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[yaomon17]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48945867/ValeDemo9_14_15/index.html
Vale is a 2D turn based RPG that originally had its origins from a TI-84 (not Silver Edition). Eventually it made its way onto Construct 2 somehow, who knows. Anyway, the game is run-based where you start by picking a class, fight enemies until you are powerful enough and then take on the boss, earning a score based on the number of battles you needed before you could beat the boss (and some other factors). As of right now, there is not boss yet since I work like a slug, slow and steady and making sure I breed a lot of bugs into the game. This is where I need help! The bugtesting has been hell on Earth (mainly just confined to my house though) and I could use a bit of assistance. Any assistance is appreciated. Misc Game Info below:
Extra keyboard shortcuts:

D/F - Lower/Raise Volume
QWER in Battle - Select Ability
A in Battle - Attack
Number Keys in Shop - Buy Items
1/2 in Battle - Potions
Shift - Toggle Fullscreen
Tab - Cycle game speed
Space - Skip stuff that can be skipped
Backspace - Go back in Shop/Skills

Plans:
Multiplayer (waiting on C2 for this one though not completely necessary since it is turn based).
Adventure mode (think FTL but battles are the battles in this game. Random Skills and Stat raises)
Gauntlet mode (All RNG removed, fight enemies in order and reach boss)
4 Bosses (No additional details)
Skins and other cosmetic stuff (bought with diamonds, earned in game and IAP (on mobile))
More Classes (Don't know how much planned. I have ideas for like 50 more but realistically it would be closer to 5)

Working on enemy variants and stages

All suggestions welcome.
Blog at : Valedev.tumblr.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ValeDevelopment
Follow for updates!

[yaomon17]

Going to update the shopkeeper soon.

[yaomon17]

Adventure Mode Preview

Another mode consists of gameplay similar to that of FTL. The player travels from beacon to beacon and earns stats and upgrades before encountering the boss. Here are examples of the semi random beacon generation.



The beacon events are also based on their colors. They are also animated!

[yaomon17]

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48945867/AdvEventStimH/index.html
Event simulation for Adventure Mode

[yaomon17]

Animation for new class.

[yaomon17]

Pumping out sprites 

[dez]

I LOVE the pixel art style you have used.
The sort of semi-deformed muscle guys are awesome!

[Nicholas Lives]

That is quite the wonderful style you have there! Very unique, very crisp, and yet strangely amorphous, but in a good way.

 I'm very much looking forward to seeing more!

[yaomon17]

Thanks for the comments! Current version is in closed beta. Screens from current version. A lot of new skills and 3rd tiers on most of the original skills! Also updated the Victory/Death screens. Taking suggestions for the finding gold screen for when  you choose to continue.

[bugo]

Pretty cool pixel art, mind if I ask what software are you using to animate those?

[yaomon17]

Spriter is used for most animations. Some are drawn frame by frame in Graphics Gale.

[Moth]

Really love the concept of this game! Do I see you overshot your 10 enemy goal with all those sprites? I'd love to be a beta tester if you were interested!

[nox]

I love the look!

[yaomon17]

Really love the concept of this game! Do I see you overshot your 10 enemy goal with all those sprites? I'd love to be a beta tester if you were interested!

I'm going to try for over 10 enemies on release. When the next version of the beta is ready, I'll give you a link

[yaomon17]

I'm very excited to post this next build. Note that this is probably the last build to go public.
Extra plug. Streaming pixel art occasionally at http://picarto.tv/live/channel.php?watch=Yaomon. Follow if you want to give some direct input or see the drawing process.



https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48945867/ValeDemo10.04.14/index.html

[mattestache]

Really cool sprites! Great job! 

[yaomon17]

I was playtesting (for the millionth time) and was killing off monsters with 600+ damage laser beams when I realized that if this were a player that I was facing, he would have no chance to do anything! That was when I found a huge flaw in the XP scaling. The monster's health originally scaled too fast so the player's damage had to ramp up very quickly as well, forcing an imbalance in a player vs. player matchup. I did a large overhaul of the system making all of the player's damage scale a lot less off XP and more off the stats, as well as making the player gain extra health per battle in addition to the health they gained from the XP. Also the new skill Underhand has been nerfed a tad. The class portraits also no longer have breasts that look like they had more Operations than a Hasbro factory.

[yaomon17]

New class added to the closed beta!

Passive: The doctor revives upon death with half of his maximum Health.



Ailment: Stun the enemy on the turn used and deal small damage over 3 turns based off your Spell Power (20 Mana) (5 Turn CD)



Mortal Kiss: Toggle on a heal that heals a small amount each turn based off your maximum Health and Spell power. (5 Mana per turn) (Toggle)



Bound Revival: Revive a corpse to fight. You take 20% less damage and deal damage based off your attack for the next 5 turns. The corpse’s attacks apply basic attack effects. (50 Mana) (6 Turn CD)



Psycho Break: The foe takes damage based off your Attack and Spell Power for the rest of the battle. Stacking Damage (30 Mana) (5 Turn CD)



The Doctor can build a huge variety of builds. Attack based builds can abuse the corpse’s on hit application. Reanimation also allows for a strong hybrid build with the Aura Tap skill that allows you to deal extra damage on basic attacks based of your Spell Power! Of course you could go plain Spell Power and maybe throw in some cooldown reduction and/or Masterful Conscience for extremely strong Ailments! On hit effects that work on both spells and attacks work extremely well on the Doctor since he hits in so many ways! Have fun playing (when the game eventually gets released… Sorry, closed beta :\)

Death is the cure for life…

[HopelessComposer]

Hey, it's you! I remember trying to help you with a painting of the slime enemy of yours over at pixelation...that was a long time ago, hahah! Game's looking good! I'll edit after I've finished playing the demo. =)

[yaomon17]

Hey, it's you! I remember trying to help you with a painting of the slime enemy of yours over at pixelation...that was a long time ago, hahah! Game's looking good! I'll edit after I've finished playing the demo. =)

Oh boy that seems like ages ago when I was a lot less ambitious... Now I feel I might be in over my head! Thanks for the look!