It’s been an especially exciting couple of weeks for us on Team Floppy Knights, since we’ve been making HUGE changes to the game, namely with its battle system, along with lots of progress on other areas of the game.
Shuffle the Deck: Combat Updates Incoming!
A refreshed battle system is something we’ve been teasing and discussing on Twitter, and we’re finally able to share more! Last week, our game designer, Christian, put out a design thread describing some of the issues that have become apparent in our original battle system. One of the big areas we wanted to improve? The pacing, especially in the larger battles, since they were feeling a tad slow. If you wanna see the details, read more to see why:
Long story short? Instead of tying attacks to cards and resources, all units have one attack they can use every turn, which speeds up battles and creates some room for very interesting strategies.
Status Effect Pop-Ups
The more we add to combat, the more we also work on how to communicate all the info you need to know. While we’re still working on exactly the right way to display all this info, this week, we’ve played with it popping up overhead on your units, so you can hover over whenever you want to check what’s going on.
Keepin’ Track of Attacks
To help even more with planning, another version of these pop-ups also will potentially be seen in instances like right before attacking! That way, you can figure out exactly what happens with the action you’re about to take.
Adding that JUICE!
In our continued progress on making cards seem weighter and animations even juicer, we’ve got cards slamming down to really give you that UMPH!
A Little Bit of This, A Little Bit of That
In addition to these bigger shifts and additions, we’ve done lots of other bits of clean-up and fixing. Things like updating the tiles on the maps (which now include more lovely flowers and juuuust a bit more real estate for the map) as well as implementing lots of new bleeps, boops, and bops with the SFX in the game to match the additional shine we’re putting on all the UI.
Until our next update, find us on Discord or Twitter, and come say hi!
‘Till next time!
💾 Jenny + Team Floppy Knights