I was already in a Next Fest a couple years back, and you can only be in one Next Fest ever so the opportunity is forever lost to me now. Such is life.
I definitely will at some point! The old models too! But it's gonna have to be at some point after release (possibly even after Early Access is over) since I'd need to make new "old" artworks and models for all new characters that will be added, which would probably take a while
Thank you for playing, friend! I want to improve performance across the board, but right now I'm trying to prioritize getting the game to Early Access.
The animations are a bit tricky to manage since they're store-bought, so idk if I can fix the leg issues.
I know the faces are bad, but someday hopefully the faces will be good and the zoom will be even nicer!
Glad you liked the gameplay!
The voice volumes have a separate volume slider in the settings, so you could always try tweaking that.
Restart button needs a confirmation, yeah, lots of people have suffered from it by now.
Glad you liked the cutscenes and writing! I really enjoyed working on those! Octavia is a good girl to be sure!
Not sure what happened to the health explosions, I'll look into it.
Glad you liked the idea of the infinite missions too! I may end up reworking the map a bit, so the mission difficulty indicators should hopefully be clearer in the future.
I will add the other characters to the Melkirion hub, but I haven't gotten to it yet.
Cutscene death animation bug need fixing, yeah.
Both factions have 1 story mission each in the demo, yeah.
Glad you liked the forest guardians! They're doing their best!
Yurie is strong!
Enemies spawning near the shop needs fixing, yeah.
Fiera's whiteflame has now been fixed in a new update!
Night map needs some tweaking, yeah.
Hanako and Yurie both doing their best!
Glad you liked the dungeons!
And glad you liked the game! I will do my best to keep working on it!
Just new rewards and alternate cutscenes for beating the tutorial boss. I always appreciate videos of my game, but if you could have some timestamped comments for it as well it would be extra helpful since you're not using the mic for live feedback.
Not sure what happened to the ribbon, I'll need to look into that!
I do want to commission art and 3d models at some point, but for that I'll need money!
Glad you liked the cutscenes!
I'll probably reduce the rate at which you gain items, so that you have to do it less. Don't wanna automate equipping though since I feel like it'd take away from the RPG element.
The video being scuffed may not be ideal, but it's still kinda useful since it kinda lets me see how readable the game is in low-quality recordings and maybe improve the readability overall!
Humor is difficult, but I'm glad you liked part of it at least!
The game will be pretty dark at times, so it won't just be lighthearted comedy all the time, but balancing that will be a challenge for sure.
The second forest stage definitely needs work, but my current focus is just finishing the new levels for Early Access release.
There will be a lot more story content, which is in part why it's taking so long. The game will release in Early Access, so the further story stuff will be in updates for that. I do want to do some expansions afterwards too, but that's far in the future.
The healing system is a bit of a placeholder right now, I'll replace it with a proper inventory system later.
The invulnerability bug needs fixing yeah, I've known about it for a while now.
Glad you liked the bosses! I still wanna polish them a bit more later but I'm also pretty happy with them as is.
The reason for the lack of males is that I just like drawing cute girls more!
I'm glad you think it has GMI energy, that means a lot!
The darker themes will be a bit more frequent later in the story, since we're still at the beginning, but it won't be super dark like Berserk or anything, so don't worry. I'm glad you liked the story and humor!
Item vacuum is definitely something I've considered, but it's a pretty low priority right now.
The level up screen got remade recently, so I haven't added the ability points counter yet.
I will be reworking the reward system for non-story missions later, so I haven't touched it for a while.
Thanks for playing! I'm glad you liked the cutscenes and bosses, they were really fun to make! The music is some royalty free stuff I bought from DLSite, but it's very good!
I'll try to make the environments a bit more interesting!
I think I'll add an option to lower particle effect intensity so they're a bit more subtle.
The focus mode is definitely something that needs a rework. I've been thinking about maybe giving it a slight time-slowing effect or something to make it more viable.
I'll tone down the level up flash! Attacks piercing walls is semi-intentional, it'd be neat to remove it but I kinda want to keep them computationally simple for better performance.
I'll be sure to add a prompt for switching characters!
Thank you for playing! Sorry for replying so late!
An FPS counter would be handy yeah, I'll try to add one in the future. Unity quality settings are a bit iffy, but the game is more CPU-heavy than GPU-heavy I think so it's usually not the graphics' fault. I've been trying to fix audio cracklings when I find them, but it's easy to miss. I'll darken the background, thanks. I'll add a map toggle in the future. A rotate-able camera would be neat, but it is kind of a level design issue as well like you said. A prompt for switching characters would be nice, I'll add one!
I worked on the performance a bit in the new version, hopefully that helps. Some dungeons have both interior and exterior floors, and the one you get is random. I reset perk levels every time I rework how they work, that's why you had to reassign it. Some attacks and abilities change depending on what weapons you have equipped. So Fiera's Whiteflame Embers make her shoot sparks instead of flames, for example. The chest reward thing is being reworked, since it's a bit weird like you said. Thanks for finding the top bar bug, I've fixed that now. A tip for the level with the wisps (slimes) is that you can step out of the rifts to clear out the enemies and then back in and keep sealing it, it doesn't reset when you step out.
Neat FTL-like game! I managed to win some fights by putting all the guys at the weapon tiles and one guy at the shield tiles when I lost shields, but beyond that I feel like the game really needs a tutorial. I went to a planet and had no clue what to do there.
Some feedback when you don't have enough mana would be nice, I thought the game had broken. Also some knockback effect or other juice when you whack the enemy.
The screenshots show other levels, are they in the game? How do I get to them?
>The Books Arcana is carrying dissappear when she casts the protection right before the escape after the necromancer fight. Guess I'll need to do something about that.
>when the elevator arrived, the chain for the other half keeps spinning, is that intended? Yes, the other elevator is the one carrying the Melkiri who arrive during the boss fight.
>Blue mana sprites in the river deal no damage. Good to know, thanks!
>When you charge arcanas secondary fully and enter a cutscene, sound keeps playing. I really need to fix this at some point.
>Had the feeling it started to lag after a while, but might be just my imagination. It's definitely possible, it's not super optimized.
>Arcanas staff charge didn't show correctly a few times. Yeah the cursor is a bit wonky at times, I need to fix it.
>After the Cutscene that I had to close the big rift, arcana stood where here corpse was supposed to be. Good to know, thanks!
>Its very hard to see during the later stages of the Penelope fight, but it is a fun fight, was the first one where I really saw a benefit to switching between allies instead of using them as a kind of meat shield. Yeah, I need to make things a bit more readable. Glad you liked it though!
>Didn't bother with the expeditions, those looked like Sidemissions to me, and I already spent 2 hours in this. Yeah, they're basically endless procedural dungeons if you wanna keep playing after doing all the story missions.
>The minimap in the Forest is offset by a bit, it doesn't align well. Yeah, the minimap is still from the older version where there were blockier instead of smoother treelines.
>Wish the Camera was zoomed out a bit more, most of the Time most enemies seemed to be firing from offscreen. Yeah, I'll either just zoom it out overall or add options for zoom levels.
>During the overview of the Area before the Penelope fight, when she opened all the Rifts, the stacked Tree parts were really pretty to look at. That map is a lot more interesting then the Forest, but I wish I was able to jump of the stairs/high platforms that have no border around them, it feels odd being blocked by an invisible wall there, only to have to move 1m around or something. Thanks! I'm gonna rework the Forest level at some point, it's the oldest level I have in the game. The game is technically in 2D, so idk if I can add jumping without it being weird. Also accidentally going off could be annoying.
>Overall pretty enjoyable, had me engaged the whole Time. But why is everyone picking on Octavia? Thank you friend! Glad you liked it! Octavia and Fiera are sort of rivals so they both pick on eachother. Vania throwing Octavia wasn't to be mean, it was a valid strategy and it worked!
