Wowee, it’s been a busy two weeks at Rose City Games. Portland, where the team is based, has been dealing with wildfires and lots of smoke in the last week, and as some of you reached out to ask, we first and foremost wanted to let you know that we’re doing okay. We did take things a bit slower last week as we were all keeping one eye out on the news, but we still have some updates to share!
Vibe Check!
How’re your Floppy Knights feeling? It’s going to be so much easier to tell with our latest update! We’ve been making lots of small tweaks and updates to battle visual effects, and here’s a quick summary of what you can expect to see when buffing your units (or, ahem...if you happen to take damage in various ways, but we won’t focus on that ;) ).
All the small things...
We’ve also made visual updates to other actions during battle! When using cards like Grow, for example, the effect of the card is more clearly indicated with a green number, and the numbers made easier to distinguish with an orange stroke. All small details that add up to generally quicker ways to read and interpret all the info you have at hand!
...and not so small things!
In addition to those small -- but still impactful -- tweaks, we’ve been doing some pretty substantial redesign on once familiar levels! In addition to new battlefield layouts, you may notice a couple of new objects on the field… our game designer, Christian, has had some fun creating more surprises for you to encounter in the game. ;)
It’s Science!
We’ve also been working on fortifying the decks with new cards, based on all of the design changes that Christian’s been tweeting about lately. The hardest part? You may think it’s balancing our card generation system with level design and maintaining synergy among a million other game dev things. Instead it’s more like... well... I’ll let this super scientific graph do all the talking:
Hope you're all staying safe and well!
We’ll keep trucking on development, and we hope that you all are staying safe and well, too! As always, please don’t hesitate to keep in touch -- we’re on Discord as well as Twitter!
Talk soon,
💾 Jenny and the Floppy Knights team