Post by André Jaenisch in Rogue Reflections jam comments

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I did not play this with WebMonetization.

It took me a while to understand, why there appeared a „retreat” seemingly randomly. Only to notice, that it is linked to my sanity!

I could craft some mirrors, but only played level 1 (being really risk averse).

This game has the potential to appeal to explorers. I only wish, it would be possible to earlier use some crafting (I played the first level several times to loot enough to make a mirror).

So a bit of balancing, and this could be more engaging. Are you planning to develop it further?

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fanlix3 years ago

Thanks for the in depth response!

This game was surprisingly time consuming to make, around 100 hours all in (which when also having to deal with work, life and a toddler, was basically every free minute I had), and stuff still didn't make the final cut unfortunately.

The biggest one was a bulkier tutorial, and another was more time balancing the loot / crafting numbers and enemy / player strength as I only had a couple hours of play testing the full game loop to try to tone things down a bit.

I am considering making a post-compo v2 with the full tutorial, the gem skills being more limited, and an end game challenge mode.

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André Jaenisch3 years ago(+1)

I hear you (two kids instead of toddler, but yeah).

Is there some way to get informed once a new version is out?

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fanlix3 years ago

I'll probably post about updates over on my Twitter, ( https://twitter.com/david_brad ) not sure what options itch.io provides for notifying folks about updates, but maybe I'll post a devlog about the update (if I can remember to).

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fanlix3 years ago

As a follow up to this I've also posted about what I am planning to work on in regards to the game going forward.

https://fanlix.itch.io/rogue-reflections/devlog/250275/rogue-reflections-v20-pla...

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