If I'm allowed to make some suggestions: Animal Sounds, various hit sounds for different weapons or no weapons (fists) I find are to acquire in decent quality.
Regrettably you put all the good stuff I needed in the free pack, and only added a little more to the paid one, haha. Regardless, I'll check out the new pack once it arrives. How do you feel about making custom sound effects for people? I might be interested in commission some stuff if it's not too expensive and you're capable.
The game was fun, it's got an interesting, puzzle-y kind of vibe. I think my biggest gripes with this were the artstyle, and that the starting cards were kind of bland. In fact, I found most of the cards I started with or found during the waves to be kind of weak and kind of situational and I wish I had more ship card available to me.
Overall a solid effort, althought clearly underdeveloped at this stage, as many cards only feature sketches and the game could have way more bells and whistles. (As expected from a work in progress)
Man, I really enjoyed this one. Being a huge slay the spire fan, I immediately recognized the similarities and I really liked the twist you put into the systems. Having 3 characters with each their own energy and cards was a very nice layer of strategy as well as the jewel system, the upgrade system and the hero empowerment. Really awesome all around.
Controls wise I think it handled just like slay the spire. Cards can be played in quick succession, everything felt smooth and worked as it should.
If I had to critisize anything, it would be the the audio and the UI. I found it a little annoying that the "hitbox" for the enemy tooltips to pop was so massive, that I felt I always had to put my cursor on top of the screen to actually look at the nice art you got going, which is bad, because my cards are at the bottom.
The one music track I got to listen to sounded very generic and the loop seemed very short, so it kinda got boring to listen to really quickly.
I think you got an amazing game in the works. Wishlisted immediately.
Kind of a pointless question if you ask me... Someone capable of reversing the security of this tool is surely able to google "Decrypt rpg maker game" and click on any of the like first 25 results. Or are you telling us you got a custom encryption? :P
Oh my god, just when I thought about how this is missing in the gen and I'd really need some of those skelly sprites and battlers (Since the gen stuff doesn't really work with Low's foe packs) I see this. Grand!
Well I hope 8dir horses are going to be a thing one day then. Would feel major jank if the game is 8dir but the horse has some genetic defect, allowing it to only move 4dir xD. Nonetheless cool update.
I'm over here just waiting for more clothing and humanoid races.
Yo! My buddies and I are hosting a weekly live podcast on youtube, reviewing and talking about games made with RPG Maker and we would like to cover your game next wednesday!
If you're interested, I'd like to request 3 redeemable links to the game (since we're 3 dudes)
Or 3 Keys (Seeing as the game seems to be on Steam as well)
You can send them via mail to: simplegaming.lehl@gmail.com
Let me know what you think! The timeframe to respond would be saturday at the latest, so we'll have enough time to look for another game, should you not be interested.
If you're interested, please hit me up via e-mail: Simplegaming.lehl@gmail.com so we can discuss! Your game would be scheduled for next wednesday if you're up for it. Hit me up before then! :D
Thanks for your kind words! The timings in this jam game were a little off indeed. If you pushed the button too soon it would sometimes register as a fail when it really shouldn't, but it was too late when I realized this to fix it ^^
Dungeon Rummage - Origins, the game from which I derived this system is not going to have this problem :D
A game about the goblin brothers huh? I mean I tmight happen one day...
Ah yes, the calcium boys definitely were a bit on the slow side. And I aggree the 4v1 fight is a little tough on marsha, depending on what augments you got. (It's much easier with Therese, since she can block Lunesis and Moogs, Marsha is hard mode after all.)
It was a little tough balancing the game around 3 different playstyles at the same time, so I'm not really disagreeing with your asessment and the real game is probably gonna do a better job on the balancing part. Cheers my dude :D
Cool little game. I knew sawyer would make something mechanics-related, and he didn't disappoint! I'm liking the skill system put in place here and I really appreciate the on screen "rock-paper-scissors" HUD element, because I can't for the life of me remember which is what. It works well and is simple to understand and excecute. Just how I like it. :D
Music was not one of the strong points of this game for me. It fit the style of a retro game, but it didn't really vibe with me.
I feel the mapping could've been a little better overall, but then again it does resemble old school game maps.
The story is well delivered. Tension is built throughout the game when everyone is trying to keep reid out of the building. Very nice.
Awesome! Glad you had such a great time with it and thanks for your kind words! The inputs are still a tiny bit wonky as I've realized when there was no more time to fix it. The inputs are timed for more "slow" people and fail if you press the button too fast.
Essentially if you timed it just perfect, the input would actually fail, so if you fall under the people who have good reflexes, you may have a better time with the inputs if you just went a little slower on purpose. :D
I'm really not a fan of the usual classic and retro style games, but this one is just beautiful.
It has a good looking retro style to it, the pixel style portraits look great as well.
However, what carries this game for me is the very good writing and the amazing music.
I genuinely enjoyed reading through the intro scenes and I found the individual characters to be very well written.
Combat is simple and pretty standard as far as I could tell so no big points from me here, but it is in line with the retro style.
The battlemusic though was an absolute banger so I did not mind fighting at all. You know you're doing something right in your game, when your player starts nodding their head to your game's music.
I also enjoed the little cameos I found and the Fight3Take3 reference had me giggle.
Once again I would say this could be an "official" game in its own right and you can clearly see someone knows what thy're doing.
Loving this game. Love the artstyle. The little letter of invitation ala mario 64 style was cute. The busts were very expressive and well used. Combat was fun enough with the combo system. Characters were cute and I liked the dialogue.
Music was fitting as well.
I feel like this game could very well be an "official" game on its own and the effort shows.
I'm not quite sure what the goal here was. There's a ***ton of items just thrown at the player, but not a single revive item. (Guess that's what makes it roguelite for some reason)
The class change also seemed kinda overkill and unnecessary.
Overall it plays and feels like someone just copy/pasted their big project into a jam project, made some dialogue to fit the requirements, mashed together some bland maps and called it a day.
Balancing seemed fine for the most part. Not sure why status effects just never disappeared (At one point my therese just had all these effects of burning, bleeding and that hilariously big thorny roots animation on her)
Combat in general felt default to me. Deal as much dmg as you can, heal when getting low.
Didn't have a good time here. Not only is the random encounter rate ridiculous, but the combat also didn't really offer anything to warrant not skipping the fights, so I did.
Save to say the first boss in the forest dungeon just went and killed both lucius and marsha in a flurry of attacks.
I did like the little extra animations that are in there, but overall I feel there could've been more effort put into it.
Bugs I encountered:
Typos
Chests are lootable indefinitely, which is surprising considering the quick event creation already gets around not having that problem.
Got both of the packs. Wish they had a couple more tracks. Goes without saying, I can't wait for some more. Especially interested in some combat music.
