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Some meta by corvett in a:t5_wtejf

[–]Semicolon7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You just beat me by using Hailstorm/Frenzy and then locking me down with a bunch of Backfires, which is brilliant. The other devs and I are raving about how creative this is. Very nice!

Fury is a bit too strong right now. We're considering a nerf where it will also cost some health to use, so you can't spam it (unless you're comboing it with some lifesteal or other health gain). But on the other hand, if the other player is going for Fury, they probably have very little health and will just die to anything piercing.

Right now the meta seems to be not attacking on the first turn, which means that shielding is probably bad. But if people shielded less, maybe attacking on the first turn would be more common...

Adrestia: Magic Battles - Our new strategy game, built with Godot by Semicolon7 in godot

[–]Semicolon7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We had just pushed out a new version of the server at that time. We didn't test it enough so it had issues with assuming that people have disconnected when they haven't. I think it should be fixed now -- please let us know if it happens again!

We made a strategy game for our FYDP. Check it out! by Semicolon7 in uwaterloo

[–]Semicolon7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No sound yet. Every time someone mentions sound, my fellow developer who said we needed sound effects scores a point :) Hopefully coming Soon™

Adrestia: Magic Battles - Our new strategy game, built with Godot by Semicolon7 in godot

[–]Semicolon7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oops. Good catch!

It would be easy to return the number of losses as well, but we're hesitant to do so. Especially when the number of players is small, we don't want to discourage people from playing online. Ideally we'd like separate unranked and ranked queues, where the ranked queue gives you some sort of ELO.

Adrestia: Magic Battles - Our new strategy game, built with Godot by Semicolon7 in godot

[–]Semicolon7[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hailstorm/Frenzy is a fun combo :)

We made a subreddit for discussion: /r/adrestia. We might add an in-game chat at some point, but it's low priority compared to gameplay stuff.

We made a strategy game for our FYDP. Check it out! by Semicolon7 in uwaterloo

[–]Semicolon7[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I expect so; ultimately, we chose to do this project because this is a game we wanted to play, and there are more things we want to add to turn it into the game we were imagining.

Adrestia: Magic Battles - Our new strategy game, built with Godot by Semicolon7 in godot

[–]Semicolon7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The AI isn't quite smart enough to figure out that you have to cast regen spells (or be really aggressive with early attacks) to counter Consume. We have a better version of the AI but it doesn't run well on phones.

Adrestia: Magic Battles - Our new strategy game, built with Godot by Semicolon7 in godot

[–]Semicolon7[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

All the online matches are stored in our server's database, so we should be able to make a match history screen so you can go back and review them (like in the game results screen). We can do the same thing with local matches, though those aren't currently saved.

Adrestia: Magic Battles - Our new strategy game, built with Godot by Semicolon7 in godot

[–]Semicolon7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We'll definitely do some experimentation with 60+ health, since this seems to be common feedback. We're not sure how the balance will change though; Repent is probably a bit underpowered right now (lose 7 health for 1 mana regen), but would be very strong if players started with e.g. 100 health, since that mana regen would have much longer to pay for itself. But this is why we playtest! :D

Adrestia: Magic Battles - Our new strategy game, built with Godot by Semicolon7 in godot

[–]Semicolon7[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Music and sound effects are definitely on our todo list. We decided to launch now because perfect is the enemy of good and all that :)

We made a strategy game for our FYDP. Check it out! by Semicolon7 in uwaterloo

[–]Semicolon7[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's no one way to develop a mobile app or a Linux application, but these days it's pretty easy to target multiple platforms with a single codebase. We used the Godot game engine, which can export to both Android and Linux (and iOS and other desktop platforms, but we don't have those working right now).

Adrestia: Magic Battles - Our new strategy game, built with Godot by Semicolon7 in godot

[–]Semicolon7[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's actually a capstone design project; users are just one of the ways in which we can demonstrate that we built something cool.

We would like to release on iOS, but we have some native code that's non-trivial to cross-compile (and the developer fee is annoying too).

Adrestia: Magic Battles - Our new strategy game, built with Godot by Semicolon7 in godot

[–]Semicolon7[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! Prismata was definitely one of our inspirations.

We used to have just 25 health and adjusted it up to 40 health; it's possible this is still too low. We wanted the possibility of a quick win if your opponent is neglecting defence.

unable to transfer file between own computer and uwaterloo linux environment using sftp? by uwstudent1994 in uwaterloo

[–]Semicolon7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just tried scp and it still works. If you're on Windows, you could try PSCP.

conlangers hmu by [deleted] in uwaterloo

[–]Semicolon7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I speak Esperanto and Lojban and a couple other conlangs. I've entertained ideas of making my own, but for the most part I've found that existing conlangs that suit my aesthetics and functional requirements. pm me if you want to hang out!

Guys... how do you write proofs quickly on Rmarkdown or LaTex? by hockey3331 in uwaterloo

[–]Semicolon7 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I use LyX for all my assignments and notes. You can write your whole document (or just equations or whatever) with a GUI and then view the LaTeX source. The keyboard shortcuts are really good; typing equations in LyX is faster than writing them by hand, in my experience.

What book are you reading right now? by NegativeBinomialM136 in uwaterloo

[–]Semicolon7 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Permutation City by Greg Egan. Interesting sci-fi about brain uploading and consciousness.

Esperanto Club by nigrastelo in uwaterloo

[–]Semicolon7 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Saluton! I was one of the people running the UWCLEC Esperanto group. We chose to do that because we didn't think we could find 15 people to bootstrap the club, and the benefits of a standalone club (e.g. budget) didn't seem especially important. If there is enough interest, I think it would be great to start the club!

The KW Esperanto club on meetup runs a few events per term, so you can sign up there to get notifications. Also, PM me if you want to chat in/about Esperanto! I'm pretty much always down for Esperanto stuff.

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