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I'm glad I realized I hadn't seen an update for this game for a while; I'm using itch's feed to follow games and I stopped receiving these progress reports when you switched to the new page, and from madodev to Mado. Maybe consider putting an update on the old page to let people know you switched?

Very interesting, thanks for taking the time to explain! As someone getting into game dev myself, you've given me lots to think about.

Thanks!

Here's a couple of things I've noticed over the past few weeks. Some of these are from previous versions, sorry if you've fixed them:

• Keys and magic keys are free to buy from npcs
• Cookies and pizza on tables claim to restore a flat amount of WP, but actually restore a percentage 
• The perk altars between levels do not adjust my reputation with goddesses (for example, when taking unchained or cursed. Cursed seems to enforce the max when your reputation next changes) 
• Favourited armours that are picked up don't appear at the top of my inventory 
• I can't sell WP potions to in-map potion buyers

Bonus idea: If you have the trapped furniture perk, then chests can trap you inside (like barrels).

EDIT: Two more:

• If I have an enchanted weapon equipped, having it pulled out of my grip removes the unenchanted equivalent from my inventory instead. This creates a new weapon if I don't already have one. EDIT again: Something similar appears to happen with armour as well.
• Talking to the thug between levels doesn't give me a quest.

I've been having a blast with the browser version so I'm considering buying the download version but I want to know exactly what I'm buying. I have two questions:

1. Are there any differences between the download and browser versions? If so, what are they?
2. Does buying the game now also entitle me to downloads of future versions?

It's worked for me (on an earlier version, at least). Are you capturing them so they disappear from the map? And it takes multiple mages, you can tell if it's working if a message shows up at the top saying the item requires more. If it still doesn't work, then yeah, that's a bug.

It was literally just yesterday I was wanting the bullet hell perk, thank you for reading my mind! (And thanks for making an awesome game!)

Thanks for the new demo, that was a blast to play! The new aiming is much nicer to play with, the new lighting looks amazing, and I love the new UI.

(Sorry for the late reply) Yeah, that's exactly right. When I need to get information from the health indicator quickly, I'm usually trying to see "how many more hits can I take?" I think breaking it down into "number of health containers" is fine, but it would be nice if the player's vision was drawn to the more influential number first. My first thought was just making the "health containers" number bigger than the "container remaining percentage", but there's probably better ways to do it (visualizing the cells like in metroid? an overall health meter? some sort of visual indicator on Alicia herself?).

(For context, the latest version I've played is the one you released publicly around the start of COVID, so I don't know of any changes you've made since then)

THIS! No game is as important as your health!

It's good to hear you're doing better! I've loved everything I've played of this game.

Since you're updating the UI anyways, can I bring up something that's bugged me? There's a lot more emphasis on how far through your health containers (I forget their actual name) compared to the number of health containers you have left; this is opposite of what I would expect, especially since later enemies do so much damage.