Changing character names/genders?

[DirectOrder]

Any chance we could get the ability to change our character's name, genders, or sprites sometime in the future? I LOVE customizing my characters in these types of games.

Nothing fancy with the sprites, just the ability to cycle through all available.

The ability to customize those things would put this game over the top for me!

[Pixel Hero]

Thanks for the suggestion! We will talk this through as a team and maybe do an update.

[Frozen Esper]

+1 to this! I'm going to pick this up anyways because it looks good, but I would also like to be able to change the name, gender, etc.

[xlockeed]

I would also throw my +1 in as well.

[Dorok]

Why not but myself I like the idea of a large set of predefined characters. And changing just their graphics would break the spirit, but yeah I just wouldn't use the feature.

For me the characters need a better design tuning from a balance point of view, more useful skills for most that is in general lower cooldown, the acceptation that the character system is favoried by putting all points in the attribute speciality and some in life.

For example a weapon with 50% DEX and 50% STR damages, it's not useful to spread you attribute points in both DEX and STR, at reverse if you put points in all DEX all weapons with higher DEX percent will benefit more. And try support type type of weapons isn't efficient you'll get half efficient weapons.

The same goes for faith and int because it's not efficient to spread roles on characters. Moreover a weak healer+mage is useless.

I'm sure a lot of thinking has already been put in that by the designers but the result is still bizarely unbalanced, and the game doesn't support more sophisticated builds. Plus all those skills with very high cooldown that's very bizarre because it's rather obvious it makes them insignificant.

[Pixel Hero]

Don't worry, we will focus on the renaming.

[Frozen Esper]

Right on! I Thanks for listening to our requests for added features, that makes a real awesome team on your end! Picking this up right now!

Originally posted by Pixel Hero:

Don't worry, we will focus on the renaming.

[Jayne_Cobb]

I don't know enough about the complexities of the sprite structures to guess if
this would be a possibility: The character customization in the goldbox games,
like in Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds or Champions of Krynn.

But that's just a thought, the game is already great as it is.

[eharper256]

Also throwing in my +1 towel here. Irrelevant, yes, but makes any game like this more amusing.

[MadAsgardian]

I think renaming is fine, but kind of like the fact that you only see a certain amount of what the game has to offer each time you play. If you can cycle through every variation each time you play it loses a bit of the magic.

I think a better option might be to create more visual variations for each class (currently appears to be only one?) and add them to the mix. Sometimes a hulking male barbarian ala Conan, other times a big fat nordic guy, or maybe a Red Sonja type. They can play the same, but would just add more variety. Then if someone really wanted a certain type they could just reroll.

[Dorok]

I agree some variations specific for each character would be the best but also requires much more pixels design. But for a player that want identify each character visually those variations shouldn't be applied randomly.

[BoxingBud]

I wouldn't mind being able to change genders/names/colors of characters.

[M0S5Y.ctn]

So now that we have the option of re-naming the characters, how do we actually unlock the "Be Creative" achievement to do so? It's not in the achievement list in-game or on Steam and I haven't come across anything new in-game yet that could be involved with it?

I guess we'll have to... be creative (Badum-tish!)

[Dorok]

I didn't check in Steam but in the game there's an achievements lists, welcome screen, achievements button, then achievements tab (two other tabs are for characters and story). So the Be creative achievement is there, including its description, it's just to finish 6 dungeons in a same adventure.