Dread Rune 9+

Great game

Absolutely love this game, I hope it blows up and gets a huge player base. So much potential to deepen the systems as-well, even a crafting and gear merging system possibly. Maybe skill trees for combo attacks and special attack mods ? My only worry is that the temple boss is invincible? Every attack says blocked ?

Developer Response ,

Awww thanks Denzal for your kind words. So now that the current build is fairly stable I have reduced updates to once a month. This allows for more impactful and meaningful content. Next month's update is all about quality of life changes. The subtle things that improve the experience for the user, addressing common complaints. AI walking into walls/being obstructed being just one example. Skill trees are an area I definitely want to explore but I am taking one month at a time. The temple boss can be killed. But it is the first boss I’ve actually added that has an ‘immune’ state so when you’re attacking it and it says ‘blocked’ it's probably just in that state. Cheers! James

Sleeker animation

Dread Rune is quite nice but a few imrpovements could be made towards certain animations towards the character model, such as the light attack animation which looks and feels clunky due to the model’s arm having to reset to its starting position instead of continuing the motion fully like having the arm swing back from the left to the right then from the right to the left. Another issue is the dash mechanic where I can immediately stop the animation halfway by simply letting go of the joystick letting my character finish the animation while stationary, furthermore the dash does not work unless you are already moving otherwise you remain stationary.

Developer Response ,

Hey Mazdakun. Thanks for your detailed feedback. As a solo dev, sometimes it's hard for me to notice these smaller, more subtle issues as I have become too accustomed to the game.
I will 100% look at these before next release. Especially the bit about dashing. Should dashing just moving you in the direction you are facing? Do we prefer the control thats gained from being able to change direction mid dash? I will have to play test. Feel free to contact me on the Discord server if you spot any more details that can be improved or want to discuss these points.

Absolutely great but one major issue

I am really enjoying this game atm but there is one thing that makes it almost unplayable, The fact that save files corrupt 9/10 of the time whenever I close the app or leave then when go back to countinue my save it never loads I had it open for 1 hour and it did not load so I destroyed my long ahh save So please fix 🙏