Hey Robert. Very satisfied yeah, 60 days after launch players seem to be happy and sales are well over my projections. Considering it is a ported game, I couldn't ask for more.
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Exiled Kingdoms on PC
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Hey Robert. Very satisfied yeah, 60 days after launch players seem to be happy and sales are well over my projections. Considering it is a ported game, I couldn't ask for more.
The_Sloth_Sleeps
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For those of us creating a game of a similar style, what words of encouragement would you have for us? Are the SteamSpy sales statistics exceeded?
Steamspy has been dead for a week, but back when it was active it was reasonably accurate in my case (with its ups and downs, of course).
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Have you settled the multiplayer question or are you still undecided?
Once current update is out I'll dedicate a couple weeks to experiment on multiplayer and see what it would really imply, development-wise. If it can be accomplished in a reasonable way then I'll do it (and it will be a free update). However I am not optimistic, too much code has been written with single-player in mind.
I am not hiding anything, Steamspy works on data polled by user profiles. Steam changed its privacy policy a week ago making Steamspy worthless. The last estimation from SteamSpy that I remember was 6,700 units sold (I think), which is a bit short from the actual data. EK has sold 7200 copies so far.
Will you make a PC focused sequel?
Yes. Not exactly a "sequel" as even if it happens in the same game world, it will be a turn-based, party based RPGasm of cosmic proportions.
That makes its number of reviews quite a bit above average, doesn't it?
Well, that's a good sign, anyway.
I played almost through the entire game and had a lot of fun with it. Here's my review, btw.
Had to stop in the final region, though. What happened was that there is this map with moving lights that will basically insta-kill you when touched.
I spawned on the map right on top of one. And the last save game was about two hours old... in such situations, I just quit.
But I'm fairly positive I'll replay with a different class anyway. And save before entering that map
I didn't know that, a pity, Steam Spy was better info than the plebs (or indie devs) had in previous times I guess.
I caused another sale.
some funny shit
Scholar
Will you use libgdx again or Unity3d?
Was Java/libgdx anyhow problematic to you to release game on Steam?
Yeah, but it is always like that when a game is new. The rate is already dropping.
I played almost through the entire game and had a lot of fun with it. Here's my review, btw.
Had to stop in the final region, though. What happened was that there is this map with moving lights that will basically insta-kill you when touched.
I spawned on the map right on top of one. And the last save game was about two hours old... in such situations, I just quit.
But I'm fairly positive I'll replay with a different class anyway. And save before entering that map
Thanks for the review! No need, in current version I added an autosave on area change
I'll go Unity this time. Java + LibGDX has been great and I might return to it for future games.
I think that is what caused my problem.I played almost through the entire game and had a lot of fun with it. Here's my review, btw.
Had to stop in the final region, though. What happened was that there is this map with moving lights that will basically insta-kill you when touched.
I spawned on the map right on top of one. And the last save game was about two hours old... in such situations, I just quit.
But I'm fairly positive I'll replay with a different class anyway. And save before entering that map
Thanks for the review! No need, in current version I added an autosave on area change
The autosave it did on entering the new region - and when I reloaded that I was just dying to the magic effect again faster than I could move away (squishy mage, probably wouldn't have been a problem with a warrior).
And my most recent save except that was 2H ago (my own mistake, ofc).
Why Unity and not something else like Godot (or Unreal)?
The Scene/Node architecture in Godot is pretty wonderful. Goes way beyond what Prefabs do in Unity. And it is fully free, of course. Plus there are certain... reservations about Unity, not only here. You know, "another Unity asset flip"...
I've just been fooling around with it, but so far I like Godot more than Unity.
Naturally, it doesn't yet have the same wealth of libraries around it.
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Is this worth five bucks? I got a great deal of patience for flawed games (not saying this is one) that have something interesting going on for them, hell, I liked and finished Inquisitor although it had the worst grind combat since... ever? How are the dialogues, are there joinable factions, skill checks?
Darth Canoli
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Always read the negative reviews, then the positive ones to get an idea of what you're getting and if you didn't read anything that makes the game a big turd or if you really like the genre, go for it.
Honestly, i'd rather play divine divinity if you didn't play already or Throne of Darkness (a good diablo-like with companions and the divinity equipment enhancing system)
Or even Crosscode (it's on steam)
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I enjoyed it as a mobile game. There is a small but seemingly fanatical community that has sprung up around the game trying to outdo each other with character builds as well as being wholly responsible for the wiki associated with the game. I also bought it on PC because DavidBVal posts here and has been very forthcoming about his experience on the sales side.
fantadomat
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Is it any good?
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Just wanted to re-post this from the Archaelund (DavidBVal's next game) announcement thread, as I know a lot of people don't check the news posts too often. Just my quick impressions of Exiled Kingdoms:
The game is fun and definitely worth the small price tag, particularly as an introduction to the world Archaelund will take place in. I just started playing it again recently do to my excitement over this announcement. Biggest drawbacks to Exiled Kingdoms would be some of the open-source assets and music used, as well as the fairly simple combat. That isn't to say the combat is bad, or lacks challenge, but it's clearly no where near what Archaelund is aiming for (or even really similar at all, as it's ARPG combat).
Greatest strengths of Exiled Kingdom would be the world building, lore, exploration, interesting quest design, reputation/faction system, tone, meaningful character progression, dungeon crawling, and itemization. All of these more than make up for the shortcomings I mentioned. I'd recommend it to anyone who's interest has been piqued by this announcement, with the warning to not enter it with wild expectations. It's impressive and fun as a developer's first project and you can see the promise of future development to come, but it has its problems.
The game is fun and definitely worth the small price tag, particularly as an introduction to the world Archaelund will take place in. I just started playing it again recently do to my excitement over this announcement. Biggest drawbacks to Exiled Kingdoms would be some of the open-source assets and music used, as well as the fairly simple combat. That isn't to say the combat is bad, or lacks challenge, but it's clearly no where near what Archaelund is aiming for (or even really similar at all, as it's ARPG combat).
Greatest strengths of Exiled Kingdom would be the world building, lore, exploration, interesting quest design, reputation/faction system, tone, meaningful character progression, dungeon crawling, and itemization. All of these more than make up for the shortcomings I mentioned. I'd recommend it to anyone who's interest has been piqued by this announcement, with the warning to not enter it with wild expectations. It's impressive and fun as a developer's first project and you can see the promise of future development to come, but it has its problems.
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I finally decided to try it out, and the game is pretty unequal, but I understand it better when DavidBval mentions that the project was initially to be terminated within 3 months.
Basically: the world building is extremely satisfying with a vast map open to the player to explore in any way possible. Although area filled with higher level enemies are a virtual limit to where player can thrive, but it's still possible to get past that difficulty, for say reach a city with good shops. I also liked the way you can unlock special dialogue options through your character stats (here traits).
But as stated before, combat is the downside and considering it's your main activity in the game, it took a big toll on my enjoyment.
In the end I think the game might have worked better with a classless system. With traits acting as restrictions for equipping items and learning skills. That way, all archetype (mage, warrior, cleric, thief) present in the game would've been there, but allowing the player to do some crossovers in abilities. I would have enjoyed to play a two-handed guy, using whirlwind and heal.
But again, this is an IOS project, and if you look at it for what it is, it's a big achievement on the part of its developer imo.
Basically: the world building is extremely satisfying with a vast map open to the player to explore in any way possible. Although area filled with higher level enemies are a virtual limit to where player can thrive, but it's still possible to get past that difficulty, for say reach a city with good shops. I also liked the way you can unlock special dialogue options through your character stats (here traits).
But as stated before, combat is the downside and considering it's your main activity in the game, it took a big toll on my enjoyment.
In the end I think the game might have worked better with a classless system. With traits acting as restrictions for equipping items and learning skills. That way, all archetype (mage, warrior, cleric, thief) present in the game would've been there, but allowing the player to do some crossovers in abilities. I would have enjoyed to play a two-handed guy, using whirlwind and heal.
But again, this is an IOS project, and if you look at it for what it is, it's a big achievement on the part of its developer imo.
Darth Canoli
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I admit the combat is not the one I'd have envisioned for a PC game. But in my defense, some of the best RPGs in history have shitty combat
Like I said, try mage or rogue for a more varied combat. Mage is very challenging at the early levels though.
The problem of the combat, besides the engine is the movement speed, it's just right for exploring purposes but too fast to work with the combat system so you just use your skills for the first blow and press the attack button hoping for the best and clicking healing potions.
It's a shame, the quest design is quite good (not the town hall randomly generated ones) and the open world is amazing.
Mage is really tedious to play but i didn't get far, might be better if you can endure the early game and even more so because of the combat walking speed and 2 of your 3 basic spells hurting companions and henchmen too.
Rogue is way better, hide, backstab, stab, it's alright so far.
The worldmap is really good, a lot of handcrafted content too.
I just explored the 3 early cities, you could turn this game into something huge with a Shining Force combat design (TB tactical), only a couple of fights for each dungeons while keeping everything else.
Also, a shame you can't have 2 companions, just 1 and one henchman.
Still, worth playing if you don't mind the combat and the town hall randomly generated quests grind.
Exceptionally, I recommend playing on easy difficulty, so you can use quicksave inside dungeons, it's useful sometimes, it also adds limited HP regen up to 50% which was very useful in one dungeon so far.
When you're drugged and dragged down into a cell...
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Darth Canoli
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So, i dumped the rogue and got back to the wizard, turns out it's way more fun since you get a fighter companion you can turn into a tank.
The close combat rogue reach it's limit when you get groups of enemies more often since he's very squishy and doesn't have all the options the mage has (scrolls to heal the whole party and a lot of spells)
Fireball doesn't hurt your allies (only yourself).
You can heal your companion (from the inventory, a shame there isn't a couple of quickslots for him/her)
Quests are very well designed, this is way better than NWN 1 & 2.
You get used to the combat and if you hack greater health pots and your best mana pot, it's still hard but fine (potions are on cooldowns so it's mostly to adventure longer)
So, i'm having a lot of fun, remember to play on easy, it's the same as normal but with quicksaves inside dungeons and it helps, hard increase enemies stats by 25% i think for the masochists and there is an ironman mode for the autists or roguelike fans.
The close combat rogue reach it's limit when you get groups of enemies more often since he's very squishy and doesn't have all the options the mage has (scrolls to heal the whole party and a lot of spells)
Fireball doesn't hurt your allies (only yourself).
You can heal your companion (from the inventory, a shame there isn't a couple of quickslots for him/her)
Quests are very well designed, this is way better than NWN 1 & 2.
You get used to the combat and if you hack greater health pots and your best mana pot, it's still hard but fine (potions are on cooldowns so it's mostly to adventure longer)
So, i'm having a lot of fun, remember to play on easy, it's the same as normal but with quicksaves inside dungeons and it helps, hard increase enemies stats by 25% i think for the masochists and there is an ironman mode for the autists or roguelike fans.
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I only played a significant amount with the Priest or Cleric or w/e it's called and it's quite satisfying burning undead and turning the last smidgen of your mana bar into a full hp bar.
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