Game Re-focus

March was ultimately a month of an emphasis in marketing and a little bit of feature work, most of which was user experience related.

On the marketing front, I decided to scale this down. Marketing research is showing that festival involvement, having a demo, and just making a good game (shocker, I know) are the best ways to get your game in front of people. I was doing miniscule amounts of those in March and felt a pivot was needed. What I love most is making the game, not trying to sell it. The reasons above might paint me as biased, but they do align with what I ultimately wanted to do with Self Recurse - get the game in the hands of people and share what is hopefully considered art (even if that art is fun).

April will be a month of features with the goal of a demo release to a wider audience.

Tech updates

> Feature work

• - screens have a fading transition

• - decks, the exclusion pile, and discard piles all have a count visible

• - various tooltip wording was altered to make the gameplay more understandable

• - energy points were given a tooltip

• - floating text now has different colors to aid in understanding actions in real time

• - energize rate now shows on profession select

> Bug fixes

• - recur would occasionally not show as a free card played and now it does

• - (visual) spear holding enemies have improved animation and weapon placement

> Balancing

• - Rip lost puncturing to reduce the number of act 1 unblockable attacks

• - energy costs on many cards were reduced as it was too difficult to play them