So finally this weekend was able to release the Ice Queen expansion for Magic Stones. The amount of help I got from testers and users was enourmous and wouldn’t have been able to finish it so shortly (yes, such updates takes lot of time, since basically I changed completely the fight system).
Anyway if you’re curious to see the new changes, head to the game page right now!
Talking with the testers today in my forums, I decided to change the way the experience level of avatars works. Instead of having a “multiplier effect”, which was causing avatars too powerful, I opted for a simple “addition”.
Each level will add +1 on attack and defence, and +5 on hitpoints.
As you can see in this screenshot, even the most basic and “harmless” avatar can turn into a deadly opponent once it reaches higher levels. Sure reaching level 5 means collecting 50 stones and that should take a while!
Yes finally after quite some time I am very close to its release, or at least a beta by next week.
The fact is that I got distracted by a nice game made by some friends at Sakura Games, called Mythic Adventure.
Nothing complex, just a simple plain inlay with some nice effect and a word game every 5-6 levels or so, but quite addictive. I wish them good luck!
Back on topic, I have made a major change in the Magic Stones battle system: I have “mitigated damage”. What it means? it means that now avatar will hit more often, but their overall damage will be lower.
Yes, if an avatar has attack 10 and the target defence 1, you’ll still see 30 damage or so, but if the gap between attack and defence is lower, there will be less chances that this will happen.
This way I think the game changes radically, together with the new limitation to Mannaz spell, that will replenish UP to 25% of total druid mana (not cumulative). I think the game is much more strategic now!
I play occasionally Everquest 2. It means that I subscribe for 1-2 months, then usually I take a break of another 1-2 months. This because otherwise the game gets too much addictive and prevents me from working 🙂
BUT… every time you cancel your subscription (not the 1st time only, EVERY TIME) a windows appear with a user feedback REQUEST. Is not OPTIONAL. Fun how they name it “A few questions”. The questions actually are 27 ! and every time I cancel I must reply the same 27 questions AGAIN? Of course I click randomly like probably 99% of people, so the data they get is totally useless.
This time probably I won’t re-subscribe again. Thinking to re-do this “quick questionary” really pisses me and probably won’t make me come back to this otherwise great game anymore.
Bah…
Yes, the USM 2 editor is almost finished. I’m quite proud of it, it is fast and can export .csv files, just in case someone prefer to use external tools like Microsoft Excel or any program capable of reading .csv files.
That was the biggest step in USM2 development. Once you have a working editor (and so a working DB engine too), you “only” have to call its functions to display a list of players, teams, statistics and so on.
That doesn’t mean that the game will be done in 1 month of course! but I can say that 30% of the work is done for sure.
