Are the dev team done?

[theturntorangeheresy]

Was kinda surprised to get the Halloween event, considering so many un-addressed issues. But, maybe it's just programmed to happen. Is the dev team done? I'll probably still play, as I love minesweeper, and it's not too hard to avoid items.

I am curious if we should expect any updates, changes, or balancing again.

[vodspod]

I just want them to make 2 changes:
- The Hero paint is for top 1% or so rather than for the person who gets 1st place
- The Halloween paint actually spawns for people who have all other paints that could spawn in that location.
The rest of the issues with the game should diffidently be ironed out, and I think the game has enough items and content. I think if they kept adding more content there will be more bugs. The larger the game the more bugs every piece of content can cause.

[vodspod]

The first change doesn't matter too much, but the Halloween paint is the only thing that makes it impossible for me to get the achievement

[Xhad]

Originally posted by vodspod:

I just want them to make 2 changes:
- The Hero paint is for top 1% or so rather than for the person who gets 1st place
- The Halloween paint actually spawns for people who have all other paints that could spawn in that location.
The rest of the issues with the game should diffidently be ironed out, and I think the game has enough items and content. I think if they kept adding more content there will be more bugs. The larger the game the more bugs every piece of content can cause.

Played for a while,

The top change that I'd want to see if moving to a more competent game engine so that a synergy w/2-3 objects won't crash the game. But that would require a massive overhaul and understandable why it won't happen.

The actual biggest change that I want to see is the special chest unlock condition being upped from 10% to 20% (contains secret, mysterious key and locked chest), doesn't seem like a lot but over the course of many runs it'll add up especially once you consider that even if it is in the quest you may not be able to get the key due to RNG on top of that.

[Entloch]

They would fix a great deal of the crashes if they finished implementing Auramancy.

I don't believe that the devs have abandoned this game, I think they're watching and wishing they were making more money. They might if they finish the work they started.

[TerraSleet]

From my trawling of the official discord, Levi (one of the game's music composers) says:

Originally posted by Levi:

re: developer absence: he's been taking regular internet breaks this year, I wouldn't worry about it. last I heard he still has plans for the game, but they are not mine to speak of.

From my experience of the game in the past, this tracks - the dev tends to go radio silent for long periods and I don't blame him with how negative some people can be. Also, he nearly lost all of the source code to a critical SSD failure - although he managed to secure the codebase he still lost some other files and probably got bogged down with restoring his coding environment among other things. Events like this tend to kill motivation and eat into development time.

Overall, I don't know what his plans are, but I wouldn't write the game off as dead. Just don't expect frequent updates. The game is still in a playable state for all but the long haul end-game players and they tend to be the vocal minority when it comes to complaints.

[ilgazzz]

this game is awesome, hope they return.

[annoid24]

I think I just realized that we didn't actually get the Easter Event that was supposed to happen in March this year. (Oh they happen at the latter half of the month now. I thought they didn't it because some games celebrated Easter at March this year. My bad!) Although that might be a blessing in disguise. The seasonal events kept crashing the game, or at least they were when I was playing...
I'm enjoying this game quite a bit given the state the game's in, but they should at least give us a sign that they're still active, or working on something else if not this game.

[bbp]

Easter is currently happening but seems broken. If i start up it opens with the demon bunny and easter music, but as soon as I fire up a quest there's no easter event.

[annoid24]

Originally posted by bbp:

Easter is currently happening but seems broken. If i start up it opens with the demon bunny and easter music, but as soon as I fire up a quest there's no easter event.

Yeah, I'm gonna second that. There's something wrong with things at the moment. I'm gonna keep trying to start different quests and see what happens...

[sethtriggs]

It was supposed to happen automatically but it's possible some of that code got broken with the SSD frying.