Thanks for the feedback! I’m going through a lot of it so it’s difficult to respond to each person individually, but I am taking it all in and discussing with the artists. Overall the reaction to the new art has been really positive, which is great, but there are definitely detail adjustments to be made in lots of cases.

Thanks for the kind words! I’ll answer your questions in order:

• It’s interesting that you mention this because you’re already playing with ‘improved degradation’! The changes I made in v0.4.0 with strength scaling, and subsequent adjustments in updates like v0.4.1 and v0.8.0 are sort of my version of the degradation system. I think the goal of the system was good, nerfing the ‘dump every upgrade into the first high-tier weapon and win’ strategy, but there was too much collateral damage. I solved the problem by making it harder to access high-tier gear early, and generally making raw offense with no planning or strategy much less effective.
• I have checked then out! I don’t really have a use for procgen tools myself, but I do keep tabs on what Watabou is doing. Amusingly, a D&D campaign I was in a couple years ago did actually make fairly regular use of Watabou’s medival fantasy city generator.
• I do have some plans, obviously I can’t keep working on Shattered forever, but for the foreseeable future I still have ideas for Shattered and the game is doing way too well for me to consider stopping development.

Thanks for giving Lemmy a try!

Lemmy.World has a few different web UIs that you can try out, otherwise if you’re on mobile various Lemmy apps support themeing:

• https://a.lemmy.world - Alexandrite UI
• https://photon.lemmy.world - Photon UI
• https://m.lemmy.world - Voyager mobile UI
• https://old.lemmy.world - A familiar UI

Not at all, thanks for the feedback! I appreciate that the new visuals are a change no matter what. and it’ll feel a bit weird to imagine only some new visuals in the game mixed in with the old ones. In the future I might be able to show an example of a game screen with 100% new graphics.

Afraid I’m not ever going to add toggles to turn off new content added in updates, although I do want the new visuals to satisfy as many people as possible.

I do think there are cases where the game could include a bit more numbers clarity, but I’m afraid I don’t want to just effectively put the wiki into the main game. Are there any particular ‘hidden’ mechanics which you think are most egregious? I don’t think any of the things you list are crucial to winning the game, and in fact the game does mention solution potions to special rooms in the guidebook.

So an evasion augmented armor grants 4 + 2*lvl evasion. I could include this stat, but it’s not actually going to help decision-making at all, as you have no idea how that compares to the amount of blocking you’ve lost. Furthermore extra points of evasion/accuracy aren’t necessarily more useful, generally the more of it you’ve got the less useful each point is, which is often the opposite of blocking’s value. So I just don’t include the numbers at all as that ends up being a similar amount of information with less complexity.

Accuracy figures are the exact same in this regard, I’d rather have no numbers at all than show numbers which aren’t actually useful.

The next update isn’t actually revealing any more information than the game already displays, it’s just giving it to you in a nice compact form that’s much easier to access, and in the case of SoU it’s showing it to you before spending the scroll instead of after.

Unfortunately I don’t intend to show off accuracy and evasion stats because the numbers aren’t particularly meaningful. The hero has 10 accuracy and 5 evasion to start, and gains +1 of each per level. This tells you nothing about the actual hit/dodge chance on a per-enemy basis. the only real way for me to show this information would be to show the exact hit/dodge chance for each enemy, which feels like way too much information.

The level boost isn’t changed for the bow vs. other thrown weapons, so there’s no need to put in another line on the update window. The item’s description is probably a better place for clarity on that front.

Equippong/unequipping armor takes 2 turns, so completely swapping from one set to another takes 4 in total. However, this is currently affected by hero speed, so wearing excessively heavy armor would result in this taking longer than 4 turns. I agree this is a bit of a trap that isn’t explained anywhere currently.

The cleric is going to the the focus of v3.0.0, which is almost certainly going to be the next major update after v2.5.0. I can’t give an ETA yet but late this year seems most likely.

I do want to look into ways to encourage more supporter purchases, especially on the Google Play verison, but it’s never going to be locking a major content update behind a paywall.

If the item is unidentified then it’ll always show stats as if it going from +0 to +1, and will let you know that.

No specific date yet, but we are getting close. I said ‘sometime in July’ and I think that’s still accurate, though it’ll be later obviously.

It’s worth noting that v2.5 ended up growing quite a bit bigger than I initially planned for it to be.

Hah! As far as I’m aware Java is a pretty memory-safe language, and the game has also already supported text input for a while now, so hopefully never.

Please look at the screenshot again, there already are separators when two floors are on the same row. Separators on different columns seems unnecessary as there’s already a new header that serves as a separator.

I went back and forward on this in development before settling on the more compact view. I do agree that this can result in reduced readability, but I felt it was worth it compared to making the player scroll a whole lot to access earlier floors. I made this choice partly because the lack of compactness makes the current list UI totally unusable, and moving to the grid’s main goal is to address that. Using one floor per row would also be especially bad in landscape where there’s roughly twice the horizontal space and half the vertical space.

I would like to give a little more info on score in the future, but this isn’t really the feature for that. Landmarks mainly automatically note things which you’d care about remembering between floors, such as an alchemy room. Secret rooms aren’t noted at all. I agree that a similar UI could be used to break down missing things by floor, but I wonder if just noting them would be sufficient, compared to doing something like showing where they were on the map.

I don’t often directly implement them into the game, but I’m always happy to listen to suggestions as a form of feedback.

The badges are all relating to the new catalogs, replacing the old researcher badges. I do agree that it would be nice to have more specific badges for each of the heroes/subclasses though.