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That was really fun! I love the artworks and the nicknames for the characters. I liked figuring out which pilots and mech suits to use! The setting is super interesting, it reminded me of the Wasteland series or the Brotherhood of Steel.

Personally I think what would be cool for future versions would be more upgrades (and maybe a toggle for perma-death? 😈) I look forward to it!

It's really cool that you made this with pygame, mad respect. It's a shame so many antivirus programs seem to freak out with pygame games :/

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JC Sirron10 days ago(+1)

Thanks! I'm glad the world intrigues you. I wanted to put more focus on the mechs, but ran out of time. It's been an idea that I've been wanting to make for a while. I'm hoping that I'll be able to focus on adding more to the mech side of the game in the coming months!

I understand the "scary prompt" windows and anti-virus programs throw, but you're right, it does hurt getting people to try out my games. I've been spending some time between jams to try figure out making a web version of the game. I think that would help encourage trying it out.

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IDOLL_Dev10 days ago(+1)

Yeah, from what I heard, encrypting the code has helped people evade antivirus, while open source programs get flagged? It's really counter-productive.

But the web version is a good idea in general, since so many people browsing itch.io are looking for browser games :D

It could be a really fun game to have open in another tab while auto-battling!

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