i think you should avoid too much keyboard input as a rule, and limit the haggling to a up/down button that will apply a % depending on your skills. That would help to keep things dinamic, since the first 4 times it migth be fun, but at the hundreth you just dont care anymore and buy/sell at base price save exceptions (old Reccetear player here).
Also giving a backstory with a few endings, i played not too long ago a funny game about a vampire turned shopkeeper by the hand of a belmont kicking him out of his castle. With your trading you decided which realm wins an ongoing war by selling weapons and armor or giving loans to a side (or just sell to both and rake in the money). You can borrow that and a few of your own as an endgame goal instead of the common huge debt goal.
Hi Varkalandar, I was wondering why you didnt show up anymore around here, im happy to hear you are already better; thats something that can happen to anyone so dont worry yourself too much about it.
I think you can use a few of these models to fill in customers:
Your drawings are not bad, to my untrained eye they just seem in need of a bit of polish; sadly this is not the page for you to learn more, you will have to head to some other forum.
i played it a bit; ill make a less corrosive critics than the guys in Kongregate but harser in my own way.
Governing:
The governing screen is awkward, too many buildings without clear purpose, resume them all into the palace, give sliders to each one and some "?" tooltips near each one explaining their function. Having that many is confusing, you migth want to drop a few, also after each mission a pop-up of how your funding affected your kingdom should appear so you get why you are pouring money into them.
Since you will have an emptier kingdom now, put houses, mixed with services buildings that reflects your kingdom levels at services funding. EX: you start with only tents but after funding "Housing" until lv20 they become adobes (+10 max pop), if you fund education small schools pop up in between houses, increasing funding makes them high schools -> universities ...
Same for Security, it could make guard towers and barracks to pop up, which will increase the defending army, universities likewise grants combat mages, and hospitals healers for your army.
The idea is that everythings grants a reason to be funded, you get the decision what is more important and see some graphical result.
The buildings that give battles bonuses should be put near the palace, but they need an option to use the roulette again, by using gold instead of 30 min waiting.
Battle:
The gate defending is way too weird, those statues are totally getting in the way; clean the place.
Diagonal movement is a need, specially since there are so many obstacles.
More attack spells, this has potential to become a good bullet hell.
More enemies with different attack patterns and spells. (I only saw the green guys and some red ones so i dont know if there are non melee monsters); Is intended the green guys resurrect rigth over you?
they would look much better if yyou apply a toon shader, its called freestyle in blender.
Can you show some pics or videos of your prototype?
i think you should avoid too much keyboard input as a rule, and limit the haggling to a up/down button that will apply a % depending on your skills. That would help to keep things dinamic, since the first 4 times it migth be fun, but at the hundreth you just dont care anymore and buy/sell at base price save exceptions (old Reccetear player here).
Also giving a backstory with a few endings, i played not too long ago a funny game about a vampire turned shopkeeper by the hand of a belmont kicking him out of his castle. With your trading you decided which realm wins an ongoing war by selling weapons and armor or giving loans to a side (or just sell to both and rake in the money). You can borrow that and a few of your own as an endgame goal instead of the common huge debt goal.
Hi Varkalandar, I was wondering why you didnt show up anymore around here, im happy to hear you are already better; thats something that can happen to anyone so dont worry yourself too much about it.
I think you can use a few of these models to fill in customers:
https://opengameart.org/content/elven-archer-lower-poly-edition
https://opengameart.org/content/elf-game-ready-and-animated
https://opengameart.org/content/dwarf-fixed
https://opengameart.org/content/wizard-4
Durian models are aldo pretty good: https://www.blendswap.com/terms/category/characters/page:3
Your drawings are not bad, to my untrained eye they just seem in need of a bit of polish; sadly this is not the page for you to learn more, you will have to head to some other forum.
Have a look at flare:
http://flarerpg.org/
Its an open source diablo and kinda has that style.
i wont be able to make it in time, nevertheless ill post it here when its finished
I hate you! :D
You raised the bar too much with this, great work .
im sure this went under everyone´s radar (i didnt see it until now), Why not do it about Surt´s Scraps now?
i played it a bit; ill make a less corrosive critics than the guys in Kongregate but harser in my own way.
Governing:
The governing screen is awkward, too many buildings without clear purpose, resume them all into the palace, give sliders to each one and some "?" tooltips near each one explaining their function. Having that many is confusing, you migth want to drop a few, also after each mission a pop-up of how your funding affected your kingdom should appear so you get why you are pouring money into them.
Since you will have an emptier kingdom now, put houses, mixed with services buildings that reflects your kingdom levels at services funding. EX: you start with only tents but after funding "Housing" until lv20 they become adobes (+10 max pop), if you fund education small schools pop up in between houses, increasing funding makes them high schools -> universities ...
Same for Security, it could make guard towers and barracks to pop up, which will increase the defending army, universities likewise grants combat mages, and hospitals healers for your army.
The idea is that everythings grants a reason to be funded, you get the decision what is more important and see some graphical result.
The buildings that give battles bonuses should be put near the palace, but they need an option to use the roulette again, by using gold instead of 30 min waiting.
Battle:
The gate defending is way too weird, those statues are totally getting in the way; clean the place.
Diagonal movement is a need, specially since there are so many obstacles.
More attack spells, this has potential to become a good bullet hell.
More enemies with different attack patterns and spells. (I only saw the green guys and some red ones so i dont know if there are non melee monsters); Is intended the green guys resurrect rigth over you?
This has potential so dont give up :)
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