I just finished playing the update, loved to see it back. Really liked the concept and seeing still in development and the images added some flavour to the flow of the management aspects.
I see how the game seems a bit more difficult, but as I played the main issue was not knowing how much each decision affected the overall balance of the college.
I’m not saying it should be 100% transparent since it becomes a math problem at that point. But having more information to guide the choices might help making fell more rewarding to play instead of being forced into trail and error till you figure out what each decision actually does.
Gonna love to see how it progresses, great work.
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Thanks! I do plan to make the options more easily understandable! Btw, what do you think of the AI art?
A quick vote. What do you think of the AI art currently in the game?
- Great as it is
- Satisfactory but need tweaking (please name reasons in comment)
- Could be improved (please name reasons in comment)
I care little for art in these kinds of games in general. they are fine, would like more for each location and situation.
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satisfactory but need tweaking:
for me the tweaking would be to associate 1 picture progression/chain to a specific character. I’ve seen with backtracker that different picture will be use for 1 specific character when i did back forward non stop just to see what would happen when you meet a student in the hallway
also i guess by having each character tied to a progression/chain of picture that you could populate their personal information with said picture and we wont have to rely on random encounter to see the progression of notable student with the AI picture. Obviously some exclusive Ai picture just to show progression for the whole school would still be great in those random encounter/event between month
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would rather not have any or at least have a toggle, especially since the current version’s not downloadable and thus is either a tiny window or full screen with no in-between, along with having to wait for the images to load
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the-wizard-college.zip (192.8 KB)
You still need to wait a bit for the image to load, since this is not a pure local version I just downloaded the html from itch and modded it to link to the itch servers images.
but it should work better than the itch online cropped window
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Played again, defeated the High Priestess. Felt good to finally understand the mechanics. Very challenging game.
Anyways about the art, IMO when you view each character to see how much they’ve grown etc… the description is nice, but it would be awesome to see a picture of their current body there as well.
Besides that, seeing the high priestess body changes would also be nice as well the more you bribe her.
Then of course for the other side characters seeing their picture every now and then of course as well.
I found a little bug, if you allow the cultist to enter the college the event of her asking to join keeps on happening from time to time.
Also i think there’s a typo in the event
“Our version of the Book says that the standard of beauty is 75 kilograms. Sixty-five.”
First is says 75, but then 65
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Thank you all for the feedback. Looks like most people can bear with the current style and I will stick to it. Also thanks for the suggestions – I will improve the game according to these suggestions
@metuta1234 This is a good suggestion. I might implement it when I have more time, but not sure how long it will take
@viewless_greedy this is indeed a bug (actually a big one), it will be fixed in the next version
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please add an option to switch weight to lbs in future
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Quick isnt it! I just made the 0.7 version. Most of the updates are to the game mechanics and quality of life improvements. See below. Due to a lot of change in the meta-mechanism, there are very likely a lot of bugs. Report them and give suggestions for new contents!
v 0.7
– new game + mode: now game becomes much more fun after you loooooose! Every time you lose you will gain some power in customizing the game to make it more fun to play (10+ options for now and much more to come)! Some new events / illustrations are only available on second+ play. I wont say more because this meta-mechanism is also related to the plot
– balance change: the first play will be harder (actually back to its originally intended difficulty), but from the second game on, it should get easier every time (due to the new mechanism)!
– quality of life improvements
– 30+ high-quality AI generated illustrations
– 3 new events
– bug fixes
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TWC 0.7.zip (196.4 KB)
This is a small change to make it work outside ITCH
In the download version from itch the images are not linked properly. It tries to find them locally instead of getting them from the ITCH servers.
by adding https://html-classic.itch.zone/html/14420278/wiz_col/
before
pics/[the rest of the path]
in the src for the img tag
another option is to have the download versin be a zip file with a folder “pics” and the HTML that has the same subfolders as the ITCH uploaded one since it tries to search for the images using the location the html is at as base
[folder where the HTML is at]/pics/place/college.png
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Not sure if its a mobile only issue but i am.not getting the new game + stuff from losing or beating the game
Some game over events does not trigger New Game +
@Yoyoling88 @morybar Well that should be a bug. Could you please name the game over that does not give you a new game plus?
Update: I just updated a version and these problems should be fixed
From what I have played I don’t get NG+ if I don’t have a high happiness or have Theodora (is that her name?) but have gotten NG+ from both being beaten by the slenderist and from bankruptcy.
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dealing with the difficulty in such a way is absolutely genius
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