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[samdei]

Hi,

Linesland is a board game that I developed to learn new technologies. Now I share it for those who like games.

The game consists of joining lines to unlock boxes. Normally the player who unlocks more boxes wins, but keep in mind that not all boxes are good.

You will earn coins for each victory. With coins you can buy special skills to use against your opponents.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samdei.linesland
Web: https://linesland.com

Your feedback will be very useful for me. Thank you.

[michaelplzno]

I feel the boxes being random sort of robbed the player of a bit of fairness. I won my first match by dumb luck simply because one of my boxes was really good.

Also once the game was over there was no victory or game end screen? Was that a bug?

[samdei]

I feel the boxes being random sort of robbed the player of a bit of fairness. I won my first match by dumb luck simply because one of my boxes was really good.

Also once the game was over there was no victory or game end screen? Was that a bug?

Hello michaelplzno,
Thank you so much for your feedback 

That the boxes are random is the only way I've found to make sense of the skills. There are skills to see the hidden boxes and thus unlock the best ones.
On the other hand, I need feedbacks from players like you to adjust the probability of the boxes, which at the moment are the following:

bonus               probability
-------------------------------
adder_5              90
adder_10            80
adder_25            60
adder_50            30
subtract_5          25
prison                 20
subtract_10        18
adder_100          15
subtract_25        12
subtract_50        10
subtract_100       8
divisor_2             5
multiplier_2         4
bomb                  3
divisor_5             2
multiplier_5         1

I have not implemented the game end screen yet 

[michaelplzno]

I get the random layer being sort of a Mario Party kind of thing, but it sort of clashes with how hardcore the strategy element to your game is. Its an old zero sum turn based strategy with a pretty clear game tree at its heart, then when you win the hardcore strategic bare-bones strategy game, you have to roll dice and it completely determines your fate based on RNG. I'm not sure it works as a concept just b/c of the dissonance between the strategic element and the random one. I'm not saying its impossible to make this work somehow: it makes me think of games like Mario Party, but in this state idk why I wouldn't just randomly pick lines and hope for the RNG to bless me.

[marcgfx]

the sign-up is an instant not try for me. is it really required for play testing?

[michaelplzno]

I just made a fake name and password, it didn't ask for an email or anything.

[marcgfx]

tried it. did not understand it. some boxes give negative points, some positive all with different values. I could not understand on what basis and did not see the rules anywhere prominently. I actually won my last game, although I received a lot of negative scores. 

[Vladan]

Couldn't find the skills anywhere. It might be interesting with them, but without them the RNG is killing it for me  .

[samdei]

Hello there!

Thank you for your comments, they help me a lot. Based on your feedback, I will make the following changes in the next releases:

• Create game end screen
• Do not set random boxes, all of them will be +5
• Only the player will be able to set negative boxes using skills
• The only special boxes will be prison, x2 and x5 (with very little probability)
• Improve login screen
• Improve store visibility
• Fix some board sizes on large screen
• Create rules section ("How to play")

[samdei]

Hello there!

New release available:

• Random boxes disabled
• Only the player will be able to set negative boxes using skills
• Improve login screen
• Improve store visibility
• Fix some board sizes on large screen
• Create rules section ("How to play")

linesland.com

[George Hennen]

i dont like making an account for something.

[jbarrios]

Hello samdei,

I played your game.  I recorded it and my thoughts: