When playing a level where the ‘Wall’ orbs overtake the coloured orbs, this happens on ‘boomerang’ shots as well as regular shots, meaning that you can win as soon as you have access to a wall where you can rebound off.
Awesome demo! The only thing that didn't feel great was the jester boss--getting that boss seems to screw the player over unless they have specific items.
Ooh yeah I think I know why, my bad that's an oversight. I'll fix it once I get back home (though that might wait for the full game release planned in a couple of days)
Will definitely buy on release, even though it felt a bit easy. I got 'the needle' relic (clears isolated bubbles) and was able to use that to clear some maps very quickly to end up with my inventory full of good relics and like 50+ coins.
Hope either the runs are longer in full version or there is some Ascension type difficulty scaling.
I LOVE IT! I thought it was going to be a run of the mill bubble shooter game, but it is so COOOLLLLL! I’m getting it straight away!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to Pierre Vandermaesen
Really cool game with clearly a lot of effort put in. Needs a lot of balancing though. For example, even some simple math on something like any of the elemental runes tells you they are not worth it. They cost 15 coins and only give 1 coin every time you break 5 bubbles of that element. That means to have a positive ROI on that purchase you need to destroy more than 15 sets of 5 of that element. That takes essentially the entire game for that purchase to be finally generating you positive income, and even then, you likely only have a floor or two left, which means you get what, 3 extra coins to spend by the end of the game that required you to be at a 15 coin deficit the entire run? Not worth it.
There's similar issues with almost all the balancing in the game. You generally just don't generate enough coins period.
It surprised me how fun it was, since I at first though it was going to be one of those generic bubble popper games. The little additions like the moving shooting point and the shop made it so much more fun, very well done.
First attempt (easy)Second attempt (easy)Third attempt (medium) Challenged myself a bit by not healing. I could have gone with a no buy run, since I got the needle power-up really late (after second boss).
surprisingly all three times I played I managed to make it till the end
bug report: cleared all the colored orbs from the field, leaving only the ones that change on hit, and the game didn't know what to show for the next spell. Mechanically it still seemed to work fine.
I'm already a huge fan of this game (got all the available achievements) definitely going on the Steam wishlist, can't wait for the full version. Out of the 2 characters in the demo, destruction magic is definitely the more powerful, but I enjoy that. The music is super catchy and the sound design is satisfying.
I'm hoping that maybe you could add challenge modes with restrictions, such as only having 1HP, or having bosses show up more often. Or something that would enable us to customize the run at the beginning, giving us self-imposed challenges or advantages. Also, I enjoyed the grind for all the achievements, and I hope that there might be more in the full version (possibly character-specific achievements?)
Awesome game, but i feel like even in hard mode it's just too easy. With both characters, I managed to beat all difficulties on my first try with 30+ coins to spare and almost always staying at full health.
Maybe make more puzzles where you have to play around with disjointed orb clusters or use colorless orbs in clever ways in order to avoid losing health, maybe add more types of pre-placed orbs that cause bullshit, maybe add portals that teleport your orb and that you have to use to get to unreachable clusters, maybe reduce Destruction Magic's health because he doesn't need it with all them bombs, maybe make Needle more expensive and/or give it only a 50% chance to proc on any given orb per turn (i just beat the final boss in 1 round with it), maybe prevent coupons from spawning if the player already has one, maybe add enemies in the levels that do stuff based on orb elements, idk i'm just spitballing ideas.
I failed to hard mode a few times, so I think it's fair. I guess you just have to get lucky and/or have the right strategy. also, indeed the first two are the easiest.
Not sure if it is a bug or not, but the shop restocks when you toggle between buy and sell. So once you get rolling with bombs:
you start clearing levels faster -> you earn more money -> You can buy more bombs!
The winning strat for the first wizard is to sell off the telescope and buy bombs, which feels a tad unfair haha.
Oh that makes sense. Yeah it's a bug, should be fixed now ahah. And yeah, the scope is an easy bonus for new players, also serves as training wheels for the first playthrough
ngl there are a lot of roguelikes with shop exploits, although it usually comes down to the save system reloading back to before the shop, meaning that if there was any randomized things you could do in the shop, you could typically redo them knowing what will happen due to most roguelikes being seeded, or if they aren't you could reroll it until you get the result that you want, like in dungeon clawer's prize machine. blatro actually patched an exploit where you could "peek" inside a pack by buy it and then quitting out, but it's funny because they fixed it by automatically making you buy the pack (ie. the shop menu briefly appears, and the the buying the pack sequence plays) (balatro actually has a pretty robust save system, it saves after each hand played and after rerolling in the shop). some games like meme mayhem play into this quirk by having a menu button specifically for it before you admit defeat. if you read this far, know that this save and quit exploit is particularly useful in dungeons and degenerate gamblers, where you can use it to predicate certain events especially the coin flip (but you have to be very quick to hit the pause button), the chipcoin and the memory game (there's an easy achievement for you)
as for your game, I don't know if it would have a save and quit exploit, but I don't frankly care. it wouldn't be of any use and the game is too short to have a save system anyway.
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A bug:
When playing a level where the ‘Wall’ orbs overtake the coloured orbs, this happens on ‘boomerang’ shots as well as regular shots, meaning that you can win as soon as you have access to a wall where you can rebound off.
Oooooh 😅 That's a sneaky one, thanks!
It was fun, thanks for sharing !
Awesome demo! The only thing that didn't feel great was the jester boss--getting that boss seems to screw the player over unless they have specific items.
Thanks ! Yeah I will nerf him a bit to make it a bit less unfair
Very fun and promessing game, though after I finished the game for the first time with the orb wizard, the game crashed and showed me this message:
Thanks for sending the error message, the game might be stumbling upon an error somewhere there, I'll investigate 🙏
No problem and good luck
The game softlocks for some reason when only poison orbs are left, the shooter won't give me any more spells and it just stops moving.
Ooh yeah I think I know why, my bad that's an oversight. I'll fix it once I get back home (though that might wait for the full game release planned in a couple of days)
The shooter constantly moving around is too annoying. Can't line up any good shots cause it keeps bouncing around.
bomb wizard is so strong!! Love the little details
great game !
"Minimalist" achievement either checks only for "less than 3 items" or counts bought potions as items
Didn't work with Destrucion Mage on Easy, while bying only health and bonus spell potions
But did work with Orb Mage on easy after bying only 1 item and 1 potion
Edit: most likely the second one since, I just got "Duplicates" after bying 5th bonus spell potion
Will definitely buy on release, even though it felt a bit easy. I got 'the needle' relic (clears isolated bubbles) and was able to use that to clear some maps very quickly to end up with my inventory full of good relics and like 50+ coins.
Hope either the runs are longer in full version or there is some Ascension type difficulty scaling.
A very fine game. GG ! :)
I LOVE IT! I thought it was going to be a run of the mill bubble shooter game, but it is so COOOLLLLL! I’m getting it straight away!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks to Pierre Vandermaesen
Very cool game, I had insane lag with the aim slow relic and it really messed up my run
Weird ! Were you using the web version ?
untouchable should really be a "don't take any damage during a run" achievement instead of "don't take more than 20 damage"
this is super effin fun!! i love the music too and its a fun stress free game with awesome graphics! cant wait to see the full version
Really cool game with clearly a lot of effort put in. Needs a lot of balancing though. For example, even some simple math on something like any of the elemental runes tells you they are not worth it. They cost 15 coins and only give 1 coin every time you break 5 bubbles of that element. That means to have a positive ROI on that purchase you need to destroy more than 15 sets of 5 of that element. That takes essentially the entire game for that purchase to be finally generating you positive income, and even then, you likely only have a floor or two left, which means you get what, 3 extra coins to spend by the end of the game that required you to be at a 15 coin deficit the entire run? Not worth it.
There's similar issues with almost all the balancing in the game. You generally just don't generate enough coins period.
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It surprised me how fun it was, since I at first though it was going to be one of those generic bubble popper games. The little additions like the moving shooting point and the shop made it so much more fun, very well done.
Challenged myself a bit by not healing. I could have gone with a no buy run, since I got the needle power-up really late (after second boss).
surprisingly all three times I played I managed to make it till the end
Nice, you'll absolutely love the harder mages that are coming in the full game 😁
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Cool game!
Hi! Cool game!
Neat game, keep working on the balance.
bug report: cleared all the colored orbs from the field, leaving only the ones that change on hit, and the game didn't know what to show for the next spell. Mechanically it still seemed to work fine.
My attempt at getting a high gold score:
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I beat you :p
>:(
actually a pretty great game, enjoyed it, wishlisting on steam for sure
I'm already a huge fan of this game (got all the available achievements) definitely going on the Steam wishlist, can't wait for the full version. Out of the 2 characters in the demo, destruction magic is definitely the more powerful, but I enjoy that. The music is super catchy and the sound design is satisfying.
I'm hoping that maybe you could add challenge modes with restrictions, such as only having 1HP, or having bosses show up more often. Or something that would enable us to customize the run at the beginning, giving us self-imposed challenges or advantages. Also, I enjoyed the grind for all the achievements, and I hope that there might be more in the full version (possibly character-specific achievements?)
Game's kind of easy even on the hardest difficulty, but it's cool nonetheless.
Fun for sure! Somehow I had an easier time on the hardest difficulty XD Amazing work!
cool
Fun game! I found that I played significantly worse with the flashlight enabled, so I sold it as soon as possible :-D
Awesome game, but i feel like even in hard mode it's just too easy. With both characters, I managed to beat all difficulties on my first try with 30+ coins to spare and almost always staying at full health.
Maybe make more puzzles where you have to play around with disjointed orb clusters or use colorless orbs in clever ways in order to avoid losing health, maybe add more types of pre-placed orbs that cause bullshit, maybe add portals that teleport your orb and that you have to use to get to unreachable clusters, maybe reduce Destruction Magic's health because he doesn't need it with all them bombs, maybe make Needle more expensive and/or give it only a 50% chance to proc on any given orb per turn (i just beat the final boss in 1 round with it), maybe prevent coupons from spawning if the player already has one, maybe add enemies in the levels that do stuff based on orb elements, idk i'm just spitballing ideas.
either way great game, lots of fun
The first two mages are the easiest ones, onc the full game release the new mages will add a lt of challenge ;) But I like some of these ideas!
I failed to hard mode a few times, so I think it's fair. I guess you just have to get lucky and/or have the right strategy. also, indeed the first two are the easiest.
Needle trivializes most if not all of the bosses
hard mode still incorrectly says 20 floors on demo version (I know you just fixed this same problem for medium difficulty)
btw, every time you win with bomb guy in the demo, it claims to unlock the next guy, but of course does not due to him being locked in the demo.
my first try😅😅😅
This 1hp is giving me an anxiety attack
lol
second playthourgh
69 health lost
Cool music
Thanks ! 🎧
it was working a second ago, but now it's not due to webGL incompatibility.
I released an update, that might be why. Is it still broken ? What browser are you using ?
This is a real gem, also the needle cleared the full boss room on my 3rd run lol
Yeah the needle is a bit OP not gonna lie ^^
that is fun good job
This game is so much fun. I really like the sound design!
Thank you so much ! Will release the full OST for free once the full game is out :)
Great fun!
Omg so many bombs wtf
Not sure if it is a bug or not, but the shop restocks when you toggle between buy and sell. So once you get rolling with bombs: you start clearing levels faster -> you earn more money -> You can buy more bombs!
The winning strat for the first wizard is to sell off the telescope and buy bombs, which feels a tad unfair haha.
Oh that makes sense. Yeah it's a bug, should be fixed now ahah. And yeah, the scope is an easy bonus for new players, also serves as training wheels for the first playthrough
swiching in and out of buy menu restocks shop.
Should be fixed now :) Thanks for reporting !
noo my expolitt --!
ngl there are a lot of roguelikes with shop exploits, although it usually comes down to the save system reloading back to before the shop, meaning that if there was any randomized things you could do in the shop, you could typically redo them knowing what will happen due to most roguelikes being seeded, or if they aren't you could reroll it until you get the result that you want, like in dungeon clawer's prize machine. blatro actually patched an exploit where you could "peek" inside a pack by buy it and then quitting out, but it's funny because they fixed it by automatically making you buy the pack (ie. the shop menu briefly appears, and the the buying the pack sequence plays) (balatro actually has a pretty robust save system, it saves after each hand played and after rerolling in the shop). some games like meme mayhem play into this quirk by having a menu button specifically for it before you admit defeat. if you read this far, know that this save and quit exploit is particularly useful in dungeons and degenerate gamblers, where you can use it to predicate certain events especially the coin flip (but you have to be very quick to hit the pause button), the chipcoin and the memory game (there's an easy achievement for you)
as for your game, I don't know if it would have a save and quit exploit, but I don't frankly care. it wouldn't be of any use and the game is too short to have a save system anyway.
This game is addicting
this keeps crashing my computer, but that might be because I have too many tabs open.
now it just became a white screen when I reached the mermaid boss.
Could you give me details about the browser / OS you are using ?
Web games can be troublesome, I will add executables downloads tomorrow
chrome on a Chromebook (the acer kind, but I don't think that would matter)