PACHINCRO
wishlist on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4200890/Pachincro
Linux & Mac builds coming soon.
This is a demo for the upcoming release, full release expected in Late February
Any purchases will be provided with a steam key for the full version of the game on release.
Music by: https://holiznacc0.bandcamp.com/
Music licensed under: CC0 1.0 Universal
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About the pulse attack at cursor upgrade in relation with the aiming.
My cursor is usually nowhere near the playing field, because I need to move my mouse in the upper section of the screen to aim my cannon in the right direction. If you calibrate this differently, it would be better to aim directly at the mouse cursor or something. In the screenshot you see my mouse cursor (pulse attack is visible) on the top right of the screen.
How do you obtain blue squares btw?
Edit: Nvm, got it, wasn't far enough yet.
Hey nice! You keep updating it, right? Because at some point this week suddenly level 2 felt more balanced. I am now at Level 5, almost out of powerups to choose from and a few new ones popped up. Nice!
Yep, I've been slowly updating the game and trying to balance it, there will be more and more upgrades added over the next week or two as I prepare the game for the steam release. Hope you enjoy the the content :)
I do, I'm having fun and keep being interested in progressing, finding out what's next, so keep up the good work!
It's pretty polished, plays really well and is even kinda addictive, but like the user below said, to me it feels like I'm a loooong way from making it through level 2 and I've been upgrading quite a bit. I think progression should be faster for keeping me engaged. I'm still playing, but I feel I'm losing interest.
Oh and a small QoL improvement, when you escape out of full screen there's no way of going back without restarting the game. At least I haven't found it.
Concept's fun and keeps me engaged, and it looks very clean. But right off the bat I feel like some upgrade balancing is needed, and I'm feeling a bit frustrated by ball damage in particular (at least at the very start of the early game, in this early build):
also that's not how 5% works)The pegs having just barely a sliver of health left (visually) made me feel encouraged to try to get the expensive (but paltry-looking) 5% damage upgrades, but as you can see above, only the very first upgrade I purchased increased my clear rate and there's no other flat damage upgrades in sight yet to help me 1-shot the (presumably) 4 HP pegs.
I thought maybe it would still helping me by having "mostly-dead pegs" deal less damage to my balls (proportional to the overkill damage I kill them with or something? so using 1 dmg to kill a 0.5 hp ball would assign the ball 50% of the full peg damage) but the game doesn't seem to work like that.
Agreed. Early game progression would have been more satisfying if the flat and percent-based damage upgrades had been balanced to solve the most immediate problem and push us into the next levels. The lightning and bomb upgrades do contribute to the ultimate solution, but the timing is off.
Thanks so much for the feedback!
I'm going to re-balance the game a little bit more soon but I've actually updated some of the early damage modifiers, there was also a bug around displaying and applying of percentage values which I didn't catch in development.
I really like the idea about reducing the peg damage as the pegs lose health so I will probably implement that in the next update.