Yeah! It's super fun to max upgrade a powerup to a God-like tier. I find myself doing it when playtesting the game just for fun haha. It's very overpowered, but that's part of the fun. It gives the player a real damage spike.
And yes! The hearts are percentile now. It's been kind of a pain in the ass to animate, but it basically serves as a healthbar under the hood (player has 100 health = 5 hearts) and they move up and down in percentages just like in zelda. I find this works better because it's like having those little subdivisions in a health bar like in league of legends, which suggests to player at what point they should start caring about their health.
Thanks dude I can't wait to have you try it out :D
:D It was definitely very encouraging that things are going in the right direction! It will be interesting to see how things progress when we get farther along and I start doing some real outreach!
I agree, games can have a single character, but I've noticed a relation between how mechanically heavy a game and the breadth of the character roster. In this case I think new characters have a lot of benefits > more build variety, more to unlock, fan favorite play styles, different looks.
If it were a heavier story game and one where the character is the player I would probably keep it to one!
:D I think you'll enjoy it. Definitely makes the first few rounds easier, and drip feeds rewards better. Later rounds so far in testing are crazy hard haha
Ah, forgot to explain that! Steam requires a lot of extra pieces of art to show off your game, capsule art are a couple of different pieces that are like the main artwork for the steam page. generally you need it resized for the banner, when it's viewed in the library, and for extra events like front page and stuff
Thanks for the info. For anyone looking into this still I got it working by doing something similar to the comments above, I sliced up the exports by frames, so each one only have like 8-15 animation frames each, then exported it. This is accepted and made the super crisp.
Have you claimed the game here on itch? If so you should be able to get the latest version here for free! I've been updating the itch version since release with all updates so it's in sync with the steam release. If you install using the itch.io/app it should handle all updates automatically for you! Hopefully youll be able to run the latest that way.
Let me know if you have any more trouble we can get it running.
Hi! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I believe that when the lunar sale for Frisbros ended, it prematurely ended the custom sale I had running up until release. It's back on sale and is free to claim until launch.
I would love to see you test it again! I am trying to release a new build in about one month which will have many fixes and finalize some big features like the ratings system!
Also for the final area where you stopped the video, I'm curious if you ever tried that area again. The idea with the teleporter was to have a frisbros holding the disc while on the button.
wow! Thank you so much for doing this. I learned a lot from your test actually ☺️ this will really help me make the best product I can! Can I ask if you thought you had to avoid the blue disc flying around in the sand level?
Hi Bobby, my apologies once again. You can infact claim the game right now. I just ran a test to follow up on this and it will link it to your account. I was unaware that this was called claiming in itch but that's totally possible during this sale.
Hi Bobba, I wasn't aware that you could claim games on itch and will have to look into this and probably change the language. With my game now you can download before March 18 and keep it on this platform for free with the promise that I will post all future updated versions of the game to itch
Your comment also made me double check how getting updates will work after the game goes off sale. I've looked into it and according to itch, once you downloaded the game you are given a unique url where you can redownload the game at any time in case you delete the game or simply want the lastest update.
In all honesty this seems like a bit more work than I was hoping it would be for users. What I do is use the itch.io/app. If you download that it works like a steam client where you can download itch games through it and run them instead of having to download separate games. This app also has the added benefit of auto updating your game so you don't have to worry about redownloading the latest version. I recommend getting it this way!
Anyway I hope this helps. I'll be sure to change my wording.
Noted! I probably won't be able to get to that before release but I will look into getting it done post launch. Thank you for letting me know of your use case
Hi Bobby! By claim I just mean being able to download and keep it forever. I've been getting a lot of people who are unfamiliar with itch coming to this page so I chose to use the word claim so they get a better sense of what exactly happens when they download (getting the copy and not having to buy it on any other platforms to receive updates)
Gotcha. I want to keep it on the controller for ease of access when going for leaderboards. What Im taking from this is it should probably be shown in game that you can do this. (Subtely)
Thank you so much. The wishlist help the game get noticed by the Steam algorithm gods on launch day. This helps a ton to keep the game from getting buried alive under all the other games that release!
I haven't been simply because I don't use Linux myself, but I suppose if Unity supports building for it, then I could give it a whirl. Ill do some testing in the next few weeks and let you know what I learn.
