Hello, Franek here!
Thank you all for playing and reviewing! First sizeable update was just released with new content and lots of tweaks.
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Note on balance!
The balance will change and shift through out the development. And might get ruined at times with new updates as its a lot of systems interacting with each other.
We'll keep adjusting it until full release where we hopefully reach a happy place.
That applies to stars as well as the numbers will change til the full release.
Thanks everyone for feedback and breaking the game and I'm looking forward to the new ways you'll do it again. Small balance patch might come sooner than later.
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Spoilers ahead, here's whats new:
★ DEPTHS ★
You can now select Depth before playing.
Depths will define amount of levels, nightmare difficulties and have special behaviors.
There will be more to come but for now there's 2:
Shallows:
- Easy mode for beginners to warm up to the game
- 7 levels, 2 nightmares
- Start with an extra bust
- Limited star rewards
Faraway Lands
- Requires winning Shallows and 50★ to unlock
- Standard mode
- 10 levels, 3 nightmares
- Bets affecting the difficulty (more info below)
★ NEW CHARACTER - ANAIS ★
Anais character with a power allowing you to smite your dice children in exchange for cash.
A small tip - there's things living in the dice and they're delicious.
★ BETS ★
You can now bet Stars on your runs. Betting increases Star rewards as well as increasing difficulty.
Losing will result in losing your betted Stars.
You will receive a colored star for winning a better run to flex. We plan to link them to more rewards in the future updates.
Let us know how the balance feels on those, the highest bets are supposed be very brutal but they might be an overkill. Good luck :^)
★ NEW DICE EFFECT ★
Mirror - Copies Value of next selected die
Skip - Auto rolls to the next value
Hardy - Heals on roll
Doom - Extreme version of Cracked side
Multiple Score Effect - From Dice Babies
More snacks and trinkets linked to these effects will come in future updates.
★ CLOUD SAVES ★
Cloud saves between devices should work now.
Let us know if they dont.
★ AND MORE ★
- Help overlay rules cheat sheet
- Coloured text system - keywords highlighted automatically
- Combos now prioritise higher points over number of dice
- Dice Have No Mouths
- Lower unlock prices for some
- Stamp nerf - effect fades with time (don't crucify me pls)
- Wizard shield reworked - blocks up to max bust amount of busts (I'll be good)
- Lycheye applies to two-pair instead of pair (pls I have a family)
- Jellies always advance forward to avoid easy infinite Cycle die loops
- New secret combo
- Oopsie dialogue in hopeless situations
- Night mode toggle from options
- Gamepad-compatible death's door screen
- Bunch of wording fixes
- Fixed all-bust check allowing rolls mid-logic (0 out 0 dice instant wipe)
- Fixed item limit carrying between runs
- Fixed corrupt save files crash
- Fixed rare crash on game launch whilescrolling
Let us know if it crashes and burns thx <3