Replicat News

Alright, finally an update!
Sorry, I wasn't able to roll an update last week.
I don't want to go into too much detail, but awful things happening in my country, slowed me down a little bit.
It was really difficult to concentrate on... anything.

Well, I'm here now.
Fixed a bunch of bugs, listened to your feedback. Improving the game and slowly heading towards a solid demo version.
Yesterday, an unexpected thing happened. The one and only Aliensrock played my game on youtube.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]


I wasn't ready for this. I'm getting overwhelmed by the amount of bug reports and feedback but I'm also super excited about it!

Join our discord everyone and drop those nasty feedback on my face!

See you on the next updaaate.

Changelog:

• BUGFIX: the dragonfruit sorbet text after a match looks a bit ugly (it's spread across 3 lines of text)
  
• BUGFIX: settings shown after game lost
  
• BUGFIX: $$$ cards not executing extra scores like points from essence multipliers
  
• BUGFIX: modifiers going out of the screen
  
• BUGFIX: on restart game, essence warning is not removed
  
• BUGFIX: On the menu for the cleaner deck, the gas mask item description goes offscreen
  
• BUGFIX: Save doesn't save run modifiers
  
• BUGFIX: Win sound too loud
  
• BUGFIX: new essence indicator is not removed when you go to essence screen through burn card button
  
• BUGFIX: double transition sound
  
• BUGFIX: during Victory Screen, deck view is broken
  
• BUGFIX: in the shop, when playing on difficulty II or higher, the bosses appear to have th diffculty modifier twice
  
• BUGFIX: mouse hover on boss in shop didn't show modifiers. oh it does show but it's empty
  
• boss image not removed
  
• BUGFIX: after shuffle delay too long
  
• BUGFIX: unnecessary wait between rewards at the end of round screen
  
• BUGFIX: savegame not saving no of burned cards and total rerolls
  
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Show tooltip of essences on end round screen
  
• IMPROVEMENT: show an icon on the card that proc'ed with curios like cheesecake shoes
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Domino District -> Reworked! Auto cards always play last and reveal a random card
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Long Burning Coal -> cost 70 -> 55
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Wildfire Matchbox -> cost 30 -> 45
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Added info about stats like no of cards revealed in the Boss Modifier descriptions
  
• IMPROVEMENT: letterbox improvements for different resolutions
  
• IMPROVEMENT: make essence warning more noticable
  

Hi replicatters!

This week my time was mostly spent on marketing stuff but I was able to do some dev.
Not a big update here but fixed a few bugs and...
Added Color Blind mode.
It's not targeting different color blind types specifically atm, I will do that later.
Right now all I'm doing is I'm adding patterns behind the cards so people can distinguish them.

Here's an example of how cards look for different color blind types:




Patchlog:

BUGFIX: $$$ cards not executing extra scores like points from essence multipliers
BUGFIX: Some minor fixes on save system
IMPROVEMENT: Some minor improvements in tooltips and localizations
IMPROVEMENT: Color Blind mode!

Hi hi hi!
Quite big update here.

First of all game has been doing great. A few small youtubers played the game and people on discord have been reporting bugs, destroying the game. Overflowing the int!?!?! Really? I played the game 1000 times and haven't managed to do that!

Of course I fixed many many bugs, but let's start with the most important update:

[h2]THE PLAYTEST TOOL[/h2]



You simply type "boratro" anywhere in the game to display the tool.

Then you can;

• Change the round
  
• Modify your money
  
• Modify bosses
  
• Refresh shop for free
  
• Modify your deck, add/remove cards
  
• Add/remove curios to your collection
  
• Add/remove essences to your collection
  
• Unlock all playable decks
  
• Immediately win the round
  

[h2]BALANCE CHANGES[/h2]
Slightly changed the money earning balance!
Nerfed the Level Rewards which was getting super high late game.
Buffed the Welcome Reward and Turns Left rewards.
Hopefully, this will allow players to have more money in the early game and more balanced money in the late game. I also think this will add more meaning to the cards and curios which are bulit around earning money.

[h2]NEW BOSSES[/h2]



Added new bosses and polished the boss appearing sequence!
Now we have cool origami bosses that will challenge you every 3rd round.


[h2]INT OVERFLOW[/h2]

People have been making crazy decks and scoring billion points which overflows the max amount and end up scoring negative points.

I FIXED IT! It's not polished yet so you might end up seeing things like this:


Well, thanks everyone for helping out! We are doing really good and once I feel like I fixed enough bugs and the game is solid enough, I'll plan the content for the demo so we'll be ready for the upcoming Steam Festivals!


[h2]PATCHLOG[/h2]

• IMPROVEMENT: PLAYTEST TOOL!
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Added new boss assets
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Polished boss appearing sequence
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Added some VFX on scoring and matching
  
  
• BUGFIX: Prevent Int overflowing with huge scores
  
• BUGFIX: Chipped tea cup + stay cards used together causing issues
  
• BUGFIX: Free reroll allowing free rolls after purchasing any cards
  
• BUGFIX: After losing the game, moves not resetting
  
• BUGFIX: Buying VIP Ticket cards not come upgraded
  
• BUGFIX: Visual line bug over the bottom cards
  
• BUGFIX: Spamming END TURN button scoring twice
  
• BUGFIX: Buying cards and curios increasing reroll cost
  
• BUGFIX: Jokers with essences not scoring points
  
• BUGFIX: Can still burn cards through deck view even if you're not allowed to burn cards with the curio effect
  
• BUGFIX: Reworded blue_mult_first and red_mult_prev cards
  
• BUGFIX: Melted crayon reroll cost behaviour and text typo
  
• BUGFIX: Save / continue doubling your deck
  
• BUGFIX: Quitting game in deck view not hiding the deck
  
• BUGFIX: Board not getting cleared on quit and continue
  
• BUGFIX: Scaling mult cards having too many floating point decimals
  
• BUGFIX: Mult essences on jokers not working
  
• BUGFIX: Hand shuffling not changing pair logic(example: jokers were not changing pairs)
  
• BUGFIX: Every 10th purple card bugged with auto purple cards
  
• BUGFIX: Hovering on modifiers making popup to stay giant
  

Hey Replicatters!
It's been a good week for me. I received lots of bug reports from the community in our discord.
Make sure to join there if you want to have a chat or drop feedback. Brainoid Discord

A few youtubers played the game and I see the number of wishlists going up, makes me happy!

I really enjoyed working on the fancy cards. They were hard to read before, now with some cool shaders, we can read what's written on them but also drag them around to see the cool holographic effects.
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Also, we decided to change the visuals of the bosses. They used to be blind drawings of spacey where she received some prompts from Twitch chat and drew these illustrations keeping her eyes closed.

They were really funny as an inside joke but people didn't really understand what they were so we are replacing them, they will be missed:



And we are replacing them with Origami Animals! They will fit very well with the paper-style feel of the game. Someone in our community said they liked the bosses being shiny. For now, these origami bosses won't be shiny but I will consider trying them to be shiny and maybe even call them Shinygamis if that's not gonna violate any Japanese lore lol. So here's a preview of them:




I appreciate the help everyone! I'm improving the game day by day and I still need your help to test the game. Because of its depth and the deckbuilding mechanics, there are many many edge cases which are difficult to reproduce by myself. Reach out and report bugs please

PATCH LOG

• IMPROVEMENT: wishlist button on main menu
  
• BUGFIX: 75+75 card upgrading 1 round delay
  
• BUGFIX: Buying all curios freezes the game
  
• BUGFIX: You can still burn cards after buying rusty paperclip
  
• BUGFIX: Burn count and cost don't reset on second play
  
• BUGFIX: Helping hands curio doesn't work
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Change boss images (Still missing some boss images)
  
• BUGFIX: Chipped teacup breaks when fighting a boss with the "a random card is denied at the start of each turn
  
• BUGFIX: You can still press "end turn" even after you lose/win the game
  
• BUGFIX: Buying Melted Crayon doesn't immediately update Reroll to be $10
  
• BUGFIX: Fountain pen doesn't make REROLL free even though it's the first one when you JUST bought it
  
• BUGFIX: Curios trying to appear in Rewards even if there are no curios left to buy
  
• BUGFIX: Quickly returning from burn page after burning a card, increases the burn cost
  
• BUGFIX: Removed x3 gamespeed as it was causing issues
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Show minimum deck size when 13 pairs left in your deck
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Reworked some card colors
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Card dragging physics improved
  
• BUGFIX: Start round and start turn actions should be delayed on boss levels and they should wait for shuffle
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Zebrella shouldn't show up on last chapter
  

Hey all!
Thanks a lot for testing the Playtest version and the crazy amount of bug reports.
I'm chuffed to see people are enjoying the game.

I've been working on fixing the bugs, even sometimes on stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/brainoidgames
I finally replaced the horrible, hostile burn card sound which was playing a sad cat sound. Sorry for doing this so late.

PERSONAL FUN UPDATE SECTION
My neighbors were away on a holiday so their cat was with me all the time, she kept good company.
She wanted to go outside but I couldn't let her go out because she is not used to coming back to my house. Enjoy her scratching the window, asking me to open it: https://youtube.com/shorts/oDlZTO1hR7s?si=t7xJUhJuAQDPBKp2


PATCH LOGS

• BUGFIX: Clicking on scoring cards move them back to the playing card container
  
• BUGFIX: Bosses don't reset when you restart the game
  
• BUGFIX: Small deck and +1 column modifier causing issues when you lose
  
• BUGFIX: Shuffling the board causes scaling issues on cards
  
• BUGFIX: burn cost cannot go higher than 20 goes higher visually(through a curio)
  
• BUGFIX: Not clearing boss image on restart
  
• BUGFIX: Essence saying both 1.25 and 1.2
  
• BUGFIX: essence tubes are misaligned
  
• BUGFIX: token of freedom works even if you spend your money
  
• IMPROVEMENT: replaced the sad cat sound when burning
  
• IMPROVEMENT: replaced the purchase and money earn sounds.
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Replaced all AI images of Victory Confetti
  
• IMPROVEMENT: Updated the flame icon on Burn Card Reward cards.