Haha, yeah, I realized I made it a bit too hard with the recipe obfuscation. Newer version I'm working on gives you the health potion recipe from the start, and drops are way better too, so that helps some, I think. For the text box thing, you can double click it to do text entry instead of the scroll, but I suppose that's not clear. Maybe some more tooltips would help? I had hoped the text description of what you were doing to the materials would help people figure out that you need to switch the materials with the numbers below, but I suppose that didn't work.
I have considered recipes between runs, as I thought it might be annoying. I did not have enough time to implement it anyways, but you're probably right, there should be some meta progression there. Thanks for playing!
Likely in terms of the crafting, you likely just needed some sort of tutorial. Tooltips will likely leave to what was seen in the video still bumbling around until one gets it.
Not sure about a tutorial, per se, but I was going to implement an in game help that explains the controls. I could briefly explain the canonical way to create a shortsword, plus some different principles as well.
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Couldn't really get anywhere in this one.
Haha, yeah, I realized I made it a bit too hard with the recipe obfuscation. Newer version I'm working on gives you the health potion recipe from the start, and drops are way better too, so that helps some, I think. For the text box thing, you can double click it to do text entry instead of the scroll, but I suppose that's not clear. Maybe some more tooltips would help? I had hoped the text description of what you were doing to the materials would help people figure out that you need to switch the materials with the numbers below, but I suppose that didn't work.
I have considered recipes between runs, as I thought it might be annoying. I did not have enough time to implement it anyways, but you're probably right, there should be some meta progression there. Thanks for playing!
Likely in terms of the crafting, you likely just needed some sort of tutorial. Tooltips will likely leave to what was seen in the video still bumbling around until one gets it.
Not sure about a tutorial, per se, but I was going to implement an in game help that explains the controls. I could briefly explain the canonical way to create a shortsword, plus some different principles as well.