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SO GOOD- way too fun. Learning process was fun, I enjoyed figuring out how to avoid certain pitfalls. After 5 runs or so I'm getting like 10x currency i need for tax regularly so looking forward to ascensions and stuff.

My current strategies rely mostly on triggering spawn chains with brooms -> chickens -> obregenes, and then trigger whatever high value stuff I can find. I don't think I understand how the whale works but it's been giving me like a hundred thousand coins in the end game

Really coool gameI should go to bed lol

newobject1 year ago

So glad you liked the game!! Broom is a little OP right now. :) And yes, get some sleep :P

Ben1 year ago(+1)

UPDATE HYPE

note: bowguette tooltip doesnt say it kills ball to fire a ballguette

Ben1 year ago (2 edits) (+1)

more notes 4 u

clover says it has a 75% drop rate for rainbows and I dont believe it, rainbow doesnt say the rate- it also doesn't mention it has to be in the "chain" with the rainbow in tooltip

the max spawn count makes sense! I think it could be a cool gameplay consideration to show the percentage of spawn count usage, or just when you get near it? Kind of a fun ego thing to pass it up with your build too

In my experience the bouncers tend to ricochet off the post and bounce out more often than not, maybe the collider could shrink a tiny bit or get phasing for a moment to make it slightly more effective

obv still loving this game a lot keep it up :D

bonus note: i wish pig stopped eating coins or gave a bonus after 30. its still a good piece but feels bad.

super bonus: the term "in the chain" is confusing due to the top feed showing a single line of events all pointing to each other like a chain. Maybe a system for explaining keywords or just a sheet of definitions could be an easy stop gap for this confusion.

newobject1 year ago(+1)

great feedback and i agree with or at least understand all of it.

the "chain" thing is admittedly a fluid concept right now and one that's hard for players to reason about, for any definition of it. i think that's part of the confusion of clover + rainbow right now -- it actually has to be the SAME ball to hit rainbow(s) and then a clover. build v7 and earlier was "any ball" and it was insanely OP. now it's more under control but ppl don't understand why it doesn't trigger. it turns out its way too hard to understand the path of any one ball. even if i were to visually demarcate each ball's run individually in the scoring tray up top, it's just pointless to think someone is going to read it and grok it.

so, i'm searching for the distillation of these mechanics to maximize clarity and intuitiveness. i still don't have it yet, but working on it, in my head. when i get it, i will also revise trigger descriptions/logic to be very consistent with the definition. and yeah, i've had the same thought about the need for a glossary, which feels insane in a game like this -- so I wanna see if I can get it tweaked to a point of naturally intuitive before having to resort to that :/

other points:

* pig feels bad, agreed, though coins as a whole are simply too powerful right now, so not sure about changing it.

* nudgers - yeah i removed Roo for this reason and I'm either going to figure out to fix the physics of Nudge or also remove/replace it. it just does something derpy most of the time right now.

* there have been other requests to show total # of spawns. i think eventually a little statistical breakdown per drop/run will be fun.

thanks for the feedback! glad you're still having fun!

newobject1 year ago(+1)

i didn't realize piggy bonk was eating coins after 30. that wasn't intentional. will be fixed in v10!

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