A nice simple game, however the odd controls are a bit hard to use since the mouse is used to both aim your shots and move your character; I would recommend the simple and common wasd where w is up, a left, s down, and d right and using the mouse only to aim the shots. A stage boundary would also be nice just because it would be such simple feature to add not having hurts you. 3/5, to get anything higher you just need something to make it more unique
It's nearly pointless to upgrade the swords more than three to five times. All the upgrading does is bring the ratio of metal to attackPoints from 5:attackPoints closer to 4:attackPoints, the efficiency gain from 5+ levels is so small it's hardly worth it. The only reason you'd upgrade past 5 is if your forgeman can't keep up with the miner. This to is hardly a reason because the lower tier material, the only material you'll gain a noticeable surplus of even after day idling, becomes to inefficient in terms of wood usage per attack point to continue making weapons out of. Turning those off, 5 levels each is plenty to take care of any surplus
This game is much better than it first appears. One thing to note is that you should activate mods ASAP, they help out the game A LOT. To activate them hover your mouse over the archway icon in the top right, look at the bottom of the list and select the mods one. Once there, click the "select all" button and then "load selected".
There's no background or introduction to the game, I have no idea what I'm doing or how to play. A tutorial would raise this game's rating tremendously
It would make more sense if the lobby button was on the bottom and the button room button above it, etc, because the tower is like that (lobby on bottom)
Regarding reset: a full reset is a bad idea, as many people don't care about the scoreboards and thence wouldn't be understanding of the reset. Introducing a new feature (or multiple) for those who like the scoreboards would be the way to go.
Thanks for your feedback. These are definitely the players we're keeping in mind as we mull the idea over. Right now I'm leaning toward "no", but I would like to keep collecting more feedback.
The graphics are great, all else could use some improvement. The story is a bit dull, as well as the game play itself. Most of the time I'm just walking in the intended path, trying to get all the chests. the game has a lot of potential, but not quite there yet.
You are right, as of update 0.9.10 Artifacts are now available on Kongregate.