Choosing a direction
Hello Rabbits!
Thanks everyone for a very fun and eventful Steam Nextfest! I hope you've all enjoyed the demo; I certainly got a lot of good feedback.
I've finally wound down fixing all the bugs that the demo had. There are still a few things I need to do for it (primarily translating the Story cutscenes and adding support for chatting in other languages), but I'm putting those on the backburner until I actually get the translations. For now, it's back to developing the full game.
One question I've been seeing around is, how will the full game... work?
If you've been trying to clear the Hard or Lunar difficulties, you might have noticed that the bosses are really really hard! As to be expected of a raid.
But this hatted crow is only the first boss, right? Are you going to have to defeat her every single run to fight the other bosses...?
Uh, no! That'd be obnoxious.
Within Rabbit & Steel, there are 5 possible stages you can go to, each with their own set of enemies and a unique boss at the end.
Each run, the order of the stages are different. So, the Scholar's Nest isn't the "first" stage, it's just one of 5 possible stages you could go to first (and the only option included in the demo). Thus, in a full run, you might have to fight through any of the possible stages first!
...Wait, that's even worse! You'd have to *luck into* the stage you want to progress on!
Not to fear, my long-earred companion! I've included the tools you need to practice the stage you want.
If you've clicked around the things in the lobby, you might have noticed the large piece of paper labeled "coming soon" above the option to change the difficulty setting.
Well this is its identy! The map!
The map lets you choose which stage you go to first. Simple as that. You do have to visit a stage at least once for it to be visible, but after that you'll have free reign of the Moonlit Kingdom!
The choice you've picked will also show up in your lobby listing! So say you want to practice the Scholar's Nest on Hard mode...
Then you make a listing like this, and people will know where you're going.
The map also tracks which stages you've cleared on any given difficulty.
Of course, you can also choose to tread a random path by clicking on the white tower. You'll get some kind of bonus for this... but I haven't exactly decided what yet. It will likely be something like starting at level 3 or 5, or maybe a bit of extra gold. Once the game is closer to being finished I'll do some testing and see what's fair!
And one more thing... I'll probably be changing the Outskirts a little bit for the full release. Instead of fighting all 5 enemies, you'll fight 3 at random. Or, at least, that's the plan right now. Subject to change. I will probably leave the demo as-is (it's a nice little challenge for now), but runbacks in the full game will be a bit shorter.
So that's the plan! Gather your friends, learn each stage, then apply that to a full run and get your clear!
That's all for today, see you next time!
Thanks everyone for a very fun and eventful Steam Nextfest! I hope you've all enjoyed the demo; I certainly got a lot of good feedback.
I've finally wound down fixing all the bugs that the demo had. There are still a few things I need to do for it (primarily translating the Story cutscenes and adding support for chatting in other languages), but I'm putting those on the backburner until I actually get the translations. For now, it's back to developing the full game.
One question I've been seeing around is, how will the full game... work?
If you've been trying to clear the Hard or Lunar difficulties, you might have noticed that the bosses are really really hard! As to be expected of a raid.
But this hatted crow is only the first boss, right? Are you going to have to defeat her every single run to fight the other bosses...?
Uh, no! That'd be obnoxious.
Within Rabbit & Steel, there are 5 possible stages you can go to, each with their own set of enemies and a unique boss at the end.
Each run, the order of the stages are different. So, the Scholar's Nest isn't the "first" stage, it's just one of 5 possible stages you could go to first (and the only option included in the demo). Thus, in a full run, you might have to fight through any of the possible stages first!
...Wait, that's even worse! You'd have to *luck into* the stage you want to progress on!
Not to fear, my long-earred companion! I've included the tools you need to practice the stage you want.
If you've clicked around the things in the lobby, you might have noticed the large piece of paper labeled "coming soon" above the option to change the difficulty setting.
Well this is its identy! The map!
The map lets you choose which stage you go to first. Simple as that. You do have to visit a stage at least once for it to be visible, but after that you'll have free reign of the Moonlit Kingdom!
The choice you've picked will also show up in your lobby listing! So say you want to practice the Scholar's Nest on Hard mode...
Then you make a listing like this, and people will know where you're going.
The map also tracks which stages you've cleared on any given difficulty.
Of course, you can also choose to tread a random path by clicking on the white tower. You'll get some kind of bonus for this... but I haven't exactly decided what yet. It will likely be something like starting at level 3 or 5, or maybe a bit of extra gold. Once the game is closer to being finished I'll do some testing and see what's fair!
And one more thing... I'll probably be changing the Outskirts a little bit for the full release. Instead of fighting all 5 enemies, you'll fight 3 at random. Or, at least, that's the plan right now. Subject to change. I will probably leave the demo as-is (it's a nice little challenge for now), but runbacks in the full game will be a bit shorter.
So that's the plan! Gather your friends, learn each stage, then apply that to a full run and get your clear!
That's all for today, see you next time!
