The Hero is an original character for this game, but Barbarian is Ittle Dew yes haha.
It has almost no use, but you can meld two golden frogs (or one golden frog and one gold) to make a "Golden Symbol", an accessory that increases Survival by 1.
Yeah, that is definitely the games biggest flaw... I should explain more stuff in game but that's my least favorite part of dev... And there's so much to explain in this one lol.
There should be a little star in the top right corner on the class select screen if you beat the game with them. If there's not, then I have some bugs to hunt!
I gotta learn to make decent ok-ish music at some point...
So I had been waiting for my first payout for a while, so I contacted support and they quickly got back and said the reason was there was a number of instances of scrambled e-mail addresses who had bought it and that had to be investigated. Which I completely understand, I checked the list of buys and there was a whole series of seemingly randomly generated emails and names there. So I'll just wait, I'm in no hurry and it's a tiny amount of money.
BUT my question is... What is the point of this, and is there anything I can do to prevent this in the future? Like, what do these weird purchases gain by buying my little random game? Apparently none of them had downloaded it either. So what's the scam here? o_o And before initiating the payout, could I have done something to manually deny/refund/exclude them?
the picture on page 11 confused me a bit, at first i thought it was trying to say you could split a move with an act in the middle. then i realized it was just illustrating two different scenarios (mv+act or mv+mv). maybe throw in an "or" or a "/" in the pic.
very cool game, looking forward to trying it out! hoping for some kind of physical print option in the future.
I just tried a bit, and won when I started by moving a Flamiliar into the center empty space between the teams. It will be killed right away, but with one or two more reckless sacrificial moves, Jupiter can get out of harms way.
In my testing the AI could never resist the temptation to kill the Flamiliar, but if it didn't and kept with that strategy I think the Flamiliar can just take the Assault Ship and then the base? Maybe
I only got it there by help of the company I work at, and I doubt they'd put resources into reinstating it. On my own I don't have the ability to do iPhone stuff.
I notice Firefox complaining about mixing http and https when trying to use the link here from itch. But if i copy paste the link into a new tab it seems to work fine. Not sure what that is about
I tried looking into exporting for Mac with Godot in case it was just a matter of pressing a button, but unfortunately it seemed quite complicated. Especially since I don't know anything about Macs. There was a bunch of stuff about signing and notarizing the app and needing a Mac and Xcode and stuff for that... Sorry ^^;
I have no idea what "%APPDATA%" means though... But maybe you can search for the folder "app_userdata" and find it. I should probably update the patch notes with this info.
As for the window positioning and size, I have no idea. Looked a bit at the code but don't think I do anything special with the window. My one idea is that maybe the default size of the window (1536 x 864)
is bigger than your screen resolution (if for example you use 720p), and that makes it flip out?
It can't summon any kings, and no "glass" units from the puzzle mode. And no "misc" units which is mostly blocks and stuff.
It also additionally can't summon: Kristian Maria's summoning circles, Soft Swarm's egg, gogo stone, sacrifice, Bonus Man's cornucopia or something called "Terran Warp" (I forgot what that is)
These are the same things that the opponent cannot summon in Endless.
So the spell can summon the unique Endless units. Some of those are pretty good/weird.
The result of summon anything uses a seed of "Your Blood Before Casting + (Opponent Blood * 100)". So basically every combination of your blood and opponent blood is a different set result. Documenting a few of the common ones at low blood might be useful!
for some reason the file didn't want to start by double clicking for me either (also Mint), but I opened a terminal in the folder and wrote ./Ambermoon.net to start it that way and it worked :)
Edit: I now read you already tried the command line, so maybe this was a different situation (or you forgot the ./ for executing it)
ps1 homebrew is very very rare, you should pretty much always expect that a game is just "ps1 style", and be happily surprised if it is an actual ps1 game.
i'm going to guess by design, since the PS1 didn't have analog sticks until the later introduction of the dual shock, and even then they weren't used much.
I'm assuming the Summon Anything bug was related to the "opponents spell costs are wrong" bug that was fixed, which could cause a desync in what the game though each players blood amount was (as players would use spells, but the cost would differ). But if it keeps happening, do report it.
Instead of having her start with blood, you can just make the first use free. Initial cost and how much it increases in cost with each use are separate variables.
Puzzles: I actually renamed the puzzles to "levels" because I realized doing tight puzzles for everyone was too hard... So sometimes it's more of a "situation", potentially really easy to solve. But I'll take a look at the ones you mentioned, if a puzzle is intended but easily sidestepped that's boring of course.
Tokinko: Yes, the problem is of course that she has to be "Shogi". But we can do whatever we want with the spells, to try and fix her. Right now they're just kinda weak attempts to imitate a drop rule. The suggestion to revive dead units is a good one. But in Shogi, you actually drop the pieces you capture from your opponent so what puroseki says, it could be a spell that revives the last captured unit as yours. And then the second spell... Some suggestions: 1) "shield" - give a unit +1 hp 2) "dash attack" - make any unit move 4 steps forward, attacking if it lands on an enemy 3) "promote" - activate a units "upgrade" without fulfilling the actual upgrade requirements
I think the third one, promote, could be pretty fun. Especially in combination with being able to revive opponent pieces, that you could then upgrade.
The desyncs from Summon Anything might be related to what puroseki said about the blood values not updating correctly for the opponent. Since the spell relies on both players values to decide the result.
Music: This is the part of game making I can't really do well myself... Maybe someone else at Ludosity can do it for me, but they're all pretty busy at the moment.
Tutorial: I feel that as long as you can learn a game by playing for a while, a few matches, then no tutorial is really needed (there's a joy in learning after all)... That said, some pointers might be good like "these are your spells" or things like that. Perhaps the first story battle should be untimed and have hints. Unfortunate that Ancient King isn't the first match in story.
Escape Key: Literally pressing escape or backspace could be a good option to add... You see, the reason there's no back arrow on character select is that it visually doesn't fit anywhere without ruining the screen visually... lol
Puzzle Editor: Actually might not be that hard to do, I could see it happening in the future.
Metonym: A lot of characters are mostly made on a whim, hoping to balance them after they've seen some play... So she could totally be bad right now! Maybe she could benefit from Gogo Stones (puts more blood on the board) or Sacrifice (to pull units back without blood cost)?
Spectre: True, I hadn't really thought that one through... If Spectre turns out to be bad, that would be a good target for a buff then.
Kristian Maria: Panties on top of tights is the new thing, you heard it here first!
I've had this puzzle crash reported from someone else as well, it's very puzzling.
I'll look into the near-timeout desync, I have a decent idea of the problem there.
As for the wait there, the thing is this online (my first!) is built sort of on top of the "play by message/e-mail" system where you send codes back and forth. It's too annoying to fix, but I've learned my lesson for future games.
And it's pronounced Excess! Because there's just too much of it ^^
