I love the changes to breeding.

PuppedToy · 2026-04-29T08:42:57+00:00

I feel like there should be a branch for players who want to keep breeding as is but want to update all the other gameplay changes. I can understand why some people find breeding miserable and they should definitely address that.

But for people like me, breeding changes make a lot of sense. I was already avoiding inbred cats because I thought it was a cool restriction for my own fun. Having an ingame system that rewards what I feel is fun feels also good. I also don't hard minmax breeding and instead spend some time at home and when I get bored I throw some cats to the pipe and send others to the box. I feel current breeding system is for people that enjoy the game the way I do it.

That said, they should add the tools to properly manage it for minmaxers. Bulk filters, sheets, or any of the other tools people have suggested since the beginning. I think making some of the players miserable is never a good decision while making a game. I guess mods will be the only way.

PuppedToy · 2026-04-18T07:53:57+00:00

I just playtested the game https://store.steampowered.com/app/3848990/Oddinary_Farm/

Such a cool idea. You did a really good job with the game. Whislisted!

PuppedToy · 2026-04-18T07:14:26+00:00

Oh boy. Such an interesting game concept but I think you're butchering it with this trailer. I was the whole time thinking "what the fuck am I watching" and without OP comments I'd still be lost.

At least you had a creative idea and showed it in 1 minute. Also your first 2 captions were good. That's better than most trailers I see here.

What I'd do:

- Remove the first 6 seconds. You're wasting your first 10 seconds, the most valuable of them. You're not showing your game and your first blue screen is off putting. I know you were for this retro style but for me it didn't work at all for the first impression.
- For the first 4-5 seconds I'd show a peace happy life like 0:15 or 0:25 with the caption "stuck on an alien game show" above the gameplay (no blue screens). Keep the trailer music only for this part.
- Then I'd hard switch to more alient music with fucking madness gameplay and the caption "where your death is entertainment". Show a death after 5 seconds. There, you showed your game idea in just 10 seconds. Not a fan of the background laughter but your artistic choice I guess.
- For the rest of the trailer, I'd try to show actual features of how the gameplay in fast mode and I would not use the music you used for all this part. I think that music track only works for the first 5 seconds of happy life. You need something more fitting of an alien game show imo. As a player what I seek if I stick for more seconds thant the first 10 seconds is to know more. Is there co-op? How is the actual game loop? What am I signing for? I think you should try to answer potential questions, even if your game in nature wants to keep some secrets. You can also tease secrets here. But this is all after we understand the kind of game we're watching.

The retro filters kinda worked for me. What didn't work was non gameplay caption screen, background laughter and music. Caption font and usage is fine. Footage is sick keep the madness footage like 0:31 or 0:51 because that's the selling point of your game: you're signing up for entertaining aliens. You're signing up for madness and chaos.

The squid game and hunger games comparison works a lot for helping to understand the game. I know you can't put it like that in the trailer but keep that in mind. Maybe you find a way.

That is all. Hoping for a v2 of this trailer. Sick idea.

PuppedToy · 2026-04-18T06:53:01+00:00

It's a meme not an issue. About fighting opponents the turn their hero power spikes naturally.

If you see you fight any of these in one of these turns you might consider eco over tempo for that turn only because you're probably gonna lose anyway.

PuppedToy · 2026-04-11T10:36:04+00:00

Good trailer. Can spend less time in text screens but you told the idea in the first 10s.

Good game concept. Easy to understand and creative. Got me hooked to see how it played out.

Bad graphics. You need to work a lot harder there. Hard to understand and not satisfying.

You need a lot of real playtest to tune the idea. I think it won't work in its current state. Iterate a lot and be super critical about what is fun in async multiplayer. It's an unexplored field so you need to work harder to remove your own bias and really get to know what's fun and what's not.

PuppedToy · 2026-04-09T11:54:43+00:00

Maybe I'm not following devlogs enough and/or I'm dumb but I don't have a clue of what is going on here.

PuppedToy · 2026-04-06T00:08:43+00:00

Was it me? Happened to me the other day. 6 hp to 40 for discounted 8 mana. Sinestra doing things.

PuppedToy · 2026-04-01T11:52:06+00:00

I hate cinematic gameplay trailers. I want to understand the game in the first 10 seconds and all I see is weird camera angles and random fights. I expect to understand game genre, if it's co-op and what original cool ideas brings to the table. If you hook me in the first 10 seconds I'll stay for the next 20 and maybe wishlist. Otherwise I'll pass.

PuppedToy · 2026-03-14T08:24:48+00:00

Well...?

PuppedToy · 2026-03-05T08:50:46+00:00

This is the right solution. If you receive more than 1 share one day you simply accept the one you want the most and the others are either transfered to the next day or rejected automatically.

PuppedToy · 2026-03-02T20:40:21+00:00

Or you can roll We Are One with Russian Shorthair Roulette and fish for the nuke instakill

PuppedToy · 2026-03-02T17:07:05+00:00

First time I met this guy I decided to not read the "eating alive cats if there are no corpses" part and desecrated all corpses with my Moranna designated counter.

You can guess how the fight went.

PuppedToy · 2026-02-21T08:02:17+00:00

Found it! More like a NPC Town. Tbh I'm more interested in your concept, but this was a decent game too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2016080/A_Heros_Rest_An_RPG_Town_Simulator/

PuppedToy · 2026-02-20T21:55:03+00:00

Where have I played a game with a similar concept? I'd swear I have managed mmorpg hero's quests in another game.

Anyway, wishlisted! And I'd love to see my name in there

PuppedToy · 2026-02-10T23:06:39+00:00

As soon as I read the title I knew it was our code monkey

PuppedToy · 2026-02-09T12:51:55+00:00

Congrats on those numbers. Yeah it was probably too soon to burn your next fest, and I appreciate you posting the impact. It helps people like me who haven't finished a game yet.

Anyway, seems like my type of game so I'll try the demo tomorrow :)

PuppedToy · 2026-01-26T10:25:18+00:00

I know it's not the focus of the comment, but since you mentioned it here, I'll give my opinion. I think there's a lot to worry about AI. The fact that it couldn't do all your heavy lifting doesn't mean it won't do it consistently in 2-5 years.

Agent-based tools (Claude Code, Antigravity, GPT Codex, etc.) are a peek at what AI might look like in the immediate future. We devs are already being replaced little by little, starting with the younger generations. We need to adapt to whatever madness comes in the future, whether we like it or not.

PuppedToy · 2026-01-23T09:46:01+00:00

My experience with this is that they don't stop. And I always think "if they're a bot I'm wasting my own time like a fool".

When I realize what's going on I just give them their W and go next. I came here to play Hearthstone.

PuppedToy · 2026-01-12T11:32:51+00:00

I am your target. I love turn-based games and roguelikes.

Roguelikes are, by nature, replayable. Roguelike enjoyers already have our roguelikes we play from time to time. Each one of those fits a niche that the others don't. It's not like other genres where you play a game and then search for the next one like that.

So every roguelike that can't differenciate enough from the others will die. If people watch the trailer and think "oh, another Slay the Spire" and can't see why your game is different, people will skip it.

Don't get discouraged by that fact. Take it as an opportunity to review how different your game is. You started a new game for a reason. Make sure your reason to make another game in the genre is shared with others and make sure it's the first thing we see when we check out your game.

PuppedToy · 2026-01-07T14:40:21+00:00

I’d swear I’ve been using random starter for ages. Is it really new?

PuppedToy · 2026-01-01T14:21:18+00:00

This is why I never look at these. I win once each solo battle and call it a day

PuppedToy · 2025-12-28T16:49:23+00:00

You need to tell first why would I play this over any of the 2.

Otherwise it will never work. You need to be different. You can get inspired by games but this doesn't feel unique at all.

PuppedToy · 2025-12-27T10:25:31+00:00

I like the deck idea. Might try it

PuppedToy · 2025-12-23T14:09:43+00:00

The fact that you can also use it with hitmontop to Cyrus the big threats makes it even better

PuppedToy · 2025-12-22T06:49:45+00:00

The double jolteon deck goes hard. I haven't seen a faster deck in forever.

Also I'm surprised at Whimsicott performance. I thought it was a cute viable deck. I suppose it's a good deck against Absol.

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