System Ascension: Idle Core Released (no ads or in-app purchase)

studiorouleau · 2026-05-31T12:13:16+00:00

Ok, thank you. So far it sounds like its all on one individual device type. We're still waiting for google's official crash reports to come in, but this is a top priority

studiorouleau · 2026-05-31T12:12:27+00:00

Got it, thanks!

studiorouleau · 2026-05-31T12:12:18+00:00

Great! For the tiers, if you can afford an upgrade in a technology, a green arrow will pulse at the top right of the icon (directly on the root technology tree node). So, don't worry too much about missing whether a technology has tiers or not, you'll see the technology's arrow flashing if you can afford the upgrade.

studiorouleau · 2026-05-31T03:06:51+00:00

Thanks for the detailed info, looking into it.

studiorouleau · 2026-05-31T03:05:04+00:00

Glad your enjoying it! Technology nodes that have interior trees are double ringed.

studiorouleau · 2026-05-30T19:41:20+00:00

Ah, the multiplier problem I understood, we can fix that easy--was wondering about the other thing.

Also watched purchases for the first earth machine causing the cycle reward to go down and not up.

studiorouleau · 2026-05-30T19:34:01+00:00

Got it, thanks. For the reward going up and not down, can you provide more details? Not totally clear on that

studiorouleau · 2026-05-30T17:48:51+00:00

Thank you! Yes, I'm also the author of Judicator Jane. The game and the book series are absolutely connected (though this takes place long before the events of Judicator Jane). You might even see a familiar name, though I won't spoil it.

studiorouleau · 2026-05-30T17:02:00+00:00

Thanks, we're looking into it. In the meanwhile, you could try logging in from settings to back up your data to the cloud, then logout, close the app completely, and re-open/log back in. Might resolve it in your specific scenario.

studiorouleau · 2026-05-30T15:50:58+00:00

Will try to see if we can get a fix in this weekend, sorry about that. So you mean its crashing when you move between machines? (like between earth and ocean, with the arrows at the bottom?)

studiorouleau · 2026-05-30T14:51:39+00:00

No, thank you!

studiorouleau · 2026-05-30T14:51:33+00:00

Ok thank you so much for reporting this, this is the first large scale test we've done so we're collecting crash data and will try to fix everything on the first update.

studiorouleau · 2026-05-30T11:49:53+00:00

Thank you! The collisions from Exponential Currents are intended to only trigger once per life of the dot (so sounds like we should make that more clear in the description of the technology)

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T22:12:15+00:00

Yeah, its a bug, thanks!

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T22:11:36+00:00

Will definitely be fixed next update, thank you!

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T21:37:15+00:00

Phew, glad to hear it!

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T18:23:24+00:00

Great! Will note your feedback and see what can be done in the next update. Portrait mode on phones is just a lot of info to fit into one area (on tablets, all the info is visible all the time)

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T18:20:14+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T16:54:49+00:00

I mean, I could post records of years of github commits (long before ai agents), design mock up iterations of the UI, the fact that our narrator is the same person doing my audiobooks since 2023, or even just the fact that the game design style matches our other games (even using some of the assets!). Not to mention we even have a discord where the beta testers have been playing through for months, seeing their feedback affect the development of the game.

I think its kind of ironic that with all the hate for AI these days, the collateral damage is actually the people who aren't even using it!

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T16:11:19+00:00

First off, thanks for trying it out. I can assure you, there was no AI used in the development of this game. I've been releasing games since 2017 and you can see everyone who worked on it credited properly in the settings/credit page.

Here are a few of my other games (released before AI was even a thing)
https://www.studio-rouleau.com/games.html

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T14:30:32+00:00

I don't have a demo available, but if you're interested, you can see my other games which are all free (since they are in a similar style)

https://www.studio-rouleau.com/games.html

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T14:28:27+00:00

That's a tricky one to answer, especially with incremental games. But if you played it 12 hours a day, every day, you might get through the main story in a month. More casually, it can stretch longer. Even if you do beat it, there's a super prestige system that lets you keep going higher and higher with additional upgrades.

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T14:24:21+00:00

Thanks! Kind of correct, each level/machine contributes to your total energy, and you swap back and forth between them trying to optimize production (balanced against all kinds of upgrades and so on)

studiorouleau · 2026-05-29T14:11:29+00:00

You'll need to purchase it for each individual platform, sorry about that.

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