i played a few sessions of Trespasser and had a great time! i really like the abstracted action system for the different timescales- it saves a lot of table time.
our characters got eaten by bugs trying to retreat from a freak random encounter. we failed the group initiative check three rounds in a row. we felt very powerless against the dice- there aren't any combat actions which make retreat more likely to succeed, so all the trespassers could do was keep fighting a losing battle.
retreat should definitely be costly, but we do think there should be tactical decisions which support a need to retreat. for our own game we've cooked up the "Retreat Round", where the trespassers declare they want to retreat and then the enemy gets a full ambush round against them, after which any survivors automatically spend endurance to escape. we think this will keep retreat feeling risky while engaging better with the other mechanics of the game.
found a bug where the Arcane Scepter split projectiles vanish after killing a cube slime, but don't damage the resulting smol slimes. i hate cube slimes let me punish them with my missiles!
would like to have the option to turn off the "are you sure?" popup when skipping phases. as i get more into the intricacies of this game i need to skip phases a lot more often.
fantastic demo! i had the most fun playing the first stage- the enemies in the others didn't seem as threatening/aggressive to me. would love to be able to remap controls. beautiful artstyle. missiles are *very* fun. i like the click-and-drag to target multiple hostiles!
lovely time management game :> would be neat if you could hang up the band cat's poster on the window or the counter as an alternative to chucking it in the trash
love where this is going i will definitely be keeping tabs on it!
noticed some sketchy hitboxes in the bog- some of the tendrils near the central tree seem to be misplaced, with no collision and invisible walls positioned nearby
really pretty demo! didn't notice any major issues.
the level 'Magnus Rides Again' felt out of place in terms of difficulty- by the time you get to it you've already run into more challenging levels with the same mechanic (requiring you to leave magnus in certain places so that you can run back and forth beneath the electromagnets).
gosh, every time you guys come out with a new game im more tempted to subscribe to your patreon. such creative concepts! someday i will have money and i will be unstoppable <3
ohohohohoho, devious. impaling myself on my many children and watering the earth with my blood is a very compelling game mechanic. final plant has me stumped >:P
hmm. neat concept but there isn't enough going on. once you have a circle of guns you can just press z to kill everything on the screen, and the game is effectively over
