Just played the game and finished it for the first time! I reached the endless mode and finally died after round two. I was excited to see the stat screen, and to my delight, I saw "Stop playing" TwT. I love the game it's incredibly addicting! I also read some of the comments and saw that you're working on a new update, and I'm excited to see it. ^w^
I like this game a lot, it has a lot of polish, this is very impressive if it's a solo developer. The music slaps and the pixel art looks nice and is well animated. Gameplay is engaging and fun, you can tell the developer knows what they're doing.
Here's some personal gripes though:
The attack hitbox is too small at higher weights
The game is a little too difficult (for me at least)
It would be nice if you could break blocks with your head
I do enjoy this game quite a bit, but man does it frustrate me at times with how rude it can be in it's level generation. especially in the cheese layer with those milk boats.
are there any plans for some sort of meta progression? or will the game remain as is with just bug fixing and what is mentioned in the patch notes about future plans? a way to make runs just a little more forgiving over time as you play more runs would be fitting for a roguelike such as this
as it is currently, there doesn't seem to be much of a reason to take the shortcuts outside of making things much more difficult for yourself.
I have plans to swap the level gen system from specific sets of hazard per level to picking from a random suite of presets; I think an interesting caveat to that system would be choosing between 2 presets, say a pirate-heavy level or spiller-heavy level, to allow players who struggle with specific obstacles to see them less often
Shortcuts are something I intend to revisit, moving the unlock for a shortcut to finishing the area as opposed to first seeing it to avoid players approaching progression with grinding. As a countermeasure to the difficulty inherent in starting in a later area with fewer resources, I can guarantee that you will start with additional HP starting in later areas, and potentially an item draft if that can be done seamlessly
Metaprogression is not something I like in most games, I find it misused more often than not, gating off essential mechanics or trivializing the game. While I plan to add unlockable items tied to achievements ingame I'm hesitant to add metaprogression in the form of permanent and innate upgrades
Extremely fun! I'm having a blast. Finally managed to beat the all of the levels. It's challenging, but easy to understand.
Like other people have said, the only other two bugs I've encountered are instantly getting booted out of a sublevel (it's never the shop that boots me out) and getting stuck in unbreakable blocks at high weights. I've also had it generate levels where unbreakable blocks are in an almost horizontal line and there's only a two space gap that my character is too fat to fit through. XD It'd be nice if in the future there was a way to restart/regenerate a level if you get stuck.
Other than those minor complaints I really love it. I'm having so much fun playing it.
Also, the belly jiggle animation on the main character is also so cute!
I'm loving this game, definitely a massive upgrade from the jam version and I'm happy you expanded on it. It took a while to finally get some good runs going but I had a super fun time doing it. I do also inevitably get stuck in a block eventually, but by that time my stats are usually going off the screen so I'm pretty satisfied. Love how elements from the different stages start getting mish-mashed once you go through a full loop.
Delighted to hear back and that you are enjoying the game!
Addressing the bugs, I had known that a few ? rooms would boot you out due to the ground level being too low and fixed the ones I knew of, do you consistently notice specific ones doing it consistently? Otherwise it could be a programming error as opposed to design.
I definitely know what you mean about the solitaire effect, being out of bounds in a Source Engine game is essentially the same cause and effect. I've seen it happen but thought I fixed it, though it is hard to track down due to appearing seemingly at random.
I'll try my hand at hammering those out properly soon, as for the unbreakable blocks problem that might be remedied with some new items and systems I have planned, though a safeguard pass in the generation is probably warranted.
It was definitely the rooms with the long drops down the middle that would kick me out. I'd swear it always had a cave at the bottom when it did, but what with being forced out so fast it was hard to tell.
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Just played the game and finished it for the first time! I reached the endless mode and finally died after round two. I was excited to see the stat screen, and to my delight, I saw "Stop playing" TwT. I love the game it's incredibly addicting! I also read some of the comments and saw that you're working on a new update, and I'm excited to see it. ^w^
Will that one update with new characters still be coming out? Or was it canned? Or am I just delusional?
I just work very slowly as a solo dev in suboptimal life circumstances, it does make me happy to know people still care though!
will always care for your stuff buddy! Take your time!
pyrocynical needs to play this asap
Well it's been a couple years now. the game still holds up. and I had looked forward to potential updates but I guess that's unlikely now
man do i wish there were hidden cheats or something now to keep it interesting to play.
I like this game a lot, it has a lot of polish, this is very impressive if it's a solo developer. The music slaps and the pixel art looks nice and is well animated. Gameplay is engaging and fun, you can tell the developer knows what they're doing.
Here's some personal gripes though:
The attack hitbox is too small at higher weights
The game is a little too difficult (for me at least)
It would be nice if you could break blocks with your head
The window for bouncing off blocks is too small
I do enjoy this game quite a bit, but man does it frustrate me at times with how rude it can be in it's level generation. especially in the cheese layer with those milk boats.
are there any plans for some sort of meta progression? or will the game remain as is with just bug fixing and what is mentioned in the patch notes about future plans? a way to make runs just a little more forgiving over time as you play more runs would be fitting for a roguelike such as this
as it is currently, there doesn't seem to be much of a reason to take the shortcuts outside of making things much more difficult for yourself.
I have plans to swap the level gen system from specific sets of hazard per level to picking from a random suite of presets; I think an interesting caveat to that system would be choosing between 2 presets, say a pirate-heavy level or spiller-heavy level, to allow players who struggle with specific obstacles to see them less often
Shortcuts are something I intend to revisit, moving the unlock for a shortcut to finishing the area as opposed to first seeing it to avoid players approaching progression with grinding. As a countermeasure to the difficulty inherent in starting in a later area with fewer resources, I can guarantee that you will start with additional HP starting in later areas, and potentially an item draft if that can be done seamlessly
Metaprogression is not something I like in most games, I find it misused more often than not, gating off essential mechanics or trivializing the game. While I plan to add unlockable items tied to achievements ingame I'm hesitant to add metaprogression in the form of permanent and innate upgrades
Extremely fun! I'm having a blast. Finally managed to beat the all of the levels. It's challenging, but easy to understand.
Like other people have said, the only other two bugs I've encountered are instantly getting booted out of a sublevel (it's never the shop that boots me out) and getting stuck in unbreakable blocks at high weights. I've also had it generate levels where unbreakable blocks are in an almost horizontal line and there's only a two space gap that my character is too fat to fit through. XD It'd be nice if in the future there was a way to restart/regenerate a level if you get stuck.
Other than those minor complaints I really love it. I'm having so much fun playing it.
Also, the belly jiggle animation on the main character is also so cute!
I'm loving this game, definitely a massive upgrade from the jam version and I'm happy you expanded on it. It took a while to finally get some good runs going but I had a super fun time doing it. I do also inevitably get stuck in a block eventually, but by that time my stats are usually going off the screen so I'm pretty satisfied. Love how elements from the different stages start getting mish-mashed once you go through a full loop.
Hey the full version is here! Love it! Wanted to note a few glitches I ran into though:
It's pretty easy to get stuck between unbreakable blocks at very high weights
Similarly, at very high weights if you get a ? room with a high floor, you'll fall partially through it and get stuck
Occasionally, ? rooms would boot me out to the next stage before I got the chance to do anything
The background and text in the shrine room had a "solitaire victory" effect going on once, if that makes sense. Don't know what triggered it
Delighted to hear back and that you are enjoying the game!
Addressing the bugs, I had known that a few ? rooms would boot you out due to the ground level being too low and fixed the ones I knew of, do you consistently notice specific ones doing it consistently? Otherwise it could be a programming error as opposed to design.
I definitely know what you mean about the solitaire effect, being out of bounds in a Source Engine game is essentially the same cause and effect. I've seen it happen but thought I fixed it, though it is hard to track down due to appearing seemingly at random.
I'll try my hand at hammering those out properly soon, as for the unbreakable blocks problem that might be remedied with some new items and systems I have planned, though a safeguard pass in the generation is probably warranted.
Thank you for playing and for posting,
Plub
It was definitely the rooms with the long drops down the middle that would kick me out. I'd swear it always had a cave at the bottom when it did, but what with being forced out so fast it was hard to tell.