Fun game! One of few steampunk roguelikes I have ever seen, and definitely one of their best! So complete I almost forgot it's still a demo! The death-loop narrative makes me think of Hades, the gameplay is enjoyable as Pixel Dungeon, and the design of utilities and cogwheels is more than featured! Hope to see more updates :)
Besides in my 4-hour playing there were some bug and... suggestions maybe?
game window is a bit larger than my laptop monitor and there's no way to adjust it..
maybe pure keyboard mode or something? feel weird about having to play roguelikes with mouse
another problem with mouse is that after clicking a tile far away, the PC will go towards it non-stop, regardless of enemies and attacks, and it's hard to tell him not do so... often causes YASDs. Maybe let him move only one step at a time when enemy spotted. like ToME4 or Cogmind do...?
one fatal error, looks like a memory leak... not sure what to do about it. The screenshot is here(along with logs in description):https://imgur.com/a/8iSxZrt
some (de)buffs without descriptions... I have no idea what 'Marked' does
no 'save & quit' button...
Overall, thank you so much for such nice work! I really enjoy it!
Edit: the conversations and stories are humorous too burst out laughing several times
Edit 2: oh btw the '01010101' death effect seems not very steampunk but kind of cyberpunk instead
Hey, thank you very much! There's already a patch underway with a ton of fixes, and some of yours are already in there too.
Normally the game is fullscreen, but with a set size (2000 by 1280 pixels), which probably solves your window issue
I wouldn't see how to make using items and selecting tiles not require the mouse, honestly. Most roguelikes I've played require the mouse for many actions, though not always as often. Hotkeys and different keys for the same action mitigate the issue a little bit, I hope. (Did you check the Controls in the menu?)
The patch will stop the player immediately when attacked, yes!
Damn, memory leak. I did check several classic causes (for example, particles and objects) but nothing there. Sucks, but as you said it's difficult to determine exactly where it's coming from. I'll try to get my hands on it, of course.
Marked on its own does nothing except attract your Drones, but some effects interact with Marked. The effect tooltip should mention this if you hover over it. If you see nothing when doing that, it's a bug.
As it looks like now, save and quit won't be a functionality. Probably ever. It's an absolute nightmare to store all variables somewhere, not to mention the darkness shader literally cannot be stored, so that's a big unfortunate downside. Minimizing the window in your version breaks the darkness, this won't happen in patches as it'll be fullscreen, so you can always keep it in the background. Maybe one day... maybe one day.
There's plenty of bugs to go through: using a Blueprint crashes the game, Tripods sometimes don't appear, and there is a 20% game "slowdown" when running. Crashes are highest priority (it SUCKS to lose because of a bug), then content (the Wasteland will be in the demo eventually), then fixes (which I can only do if someone points them out. Like you!). And after release, I'll add some more item sets, particles, enemies... but that's for later.
Wow thank you for your kind reply!! Can't wait to see the new patch lol
That explains a lot 'cause my laptop screen is 1920*1080... thankfully it doesn't matter.
Ohh sorry I overlooked that... I plays games like nethack and adom a lot and they use characters to choose from inventory. Almost forgot what a normal modern game looks like. My bad... Aaand yes, I've checked the Controls menu :) Just not used to clicking repeatedly to attack ~v~
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ahaha not very familiar with drones...
Pityful while understandable. Save file management is terrible I can hardly imagine especially for such an open-world game with so many different elements...
Btw today I came across some other bugs(no crashes though, luckily):
Right-click guns & bombs didn't close inventory subwindow
Drone sensors still worked and showed enemies' defence & resistance even after drones themselves were broken
Offensive drones actively attacked lead engineers and died very soon... is that normal?
Right-click ancient modernization only gave the exact token while the insight token went missing
It's nice talking to you like this!
Edit 1: Oh I was wondering if there would be some kind of localization someday? One of my roguelike friends was curious about your game but not capable of reading so many English texts...
The new version is already up! It also fixes the attacking lead engineers. The other bugs are good to fix soon, too.
Localization is not going to happen because I should have planned that from the start instead of doing it this late. I'll keep it in mind for further games I'll make, as this is technically still my first one.
I'm mostly working on new content right now, but no worries, your bug is fixed in any new version. Here's the progress this week: https://imgur.com/a/FWogyTp
Also the Steam page has been approved so people can wishlist it... soon.
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Excited to try this out! An OSX/Mac build for this would be amazing ;)
If it gets successful enough, I'll definitely expand the platforms and consider localization and the like!
otherwise, it's 100 dollars per year I'm never getting back.
totally fair!
Fun game! One of few steampunk roguelikes I have ever seen, and definitely one of their best! So complete I almost forgot it's still a demo! The death-loop narrative makes me think of Hades, the gameplay is enjoyable as Pixel Dungeon, and the design of utilities and cogwheels is more than featured! Hope to see more updates :)
Besides in my 4-hour playing there were some bug and... suggestions maybe?
Overall, thank you so much for such nice work! I really enjoy it!
Edit: the conversations and stories are humorous too burst out laughing several times
Edit 2: oh btw the '01010101' death effect seems not very steampunk but kind of cyberpunk instead
Edit 3: drone went thru wall and then stuck in it...screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/PBM6MXp
Edit 4: it went back (thru wall)
Hey, thank you very much! There's already a patch underway with a ton of fixes, and some of yours are already in there too.
There's plenty of bugs to go through: using a Blueprint crashes the game, Tripods sometimes don't appear, and there is a 20% game "slowdown" when running. Crashes are highest priority (it SUCKS to lose because of a bug), then content (the Wasteland will be in the demo eventually), then fixes (which I can only do if someone points them out. Like you!). And after release, I'll add some more item sets, particles, enemies... but that's for later.
See you around!
Wow thank you for your kind reply!! Can't wait to see the new patch lol
Btw today I came across some other bugs(no crashes though, luckily):
It's nice talking to you like this!
Edit 1: Oh I was wondering if there would be some kind of localization someday? One of my roguelike friends was curious about your game but not capable of reading so many English texts...
The new version is already up! It also fixes the attacking lead engineers. The other bugs are good to fix soon, too.
Localization is not going to happen because I should have planned that from the start instead of doing it this late. I'll keep it in mind for further games I'll make, as this is technically still my first one.
Yay I tried new patch today and beat the 3rd boss (in the backrooms) for the first time! 🎉🎉And thank you for your consideration about i18n ~v~
Only 1 bug today:
I'm mostly working on new content right now, but no worries, your bug is fixed in any new version. Here's the progress this week: https://imgur.com/a/FWogyTp
Also the Steam page has been approved so people can wishlist it... soon.