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Aktane2 years ago

Thanks for this awesome response! I love your lesson learned. This happened to me during development as well. Just because something is logical and skill based doesn't make it fun! In my game back during development, when you got hit and your ship was on fire, you could no longer shoot until you picked up a repair... I wanted to force some dodging and you could smuggle or save a bomb to make this process easier but it just wasn't fun... So I got rid of powerloss completely! And instead I focused on making the game more fun without that power loss or forced dodging.

And in your case, I agree with the change, I enjoy the game a lot more, and if you wanted to introduce more difficulty you could have more bullets to dodge! That would be great fun. There's always ways to increase engagement without decreasing played abilities that ultimately are a bit tedious (unfortunately), though some players may be into that specific skill.

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yoko82 years ago

I love your comment about experimenting further with the game's mechanics! In hindsight, maybe I should have done more of that as well. Unfortunately I ran out of token count, but maybe if I optimize my other code, I could bring back the shot limit while keeping the new feature of the Iron Egg bouncing off the ship.

We'll see if I have time for that though *shrug*

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Aktane2 years ago

Its such a cool game, I wonder if you can take it to another platform and do more with it. I honestly could see this being much bigger if you wanted it to be!! what you did with the current token limit was astounding to me ... but im no wizard! haha well done either way

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yoko82 years ago

Heads up - I ended up reverting back to the limited ammo system.

To repeat what I wrote in my patch notes:

While the feedback I received was generally positive, I found that this invalidated the core game mechanic of juggling the Iron Egg as a main source of damage entirely. Players reported that though juggling the Iron Egg with limited ammo was tricky, juggling the Iron Egg with unlimited ammo "felt like a chore" - it became too easy and trivialized the entire game.

Looks like I learned another lesson! Just because a lot of people complain does not mean the alternative they're providing is necessarily a good idea haha

I hope you'll give my game another go and let me know what you think! I've kept things like allowing the Iron Egg to bounce off the ship, and also polished up a few more things (i.e. changing button inputs to start, re-start, and continue game).

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