Cant wait for the slime king to say: "what, you gonna fight me with your slime keep?"

I think a good way to increase replayability is to add secret extra bosses, they will also help add some lore to the game. For example, we have Slime King, but what if we added Slime Queen as a secret extra boss that you could fight if you found some secret passage in Slime King's castle and it turned out that she was actually in charge of the infected slimes and Slime King was her puppet?

I think a boss rush mode after you beat slime king would be great. You could add a few attacks to each to make them all a bit harder or something. Could have some exclusive weapon or something you get if you beat them all in a certain time!

You sould make a Masochist Difficulty where the world starts on max corruption, you have 1HP all the time, and you can't respawn And when you beat it it gives you the most unnoticable cosmetic ever

Ideas: This time arround I can't really give ideas releating towards the topic ( cool to see the arcade has been popped in the house,) so ill just do more general things today: Option to turn off the Slime Pet Dialouge, I have no idea how I didnt mention this last time, but I'm personally not a big fan of the slime pet talking and a option for turning it off would be nice. A House that resembles a Game Boy A House that Resmebles a PC A 1 in 4082 chance for a slime to be blue A 1 in 8096 chance for it to shine rainbow A gun that fires glitches The haha funny bananna bomb that every roguelike seems to have Different walking animations for costumes (Like Riding a Hoverboard, Flying, or a stealthy walk.) A flamethrower for the arsonists part in us that impulsively wants to burn something A 1 life mode having it only take one shot to die And finally, Make it so you can buy a cat after beating slimeking and beating 1 shot mode after buying it gives you the most powerful gun in the game... the cat itself

Petition to use “slime gems” instead of “special slimeballs”. More catchy, fewer syllables

I thought of something that might be a horror to code in but also a funny gimmick: your pets attack you in the slime king fight. That’s it. Why? His corruption is too much. I understand this would probably be kinda hard to do though, so feel free to skip this idea lol.

4:37 Looking great in the game, it's an honor for my art to be used by you!

These devlogs are so relaxing, can't wait for the game release!

game gonna be sick when it comes out

Who needs to smash the subscribe button when you can smash the wishlist button! Almost at devlog #50! Hope it will be EPIC!

4:37 Nintendo is already after you run.

So only a minute in, but in regards to the challenge mode, immediately jumping to half slimeballs, and they do more damage may be to steep of a curve. I'd recommend making it in levels, the next one being unlocked after winning in the previous difficulty level. Personally, Id suggest make the difficulty curve slower, so for example level 1 might be 10% fewer slimeballs, level 2 30% level 3 is 50% and something similar with the other difficulty factors. Not only does this increase replayability even more, but it eases them into it rather than dropping them in the deep end. I find that kind of thing holds on to players better. Also, with the difficulty scaling, having a positive go along with them often makes playing harder difficulties feel way better, like having better loot luck or whatever equivalent applies here, definitely not enough to counter the increased difficulty, but enough to "feel" like you are being somewhat rewarded for challenging yourself.

Mode ideas: Evolution mode: After reaching the 3rd stage, slimes can evolve into the 1st stage of a higher difficulty slime, this keeps going until they turn into a difficulty 5 slime Jam mode: Basically the game jam version of the game, but with the new features and graphics Amnesia/Sacrifice mode: Every day you have to choose a slime pet upgrade, player upgrade, or weapon to lose forever Slime rush mode: Basically a boss rush Lonely mode: No slime pet Glass cannon mode: Die in one hit, but all weapons deal 5 times more damage Titanium jelly mode: Opposite of glass cannon, you have double the health, but deal little to no damage Powerful bosses mode: Bosses get new attacks Flood mode: As long as there's at least one slime alive in a room, more and harder slimes will keep spawning constantly in the room, they will only drop half the slime balls through and spawn at stage 2

You got my attention with this title.

Happy I was able to get you started with build automation and that it's been helpful to you! You've come a long way from having issues with git. 😄 Excellent work!

you should add house upgrades unlocked by quests like an electric guitar or something for beating the DJ Slime

Love your content, can’t wait for the release, keep it up 👍

what if the second prompt for the slime statue didn't say un-worship but instead said something like "renounce your faith"

Make it so that defeating every boss turns half of the player's current slime balls into special slime balls on challenge mode And defeating the king on normal mode does that same

Cool stuff! Yeah I could definitely see special slime balls being rewarded for the normal game and then getting more for challenge mode

4:40 i would recommend putting the smoke a little bit higher so that it actually looks the smoke is coming out of the pipe (you could also redraw the mushroom house) 4:45 the special slime balls could be earned by playing the "Goopy Bird" minigame, depending the difficulty and day the player is on when they play you have to insert X amount of special slime balls and if the player scores high enough they get more slime balls back then what they put in. To prevent grinding you could put a limit on the amount of try's or the cost of entry gets higher if the player keeps succeeding

Instead of worshiping and UN-worshipping, how about lighting an incense stick and extinguish it to turn off the challenge mode. This gives a more diegetic sense to this action.

4:38 - Just a minor suggestion, but you could modify the chimney particles for each house skin so that e.g. the mushroom has some spores and it's generally more adjusted for each house

A cool idea could be to have an ability system for experienced players - like it gives you a buff and a debuff, to make replayability more interesting. The thing that gives you it can be a statue in the garden, or again, in the basement. Kind of like in a roguelike game called Soul-Knight, when it adds 4 buffs or debuffs, but that's more random. Love the work.

Already 49#, keep up the grind gl

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PEAK #49 IS HEREEEEE

It may be better to have a way to unlock challenge mode a different way too, as many players do sometimes come back to playing a game but have their progress reset when redownloaded. Having direct access to the more difficult mode would definitly be useful here

You should add it to where when beating the slime king on normal mode, you get like 1/8th or 1/16th of your slimeballs left turned into special slimeballs.

I don’t know if this was intentional, but whenever the house’s skin is changed, it stays the same on the minimap.

Brilliant! Great to see you use git actions. I've never used them for games but I really want to.

there should be some challenge mode exclusive enemies to make it even more unique

This game looks really cool! I can really see myself getting into and playing a game like this, and it looks really fun! Though I’ve got a few things to say about the new “Challenge mode” (granted I am not a professional designer though I’ve been doing game dev as a hobby for a bit). Challenge mode isn’t really challenging the player at all at its current state. If all you’re doing is changing values, then you’re not challenging the player to play in a new way. You’re just making them play more of the same way. For example, if challenge mode doubles the health of the enemy, then you’re asking a player who has already completed the game (meaning they’ve spent hours upon hours shooting enemies) to shoot the enemy, but this time, it takes longer! Yaaaaay! Or take the fact that the enemies drop half the resources. Once more, the player is performing the same actions. All you’re changing now is the fact that if players want a certain amount of resources, they’ll have to kill enemies, but this time, they have to do it more! (Woo hoo! More repetition!). Basically, players might die more or take longer to kill enemies, but they’re playing in the exact same way, there’s no replay value to be had. The only way you can give replay value through challenging the player is by making entirely new enemies/mechanics that challenge the current way of playing. If the most effective way to play the game is by (let’s say) shooting an enemy until they die, then we need an enemy that blocks all shots and therefore the player will have to use a different way to kill him (this is a very vague example that’s not specific to your game by the way). This way, there IS a challenge, and there IS replay value. Why? Because the player is playing in a whole new way. So they’re challenged to master another mechanic instead of sticking to the ones they already mastered, and that adds replay value because, not only is it harder, but there’s also more to do! It’s also worthy to note that enemy AI IS a way to challenge the player, not through changing values, but by changing their behavior to no longer suit the strategies that players use. For example, if an enemy can block gunshots (again, this is NOT specific to your game), but the enemy barely uses that, then a way a player might kill an enemy is by spamming the shoot button. But by making an enemy block more often, then suddenly spamming the shoot button is no longer feasible. Now, as a fellow (albeit amateur) game dev, I know how hard it is to make whole new enemy types and whole new mechanics and whole new content (in general). But you CANNOT have challenge mode in its current state. It’ll just bore the players or potentially frustrate them. So you can either figure out ways to challenge the player and the player’s play style, or just not have challenge mode. Of course there are other ways to incorporate replay ability. Great game though, it genuinely looks amazing. Good luck on the rest of your development!

I love how this game is looking so far! One thing I'd recommend for replayability is to add more utility and playable rewards, such as the arcade game. Cosmetics are awesome (I think you could add even more; i could see slime pet cosnetics being put here) but so is something like a shop with low tier rewards right there or extra gameplay content like a mini game or boss. Great work on streamlining your playtesting, CICD was neat to learn about.

It would be cool if you could get a smaller amount of special slime balls on normal mode, such as maybe getting a quarter of the slime balls you have instead of all of them. Or you could have it set to a fixed rate that is decently small.

I like having cosmetics but I don't like having a shop where I buy them. I think it would be more enjoyable to get them when you finish a run so they feel more like a trophy

I think the challenge mode is a great idea. However I think it would benefit the game if the changes weren't just stats/ numbers changing. Maybe enemies unlock new attack patterns or maybe new secret paths to alternate bosses reveal themselves. Or NPC interactions/ locations change in some way. Maybe it would already help if the changing stats would also come with a reskin so that the world also feels different when replaying.

The chimney spoke particles need to be moved/disabled when you change the house being used.

The challenge mode should have different ranks, like in balatro. For example, rank 1 = 50% less slimeballs, rank 2= 50% more damage and so on.

I feel like an online multiplayer mode would be super cool!

Definitely you should be getting small amount of special slimeballs for regular runs. It'd give the game more progression and more reasonto keep playing.

you should have a mode that gives you random modifiers as a challenge (like maybe theres one where ALL projectiles bounce)

For the dark blue house floor skin, add a highlight to the outline of the hole. It's hard to see

You should get a few special slime balls every time you get a steam achievement for the first time.

It would be cool if you get half of your remaining slime balls into special slime balls in the normal mode

The Slimekeep was the friends we made along the way

perhaps have the slimeballs crystalize or something at the end of the run to create slime gems or slime crystals etc, has a better ring to it than "special slimeballs"

I don't get what the point of capturing slimes is. The pet slime doesn't seem worth it either.

Woah i havent seen this in 10 years

Hey nice video also what font do u use for the game?

i cant believe i made it here within 10 minutes of it being uploaded!

Neat updates! I am definitely the kind of player that likes to collect and customise my own place. For your Ci/CD pipeline, do you have any test automation?

You just wont give up 🤣 Admire the hustle i guess

the smoke on the hous sprites are buggy 4:35 just in case you didn't notice 🥔

Idea: you should add some form of indicator on your UI when challenge mode is enabled.

it would be cool if you could spend your super slime to change the color of the whole game, you could do Red, Blue, Orange, Purple. once you have them all unlocked it unlocks RGB MODE where the shader changes the color slowly as you play.

You should also get special slime balls by beating the slime king in regular mode. However I think you should be rewarded with more special slime balls if you beat it in challenge mode.

Ok dude adding more and more features will make your progress a lot longer and people will get bored because the game isn’t out yet for years because you add more and more features.

I recommend you do something like terraria did with higher difficulties, i.e. add items that are only obtainable in those difficulties. In Terraria these were mainly boss items, like the eye of cthulu shield, but you can make them anything in your game

I think it would be a good idea to give you slime ballseverytime you beat the game. It would've you more in challenge mode, making it so that you have to replay the game multiple times to be able to unlock everything.

i think u should add some light sources inside the house

What if the real slime keep was the friends we made along the way

maybe have it so you get half of your slime balls become special slime balls (rounding up on odds) on normal mode

Why'd you remove the devlog number from the title? Now I don't know if I'm caught up with these amazing videos or not :c

Hey, really loved the video but im just popping in to say that at 4:33 the smoke effect doesnt change when you change houses, hope this helps

Automate, very epik

Can you share all your workflow files? It would be a great resource.

Heres a new sub for you❤

luv u bro

Idk if you'll see this, but instead of "special slimeballs" as the special currency, how about it's instead called "slime gems".

You shold add green slime factories (dungeons)

i guess this trulery was the slimekeep ever

Btw how much will the game cost?

Are there any plans to make a linux version of this game?

does the game has a acessibility setting for changing this pixel perfect font? i think this would be great idk

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special slimeballs sounds a bit goofy. naming it something like supreme or premium slimeballs might be better

Ploh

Will lore rooms be in challenge mode?

u gotta give Goopy Bird an online leaderboard !! 👀

Nice

why is the mouse's name the same as mine

The video length. 💀

That is cool. I need to learn how to github.

please add a top hat item it would be amazing

Why wouldn't you make the special slime balls by "cheats" that could be activated that make the game play more interesting like infinit amo in every weapon for example

I feel like the way you get special slime balls is kinda dump, first you have to beat the game, then you have to be careful spending your slim balls, then beat the game again, just for the chance to buy one singular cosmetic. This could be one way you get special slime or maybe one of many currencies, but I feel like the player needs to at least know that there are cosmetics before having to beat the game twice. So yes you need other ways to get the special balls.

Question - [Is the game gonna cost money] - _Only one thankfully_

"Floorskin"

Your game looks sick, but i don't know if many people buy this type of games on PC, i think your game will fit better on console or mobile, personnaly, if i see a game this quality on my phone, i would buy it right away

W ONG

Is gaem gona be free. im broke

i am wanting

I'll be honest, I think the art could be reworked.

At a lot of green

Make it available for Mac

The video......time

666 views gang

Hi fisth

717 views in 36 minutes? smh benbonk fell off