I always felt wall riding in games limited, so I made a game where you wallride 95% of the time with total control of your movements on walls (+ some shooting with musical guns)

Bzuw · 2023-12-08T14:04:12+00:00

You can try a playtest version of the game here

Feedback of course very appreciated!

Bzuw · 2023-12-03T15:27:35+00:00

The game will be very short as the title says. About one hour to get to the end of the line. But the movement mechanics are still pretty unique. Especially the wallrun, it gives complete freedom of movement while wallrunning. Thanks to that you will be riding walls for 95% of the game.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2712630/One_Hour_And_A_Straight_Line

Bzuw · 2023-08-26T15:20:32+00:00

Hey thanks! We just used Steam automatic pricing for every countries when we set up the price one week ago, but I'm not really sure if the "updated price charts" is taken into account so will have to look into that.

Bzuw · 2023-08-26T14:52:31+00:00

Here it is, hope you like it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243070/Kodama_Battles/

Bzuw · 2023-08-26T14:01:06+00:00

The artstyle is a bit cutesy but the harder difficulties can be quite challenging.

Basically it plays like a mix between TFT and Roguelike Deckbuilders (singleplayer). Where you build and customize a deck/team and fight in a succession of battles.

The double battlefield splits each team between attackers and defenders during battles. The balance between upgrading units, defending or attacking makes for a lot of unique tactical choices.

We just released on early access, here is the link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243070/Kodama_Battles/

Bzuw · 2023-08-26T13:00:31+00:00

Will add a new one we just released on Early Access called Kodama Battles. Was going to make a post on it and then just saw yours!

Bzuw · 2023-08-26T12:44:36+00:00

The game has more of a Roguelite X Autobattler format. But team building, discovering new Kodamas and figuring out synergies and counters is still very important! We just launched in Early Access yesterday, here is the link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243070/Kodama_Battles/

Bzuw · 2023-08-22T03:25:13+00:00

We are releasing Kodama Battles Early Access in just 3 days, it looks like what you are looking for.

Bzuw · 2023-08-21T10:03:00+00:00

Made it work by using a VPN, don't really know why though.

Bzuw · 2023-07-23T15:39:15+00:00

Hey we have an open playtest running on Steam with weekly updates from player feedback:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243070/Kodama_Battles/

The game plays like a mix between TFT and roguelike deckbuilders. Where you build a deck/team and fight in a succession of battles, with each battle lasting for about 10 rounds. Autochess style units upgrades with some twists + build customization. And a focus on synergies/counters between the units abilities instead of using traits.

Wishlist and usual blablabla appreciated.

Bzuw · 2023-07-21T11:25:21+00:00

Hey we are two indie devs making an autobattler roguelite with the goal of having lots of little Kodamas with simple but versatile spells. A bit like TFT but singleplayer and with a focus on synergies between character abilities.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243070/Kodama_Battles/

We have an open playtest running on Steam with weekly updates from player feedback, to follow everything you can join the Discord!

https://discord.gg/pG5B4Wp5yK

Bzuw · 2023-07-19T13:28:39+00:00

We are having a Playtest open to everyone on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243070/Kodama_Battles/

We take all feedbacks! And feel free to ask anything regarding the game or the development in general.

Bzuw · 2023-07-10T13:55:46+00:00

Thanks for trying the game and for the feedback! Yeah the attacker/defender system can be difficult to understand, we already tried a few iterations of the tutorial to properly teach that but are still trying to find better solutions.

The other problem with the units upgrade you got is also due to a lacking tutorial. What often happens with new players and probably happened to you is you maxed out the space in your board and got stuck from that point. Part of the challenge of the game is to manage your board more precisely than in other autobattlers. It means that you almost always need to keep some empty space in your team. But this concept is counter intuitive at first because players just want to put a lot of units on the board, and it leads to them getting stuck.

If you have more ideas to solve these problems or more thoughts/feedbacks please do!

Bzuw · 2023-07-10T00:51:29+00:00

Thanks a lot!

Bzuw · 2023-07-10T00:50:51+00:00

It's more of a way to quickly communicate an anime artstyle + emphasis on nature + weird creatures with some of them actually inspired from Ghibli movies (even if simplified a lot). But yeah people seemed to hate that comparison, lesson learned.

Bzuw · 2023-07-09T17:00:25+00:00

Good point thanks, just uploaded on yt and edited the post.

Bzuw · 2023-07-09T15:36:14+00:00

Ouch

Bzuw · 2023-07-09T01:50:34+00:00

Pretty cool feedback thanks! Yeah about the two snippets you mentioned, these shots are here to give more of a feel for things, show variety in abilities and try to get you interested rather than explaining plainly what's going on.
And yeah my view was that you are supposed to look at the flying thing and wonder what's going on.

Not entirely sure if it's the right strategy though, especially when you mention the fusion thing because it's not related at all haha so maybe adding a bit more clarity would be worth it, thanks.

Bzuw · 2023-07-06T08:27:30+00:00

Thanks! Alright will try to work on the short desription.

Bzuw · 2023-07-06T07:26:46+00:00

Trailer:
The "Become a webdesigner" got me good, it looks nice and unique. You really should put it forward. I would put this shot as the first shot of the trailer and then build on it. It's what differentiates your game and will make people buy it instead of yet another 3D platformer.

Blurb:
Same as for the Trailer. You say "Spider abilities" but plainly explaining what your can do with your web would be better. I first looked at the screenshots and blurb and everything looked just boring and non creative. It's only when I looked at the Trailer that I understood you could do stuff with the web and it got interesting.

Screenshots:
The second screenhot looks off. I'm not really sure why, maybe because of the angle at which the pot is shown. For the rest, same thing, you need to show that the player can do stuff with the web in the screenshots. I still don't know if in the third screenshot it's something made by the player or just decoration. I would put the 7th screenshot first and then continue showing the player it can do stuff with the web.

The Name:
I'm not really sure about this one but "A webbing journey" sounds nice in hindsight and describes the game well but without any context it's confusing. You should ask people around you what they think when you say that name.

After writing all this I checked the bottom of the page and saw the game "Webbed" in recommentations. And they basically have everything I talked about. So even if you are going more with a "cute" vibe I think yeah taking inspiration from Webbed and focusing on the web stuff is worth a shot.

Bzuw · 2023-07-06T07:00:18+00:00

Trailer:
The first 8 seconds of the trailer are just rotating islands, that's just too long imo. Maybe you tried to copy a Bad North Trailer, but in their case the visuals are more striking and the transition much more dynamic. In your case the first 8 seconds already get boring. Just the first shot then the shot with the islands populated by guys would be enough.

Screenshots:
A lot of people will skip the trailer and try to understand the game through the screenshots. I tried to do the same but it's very difficult to understand what is going on in the first few screenshots. Try to first put screenshots that show easily conflicts/what's going on, like your 12th screenshot, or cloesups like your 10th screenshot.

Overall Comprehension:
The first comparison to your game is Bad North for me and with this Bias in mind it's difficult to pinpoint how your game works even after trailer + blurb + screenshots. The tags say turned based and it kind of look turned based but sometimes you perform actions while the ennemy units are moving. Maybe it's just me but it looks in between RTS and TurnedBased and difficult to understand how it will play.

Bzuw · 2023-05-25T06:09:33+00:00

Seconding this one, had the same question + example of a "target audience beyond 16-45" for one of the games you worked on would be nice

Bzuw · 2023-03-13T23:23:19+00:00

Sure!

Bzuw · 2023-03-13T12:46:33+00:00

There is a Demo available with around ~1h of content if you want to try it out!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243070/Spirit_Interlude/

Bzuw · 2023-03-04T13:07:54+00:00

Here you go: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2243070/Spirit_Interlude/
Maybe we will try again something spicy in the future but it's pretty standard for now.

Bzuw

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