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I am an adoring fan and have been checking out your updates on your site for a while now and in the recent update and in the 2nd and 3rd pictures I couldn’t help but notice how much the towers seem to stick out on the lush green maps. I think it would be really cool if somehow you made the towers seem like part of the jungle instead of looking out of place. I cannot wait until Chapter 2 comes out and will be checking back in with you in 8 days :D Good Luck!

Hey gameinabottle, in response of catgravy’s message, I have some thoughts about the shrines…
You could make a ‘max shrine count’ or ‘max shrine uses’ or ‘reduced shrine efficiency’ or ‘monster shrine resistance’ (kinda like shock resistance but it affects all monsters, also those that havent been summoned yet). Or you could remove the option to build any shrines.

Just to give you some ideas to counter the overpowered-ness of shrines in GCL.

Anyways, there seems to only be one viable option to beat endurance, which is making a tower with 8 amps and a manafarm trap with 6 amps, getting a grade 30 yellow/lime/red gem and then ctrl click on the wavestones… This method also works on all levels (even without the mana trap) if you play on anything without endurance. Which made me think about this: You don’t have to think what to do if your level is high enough, you don’t need a slowing trap in key places and you don’t need to be a tactical thinker for your towerplacement… You just need to find the spot that gives you the maximum number of possible amps without blocking monsterpaths, since the range of the gem will cover the entire field when it’s grade 8 already with some amps. So basically, the strategic effect is a bit weakened once you hit a certain level.

Maybe that’s some material to think about when designing the next awesome game in the series :p

Love your games, bye :)

Another long time Gemcraft player, (loving the premium – level 400+ and still playing till I can’t max myself out anymore so I got a long ways to go). I do have something to ask though and I am not sure how hard it would be to incorporate into a future Gencraft game, and that is with “setting priority” for gems. I love being able to set priority but when it comes to structures I have a gripe. At that setting it seems to default to a mana vault first then a monster hut/house/habitat/cave. I noticed this on field B4 the first time. After a few runs of it, it seems that it will always default to the mana vaults then to the monster hut/house/habitat/cave. If it is not that much trouble and if people think that it would be a good feature to add/upgrade, would it be possible to integrate a means of selecting what structure is the priority structure. I mean if you have a gem in a tower with a mana vault, a monster hut/house/habitat/cave, and a beacon around it, what would be nice is to be able to select priority to structures then be able to click a structure so that it is the priority structure. I just say this because on B4 if I place a tower by the mana vault and by the monster hut/house/habitat/cave it will always go for the mana vault first rather then destroy the primary threat of the monster hut/house/habitat/cave.

Sorry for rambling on like this but I think that this might be a nice little tweak to add, but I do not have much flash programming skills so I am not sure how hard it would be to implement.

At any rate, I love the Gemcraft games and I have gotten my 10 year old daughter started playing them also with me. She loves when I explain the math behind certain gem builds and why you place traps at certain places. We are both pretty addicted and favor Gemcraft more now over our 360 and PS3.

Lastly the price of 5 bones for the premium is great. I would gladly pay 10 bones just because of the replay value and options that you have to toy with.

So thank you for the great game and work that you have done. I know a lot of planning needs to go into these games to design paths and the sort. IF you ever need a beta tester with excellent writing skills and critical thinking and conclusion skills please hit me up as I would love to help with the development in any way I could offer.

If you want I can create a video of what I am trying to explain if I didn’t come across clear enough. I think I did but If you need a visual aid just ask and I will get it to you.

Thanks for a great game and great way to waste my time. :)

Hey there, I have enjoyed GemCraft for a few years now, and since the first, i think you have greatly improved the game, especially on GemCraft Labyrinth. However after reading recently, I feel as if maybe GC2 might be a bit of a let down. A step back-words if you will. Some of the ideas you have are great, but the other ones make me think some ( maybe alot ) of people might dislike. In my own opinion I think the 12 Gem grades should stay, along with creating shrines. This really gives the game more depth, just in my own opinion. ( However I did see that you might be able to create them via other mechanics ) Which if that was true, then I guess I cant rant over it. And over the Recent Screenshot of GC2, I noticed the Gem creation and Hotkey / Spell icons are sorta bland. They are colorfull, but they look rather bad. I personally love the GCL White-out spells and color gem icons, I think you should implement the same into GC2. On the other hand, I think the other Tweaks and fixs, like the monster-shown per tile and 9X speed upgrades are great, otherwise then my opinions, keep up the good work!

GAMEINABOTTLE, YOU ARE MY IDOL!!!! I wish I could play GEMCRAFT 20/7(4 hrs sleep), unfortunately i’m still a kid so school :) maybe when I’m older…SERIOUSLY, your games are THAT good. You rock, man, you deserve premium to be $15+. (though it’s nice of you to make it cheaper than it’s worth :)
$5 for 1 year of fun? Oh, my that is the best deal ever

It cost $10(i think) for a 1hr movie!!!!!

You rule man dont let anyone say otherwise :)

oh oh tso tso tso tso tso………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………your games are panget,game in a bottle games!!!!! that is not nice GAMES!!

I think 21bouncyball21 is right, you should make another Gemcraft, I like the idea of the “each color fire a different shape”, that would be so neat. Also, if you have heard of/played Temple Guardian 2 on kongregate.com, I think it would be even more intriguing if you would put heroes on your next game. I think a lot of people would play that, even the ones who haven’t played the other Gemcraft TDs.