Ova Magica

Ova Magica

DaChoir Jul 28, 2024 @ 10:12am
Minor suggestions
First of all I wanted to say I love the game, even in this unpolished state.
I have some suggestions I felt were not there yet. Maybe this gets ignored, but maybe it gets a hearing.

I would love to specify deeper while breeding. I do like the randomness with each new breed, even with the same blobs, but I would love to specify who breeds with whom and which part is the "father" and "mother" to determine e.g. the primary type or an inherited "egg move". The stats and the features can and should be still random, but waiting 4 days for an egg, just to see that this one move got kicked out or it having another type is not fun.
Also: is it right, that the breeding pairs are actually in order? Meaning when I breed 4 blobs in one barn the first + second will breed, and the third + fourth? If this is true, can I determine the eggs type with just using the same blobs in different order?

Fighting is not fun right now. It is just trying to not get hit hard and hoping for no stat boosts. Especially in the runes, where when you do not have a LOT of healing, then you are just stuck. This makes grinding for eggs pretty tedious and time intensive. Maybe there could also be "TMs" for different moves to learn. Would love to get stat decreasing moves..
Also I kinda softlocked myself on my first attempt, because I completed the first tournament very early, making especially the mine basically non accessible. It was faster to start anew, then to gain enough money to get new blobs or train the existing ones (cause they got oneshot alot of times)

Could there be a storage for blobs? Like a community-center barn or such? I wouldnt even mind them just running around the farmland. It feels very restricting on ressources and time to try new breeds and it makes me very sad to remove blobs forever just to make space for a newborn.

Could there be a "luck" stat, maybe combined with clovers? (I actually carried around my whole clover stack for a few weeks just to check if it does something). I love grindy farming sims, but not the tedious kind and catching feels off. If that 2% egg rate could be boosted by something, even it if would be a crafted consumable, that would be nice.

Of course all of this could be planned content already, or even mid/lategame stuff, but after about 4-6 hours ingame time you really want the freedom to try out.
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ClaudiaTheDev  [developer] Jul 29, 2024 @ 12:21am 
Thank you for playing and taking time to leave feedback and suggestions♥

Regarding breeding i link you a guide a user created but the general "trick" is to save before sleeping manual (day before egg is ready), then sleep and if you dont like the result to reload the manual save and repeat.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3296276893

Also i suggest to keep actually the not 100% "perfect" result blobs, when most is correct to breed further with them because it is easier to reroll few things instead of many.

If you feed heart fruits to your blobs in the barn the pairs are chosen random. To ensure a specific pair only feed 2 blobs a heart fruit. When they are already breding they won't change the partner anymore.

The forest world stage 1 is level 15-18 (stage 2: +3, stage 3: +3) and does not scale with tournament (blob worlds don't scale), so training in the forest world is probably the best option to level up now. With the next patch (version 0.625, current: 0.624) you will also level faster.

I also noted the feedback about luck and the blob storage and see what feedback we will get and if somehow this can be added at some point♥
fitchettt Aug 5, 2024 @ 1:47pm 
+1 to some sort of community blob storage. Somewhere else for them to live so you don't have to keep such a limited number or drain your resources. There are just too many cute blobs and I want more than the game lets me have!
excession125 Aug 5, 2024 @ 2:38pm 
Fighting is tough in the beginning, but with breeding and some training, it's relatively easy to beat the first boss ... the key is a bit of patience. The best training/money making endeavor is fishing at the beach (getting fish or fighting blobs), but running around fighting everyone gets great experience too. Even if you lose, you're not knocked out and still gain experience.
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