discord (link on the Itch page)! I would love to get to the bottom of this but it seems like you have a very different setup than me.
Just wanted to follow up after a little more investigation into the issue. I have added a kluge to work around the focus issue on web. If you click on the game once, it should enable keyboard controls. Let me know if it works now!
The keyboard instructions are not in the game, but rather on the Itch page just below the game window.
Here's the entirety of the text related to keyboard controls:
Keyboard Controls
I am investigating an issue with keyboard controls. At this time, due to browser security constraints, you must use the tab key to focus-cycle the game in order to enable keyboard controls.
I recommend just holding tab for a second to get through everything on the page. Once enabled, you may use the arrow keys for movement and the S/D/F keys to block, light attack, and heavy attack.
Hey thanks for checking it out! By the way there are keyboard commands, which is how I develop the game. You'll have to focus the game window first for them to work on Itch, I have instructions right below the game!
Try out the keyboard controls, it'll feel great on desktop. Arrow keys and S/D/F.
One tiny piece of feedback from me is to also distribute a version of the art without any effects applied - in my case, I cannot use the frame with the white hit/death effect applied.
