Which features do you want to see developed for Goal 1?
Choose your most favourite one, the top 3 will be developed as part of Goal 1.
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You can contribute to the development of Grim Grimoire with a contribution that will help me to reach the next Funding Goal.
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This is the first version released to public after the game jam version. You will notice lots of new things, please refer to the Game Versions post to see all changes in every versions from the first one to the current one.
Main new things are the map that can be explored and elements in the map that makes the game finally playable.
Now there are Locations and Enemies. Locations will give you a chance to trade cards and increase your Grimoire size, while fighting with Enemies might let you lose or earn cards, depending on how the battle goes and how many cards are present in the enemy's grimoire.
The map is procedurally generated at every game, so every time you will have a new game experience.
The game still doesn't have an end since I am still working on features to add, but in a few days a first core game should be ready.
Also about the audio part, now all creatures have sounds effect for all their actions. Options are still not available, so bare with me for a while and I will let you customise the game if you want to remove those SFX.
Further game development will involve the community, were you will have voice to decide what I will focus on, using polls. Also further development will be carried on only if there is interest and support from the community. I will create goals to cover development costs and the next stage of development will start once the goal has been reached with donations. More details about this soon, in another post.
I have a list of bugs that I will publish, so you will not have to waste your time in reporting those, but if you find new problems please comment on this post.
KNOWN BUGS:
When a Player's creature moves into the front line from the central one, and after it's the turn of another Player's creature that is on the defensive line, the latter advance automatically into the central line.
Sometimes after Game Over, the new game doesn't show correctly the Cards in the Deck Creation screen (bug notices for now sporadically only with the Random Deck choice). [A first bugfix attempt has been made, need to see if the bug occours again or not].
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Sometimes Escape Button is visible when it's not the Player's Avatar's Turn.
- It seems that sometimes during Deck Building screen, when there is a reward from defeating the Enemy, lost cards are not removed properly from the array, leading in having on that empty slot a Bear with 0 HP.
Enemies can't attack backwards (CPU Enemies don't have proper actions yet, therefore Slots don't register their new position when moved with Player's controls).
- Enemy always fight and never try to go beyond Player's line.
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When Enemy moves towards the Player, the Player's units behind the Enemy attacks to intercept instead the ones in front (could be due to the CPU events not set up yet).
- When escaping from Enemy, they can Intercept.
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CPU does not attack Player's unit that moved over them to attack their Avatar.
Enemy archers in the middle line do not attack player's defense line if enemy has frontline full of their units
Thank you for playing Grim Grimoire and for your support.
I'm sure this game can improve very much with your help!
Simone
Biim Games
Well, that explains a lot. But for people from the outside (or lazy like me) it will be unintuitive and frustrating. Would be nice if you could somehow introduce player to this in game. Maybe some small storyline?
Yes, definitely, now that the game jam is concluded I can work on the game and improve it, especially adding in-game information about how to play and why of some restrictions. Need to make a brief story around it ;-)
Ok. Now I understand why there were those die rolling sounds. You could tweak the description with some better spacing / die icons. Should be much more intuitive for more casual players.
Yes, I supposed to add a die with the result and show some sort of battle log, but I scrapped the idea for the jam, postponing for later.
There will be an option to show those calculation for players that wants to see them.
This leads me to another issue - I've seen creatures with blue progress bars. I didn't know what they really are until some creature got damaged. I was suspecting some kind of mana / energy and that damage bar is not yet implemented due to my bad luck and miss mechanic. I think you should stick to the convention and use green bars. I would even argue they should be horizontal.
You are right, originally they were green, but the colour was confusing a bit with the background, so to avoid issue for players that might have visual difficulty, I changed it to blue for higher contrast. Will probably go back to green having an outline or such.
I tried to have horizontal bars, but initially that wasn't working because in my first game layout, creatures were overlapping to give a sense of dept, I then discarded the option due to the difficulty of showing the lifebar and understand which one is which, especially on small screens as mobiles, that's why the design changed as it is. I like the idea of overlapping the creatures, so I might find a way to show them in that way, probably another option that players can take advantage of, when playing on computer screens.
As you can see, having the bar horizontally would be confusing if I do the overlapping. I will play around with these options and see what I can do to make it looks nice and at the same time be functional :-)
I agree. But i still think it should be easier said than done. I think Hearthstone's Taunt mechanic would fit here much better. It should provide very interesting choices and game dynamics. You could put some barricade to protect your weak hero. Oponent could counter that with rats who could still be able to breach it. Some bigger creatures like Troll, Ogre or Bear could have taunt too and maybe only swift/flying units could pass em. Maybe you could make em blind / frozen or apply any other cool counter effect.
It sounds a good idea to me, it's similar to some of the additional cards I planned to have. There will be more stuff than just creatures in order to create different combos ;-)
Thats cool for me. But for many lazy users it may be a big blocker. You should think about some form of guidance explaining the core concepts - especially those unique for your game. I know it's a lot of work and not for a game jam. But now you have little bit more time I suppose :)You are right, and as said at the beginning, in-game info is one of the first things I have to develop to let players understand how the game works. Unfortunately no one wants to read any more manuals :-D
Thank you again for contributing to the development of Grim Grimoire! :-)
Nice game, I wish there was a bit of more controls on characters, but it's a game jam game so I can't complain.
It would be nice to have between battles the time to check your characters, maybe clicking or hovering above them to see their stats. Level, Attack, Damage, HP and so on, so you can take better choices when those pops out.
I have no much understanding about mana. How does it works? In the rage of the fight I can't keep an eye to see how it's handled. Is it a collective thing or individual? I felt that having 1or 2 Clerics doesn't change much between them and the chances to use their ability.
I got stuck at Day 41, I had a grid of 4x4 heroes and a summoned mushroom. I think that mushroom was from the last battle and once I summoned a new one at the end of the battle, when the new battle started the game hanged. Probably it's a matter of limiting summoning when there is no grid space or increase the grid where to slot heroes + summoned creatures.
Overall a nice game for the auto-battler fans :-)
You need to bring your wife to the hairdresser more often to get new nice ideas :-D
