Just a suggestion for the crafting skills - perhaps little mini games that cost a certain amount of gold to play, and depending on how well you do, your crafting skills would go up by X number of points? That would make the crafting system more immediately useful without being as simple as "Run the endless dungeon for cash to buy books" (which I did in the first game).
Now that I figured out what I was doing wrong (the Training Zone starts in the bottom left corner of the screen, not up near the tower as I would have assumed), the game is quite fun, while teaching some basic programming so far. 5/5
Not sure if this is a bug or if I'm just missing something. Just started a new game - I am in RAMVille, when I click on "Training Zone" I give the one guy $25 then I see the map, when I click on Rite of Passage, the word "Locked" flashes up at the top, so I went back to town, when I click on the arena the one guy says "You don't even have a computer". Nothing else seems to be clickable.
I like this game a lot. While I haven't finished it yet, something I would recommend is I think most people who play games with upgradable skills and weapons, etc, always look forward to that time when they hit the apex and have all skills maxed out. Perhaps add a feature into endless that would allow you to continue to get talent points even after level 50 (but only in endless so that story isn't too easy) so that eventually they can get maxed out skills.
You can max out your tree! In order to do so, you need to (obviously) reach level 50. You also have to 3 star each world (3 stars on a world rewards you with a talent point, so you get 8 total from world rewards!) And finally, you head into Endless Mode and level up to your heart's desire. You'll get talent points up until you've maxed out all three trees!
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thanks, I'm glad you got it figured out.