You're right ;-) I edited so that people can send via private message. You should get an invitation by now
Guys, this is unbelievable how much response I got. Had to clear old messages because my inbox was full! TA community is just awesome, I'm so glad I chose to stay here with my devlog. Thank you all for your effort and I hope you will just have some fun with this small game I think I sent an invitation for everyone, if you haven't got it, please pm me again. Have to say a huge thanks for Jared Nelson for the article on the main page. I'm just an amateur game developer so Jared I just can't find words how important it's for me, again thank you so much!
Smashing is so damn statisfying! Wow! The smashing makes it so addicting too. Ok bye, back to playing.
Haha glad to hear it fabian There is a bug in ads system, they're too often and in "bad" places. I will repair it in next release. Sorry for that, you can always buy no ads inapp with test account to remove them. What is more, what do you think about displaying "continue" window only after reaching for example 75% of highscore? Cheers
Thanks for the invitation! I'm liking it so far, great pixel art, nicely detailed animations, fast action and responsive controls! You know what would be really really cool? A female warrior!! Maybe inspired on Red Sonja?
Done it already fabian, but now I'm gathering all ideas, and then will check how many I can implement. After that I will release next beta version
Sounds good! Actually for me there is just one thing missing, a statistics page with total kills/deaths/most deaths by ... enemy type / average score.
Love the visceral feel of the combat, the animations and feel of the game. It's easy to get into and a great little time waster BUT there is one thing very wrong with this game: At the moment it is heavily pay 2 win (even its such a small game!). Hear me out! I am talking about the leaderboards. You must not have 1 leaderboard for people that are playing normally (aka. 1 life) and people playing normally + ads (this is basically watch an ad to win more score) and people that payed / unlocked the armor so they have 1 more life (+ people with armor that watch ads). This heavily screws with the leaderboards and for me takes out the whole fun of competing. To fix it you either have 4 different leaderboards or you take out the score if someone watches an ad (so they basically farm more coins?) and then have 2 leaderboards, or you come up with something else. At the moment this kills it for me even though the gameplay and presentation (AND POTENTIAL) is great. Hope you work something out, I will gladly test it again then.
Hm he is right tho. I've been thinking about it and it's difficult to come up with a solution. I guess you don't want multiple leaderboards for a simple game. So there should just be one, in my opinion. So the solution has to fix another part of the mechanics. I would suggest that the option 'Watch an ad to contiue after you die' is only available for people who are not using the second life feature. So basically people who paid (or gained all coins for it) and thus have the second life, should not get the option to watch an ad to continue. So they have 1 chance to continue after they died, which is automatic. And people who don't have/use the second life option should have the chance to use the 'Watch an ad to continue' once a game. So they also have 1 chance to continue after they died. In my opinion, this would fix the problem. It would probably decrease your ad earnings a bit, but you have to sacrifise it for a good amount of fair competition.
I want to add not only continue for ad, but also continue for coins. Fabian still I think it's not a perfect solution. First of all, player who bought/earned enough coins to buy full set should get a reward. Extra life is a reward, so I think I shouldn't punish the player and take away the continue for ad option just because he played enough to unlock extra life. What is more making a second leaderboard isn't good in simple game. Hard decision Edit: What do you think about changing continue window into this form?
Didn't see you edited your post. Looks good to me! And it's so damn addicting. Can't stop playing. Got 2.000 coins now. Already thought of a way to increase fair competition? Oh and could you add a restart button next to the red cross? So we could restart with just one click instead of going back to the main menu.
Great idea actually I'm implementing the new window into the game. Will try to create a restart icon near the red cross. Still haven't figured out how to make it more fair for new players, after implementing all players ideas I'll think more about it 20 000 you're insane
