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Game Updates & News / Re: Daily Updates
« Last post by RossD20Studios on July 17, 2019, 08:28:54 AM »


Develop with Ross Episode 23: Let's Make Gold
Today I'll be expanding on our design pillar of strategic resource management by adding gold and shop systems to our single player campaigns in Summoners Fate.

Watch on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/d20studios.
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Game Discussion / Re: Single Player Campaign Feedback
« Last post by RossD20Studios on July 16, 2019, 11:43:07 AM »
From Outlander on Discord:

I was just catching up on chat, and regarding the deck building, I had an interesting concept that may work for it, that both gives you choices when you have 2000+ cards and also has the randomness that you want in a rouge like, but also takes synergies into account.

So imagine a branching path that whenever you chose a card it sends you down that path and determines what is offered next time.  except that there are many branches and the game only offers you a random 3 from the many possible options.

So you have first pick Option 1, 2, and 3.  you pick 2.  Well option 2 has 14 paths that have cards that would promote good synergies. but only 3 of those 14 are offered on your next pick, then the process repeats.

my only concern  with this method is that its a lot of work for the dev team to create these synergy paths in the first place.
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Game Discussion / Re: Single Player Campaign Feedback
« Last post by RossD20Studios on July 12, 2019, 04:09:19 PM »
From Apex:

Regarding progression within a run: A resource, like gold, can help here, but it's not great for the current setup from an RP perspective. You could set up various types of shop keepers (nature summon cards, equipment blacksmith, card upgrades or extra lives, etc) with 3 semi-random items you can buy with gold at the campsites. It adds choices and excitement for the player (What can I unlock? Should I buy this now or wait? Is that thief guardian with extra generation but weaker attack worth it?)
You have to be able to almost instant back-track to a shopkeeper to make this work, and it still doesn't solve the issue of pick-one-of-three cards on victory gameplay.

i.e. you don't want to deal with a shop keeper after every room

The good part of adding a shop is that it forces valuation of the cards (gold cost), and you can write a function for random enemy summoners that scales them to where the player should be. Downside is this doesn't deal with synergy.
Part of the challenge for the current deck building  is that you only reshuffle at the camp. So you have to add new cards between camps to do anything. If you reshuffle every room, you would need to stop mana carry-over, but purging cards from the deck becomes valuable
So paying increasing amounts of gold to purge cards from the deck can be an interesting shop keeper
e.g.: first purge costs 5, second is 15, third is 50, etc.

Bad part of reshuffle and starting a 3 mana is that 5 mana cards become less valuable.
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Game Discussion / Re: Single Player Campaign Feedback
« Last post by RossD20Studios on July 12, 2019, 12:39:45 PM »
On Peter's Campaign:
Level 1 and 5 were the hardest - Perhaps too much synergy with the AI decks?

From tLark
The room design is good on Peter's campaign
I like the spatial puzzles

Level 2 troll in Castle is awkward and fun
And the random makes replaying more rewarding
Whereas rosses feels too deterministic so you are joylessly replaying rote moves on replay
The difficulty progression is weird, level 1 can be really hard sometimes
I kind of like it short and samey difficulty though
It's quicker to replay

I think it's a matter of removing some combos from ai deck
U want ai not to have synergy
As that's really volatile in attack power

Keeps the brain engaged every replay
U learn strategic weaknesses too but can't overfit the tactics

Yeah I think it is balanced ok that campaign
I liked it a lot
Random spawns is good

I kept hacking down thorns looking for treasure too
I was not really aware of much continuity between levels and did not care either
It seemed loose, like the monsters seemed to change a lot
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Game Discussion / Re: Single Player Campaign Feedback
« Last post by RossD20Studios on July 12, 2019, 11:18:25 AM »
Regarding benefit/progression out of failed runs:

Presently, all of the cards in Summoners Fate are unlocked, however, we have plans to tie card unlocks into the progression of single player. Once we're ready to establish unlock/progression, most cards will be locked by default. As you explore/complete/fail runs, you'll unlock new Summoners and cards that can be used to build decks for subsequent runs.

When starting with a run with a pre-constructed deck, we'll modify the difficulty tier appropriately.
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Game Discussion / Re: Single Player Campaign Feedback
« Last post by RossD20Studios on July 12, 2019, 07:39:14 AM »
From Apex
@RossD20Studios Re: Campaign save point as a resource. Solitairica has this where you can spend gold (increasingly expensive) to to buy a “celestial hourglass” to play against the last enemy again. The key to rogue-likes is to still provide a benefit or progression out of a failed run.
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Game Discussion / Re: Single Player Campaign Feedback
« Last post by RossD20Studios on July 11, 2019, 02:01:01 PM »
From tLark:

Re: Peter's campaign
Phew nearly dead on first and second levels lol
Crawled to 3 for a rest
"I did enjoy that every battle was hard and short distance to camp fire."

Urgh died out of combat from 4 in a row fire traps.
Rage quit
If it stopped me after 1 hit I would not be so annoyed
Action Item:  Stop movement after a trigger is initiated when in explore mode.

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Game Discussion / Re: Single Player Campaign Feedback
« Last post by RossD20Studios on July 11, 2019, 01:38:11 PM »
Notes from Discord

From LoginError

There are two interesting things about that screenshot
1) I have a loyal dragon, it is the best dragon and I don't want it patched out
2) I cannot walk to the exit because there are dudes in the way, maybe you should be able to move through allies in explore mode?


From tLark:
  • Confusion over loyalty and permanent control. Example: Believe Dark Temptation should grant permanent control of a character.
  • So that campaign (Ross's campaign, Li's Quest). It's like a puzzle. You can't randomize that. You need multiple play through to win. I wish I could skip first levels if I am happy with card choice.

From LoginError
You Died:
1) Retry from start
2) Retry from last campfire
3) Ragequit lol

If you died of bad luck or a small mistake, retrying from the campfire gives you another chance to make it right, but if you died of gross missmanagement of resources or really poor long term planning, then...you should probably start over
Having to start over because of a misclick is no fun
Having to start again from the campfire with an unwinnable scenario is also no fun
So you can mitigate both by giving the choice

From tLark
I liked the levels a lot though. Nice progression and skill curve. And mini puzzles.
And skeleton theme vs fire was nice. Hard to generate though, it's very designed
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Game Discussion / Re: Single Player Campaign Feedback
« Last post by RossD20Studios on July 10, 2019, 02:55:07 PM »
Thanks Outlander and also thanks again for your help on the stream - your observations and quick wit found the bug that would have halted our campaign release  :D

Also, I thought I'd jot down the couple of notes you shared during the stream here so we can track them:

1. Regarding "Choose a Card" and end of battle rewards, it would help to have something other than choosing cards. For example, have things like increased mana, gaining new abilities, etc.
2. Discard abilities (like that found on Animate Tree) are useful. What if cards could be upgraded to have more dualistic abilities that expand their abilities and make them more adaptive to challenges encountered?
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Game Discussion / Re: Single Player Campaign Feedback
« Last post by Outlander04 on July 10, 2019, 02:02:11 PM »
If anyone is having trouble locating the AppData folder on pc, this folder is normally hidden. go to your search bar and type in %appdata% and you will find it.
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