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Also, most of the upgrades you can earn while painting a picture are never used. I never got to a point where I could use all those tick and boost upgrades (and the other ones are useless anyway). Maybe add a perk to the shop that lets you get more skill points, maybe even start each picture with some?
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I'd recommend going for an incremental style with your upgrades - the way it is now, the game doesn't really change over time because upgrades aren't powerful enough. I got a few upgrades now, which are btw way too expensive and you can get like 1 upgrade per 1-2 pictures, and it doesn't really feel like I'm getting faster at painting - that's not really incremental. Hint: Multiplication instead of addition.
Also, I don't really get the point of some painting costing more inspiration when they sell for the same amount of money?
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Having the "+5 pens at one" upgrade also increase the cost of pens basically eliminates any reason to ever take that upgrade.
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Out of curiosity, are these just downsized pictures or are they actual pixel art? Or a mix of both? Whichever way they're quite lovely, especially the way the game slowly unveils them. It's a little slow but it's a very comfy game.
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Slow start to the game but gets fairly interesting after getting past the first painting and unlocking the rest of the game. Main "complaint" I've got is that it seems like buying both spray upgrades should give 10px/s instead of the 7.5px/s it does.
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The shop purchase I would value most would be along the lines of say $100 starting money at the beginning of a run. I think the logic is obvious.
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Clicking shop too early locks the game. I found no obvious way to close it and go back to the picture. Had to reload. Later on, I could click the other tabs.
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I left the game and then came back to a none started one... wtf? sort this shiz out and you will have a fairly decent game
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Also also, I agree with Norma: Respecs should be free. Maybe not unlimited, like you get a pool of x amount of them per prestige (even 1 or 2 would be sufficient), but this really gates a lot of player experimentation behind a paywall, which can make the learning phase of the game incredibly frustrating when the player has chosen poorly, or wanted to experiment with a different build, and now has to either finish the run with that, or pay cash to redistribute their cash, which is going to be irrelevant at the beginning of the next prestige anyway. Bad show on that one.
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Also, proper planning of the order of your upgrades in the early game goes a long way. You can't just upgrade everything at random or by cost and expect to make decent progress. It requires a bit of strategy based on your total potential inspiration for a prestige versus your art sell value. You can use this to estimate how much money you are going to earn in a prestige, and plan accordingly.
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There's quite a bit more to this game than I think people are getting too. The first prestige is pretty slow, but once you start farming fame (which increases the sell price of your art) progress actually happens pretty fast. I've only been playing for about a day, and I'm maybe two or three prestiges away from getting the Moscow Visa.
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Okay. So... this is annoying. Had four inspiration. Went to second tab of pictures to draw. Didn't have enough inspiration to draw. Didn't have enough money to travel. What the fukc am I supposed to do here?
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Closed the window. Went to bed. Woke this morning to find that my progress had been rolled back a full picture. And all the fame that I had accrued in my Gallery was gone.
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I like how accurate this game is. The pictures don't get better, but the price increases with the fame of the artist :3
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3/5. Lost a star for horribly slow progression (even after half a dozen pictures finished and sold the game is still horribly slow) and lost another half a star for the ridiculous prices for the Palettes and the other half from the overall lack of explanation. I like the concepts, and if you want proof - I actually left feedback. :) Good luck and keep up the good work, but do try to be a little more modest with your pricing...
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It's a hell of a slog, and after a while the pictures start repeating. I can see some strategy - but it seems like Moscow is very seriously out of reach, and not much fun once you get there. There's so much free internet pic content that you can afford to never repeat a pic. A lot of the skill boosts aren't really clear about what they do. Some of the upgrades are one-shot, when they could actually be multi-shot. There's a lot of balance that still needs to go on, here... and it does honestly feel like you're trying to monetize a game which isn't close to being complete. You've got a good concept, but it is being executed poorly. I think I'll sit and watch for a bit before I make my final vote, but so far, it's lukewarm, and I think you can do better.
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You shouldn't lose all your tools when you finish a picture. Instead, you should be cranking out pictures with more and more efficiency, which in turn would allow you to progress through the other systems in the game.
Or perhaps the Upgrades should remain when you Move. *Something* to make it feel like you're actually progressing instead of being constantly stuck at the bottom rung.
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Gotta agree with others here: Too simple a game to spend Kreds on, and it has the potential to be fun if not for how dreadfully slow progression is.
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1. The upgrades aren't powerful at all. 2. The pace is very problematic (very slow progression). 3. You charge for progress (which you deliberately made slow) = big no! 4. I doubt anyone will ever see Moscow. lol You have some serious problems in progression design and game flow. --- I could still rate it decently if not for point 3.
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Really needs more explanation. It appears that Fame is related to sell price, but otherwise the painting progress occurs way too slowly. It's mostly geared toward Fame production until you have a lot of fame.
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you buy a few upgrades, then just let it run until you can do hi-res, and wait again. Theres not really a point in buying more upgrades because it will take you more time buying the upgrades than it does waiting for the pic to be complete. Good concept, poor balancing I think.
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I think more than "Artist idle" you should call it "Loading Picture Idle" 'cause it's basically like when you load an image with an old internet connection lol
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For anyone looking to see if someone knows what fame is, it looks like it increases sell price for paintings. Could be wrong and it could do more besides that and getting to cities, but that's what it looks like to me.
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The upgrades overall are too slow to obtain. It feels too tedious to play. Each upgrade (both while drawing a picture and the workshop upgrades) feel like they increase your production by too little. It feels like it takes the same amount of time for each painting even when buying upgrades. Plus the "ascension system" - moving towns - feels like it does not offer enough of a reward. The fame system gives you too little and needs to be either increased per painting (especially early game), or the bonus it provides needs to be MUCH higher.
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How do you get inspiration beside paying with kreds? Also it would be nice if we could win more than 10$ with an increment of 1$ per picture.. or if there's a way i didn't found it