Universal Demon Hunters - Upcoming Turn-based Dungeon Crawler from Wave Light Games

Thanks gents.

I haven't actually played it through all the way. The initial release has around 25 levels ... 5 Quests, each with 5 - 6 encounters / battles. I've played through to almost the end of Quest 4. Some battles can be played through in about 5 - 10 minutes ... these are a few of the early ones. As you get into quest 2 and onwards, the battles are a lot bigger and I'm finding that a larger battle lasts for around 20 - 30 minutes unless you are able to do something awesome like cast a powerful damage dealing spell on a group of closely clustered enemies.

However, I'm planning to add another 10 Major Quests to tell the full story of this game. These will all be in gradual updates after release. Adding a new level to a game takes me about an hour to two hours, depending on how complex it is and how many new enemies I'm creating for it so I think the updates will be regular and as long the game doesn't completely bomb, it should be no problem to stick to this approach. Adding levels and new enemies doesn't require me to touch any code so there really shouldn't be any complications there.

As an aside, since I was able to create the full 24 character classes on initial release ... I'm planning to add a week 1 update that will add a 25th character. He'll be the Dwarf Dragon Hunter class. An unarmored but tough-as-nails dwarf fighter that delivers few but very powerful attacks and has a penchant for throwing axes.

 

Okay, looks like the upload and validation all worked. Version 1.28 has been uploaded to Test Flight and has been submitted to Apple for Testflight Beta review. If it passes that, then I believe users will get the download links ... not really sure how it works.

 

Status has changed from Waiting For Review to "In Review" ... I guess that's a good thing. Hopefully soon.

I'm finding that the game does still crash occasionally at a few specific spots. Seems to be a Unity thing as others in the Unity forum are reporting. However, it seems to be pretty rare on the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6.

It's also running on my first gen iPad Mini with the reduced graphics options. Not sure how stable it is but I am at least able to open level one and do a few things and exit it. Haven't tried anything more intense than that on this device.

 

Got approved this morning. So I've added emails of those that reached out to me to the test flight and have sent out invites.

Please download and let me know your thoughts. I'm eager to spot any bugs, get feedback on difficulty, identify overpowered abilities, underpowered abilities and so forth.

Also ... there's a bug in this version that allows you to steal from the shopkeeper. I've fixed it in my local version but virtual trophy to the first person that figures out how to do it.

Also ... those that actually provide me with written feedback will have their names in the credits as play testers if they want. Credit where credit is due.

 

Cool ... I'll update those items. I think for the tool tip, if you release your touch off the button, it will remove the tool tip without activating the ability. Most abilities are a 2 step process where you select the ability and then select the target. You can cancel a two step ability by clicking the ability button again. On android or windows phone, you can cancel by clicking the back button.

Please post your other thoughts as i didn't get the email.

 

Did you try the pinch to zoom and two finger drag to rotate the view?

 

I think I have it set to just standard landscape left format. I'll see what setting rotation does for it. No idea how how that will be handled.

 

Thanks guys ... This feedback is awesome. Can't respond yet properly as I'm in a conference call. Will do soon. Please keep it coming.

 

For the zoom / pan / rotate speeds, it's all controlled by a couple of variables that i can switch to be player preferences. So I'll add a slider or something in the gameplay options screen that will allows to control the speed of those values.

For the Samurai, he suffered a bit from being overly compressed. I got a bit too zealous with the optimization there. The problem is that if I reduce the compression for mobile platforms for this face, it will increase the polygon count on the rest of him and he's a high-polygon model. There should be an easy solution though as that model has a samurai face mask that I hide for performance reasons. I can just enable that face mask and it will cover up his ugly face without affecting the rest of the model. Slight performance penalty but not a noticeable one.

For grammer and spelling, just make note of it here on this thread. I'll go through the thread and make the corrections at a later date.

For the ability buttons, if you hold them down to read the tool tip, they don't activate until you release the hold. If you release the hold while still hovering over the button .. it will initiate the ability. If you move your finger to be off the button and then release the hold, it will not initiate the ability.

I will scale up the combat text on mobile platforms. That's an easy fix. Not sure about other parts of the text ... it's a fine balance because if I make it big for the phone, it's often too big for the tablet and desktop views and so I have to try to find a compromise. Combat text should be an easy fix though so I'll start there.

The random crashes on transitioning from one screen to another are a Unity 5 game engine bug. I'm going to submit a bug report to them about it and hopefully they'll fix it on their end before release. Nothing else I can do about them but they are fairly rare on my test devices so hopefully not a big issue. Also progress is saved before the transition so when they occur, you don't actually lose anything.

Regarding the skimpiness of female attire on some models, I agree ... it's not my personal preference. I'm trying to go for a more dark fantasy theme and the skimpy clothes go against that. However, I don't really have a choice as I'm using assets developed by others on license and can't modify them myself. The asset creator for the Elf Archer and Elf Sorceress (who are probably the worst offenders) did say that he'd provide me with updated textures for them that will cover up more skin. No idea when that will happen but if he does make them, I'll push them out as an update.

 

Do you mind signing up for Test Flight with a non-yahoo email? I have a feeling that's the issue.

 

Has anyone uses the shop or inventory yet? It's an area that I think still needs some work to make easy to use on a phone screen. Inventory is accessible when you kill all enemies on a level.