Build a Busted Card in This Cardbuilder Roguelite! | Let's Try Stratum Descent 

This text box has too much game for my liking.

My favorite part of the game was definitely the tutorial, such a good example of "tell, don't show" or something.

Hey! Dev here! Thank you so much for trying out Stratum Descent! I love your content in general and am excited to see that you tried my game out! Glad you like the general idea of it all. The numbers do get wild and so do the enemies, the first few strata are def easy mode once the understanding of slotting kicks in. Def some things I am fixing up for early access launch. I have actually been working on removing as much of the text boxes as I can. I know that will move it from reading simulator to card game genre but it's a risk I am willing to take. Again thanks!

The tutorial has 15 steps with huge text boxes lol. There has to be better ways of doing it

this really made me appeciate how nice good tutorials are, seems like an okay game otherwise though

The idea for this is right up my alley, but man that endless wave of text boxes is rough

Everyone is talking about the death-by-1000-textbox tutorial, and I agree. But to me the thing that stands out is how boring and samey all the cards look. In a card based game, I think it's a huge miss to have all the cards just seem so sterile and empty. Are they placeholders, or what?

19:42 The 1k frag merc was definitely contributing to that massive bleed stack.

the barbarian just gave you 30 bleed every time you used a card for attack. the cards you had didnt even matter.

That barbarian went CRAZY for you

my best guess for the 30 bleed per attack is that when you got a relic you got a duplicate of the barbarian but it did not show it.

I'm also working on a cardbuilder roguelite. The tutorial is much shorter, I promise!

Seems expose is adding 25% bleed PER stack of expose instead of flat 25% + the added damage = to the expose number. Hard to imagine that's intentional but easy to imagine how easy it would be to accidentally code it that way.

I love wordy games, that give all the details and information clearly... But Good Lord. So much of this can deleted, or at least moved to dilute it down. We don't need to be told what we keep at the end of a run before we've even started. A simple example of providing dense information without it being intrusive: Instead of telling us how to get relics, just let us see the empty relic list. Then, when we get one from a drop, oh hey, we know we get them from drops. Then, if they're specific to enemies, as it claims, give us a bestiary that lists each mob we've defeated's number of available drops, and if we have them. Alternatively, have the empty relic list instead show greyed out versions of some of the one's we haven't got, with tooltips when we mouse over them, and the list of un-acquired ones that are shown expands as we unlock more, or maybe when we reach new areas or something. None of that needs a tutorial box, and it actually provides MORE information. And if a dev sees this: no, we do not need a paragraph of text telling us there's a bestiary, and then another one for every single listed piece of information. We need one button in a menu clearly labeled "Bestiary", and provided we know what that word means, we'll know what it is. And if we Don't know, we can click on it and see. And at the very least, add some visual flair to it. Don't just slap in a giant white rectangle with black text over the entir screen. You could put some nice little scroll or something in the top right corner of the screen, show the quest name and description, and a little check mark, then it expands a little and scrolls down to reveal your new quests. Then give us a little animation of our reward flowing into it's relevant resource location. And give us a tiny button, maybe a little scroll with a Q on it or something, that we can click to bring that list up again. And No, we don't need a paragraph of text to tell us the button exists. If you REALLY want to signpost it's existence, a little bouncing arrow works wonders.

12:59 How broken would warrior be, cards have 0-7 base attack but warrior adds a whopping 18, and since barbarian procs twice, warrior might do 36 + card atk per attack

With all these infinite walls of text, events that reduce your 3/4 HP, 10000 coins as reward, huge numbers - it looks like a parody of card games =\

i hope the dev(s) see(s) this and read(s) the comments about the tutorial text boxes, they are obnoxious af

Texts boxes need love too!

happy birthday! :D

This music give donkey Kong 64 vibes to anyone else

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Maybe the text boxes were really the friends we made along the way.