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Tiny Wizard (now at Alpha v0.0.7a)
« on: August 02, 2014, 12:00:05 PM »
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=39875.0   Win/Mac/Linux

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A small, fast paced, procedural death labyrinth with combat focus.
Features mayhem, procedural dungeon layouts, fun spells, nasty foes and perma death.

WASD to move, mouse to aim and shoot. Additional spells on keys 0-9.


Feedback
I'd love any kind of feedback. Good or bad.
At this point I'm mostly interested in:
* Performance issues (post your computer spec with those)
* Controls and game feel: Do you use the spells? Does pew pewing feel good?
* Structure of play: Does the room structure feel good? Are shops a good idea? Do you feel you are making interesting choices on how to tackle a room, which items to purchase etc?
* Should it be harder or easier?
* What is missing?

What's new?
* Mana System: Spells and some items now cost mana to use. Slowly recharging over time, or pick up blue mana orbs.
* New Items
* Shops: You can now buy extra items if you have the money and something to blow up the walls.
* UI Improvements: Tool Tips, Prettier health and mana bars etc.
* Lots of tuning and bug fixes
* Google Analytics integration: I can track which levels most people die on. Average FPS per depth. How long level generation takes. Which spells are used etc. System specs. OS etc.
* An end boss in the last room: Needs more thought, but it's there at least. Sort of a bullet sponge at the moment.
* Bought Unity Pro (subscription): Not really using any of its features yet, but there might be some cool new effects coming out of this

What's next?
* Taking your input and making things better
* New environments: At least one outdoor environment.
* I've made some initial tests with leveling. One idea is that each level grants you an upgrade point. That can be used to unlock/upgrade a spell, or increase some stat, +damage, +shoot speed etc. Gonna see how that feels.
* Fixing the crit system. Broken now since the pink wizards starting wand only shoots crits.
* Hoping that Unity 4.6 gets released so I can start using their new GUI tools.
* Start working with sound guy.
« Last Edit: August 02, 2014, 12:02:55 PM by getter77 »
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