comments for High Fantasy Idle Demo

Interesting start, looking forward to more. Minor suggestion but I would like to see shop items highlighted when you can afford them. Maybe dim the Buy button if you don't have enough gold.

When the game first loads, the scaling is wrong. Click "expand" at the bottom left, then "shrink." If you can't click the "nice" button, click the game to make sure it's in focus and then hit "enter."

So.. I played bit enough to say something I think; perma upgrades motivates to try again, no restriction for rebirth is accessible, job and item(books, for now) unlocks for each class's progress is interesting. got hooked.

how to unlockResearcher?

Really great game! I enjoyed playing it for the past week. Although it's just a demo, I think it has great potential. I have a few suggestions tho. First, it would be nice to have a button that can buy all the perks, especially later on in the game. Or a preset for perks so that for every rebirth the game can auto-assign those perk points. Second, there is a little bug for freezing the "rebirth point". I found it out in the very end of the demo. When calculating the amount of might/hardness/wisdom gained from rebirth, it seems like you add the XP (or something else I can't really tell) first, check for if the progress bar reached 100%, then subtract the excess if the amount exceeded the maximum. This caused me to have "-0.12% until next rebirth point" once, which is quite funny but no big deal. Also, maybe adding a feature for squire to increase attack speed (slightly, like 2x) would balance it out a bit from the other two, so that it can progress faster.
By the way, are you planning to make a mac version too? I'm not on windows system so I can't download it from itch, and if I loose the save on web I'll loose everything. But if you're not planning to, I'll try my best to keep my progress from being wiped on web.
Anyways, I look forward to future updates!

so wait we can backup our save, but there is no way to import the backup?

Great game, loved all of it. I've spent the last two days hypergrinding this game and after unlocking everything (except the secret achievement Number go up, please help), I can say this game is absolutely fantastic. Great use of idle and RPG mechanics, blended into a beautiful experience. Wish there was more but alas a demo is a demo, but it's been instantly wishlisted on Steam!

My only real criticisms are with the Squire, as I do feel like this class is a lot more grindy than the other two classes (yet, to be fair, it's also the class I find more interesting). For example, there is no way to boost his xp gain which kinda sucks since I'm trying to get the max 183 stats. Also felt that some upgrades were meaningless, such as defense, since it was underwhelming late game. Having 100k defense against an attack that deals 100M is... nothing.

Nice demo, definitely has potential. Got all achievements except for 100,000 clicks and the secret ones.
Squire's rare item drops should increase for harder enemies (e.g. 2 doses of potion from big goblin).
(Secret class) needs a perk to let you publish the same book multiple times in one rebirth, maxing it out is annoying.
Also for (secret class), let the player change research topic without having to stop the current research(es) first.

Future suggestions:
A mage class? (levels translate to active skill cooldown/energy recharge)
A merchant class? (levels increase the speed of auto-buying perks/shop items)
It's an island, so a fisherman class? (levels increase hunger regen/health regen/mana regen)

Looking forward to see what you come up with though! :)

well, first congrats! I love the game, but the only thing that turn me down, is the fact that we can only publish one book at a time and need to rebirth to publish again. In fact i'm at a stage, where i rebirth every 20 seconds now.. Except that, thank you very much for that quality time!

i love love loooooove the artstyle and the sound design!!!

I like it! I played it on itch awhile ago back when you had that game-breaking offline time bug, but with that fixed this is a much more interesting game. I wish there was more than the demo, because this scratches a number of small itches I have in just the right way. Do you have an ETA on a full release?

great game so far, eager to see more

I finished the game (as it is now) and have every achievement except for "You're pretty basic...", any hints?

Great game, would love to see more. As of right now I find the researcher to be a bit teadious. The fact I have to respec every time I want to publish a new chapter in a book makes it very tedious and not feel worth it for the rewards. Also maby a loadoutsystem or a buy max that buys the upgrades you had last time would be great to minimize work on prestiges. Great content looking for more

I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far! A few things I have to note -- more than I thought I would, so, uh, beware? This is my first comment on the site, because I think it's promising enough to deserve it, just, uh, yeah. It's a lot. Hyperfixation go!

The Bugbear Elite does not drop poison ingredients on their rare drop. It says 'rare drop', like normal, but the number of ingredients, and thus poison resistance, does not go up.

With regards to the square specifically, it's significantly slower to level them than it is to level, say, the farmer, due to how much time it takes for combat to happen. ...But I see that you already responded to that for somebody else, so I'll leave that alone.

For the squire, I'd suggest having it set up so that auto-spin slash will never go off if it will reduce the stamina below what's needed for 'brace for impact'.

It's sometimes hard to tell what certain abilities mean. For example, there's a scholar ability that gives you bonus pages -- but I didn't realize that the bonus pages were based off of 'pages done normally', nor that it could work on two researches at once. I assumed it based itself off of level, and could only apply to one.

I'd suggest having clues or hints placed around to let the player know what to do next -- I.E., 'maybe you should have 50 Might and 50 Toughness before starting to fight the goblins'. Things like that. Having that for some of the achievements would also be nice, but are very much unnecessary.

It's not always clear what perks require what. If you could make the lines on the perk screen into arrows, pointing at what it grants access to, that would be an easy, visual way to demonstrate the flow of perks.

After a certain point, with the scholar, it becomes more efficient to start a life as them, quickly get all of the perks, use 'get more pages' once, and then restart the life. You can do all of that in under the two minutes it takes to recharge that skill. Please, dear god, for all that is holy, do not make the skill need recharging before you use it, and instead maybe cut what it gives in half but double the rate you can use it.

I can't speak for others, but I think that the game could genuinely use story segments for every new item you buy and perk you obtain, as well as for certain milestones, once you're past the early game for each lifestyle. I feel like it would fit this game very well, and would make me more invested in obtaining new traits, especially if each unobtained item and perk has a little mark next to it to indicate 'new content'. It'd be a small but relatively cheap way to add investment.

A really personal thing -- if you could choose gender for the main character and have different dialogue based on that that'd be great, but that's really just a 'my personal preference' thing. I like playing as girls, and almost every game ever defaults to you playing a guy.

Noting how some of the mechanics work, mathematically, in common language, could be quite useful. For example, once I realized that five of a reincarnation stat doubled its boons, that's what I was starting to focus on. Obtain five if possible, then restart.

You should probably rename 'hunger' to 'fullness' or 'satiatity' or something. Having a skill that says 'you get bonuses for how full your hunger meter is' made me think that it meant the hungrier you were, the greater the boost.

Overall, it's very promising! I love games like this, where you can get states that boost you in other lives. Looking forward to more!

Really good fresh take on the idle game formula, I could see potential classes with a thief the gives "dexterity" and a merchant/gambler that gives "luck" Overall big fan, two thumbs up!

So.. you intend to make every job rebirth bonus influence others stats.. head splitting balancing ahead.

the "mute while out of focus" option is reversed. if it's enabled and i tab out, i hear the music. if i tab back in, it goes silent.

Fun, but basic.

I suggest that when you cast the first farm power on auto, you do it just when the power is available and the fatigue bar is at maximum. If you cast it on auto just when it runs out, you'll never use it, which is what's happening to me.