1.0 Is live now! Thanks everybody for following along through all of development! I hope you have tons of fun and kill lots of slimes!
1.0 Is live now! Thanks everybody for following along through all of development! I hope you have tons of fun and kill lots of slimes!
Slime Slayer is still in development! After a brief pause due to some marketing deadlines, I'm back at it! Slime Slayer will be participating in Steam Next Fest next week and should be on track for a fall launch! Here's what I have in the works right now, alternate base abilities
Slime Slayer is still in development!
After a brief pause due to some marketing deadlines, I'm back at it! Slime Slayer will be participating in Steam Next Fest next week and should be on track for a fall launch!
Here's what I have in the works right now, alternate base abilities! After you unlock your first alternate ability, you'll be able to slot any combination of abilities into any ability slot.
This is the new Meteor ability! Meteor is a charged skill that does more damage and has a greater area of effect the longer you charge it. With the right setup, a fully charged Meteor can wipe through a wave of enemies. Once this ability is done, I'll get started on the next charged ability
Thanks for reading and sticking around for the intermission in development!
New Update! Firstly, this is the last big demo update! (aside from any bug fixes). I will be pulling the demo in 2 weeks or so in preparation for the Prologue release! The Prologue will be a free permanent version with a few more features and a bit more content in the way of enem
New Update!
Firstly, this is the last big demo update! (aside from any bug fixes). I will be pulling the demo in 2 weeks or so in preparation for the Prologue release! The Prologue will be a free permanent version with a few more features and a bit more content in the way of enemies, bosses, and at least one or two alternate base abilities. The current release timeline for the Prologue is mid December!
This patch contains :
7 new runes!
-Launched Spell Rune - Create a projectile that casts your spell at the end of its destination
-Recast Rune - Hitting with your spell recasts your base spell on that enemy
*For both of these runes, subsequent modifier runes apply to the triggered spell. Any Previous runes apply to the spell doing the triggering 🤔
-Global AOE Rune - HUGE % increases to radius of the attached spell and any secondary effects (Spell orb, mines, launched spell, etc)
-Bonus Rune Level Rune - Applies the rune level of this rune to the rune underneath this one
-Random Rune Level Rune - Each cast, applies the rune level of this rune to a random rune underneath this one
-Debuff Lengthen Rune - kind of self explanatory
-Spell Power Rune - The rune level of this rune causes you to cast with that much extra Spell Power
With so many new runes in the pool, it makes it a bit harder to get the runes you might be wanting, so now the end of room will only ever drop Runes or Relics (no more chests of gold). Gold dropped from slimes has been increased to compensate
As an important note, when replacing/upgrading an existing rune, you no longer loose any rune upgrades you had previously made to that rune! Min-Max without losing out on your investment
Elemental Heart Rework!
Elemental Hearts now use the same system that all other skills use and are scaled with the power of a the slotted rune.
All Elemental Hearts will have upgrades limited to the max upgrade slots of the slotted rune.
All Elemental Hearts effectiveness is now multiplied by the effectiveness of the slotted rune
All Elemental Hearts now scale as a percentage of your Max Hp, so it's always worth upgrading your Max HP
General Game Balance :
Later game slimes had a somewhat broken scaling with HP, and had a tendency to kill you pretty quickly if they were runecharged for a lot of damage. Rather than taking big hits of damage, all slimes do quite a bit less damage, but there are more of them later in the game, so you take lots of smaller hits instead. Player HP scaling is also less dramatic so these smaller hits make sense.
The two difficulty doors are now accentuated in difficulty, having a wider spread of gold drops, health scaling, damage scaling, and monster spawn quantity, The first door should have you feeling pretty OP, and the second door should provide an adequate challenge
Bug Fixes and QOL
-Fixed a bug related to player persistence soft crashing games
-Fixed a bug where slimes could wander off screen causing you to be trapped in the map
-Added an arrow to indicate that you can upgrade already equipped runes
-Added Skulls over the difficulty doors to help indicate difficulty
-Added Elemental Heart detail display to the rune equip screen, so you can see what they do before equipping them
-Made the Golem bigger and face the player when entering that room (more Golem updates will be in the Prologue)
-Fixed some scaling issues with Void Debuffs. Void is now quite a bit more consistent as a primary dps element
That should be everything! Let me know what you think and enjoy playing!
I've pushed a small update to the demo branch in celebration of Roguelike Celebration! This update includes -New loading screens -rebalanced and scaling monster difficulty -Updated visuals for shooter and mortar slimes -Updated slime spawning variation logic -A new enemy! -Update
I've pushed a small update to the demo branch in celebration of Roguelike Celebration!
This update includes
-New loading screens
-rebalanced and scaling monster difficulty
-Updated visuals for shooter and mortar slimes
-Updated slime spawning variation logic
-A new enemy!
-Updated AI pathing and speed
Hope you enjoy and be on the lookout for the new slime! They're deadly! Thanks for playing!
Steven
Hey Look! A dev update! I recently finished work on 4 new runes! Projectile on Hit, Projectile on Conclude, Nova on Hit, and Nova on Conclude On Hit runes cause you to cast that spell on an enemy when you hit, and on conclude causes you to cast that spell whenever the casting spe
Hey Look! A dev update!
I recently finished work on 4 new runes!
Projectile on Hit, Projectile on Conclude, Nova on Hit, and Nova on Conclude
On Hit runes cause you to cast that spell on an enemy when you hit, and on conclude causes you to cast that spell whenever the casting spell "concludes"
After slotting these runes in, any future runes will apply to the triggered spell instead! This gives room for some pretty crazy interactions
Shown here is Projectile on Conclude alone, then a Volley Projectiles that all have projectile on conclude, then a single projectile that has a projectile on conclude supported by a Ring of Spells, and then all of them combined! As well as a Fire Dash supported by Projectile on Conclude, then Nova on Conclude, then Ring of Spells!
Along with this update is some balance and scaling updates. Enemies now scale in power with every
room! Along with that, enemeis are sorted into categories (ranged, thicc boys, filler slimes) that have a limites on how many of them can spawn in a room, no more rooms filled with 80% mortar slimes!
I have some other new runes in the works, and hopefully some new monsters and bosses after that. Once that's wrapped up I'll likely push all of this to the demo branch 👍 thanks for reading!
Pushing a small QOL patch to the demo! -Fixed a bug where the direction of the player was resetting when there was no input -Updated the Tutorial Complete popup -Updated the Rune Upgrade cost econ a bit -Buffed Ice scaling a bit, nerfed Earth a bit -Added space for the new Hard a
Pushing a small QOL patch to the demo!
-Fixed a bug where the direction of the player was resetting when there was no input
-Updated the Tutorial Complete popup
-Updated the Rune Upgrade cost econ a bit
-Buffed Ice scaling a bit, nerfed Earth a bit
-Added space for the new Hard and Hell difficulty Doors
Based on the feedback from a discord user, I'm experimenting with slightly modified mouse/keyboard movement scheme, let me know what you think and happy slaying!
Based on the feedback from a discord user, I'm experimenting with slightly modified mouse/keyboard movement scheme, let me know what you think and happy slaying!
Demo 2.0 is Ready to Play! Included in this update is : 6 new zones! Over 30 new Relics! Full 60 rooms of gameplay! New Control Scheme and perspective! Upgradable and Variable Rune Power! Main Hub Area with different doors for different Difficulty Levels! In the coming weeks I'll
Demo 2.0 is Ready to Play!
Included in this update is :
6 new zones!
Over 30 new Relics!
Full 60 rooms of gameplay!
New Control Scheme and perspective!
Upgradable and Variable Rune Power!
Main Hub Area with different doors for different Difficulty Levels!
In the coming weeks I'll be tightening up this Demo version and adding some new monsters, bosses, and features for what will eventually be the Prologue version of the game! Feel free to drop by with some thoughts, feedback, or suggestions on what types of content you'd like to see next!
Thanks for playing!
Steven
Hey All, Thanks to everybody who has tested out the demo so far! I've been putting in a lot of work to add a lot of new content, and I'm going to push pretty much all of it to the demo! This means the game will be playable with all 60 floors and all 7 zones. I've also added some
Hey All, Thanks to everybody who has tested out the demo so far! I've been putting in a lot of work to add a lot of new content, and I'm going to push pretty much all of it to the demo! This means the game will be playable with all 60 floors and all 7 zones.
I've also added some new features!
First is Relics!
Relics will provide some pretty big build and game changing bonuses. I've added 34 Relics so far ranging from Rare to Legendary rarities. Relics give permanent passive bonuses to your character that upgrade your build and give you pretty crazy new tools for some cool combinations.
I've also added Potions!
Potions have super powerful one time uses. They can give gold, health, access to other elements outside of your current build, or some potions that are complete chaos.
I have a few more tasks to wrap up with the new version but I hope to have it in players hands as soon as possible. Thanks for playing and happy slaying!
Steven
Hi All! My name is Steven and I'm the lead (sole) developer of Slime Slayer! I've been working hard to build the best demo I can packed with content, and it should be available very soon! I'm looking forward to hearing feedback and seeing some fresh faces get their hands on the g
Hi All!
My name is Steven and I'm the lead (sole) developer of Slime Slayer! I've been working hard to build the best demo I can packed with content, and it should be available very soon! I'm looking forward to hearing feedback and seeing some fresh faces get their hands on the game.
In the meantime, jump into the discord server for weekly updates on the games ongoing development and to be part of the conversation!
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my game!