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Meanwhile Games5 years ago(+2)

I love the twist on the turn-based battle, turning it into more of a puzzle. It always feels good to put a clever combo together! It's a shame the prototype doesn't really showcase the idea that you can only use a spell once... but the one turn aspect is still enough to carry it.

My only suggestion would be a bit more information in the UI - it feels a bit cheeky (oh no, Mark's rubbing off on me) not to tell the player what the monster will do on its turn when it can kill you in one turn if you don't prepare properly - and it was tough to remember which spell did what in the battle screen.

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Red Salmon5 years ago

I really really appreciate the elaborate feedback. When we first thought about making a one turn kill game, the problem was that each battle could end up being the same, making the game boring and grindy. We had to figure out a way to make the decisions more interesting. Then we decided to make multiple spells and have the gameplay be similar to something like 'Slay the Spire' with spell synergies etc. This created more interesting decision making to the game but did not solve the problem of having each battle be the same. That's how we arrived at the final mechanic of having the spells be one time use. It was apt that the process of selecting the spells was as 'tense' (if it can be called that) as being killed by a giant primordial in one turn.

Though, I must admit the final product fell short of our aim by quite a bit. I will work on the UI a great bit. Have received multiple suggestions about what could use improvement. I hope you'll try out the next iteration of our game when it comes out.

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