Hello, sorry for the late response. Glad you are/were having fun!
Resolution options are just monitor-supported resolutions in 16:9 ratio and perhaps that was naive of me. Like a 16:10 laptop probably has nothing valid there. I'll see if there is something easy I can do, like a launch option to just list everything or let you scale the window manually.
Yeah, there is a limit to the amount of summons. I have added a tooltip in the update that will clarify that before you find out the hard way.
To be honest, the goal with the starting sets is to give some variety when you’re replaying act 1. They are not made to be equal nor viable until the end of the game, but just give you other things to experiment with so going through act 1 is more interesting.
One of Gwen’s locked spell sets gives her Dragon Slave, a 4 gem spell you have to cast 3 times before it nukes everyone. It’s probably not as reliable as the ice start, but It’s fun to play around with having an alternative win condition so I made it a set. I figure if they're not your thing you'll just go with something else.
Something I don’t think is obvious in the demo is that later acts have their own spells and badges and the base power is higher. They’re not always straight upgrades, especially if you've got some synergies going on, but there is an expectation you won’t be too precious about shedding them.
I have done “get powered up and cast lots of things” much better on Aerfen and maybe Magic Dismissal needs a reevaluation. Some badges are amazing on it though, like you can reduce the stone count and have a 1-stone spell with Repeat and, for reasons I can’t get into, that’s not too rare.
The Channel starter having at least one fight where you wait for your imp to do everything can be a bit boring, you can x3 speed or take the skip modifier but it’s still fundamentally alternating empty turns. And given Channel is a reliable generator, I could see people sitting through that…
I think 3 health is a good number for Scry tbh. It is often useful to know who you’re fighting when picking spells or placing badges (ex: remove prism for mushroom). I do agree 3 acorns is way too much, you’re basically picking that with the same mentality as “no scrying nodes” and I don’t think I need two of those.
Anyway, I don’t want to come across as defensive, I appreciate the feedback. It is interesting to hear your thoughts and I appreciate you have put sooo much time into the demo!
For random encounters what enemies you fight is determined by budget, act and battle level (orb colour, basically!). “Enemies can appear anywhere” means only the budget is checked, so you can see enemies from any act (and summons). It’s more pronounced later on when the budgets are higher!
So, to cast spark you need to go red yellow yellow. But it doesn't matter if you pass other stones. So red yellow blue blue yellow still works. It only matters that the gems are in order. Pristine says no, you need to go red yellow yellow exactly.
Oh, no. Did you play the game before? It might have had some old data saved. I have pushed an update that should clear that out. Let me know if this fixes things! If not it'd be great to get a copy / screenshot of the red text 🙏
Ah, that sucks. I don't have any code for joysticks so I assume the unity "new" input system is doing something weird.
Looking on the internet I didn't find anything too promising, unresolved tickets about the thrustmaster specifically. Some posts suggest its the users drivers (probably not) or could be fixed by upgrading Unity to 2022.
I'll have another look tomorrow and see if I can find what's happening.
FWIW I am trying to be careful with healing because unlike Block you take it out of the fight. I don't want a situation where optimal play is to get one enemy left and spam heals, because some players will end up doing something I know isn't fun...
This means most heals have some restrictions like being exhaustible, dealing damage at the same time, or just being weak enough an enemy would outpace them.
Gwen's Rejuvenation spell heals 3 but has Decay so it goes 3, 2, 1, 0. But that's still 15-30% of her default maximum hp every fight (the same as the camp). It also has a short, double-green cast sequence that exists inside lots of other spells. So, as an example, if you were to pick up Rejuvenation + Leaf Cutter x Sling then on turn one, for three stones, you do a 15% heal and 6 damage because you cast them together...
Well, that's my thought process anyway!
(Also on Ceridwen Pact + Death Coil is broken and I'll probably change it, heh)
Yeah, I'm using Unity right now. I'm considering switching to Godot for future projects but I have very limited experience at the moment.
I'm not sure about "accomplished" lol, but I can give you my thoughts. And my honest advice is not to worry about it? Just use what you're comfortable with. Most of your gameplay logic will be independent of any game engine and you're not going to need some specific render feature.
Yes! Right click will revert one step and holding will cancel completely. Sorry, I know this is unclear. I will put some controls on the screen next update.
Yeah, it’s much easier not doing any PlayerPrefs stuff at all!
I think I have something. It was a little bit more complicated but, after doing some voodoo mentioned in the comments, it seems to work! Survived me making a couple of new builds at least.
Of course the next public build will kill existing webgl saves, but it would have done that anyway... Sad times. Thanks for your help!
Oh! This is super interesting. Reading through this code I think I could drop PlayerPrefs completely! Just plop the normal json save files I use for the Win build into something consistent like "/idbfs/witchingstone/"and it will Just Work?
Hello! I am making Witching Stone, a puzzle deckbuilder with a 90s anime aesthetic, and I've just opened its page with a pretty chunky demo.
Rather than dice or cards, you curate a book of spells and cast them by drawing on a tile-matching grid. It's not a match-3, you are drawing a path that inputs your spells, but there is a tutorial and I'm sure you'll get the hang of it.
The demo is the first act of content and two characters. Hopefully, you find it interesting and I'd love your feedback.
Sure, I have popped up a Windows build! Hope that's fine, I can't do any other platforms ATM.
Mouse look still requires you to hold right mouse button, though! I think if I continue with this I would like to experiment with you clicking in the scene to interact.
I like how you mixed it up with the change of environment. I think it would have been nice if it was a bit more experimental and the results more varied, but I appreciate this was a 2 day game jam!
