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The game is pretty old, I just uploaded it on Itch finally after all those years

I'm not sure if I will come back to the game and update it, but maybe maybe

But I can try to tweak a few numbers, though it will definitely make everything fall apart as usual xd, but maybe its not that bad anyway 

huh?

The game will be available on itch in two months, for now it will be exclusive to CG.

On CG I can get some compensation for my work, it's small but better than nothing. And it will help fund publishing the game on Steam in future for example.

And uploading the game on itch is just like working for free, I get nothing as a dev for it. There are donations on Itch, but there were so little of them, even though many people played and really liked the game, so I just disabled them at some point.  I'm not complaining, I'm just stating a fact. And even if they were enabled now, I wont be able to get them because of sanctions anyway.

If you think my work is unworthy, well, it's your right to think so. But I want to work on games more and I can't do this working for free. 

Sorry for the inconveniences.

And also im not sure what you mean by "it steals games". Even in early days of CG in 2019 when my game did kinda well on Kongregate, they wrote to me and kindly asked if i wanna put my game on their website. And nowadays they have much stricter rules and moderation. If you mean that some devs make very similar games to existing popular games and publish them on CG, it's not the platforms fault and happens on Steam all the time too. Maybe I missed something, but I never seen any stolen games and never heard about it from other devs. 

And overall I only have a very positive experience interacting with a platform and the CG staff, they were very nice to me (and i talked with them like A LOT). And they had to work really hard so that I could get my income from my games at all, and they spent a lot of time for me to set everything up. And itch just dont care about this AT ALL. It's been years and they improved nothing about their payment system and payment options. And well, the whole website overall. Literally zero changes since i published DFI there in 2020.

Also CG cares a lot about user saves and implemented whole system to perfectly cloud save and sync everything to make sure no save data is lost. And my game wasn't allowed to be published before they made sure it flawlessly works with this system. There is nothing like that on itch.

Sorry for such a long text lol. Just wanted to give a detailed answer so I could refer other people to it too.   

Yes. Yes it is.

https://www.crazygames.com/game/dualforce-idle-2

https://www.crazygames.com/game/dualforce-idle-2

https://www.crazygames.com/game/dualforce-idle-2

what gui?

does it really release in two months?

Thanks!

For some reason, specifically lowercase 'r' spacing is off for me in Construct 3 (there is a lot of space after it). Font works correctly if used as ttf with default text object. Am im doing something wrong? Didnt do anything special, just disabled AA, exported the image and copied the settings

Its 18th font from there just in case: /__site/not-jam.itch.io/not-jam-font-pack 

Spacing data i get:

[[8.0, " ()1[]j{}"], [6.0, "!',.:;I`il|"], [12.0, "\"*2357<>EFJSZ^cfsz"], [18.0, "#MWXY"], [14.0, "$%+0689?ABCDGHKNOPQRUVbdeghknopquvy"], [16.0, "&-4=ax~"], [10.0, "/LT\\rt"], [22.0, "@mw"], [20.0, "_"]]

Nice

someday

did it help?

About clipboard I know, yes. But saving to a savefile freezing the browser.. never heard that before.  The only thing I can recommend is disabling extensions. They can easily break things

Its from neuroasses telegram channel

https://t.me/neuroasses

This, for example

AI example you providen a really outdated. AI can do much much better now, and also do it pretty consistentely. Not that im a big fun of all that but that's the reality

Hey! Just wanted to ask.. is AI used for art or not? Not trying to offend, just curious! Because i completed the game and still cant say for sure xd

It hasn't been updated in 4 years, so.. yea.

I have plans for the sequel, but not sure about it yet. Stay tuned!

I know this comment is really old but i just wanted to answer it for some reason

Well, its not only TD, it is also idle, and in idle main point of the game is to make progress and to make progress as fast as possible. Also idles are often do not punish you, slow progress is punishment by itself. To be honest i kinda like the idea of idle with some kind punishment, but i think in this game i handled it pretty well still. First, missing enemy often makes your turret rotate excessively and in general makes everything more chaotic, making your "defense" much less effective, so even though i know there is no punishment, i myself still try to avoid enemies looping when i play the game. Second, you can accidently spend too much money on upgrading enemies, making them impossible to kill with just one loop. So in case i added some punishment, people would end up in infinite cycle of losing, and so i would have to change the whole concept of the game to somehow prevent it (and i dont like that). Thirdly, im not sure what do you mean by using speed enchantment with no risk, upgrading speed too much makes enemies much harder or even impossible to kill if you dont have spikes or lasers, so the added reward for killing the enemy will be useless then. Whole point of speed upgrade is for you to balance added reward and added complexity to kill the enemy. And well, it works for all upgrades, thats like the main point of the game: balancing defense/offense. Not sure why you mean speed upgrade specifically

"Health based damage" is based on current health, not max health

I wish we will get update focused on Kevin some day...

You can check update history and notice that they always do big updates, focusing on single character, deeply developing its story line. Nothing disappointing about it

"10.000" in the game means 10K, not 10. Its just a mistake in text displaying. Im sorry for that. But other than that game should work correctly

I really liked it at the beggining, first 15-20 days was pretty fun and cute! But then it became more and more boring and tedious. To be honest i dont really remember what happened for like 10 last days, they are so similar and i dont recall anything meaningful happening. And Sophie just dissapearing from the plot... why? I felt we just started and then it all suddenly stopped and never continued. It felt really dissapointing

And all this thing with Ingrid is not only boring but uncomfortable even. At first it was funny but then i straightup felt like game is mocking me, forcing me to do the same damn thing over and over again, without any progression... To be honest i think its the first time ever that nsfw game made me feel uncomfortable and so unsatisfied. 

And add to this such long intervals between updates... idk, just makes me sad. Feels like a good game concept became a cheap cashgrab :(

Yea, it was one of the ideas for next updates but i never finished them soooo, yap :D

I mean, what will the point of rebirthing then? If you wont lose coins, you will be able to buy everything, or almost everything back immediately. And also start coins upgrade should suggest you additionaly

But anyway, fair point, coins resetting better to be mentioned to avoid any confusion. I guess im just too used to idle games

Well this game wasn't updated for a long time. i was working on a different games. And also now im working on a new big game :)

But i still have DFI2 in plans, just not sure when i will work on it

We need more updates!

This error (to my knowledge) happens when your browser or your GPU drivers are outdated. Consider updating them. Also since you are using itch desktop (as it seems), it may be the reason. I never used it so im not sure, but it may use outdated browser under the hood that causes the problem. Or maybe it's just that Windows 11 broke something (as it always does)

This error has nothing to do with me, i can't affect it in any way.   So i can't help you :( 

And "Kongclicker 2" is just the old project name i forgot to update, its still is DualForce Idle game so don't worry about it

Wow, thank you for the detailed review! :D

This game was actually made in like 6 hours on a local game jam, and was hidden for a long time, but I decided to publish it finally

We also liked the game idea a lot, so probably one day we will make a full version 

Yep, same. Just a 1mb patch is processing for 10 hours already

Thank you for the detailed review!

Man, it was so nice to read this, thank you a lot ❤

I don't remember reading anything that cute!

Well, yea, trying to stress less, be more productive and well enjoy life in general was the main focus for the past few years for me. And well, i have a lot to reach still, but i think i did good progress anyway! Also working with the artist helped a lot. Not sure if you saw my last game, Fruit Idle, but yea, it was made with the artist, and it looks really good. And i plan to continue working with the artist on next games. So team work and stuff helped me a lot. I was making my games totally alone before and well it was pretty easy to fall into depression. It's still happens a lot, but not THAT a lot. And like, there are a lot obvious things to do to keep yourself in a better state, but i found out that most things just dont work for me, so i had to figure out my own things, and well, it's really hard, but i gain some progress anyway i think, so it's nice already.

So, i really wanted to update DFI, but expectations was just so high, and my skills was pretty bad. Also code base for the game was shit. So i spent half a year trying to release something and just end up fully depressed. So i abandoned all attempts at some point and moved on to the new games. And well, it helped!

Im not sure when, but i really want to work on DFI 2. I think im ready now, both in terms of skills and my mind state. But i need to establish myself in terms of money still. So i will have to make more smaller games before starting to work on DFI 2. And im not sure how much will it take, but if everything goes well i think somewhere in 2023 sounds pretty possible. So join discord to stay tuned!

Thank you a lot again, it was really nice of you ❤

You need to do a rebirth, then you will be able to buy upgrades for RP. With RP you can upgrade amount of turrents, yes