Deeper Descent

morphine 2021-04-26 16:36

It's going to be very difficult to provide an accurate review on this as it clearly requires a lot of time to get a full picture of your game. I will say this, it's obvious you have put a lot of time and effort into this project and that shows with all of the little details in the dashboard, etc. - there is a huge learning curve here unfortunately and it makes it difficult for anyone to provide a well thought out review when there is so much to digest and so many more games that they have to play.

I really do hope that this takes off for you because it seems like it could be very interesting. I even find the spreadsheet like look of it endearing.

One quick thing - the notification that you send everyone when they sign up doesn't add anything to their inventory. I was disappointed to find that out :(

quetzakol 2021-04-26 17:27

I share the opinion of @morphine. I spent some time on this game but I don't have hours in front of me to be able to judge it well.

The initial idea looks interesting though. During the time I played, I found it pretty difficult to understand overall, though it was fun to explore all the parts of the game :)

That's an impressive amount of work in any case! I'm interested to see where it could go in the future. My intuition told me it was surely using some new "live" techno like Hotwire or Phoenix LiveView so I checked the code and I was right about Hotwire ^^ Nice to see it used for games like that

goutye 2021-04-27 13:02

I have been running the game on a separated tab for now more than a day, and progressed quite far! I really like this kind of game, only takes a few seconds and I can do something else in the mean time :smile: It felt great to see other people around you as well. So really well done for the clean interface! :v:

One improvements I would love to see is either: Knowing when the battle will be finished, or being able to participate in the next battle right away even if another battle is in progress. 5 times in a row, I was super unlucky maybe, but I checked the website and "The battle is raging". I went doing something else, got back a different battle was "The battle is raging". Unable to join any battle for the 5 times in a row I checked. :tired_face: Would this be possible? Thanks for the great work and congratulations :smile:

vegevan 2021-04-27 13:29

@morphine Thanks a lot for your review. I really appreciate the honest feedback and I know this format doesn't work well with a LD where you try to play as many games as possible in the review phase. This game demands very little time but very frequently and I was hoping reviewers would let it go in a second tab while going into other submissions to be honest haha I'll check tonight about the reward Item, I do changed something and made it automatically equipped, anyway if you don't have the sword of LD48 I'll reward you with a better one in compensation :grin:

@quetzakol Thank you very much for the time you spent on my submission ! I know this game demands a lot of time. A few hours before the release my gf told me there was absolutely no text to explain what the game is about. This is why the tutorial is quick short and the explanations approximative. Fortunately i'm working on this every day now and i'll add more and more context, so if you were a little bit interested feel free to come back in a few weeks and check out ! Hotwire (which I'm a huge fan) is definitely plugged in, but nothing in the website actually uses it, itdemanded a bit too much work to use directly. I'm planning to incorporate it really soon, so stay tuned ! For now, the game is proper Ruby On Rails + Bulma CSS + Stimulus JS ! Anyway, it's nice to see an expert eye like yours on my game :grin:

Hi @goutye ! First of all: a HUGE thank you. I was hoping at least one person liking the game, and here you are with all your good energy ! I felt overwelmed reading you comment so thank you very much ! I'm very interested in your experience ! Would you mind chatting a bit with me one day or over asynchronous media ? About your game improvement i totally understand. The thing is I have technical limitaiton due to my usage of a tool's free tier. However, last night I found a way to bypass it a little and now the timers are reaaaally more accurate ! This is really noticable so feel free to try it some day ! I am about to search you in my account database and reward you with a special item ASAP.

goutye 2021-04-27 13:49

Hey, I now understand more the technical limitations of the free tiers of the tools you use indeed! The few down times I noticed today and yesterday makes sense now! :smile: Well I am keeping the game running on the side, hopefully being able to progress sometimes today when the battles will stop "raging" ahah. :v: If you gift me something, avoid to gift me something super cheated, otherwise it will feel too easy haha! You can certainly find my twitter if you want to speak particularly about something! Enjoy!