i am trying to iron out all the combat kinks as well as making the AI of my game as smart as possible. i just recently implemented an Astar pathfinding implementation that seems to be working almost flawlessly after spending 2 weeks trying to make my own pathfinding system that i ultimately realised was a less efficient Astar system(instead of finding the shortest path it found "a" path). while the AI in my game is pretty smart right now. and will give anyone a hard time until they understand all the small details around the pathfinding. this is because while the AI is pretty smart there is no element of randomness to their decision making which makes them predictable also the fact they don't coordinate with each other and don't plan to counter-play the player means that you can effectively kite them while doing a little bit of AI manipulation like you could in pac man.
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May i ask what the problem was in detail? were you able to into the actual game or were you stuck in menu currently only arcade mode is implemented all else is placeholder, i would check for modifier key realiser like alt, control and shift as they prevent left and right clicks. were you able to get in game with full screen as the corner buttons wont work because the the buttons on itch page. once you click on a button like move did you click on a tile with purple highlights to move you characters? you cannot attack in first turn as there are no enemies in range. if the move button did not work (ie not tiles were highlighted) did you try the restart button on top left?
Would suggest a mechnics/controls change. Instead of choosing the (out of context) next action via the top/right bottoms, better highlight the area per default after each step (without pressing additional buttons). This would make playing the game so much more straight foreward.
Players then can easily see where they can go and if they can attack any of the enemies.
It's almost everything already there, only a different kind of highlighting for attack tiles would need to be added.
Thanks for the feedback, but there are a lot more features that i will be adding to my game like different attacks as well as abilities which require efficient utilization of its effects, also there will be multiple characters. all of this means that a simple choice between either attack of move is not going to be enough to cover this feature set. you can see some examples of these features in the last 3 levels where you control multiple characters as well as have a special axe attack that can hit multiple enemies at once.
that being said a detailed tile pallet that tells the player where they can move/attack and where they cant is something i will be adding to the game soon once i am done figuring out how i want special attacks like swap places, knockback, stun to behave in my game.
i really appreciate the detailed feedback with the images. it will really help me as a reference when i am making the custom tileset for letting the player know which tiles are valid and invalid along with what is going to happen on those tiles.