It is hard to put deadlines on anything for us, we are a small team and for many of us it is our first foray into game development, and we are all developing this as a side project rather than full time.
We are working through Chapter 2 as of right now, with plans for a total of seven.
Very much not abandoned! We are hard at work on the next chapters, future releases of demos will take place on Patreon at least a whole chapter earlier before they are added here on Itch.Io.
Thank you for your feedback! I am always happy to engage with someone that has thoughts to give, especially ones that highlight things we can improve on!
There is definitely a degree of balance for us to consider there, especially since we've made the first chapter quite a softball in terms of difficulty (though I can assure you, that is intentional) with the way that we have implemented peril you are right that it is pretty easy with careful resource management to basically avoid peril against the average enemy entirely. Although I will admit I have been surprised by the quantity of players that have been stonewalled by our boss of chapter 1 entirely. We are definitely thinking of ways to make it easier to get bound (whether by balancing encounters or the mechanic itself), but it is definitely a tricky balancing act we are considering moving forward so as to not disrupt the experience.
I do 100% agree with you there though, using sword arts and magic while half-bound is definitely not long for this world! And fully bound is a state that we're definitely considering the implications of, on one-hand it is a defeat state, on the other hand it is ludicrously easy to avoid in the demo, though we're definitely re-balancing rescue, the gameplay implications of 50% health regen upon escape are too stark to ignore.
Once again, thank you for your feedback! And thank you again for playing our demo!
Thank you for your feedback! It has been great to see the overwhelmingly positive reception and insightful thoughts players like yourself have given! You can thank our artists Sugarvoids, Azupazu and Somerandomfaker (Sushi) for the visuals, and myself for the writing~
That is a good point there, and progression has been on my mind as to what we want to do there, getting better equipment is one way, but then the grind manifests in one way or another, regardless going forward it is something that is being taken into consideration!
And it is absolutely great to bring forward thoughts like these at the demo stage, because it gives us the feedback we need to deliver the best game we possibly can. ^^
Once again, thank you for giving the demo a go, and thank you for your feedback!
Thank you, from a writing perspective they are unbelievably fun to write, dialogue from them never feels like I don't know what to write. I am glad that you are looking forward to more because I am looking forward to writing it!
That is strange, I myself run Windows 11, it doesn't necessarily sound like lag, that is a puzzling situation and the first I have heard of it. And thank you for the comment and feedback~
Thank you for your thoughts, the cost there is funnily enough a product of our QA testing where we decided upon doubling its cost (although nothing will be quite as broken as V1 of Mist Screen with 130% evasion) but not to worry there, feedback like that helps us to fine tune things down the line!
Firstly I have to thank you for your thoughts and a very insightful comment too, you have given a lot of food for thought that has brought to the forefront some very good points going forward in development!
I am glad you enjoyed our take there, it has a lot in common with our Programmer's previous work, but I think it felt more appropriate to almost have this 'pokemon, but you are the one being caught' kind of loop where you had to manage your health, but due to the nature of it, of course the characters can save one-another from peril!
The variation of escape sections is definitely going to have to be where we're really on the ball, because they are as much of a level as the fields of enemies themselves! There are plenty of ideas that come to mind for mechanical variance on them, though only time will tell if they happen to be hits or misses, I do remember a couple of folks from QA remarking how it can be a bit hard on the finger too.
Could you clarify what you mean by clarity in this particular context? In that specific game over I *think* I might understand but I do want to get an idea for what you mean there.
And I am very glad he writing has been a hit, it probably shows when I make posts but I do have a bit of a habit of using a few too many commas. The writing, however is my passion and it has been great to see it be received so well!
Once again, thank you for your post! Every bit of feedback like this is appreciated and thank you for taking your time to play our game and leave behind such a thoughtful comment!
Partiularly Empress (Co director) and myself (Director/Writer) have been wanting to make a game that leans more heavily on those forms, although I can say that it won't necessarily be the only type in the game~
While I cannot guarantee any particular kinks in the future (after all, who's to say things won't change in the future) what I can say is if you liked what was in the Demo, you can expect that and more going forward!
