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1StepCloser1 year ago (1 edit)

(Continuation):

"Why can I know exactly the chance for some insignificant (de)buff to proc, but not how much damage an attack deals?"

Damage values are indicated explicitly on interface panels.

If you mean in the battle itself, I used to show this info, however it resulted in an overwhelming amount of info for players.

Since the health bars indicate the scale of damage, I thought this was a solid compromise to prevent information overload while still showing roughly how much damage is being dealt.

"Also are any of the (de)buffs significant enough to not spam the strongest attack?"

 Skills are balanced by cooldowns and mana cost, you can't spam your characters' strongest skills because they will be on cooldown after use and you have to balance that with available mana as well.

Also, some skills are AOE vs single target, if your strongest skill is AOE and there is only a single target present then another skill might be more effective in that case.

In terms of if de(buffs) are significant enough, this depends heavily on the circumstance, if the enemy is about to shield itself and your character has shield prevention on one of it's weaker skills that might be more effective than your strongest skill.

"After a puzzle level, what is the point of fighting a chest?"

I could make the chest auto-open in certain circumstances, however later on in the game you'll be exposed to chests that have mechanics that make them more difficult to open, it's a way of fighting for the reward it contains.

Thanks again for the feedback SmartAIGames!
I'll try to improve the project based on it.👏 (clap)

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SmartAIGames1 year ago (1 edit)

"There is a skip button for all tutorials located to the right of the dialogue." - but I don't want to skip all tutorials! There may be something I don't know. I just want them to be less intrusive.

"some sequences are intended to be more dramatic compared to others" - I mean even "left click to move to the next dialog" is pronounced as if it is the final boss battle :) While enemy voice sounds more like a parody then an actual voice.

"You mention everything is way too small, but perhaps you have some more specific examples that I can focus on as a starting point?" - e.g. character upgrade menu - you can just make every icon twice the size.

"The bars are 16 pixels in width (perhaps you meant height?)." - yes, I meant height.

One more general suggestion: Your battles are very close to JRPG battles. There are a lot of pixel-art JRPGs, some with very low total screen resolution. A lot of them have incredibly well-designed interfaces that present all the info to the player, allow to decide and execute attacks quickly, and avoid being cluttered. Take a look at how they do it.

Sorry, I know I sound harsh. I can see a potentially good game here. But it is impossible to know behind all this interface.

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1StepCloser1 year ago

Thanks for the reponse SmartAIGames!

"but I don't want to skip all tutorials! There may be something I don't know. I just want them to be less intrusive."

By this I mean at each tutorial you can skip it or go through it, it's up to the player, it's not toggling off all tutorials.

"I mean even "left click to move to the next dialog" is pronounced as if it is the final boss battle :)

Yes, I wanted a booming voice type for the narrator. ^^

" While enemy voice sounds more like a parody then an actual voice."

The voices vary based on the enemy type, smaller, more minion-based creatures have a cuter/less intimidating voice type and larger-boss type creatures have more booming/intimidating voice types.

I'm not particularly sure what to take away from the parody critique , realism isn't necessarily what I'm going for in terms of voicing them.

" e.g. character upgrade menu - you can just make every icon twice the size."

Not sure which menu you are referring to here, if it's the skill tree, then you can zoom in and out to dynamically alter the scale of the icons.

"One more general suggestion: Your battles are very close to JRPG battles. There are a lot of pixel-art JRPGs, some with very low total screen resolution. A lot of them have incredibly well-designed interfaces that present all the info to the player, allow to decide and execute attacks quickly, and avoid being cluttered. Take a look at how they do it."

Thanks! Any specific recommendations?

"Sorry, I know I sound harsh. I can see a potentially good game here. But it is impossible to know behind all this interface."

No need to be sorry, I see harsh feedback as the stepping stone towards progress.


Thanks again SmartAIGames! 👏 (clap)

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SmartAIGames1 year ago

"Thanks! Any specific recommendations?" - I am not that big of a fan of JRPGs myself, especially older pixel-art ones. You can probably get a few good suggestions on https://www.reddit.com/r/JRPG/.

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1StepCloser1 year ago

Thanks SmartAIGames!

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