Universal Demon's Rise (by Wave Light Games)

Issue's been fixed for both levels. There may be similar issues on some other levels so later this week, I'll check through all of them and make sure the others are good too. Let me know if you see anything odd. Thanks again,

 

In your opinion, should I increase difficulty or is it an enjoyable level of challenge? Have you tried playing on hard?

 

Thanks guys ... I'll leave the current levels as they are. However, I will amp up the difficulty a few notches for the new levels that I had. Hopefully, I'll be able to show off some more previews of those levels soon once I get this bug fix out to Apple.

Just a quick update regarding the next patch, I'm uploading it to Apple right now and will request a speedy review. It took me a bit of time as I had to undo all of the changes I had made for the on-screen camera controls. They were working most of the time but then would cause some random null reference exception. Unfortunately, Unity has a weird process where to build a 64 bit iOS game, it converts to C++ from C# and it sometimes gets really confused and strips out essential code. I think I was running into a situation like that as I was getting random errors on the device but not on my game engine. To make matters worse, because Unity converts the code to another language ... it's almost impossible to really debug it. So I just scrapped all the changes I made for the on-screen camera.

I will take a different approach with it and see if that works instead.

I did make the normal zoom speed slower though so that should be much less sensitive and easier to use. I'll summarize all the other changes made in this update tomorrow. Good night!

 

Patch has been submitted ... currently in Apple's queue. Here's the change log:

- Bug Fix: Fixed issue in Final level of Day 3 quest where player's stats and inventory would not load properly.
- Bug Fix: Fixed patrol levels where enemies near doorways would not attack and could not be attacked.
- Enhancement: Added a 25th playable character class, the Dwarf Dragon Hunter
- Enhancement: Replaced explosive scroll collectables with action point regenerating scrolls instead.
- Enhancement: Reduced sensitivity of pinch to zoom and 2 finger rotate camera controls on default settings.
- Enhancement: Added a "Return to Camp" button at the end of each battle so players can return to the camp rather than play the next quest level.
- Enhancement: Increased starting health of all playable characters by 4 to lower difficulty in early game.
- Enhancement: Increased starting gold of a new party to 3000 from 300 to allow purchases at the store earlier.

Okay, I'm going to work on more new content and also take another stab at the on-screen camera zoom / rotate controls next.

 

Thanks for the feedback.

Have you tried adjusting the camera controls sensitivity in the options menu? I will try to add touch screen controls as an option but I don't think I can redesign it completely. Just too much risk of adding new bugs and also what some may like, others may not.

Will try to add this in a later update.

Looked into this during the development and beta testing and found it would require a complete re-write of the save process. It's really complicated because the amount of information for each save file jumps up exponentially. You have to save the contents of every tile, stats of every enemy unit, buffs / spell effects of every unit on the map, direction that each unit is facing and a whole slew of other things. I agree it would be a nice to have but after looking into it for some time, it just proved to be too difficult given the complexity of the game.

This should be possible. I will look into this and see if it can be done and then let it be a configurable option like the other controls in the options screen.

Thanks!

 

So far, I'm digging the following combo:

- Paladin for all-round melee fighter
- Skeleton Champion for fear / intimidation impact and good fighting ability.

- Ranger for mix of archery and healing magic.
- Walking Canon for a mix of ranged damage and toughness. It's much harder to kill than other missile units and wizards.

- Mage Hunter as a good second-rank fighter. He has a good range with his halberd and can attack enemies 2 tiles away. He can also keep pumping out action point draining abilities on enemy wizards and heroes. This makes a big difference in later levels where you face a lot of wizards and heroes that use action points.

- Storm Seer as a mix of healing and ranged damage. Her level 1 Divine Winds is great because it both heals almost everyone on the map and increases their courage. For those of you that don't know, any healing raises courage and any damage reduces courage.

It's lacking in a real tank character like the Half Giant or Earth Golem so it can't take a whole load of punishment. It's also lacking in debuts and doesn't have any really fast units like the Centaur or teleporting assassins. However, the Skeleton Champion gets a teleport spell once he levels up and it works really well with his high intimidation factor.

That's what I'm currently running with. What are some other dream teams out there? If you have a particularly effective setup ... what makes it so good?

 

There might be a way but beyond my understanding. There's probably some way to serialize the save data and read from a serialized file but I couldn't find an easy solution in Unity when I tried tackling it before. I'd like to focus on adding new content and making small tweaks to existing features rather than re-write a major component of the game. I'll look at it again when (or most likely if) I'm able to work on my next game.

 

Cool .... I'll take another look if I can. The save game functionality in Unity is super basic. It's basically just a 1MB data file that can store floats, ints and string. You'd have to do some pretty intense stuff to use it to save various map details. 1MB might also not be enough to store a saved map in progress for all 20 save game slots. If I can do it, I will but I just don't like to promise something that I don't personally know how to do. Also, the code is so complex that I have to be really careful to change something at this stage as it can haver really unexpected repercussions that can be hard to debug.

The above reason is actually one of the reasons I divided up the game into 5 - 15 minute battles rather than have one giant map. The idea is that this is a mobile game so you hop in, play for a bit and hop out and get on with your day. Also, it has huge benefits from a performance perspective too if the mobile device only has to render one fighting section at at time and store it in memory.