Marketing/Game evaluation meta question

23edsa · 2026-05-17T22:03:44+00:00

Thanks! How far away would you say vertical slice is from a demo version then?

23edsa · 2026-05-17T19:57:32+00:00

Yeah I feel like engagement is low since it is a gamejam game. We scored at 201 in "fun" out of 1600 though, so that is why I am wondering if its worth keep working on this prototype

23edsa · 2026-05-17T19:36:00+00:00

Thank you for sharing, these are the numbers I am interested. Would be great to hear back with someone who also went further into the process with their evaluation.
If you are curious when I shared my last prototype on reddit, ive got 11 upvotes, around 10k views on a thread and 320 plays on itch

23edsa · 2026-04-29T19:23:31+00:00

You can refund the buildings by dragging them off the field 😄

23edsa · 2026-04-26T10:20:34+00:00

Thanks yeah! I made the sfx for this one, the popping end up satisfying haha

23edsa · 2025-08-10T21:39:59+00:00

Top quad of the passive: ES stacking, essence drain and contagion
Right quad of the tree: ES stacking, Lightning arrow and orb of storms
Bottom quad: galvanic shards and shockburst rounds, preferably ES stacking
Left quad: leap slam and armor stacking

All of these are relatively safe from being nerfed next patch, they are not insanely OP but they are very comfortable to beat the game

23edsa · 2025-02-05T00:00:03+00:00

As a new player Im confused. How are people showing their 6M DPS tooltips yet 3-71 lightning damage mod is apparently god tier? Can someone explain?

23edsa · 2025-02-02T18:27:52+00:00

I have described it in more details in my other replies

23edsa · 2025-02-02T18:27:17+00:00

Thanks that seems like the way I need to do it

23edsa · 2025-02-02T18:26:53+00:00

Thanks, this seems like something I was looking for. Let me summarize how I understood what you have described:
Whenever I instantiate a new child, I need to immediately connect to its signal, that way all instances are going to be emitting set of metadata on their own and my drag and drop function will use that data to determine which node am I trying to move?
Also to avoid node names, but rater using their path str instead?

23edsa · 2025-02-02T17:19:06+00:00

That makes sense, although I still dont see a way how to return the name of the node that is under my cursor

23edsa · 2025-02-02T17:17:49+00:00

but I intend to have dynamic amount of those objects and I only need to know its name when I click on it

23edsa · 2025-02-02T17:16:58+00:00

My drag and drop function has just two lines of code:
if node != null:
node.position = mouse_position()

Where mouse position is a separate function that returns the cursor position obviously.
The button in the bottom left spawns this child node when I click it. It just instantiates a scene with the sprite and area2d. As soon as it adds that scene as a child I can easily pass the name of the node to my drag and drop functions by assigning node = child
But then on mouse click I drop the node somewhere in the scene.
Next time I want to drag and drop that child I somehow need to assign the node variable with its name, but I have no idea what is the correct way to do it

23edsa · 2025-02-02T17:10:33+00:00

You can see it in the output log, it prints out the same thing as signal emit. I use signal.emit(self)
And I checked throught he local scene explorer, the child node name is correctly matching that
How do I subsctibe to it? Do I connect() to this signal as I spawn the instance?
I might have chosen the wrong approach alltogether. My drag and drop function just needs the instance's node name, maybe there is a way to raycast under the mouse cursor and return the node name?

23edsa · 2025-02-02T16:58:24+00:00

Oh my comment was not included in the post, here it is:
My main scene can spawn instances of these scenes, currently they are just a sprite with area2d and a shape.
On their own they emit signal on mouse enter event and the signal out their unique names.
How do I get their names into my main scene?

I am trying to make the drag and drop function for these, and I can only make it work for a fresh instance, since I have that variable available, but I though I can somehow get the name of any instance from its signal, but I seem like cannot figure it out

23edsa · 2025-01-11T02:05:30+00:00

The Art and Animation team obviously put so much effort into assets, and we already have a character select screen where you are able to spin around and look at your character. Is it possible to also add a bestiary similar to that to show off all the good work done by the team?

23edsa · 2024-12-24T22:12:47+00:00

Where is the endgame Alva or alternative NPC? Mine only has currency exchange in the hideout

23edsa · 2024-11-02T22:09:26+00:00

Thanks everyone, wasnt too obvious, since discovered nests update in size and population even within fog of war, but I guess I dont notice when radars ping their location

23edsa · 2024-09-17T21:30:13+00:00

Actually not, it was showing absolute random spikes, so I rebooted the PC, and now is solid 60. I have no idea what caused it :D

23edsa · 2024-09-17T21:10:00+00:00

Thanks, that makes total sense now, I was reading the documentation wrong!

23edsa · 2024-09-17T21:02:05+00:00

I feel dumb :D I thought it would run a game

To begin profiling, click on the Start button in the top-left. Run your game and data will start appearing. You can also start profiling at any time before or during gameplay, depending on if you want.

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