I like this game alot but there are a good chunk of balance issues and bugs like blood being kinda hard to get and not getting blood from distress words if you upgrade "Paper cuts" or later chapters being pointless besides getting a secret from the boss because it's just giving the words more health for no benefit like more resources or anything. There is also the fact that rituals are borderline pointless with how many resources they give back in relation to how much you spend. spending 400 dust to just get +1 every 30 seconds. I would need to wait 3 hours and 20 minutes to recoup the cost of that upgrade. The game is really fun and I enjoy playing it but the bugs and balance issues are kinda dissuading me from playing further.
Thank you for your feedback. I agree with you and others that the balance (beyond the first 10-30 minutes) is very wrong. My plan is to do that next week, for now I was making sure to have a save system and setting support in place.
Game is very nice but definitely has balancing issues. There is no reason to go in further zones to farm ressources, as enemies drop the same amount, but with more HP. Blood is also stupidly hard to get, due to the low drop rate early on and the increasingly high price of the upgrades. The achievements about clearing words are also bugged and don't work at all. There also seem to be a point when you can't deal any more damage to words (diff 19 in level 1 for me)
Sounds good ^^ It is already quite an enjoyable game, so i'm sure you'll do great :)
Good luck in your programing o7
Edit: Not sure if it's normal, but when I destroy a block that my minions already damaged, beside the normal loot, i also gain a lot of additional loot in the top left corner. This also makes the game quite laggy
One more thing (for now), is it "start reading seasion" on purpose, or is it a typo? As someone who hates typos, it itches me, but it'll be good to know that it's not, and it'll stop bugging me :)
Thanks! I also just found out that after finishing the first session where I get my first insight, the game freezes. It lets me get the insight, and finish the session, but after I "fall asleep", the game freezes. I've tried reloading it (thrice), but the same thing happens
HP is the health you have (obviously). At the beginning, you have 10, and lose 0.1 every second. Every time you hit a word, you lose health (I haven't figured out how much per word yet). Once it hits 0, the session is done, as I assume you have already figured out. You can see the health in the upper left corner
so just starting and its EXTREMLY laggy/glitchy. when i try to hover over something it freezes and turns into a white box that just drags down my screen slowly.
i was on web. when i tried to hover over the things in the play area it lagged out a lot and then once it said like game over or end up run type thing it completely crashed and froze everything.
Is there a way to save your progress? I lost mine (not too much, so it shouldn't be too hard to return to where I was), but I just want to stop it from happening in the future
Not for now. I need to add the save feature, it is in the TODO list.
EDIT: A first version of the save is working. The webgl version will reset every time I upload a new update, but the downloadable version should support updates.
I noticed the attack range upgrades also don't increase it much, at all. Unless I'm stupid and haven't been paying attention. It just feels similar to the original size
also bug reports: the blood after you buy the +5% blood upgrade blood won't drop anymore until you get it to lvl 20 and for ink too it doesn't drop till you max the upgrade, the max hp regen doesn't apply or if it does it's based on the max hp you had at the time of the upgrade buy so since for me it was just 15 it was unnoticeable once i had 700k max hp lastly the attack speed upgrades often are invisible and you need to upgrade an unrelated upgrade so that you can go back to seeing it in order to upgrade it
the current max you can get whit all upgrades is chapter 47, only 2 words spawn before the boss then the boss kills you even whit all the hp you can get(around 400k), if the max hp regeneration gets fixed maybe you can get enought hp to get past 47 but 48 i suppose is more damage than the entire hp bar and i wouldn't be surprised if only a single word spawned before the boss
Incredible. I saw this, and not gonna lie, wanted to show you up by getting to like, 25 or something, but I gave up at 5 because it was too difficult with the upgrades I had XD. Congrats, you beat out someone you didn't know was trying to beat you
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Papercuts seems to only work on Familiars, not regular attacks.
The browser version does not seem to run on Chromium (Chrome and Brave) browsers.
It works fine on Firefox.
I like this game alot but there are a good chunk of balance issues and bugs like blood being kinda hard to get and not getting blood from distress words if you upgrade "Paper cuts" or later chapters being pointless besides getting a secret from the boss because it's just giving the words more health for no benefit like more resources or anything. There is also the fact that rituals are borderline pointless with how many resources they give back in relation to how much you spend. spending 400 dust to just get +1 every 30 seconds. I would need to wait 3 hours and 20 minutes to recoup the cost of that upgrade. The game is really fun and I enjoy playing it but the bugs and balance issues are kinda dissuading me from playing further.
Thank you for your feedback.
I agree with you and others that the balance (beyond the first 10-30 minutes) is very wrong.
My plan is to do that next week, for now I was making sure to have a save system and setting support in place.
Game is very nice but definitely has balancing issues. There is no reason to go in further zones to farm ressources, as enemies drop the same amount, but with more HP. Blood is also stupidly hard to get, due to the low drop rate early on and the increasingly high price of the upgrades. The achievements about clearing words are also bugged and don't work at all. There also seem to be a point when you can't deal any more damage to words (diff 19 in level 1 for me)
Hi! i agree that the balancing is not good, thank you for the feedback, much appreciated.
Right now i am working on the save + settings (some people had performance issues).
Once that's done, I will get to balancing and later game upgrades. I dont want it to be grindy, you should have something to buy after each run.
Sounds good ^^
It is already quite an enjoyable game, so i'm sure you'll do great :)
Good luck in your programing o7
Edit: Not sure if it's normal, but when I destroy a block that my minions already damaged, beside the normal loot, i also gain a lot of additional loot in the top left corner. This also makes the game quite laggy
One more thing (for now), is it "start reading seasion" on purpose, or is it a typo? As someone who hates typos, it itches me, but it'll be good to know that it's not, and it'll stop bugging me :)
It was certainly a midnight typo.
It should be fixed now (but again, update means losing the save)
Thanks! I also just found out that after finishing the first session where I get my first insight, the game freezes. It lets me get the insight, and finish the session, but after I "fall asleep", the game freezes. I've tried reloading it (thrice), but the same thing happens
Ok that is worse than a typo.
To confirm: you are in browser (which one?) + PC ?
Browser on a Chromebook (I know, lame, but it's what I got for now. I'll try out the download when I get back to my computer at home)
All computers are beautiful, and it certainly helps me!
This game should run everywhere
Lots of potential on this (as someone who loves incrementals).
Feel like the one thing that isn't working so well is that it takes a while to figure out what is doing what (what isHP ? when do we lose it?)
Thanks!
I need to better tutorialize the HP decay + damage... maybe add some damage fountains.
HP is the health you have (obviously). At the beginning, you have 10, and lose 0.1 every second. Every time you hit a word, you lose health (I haven't figured out how much per word yet). Once it hits 0, the session is done, as I assume you have already figured out. You can see the health in the upper left corner
so just starting and its EXTREMLY laggy/glitchy. when i try to hover over something it freezes and turns into a white box that just drags down my screen slowly.
Sorry to hear that, could you give me some more details? are you on Web, downloaded PC version, or mobile?
I think it might be the postprocessing i added yesterday, could you try the previous version? https://solroo.itch.io/midnight-words-gwj86
i was on web. when i tried to hover over the things in the play area it lagged out a lot and then once it said like game over or end up run type thing it completely crashed and froze everything.
Ok, sorry about that.
I am quite sure it is the visual effects. I am adding settings now, to disable them.
the link you sent does work fine but the game here dosent.
Great, thanks
Is there a way to save your progress? I lost mine (not too much, so it shouldn't be too hard to return to where I was), but I just want to stop it from happening in the future
Not for now. I need to add the save feature, it is in the TODO list.
EDIT: A first version of the save is working. The webgl version will reset every time I upload a new update, but the downloadable version should support updates.
I noticed the attack range upgrades also don't increase it much, at all. Unless I'm stupid and haven't been paying attention. It just feels similar to the original size
I will check it outEDIT: True! thanks, i will add it to the fix of today
also bug reports: the blood after you buy the +5% blood upgrade blood won't drop anymore until you get it to lvl 20 and for ink too it doesn't drop till you max the upgrade, the max hp regen doesn't apply or if it does it's based on the max hp you had at the time of the upgrade buy so since for me it was just 15 it was unnoticeable once i had 700k max hp lastly the attack speed upgrades often are invisible and you need to upgrade an unrelated upgrade so that you can go back to seeing it in order to upgrade it
Thank you very much for this in-depth testing!
It is very much appreciated, I will take a look at it.
I am aware that I need to look at the late game and balancing, for now I have been focusing on having a "fun base", so mostly the first 10-30min
the current max you can get whit all upgrades is chapter 47, only 2 words spawn before the boss then the boss kills you even whit all the hp you can get(around 400k), if the max hp regeneration gets fixed maybe you can get enought hp to get past 47 but 48 i suppose is more damage than the entire hp bar and i wouldn't be surprised if only a single word spawned before the boss
chapter 19 achieved whit 15 hp
Incredible. I saw this, and not gonna lie, wanted to show you up by getting to like, 25 or something, but I gave up at 5 because it was too difficult with the upgrades I had XD. Congrats, you beat out someone you didn't know was trying to beat you
thanks