Slay the Spire: Metrics Driven Design and Balance 

Yeah i THOUGHT I’d stick around 14/15 ascension max, because after that it’s just unfair. However, turns out I’m playing all 4 characters at ascension 20 with a heart kill try every single time. I love pain and suffering and low win ratios…

​@@TheOnlyFeanor You're crazy

@@TheOnlyFeanor I'm in the middle of doing the same minus the heart kill because there's no record of it haha. Gotta race the release of Slay the Spire 2

Fun fact: I always volunteer at GDC (I was at this talk and asked the 2 questions at the 26:53 mark), and we are always remind the speakers to repeat the question, mainly for audio reasons (it wasn't always the case that the actual questions are recorded). So not really an example of iteration haha but still nice for sure.

Sound effects add a lot to that.

And there's even a speed mode to go even faster in case some found it too slow.

How is it going, 2 years later? ;)

How is it going, 4 years later? ;-)

In case you cared: 6 months later, I'm around 220 hours of playtime in and at around Ascension level 10~11. I'm still playing. I'm still in love. Thanks for the thumbs up and kudos to you, guys!

cool bro planning on picking it up on the switch aswell

4 years later now: how long did you play for? Ever beat A20?

@@MegamanX195 Funny you'd ask! In about a week, it'll be three years since I claimed 100% achievements in this game (yes, I marked my calendar for that 🥳). I played with each character up to and through A20 and had a really good (and frustrating, of course) time 😀 I accumulated more than 500 hours playtime

I mean the game is based on netrunner, so something involving a second player has to have been considered from the start.

No

There's a fun coop-ish challenge you can do. You have two people play on the same seed with different characters. Whenever you enter an event you must make the same choice, whenever you get card rewards you have to take the same card slot (ie both take left, middle, or right), and you must take the same path on the map. Basically, anything that happens in menus outside of battles and shops has to be done together. No other constraints apply in battles or in shops. Also, the real kicker. If one player dies the other must immediately abandon their run. We never made it very far but I'm sure better players could do a lot better. It's quite fun when you both get good cards and it's like "do you REALLY need to take the left card though? I'd kinda like an inflame on the right".

There is a mod now available on Steam, Together in Spire, you play the same fight, but choose your own reward

There is a curse card, which makes you lose 1 hp for every card played. The timekeeper heart boss only allows you to play 12 cards per turn. The heart deal damage to you for every card played.

@@lupeters213 the punishment is incomparable to the advantage. Sure, these cases require you to play carefully instead of just picking a card any card, but the reward is way above the skill floor even there. Most of my heart kills were with a DB, even on other classes.

ascension is their ingame difficulty level if thats what youre asking

Just watched at 1.5x, its just like him!

Sometimes you can set up an expensive card like nightmares or wraith form

Setup into finnaly (I think it's called. It's the silent card that does like 50 damage for free if but is only playable if your draw pile is empty) is completely busted when used in a cycling deck.

Magnus Jakobsson definitely not.

Yes

Unlike u at least they did something with their lives.Think about that.

He’s a developer, not a public speaker.

At least he’s not as bad as Zizek. My goodness.

Why does that matter? Your eyes are meant to be on the power point and he’s not exactly a public speaker.