A richer AHOD experience has just arrived

TLDR: Introducing economy cards that give gold and supplies. Removed discard to focus on cooldown. Added status icons above targets. Overall polish.

1. Economy Cards
We’ve introduced a new card type that focuses on your economy. These yellow cards will not have any role in combat but will give you an alternative way to produce gold and supplies. Economy cards will be “limited use” so you can only use them once per combat.

2. Status Icons
Communicating the status of your target will appear in a small circle with a radial timer to show the duration of the effects. This brings in clearer info that you know and expect from traditional deckbuilders.

3. Crew Damage
Now you can watch your crew members take credit for their shots on enemies. Crew targets will also be identified through a circle on the aimer. The more crew members that are targeting, the more rings in the circle.

4. Removed Discard
If your card is on cooldown you’re now stuck with it in your hand! Discard was initially added to keep the action in motion, but it became an abused system that took away some of the strategies and penalties of an action deckbuilder. We came back to reverting the discard pass so that it focuses more on building and playing a thoughtful deck. Having a cooldown jam your hand also makes crew members more useful as they can be used while you're locked out of your deck.

5. Visuals
From particle effects to the environment we did another visual pass to bring up the artistic vision to life. This is an ongoing process and we are aware that the maps have glitchy lighting and will fix this in our next patch.

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We have a new demo with a new main game mode...and we think it is pretty good!

We’ve changed the main game mode to fix some issues we’ve had with pacing and scale of the gameplay. The main game mode changed in 3 main ways: 1) Smaller Path Systems 2) Zones 3) Portal keys.

1 . Smaller Path Systems
This allows us to focus on smaller region zones with the ability to to be scalable in a way that was not possible before. Previous map size was a little overwhelming and reduction to size makes planning your voyage feel more strategic.

2. Zones
In addition to smaller path systems we also have made each system contained within in its own zone. As the player goes from zone-to-zone, this will allow us to tweak the global rules to keep the format fresh and exciting with each play. Re-playability which has always been at the core of our game design and the core of roguelikes.

3. Portal Keys
Find the key to open the portal to the next zone. We found that this classic game design mechanic worked really well with our systems and thematically was great for a pirate treasure hunt.

Other new developments: New Cards
Building up the deck building itself! More on this next post.

As always, a big thank you to those who have cheered us on and given us feedback throughout our development.

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