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Indie Passageway of the Ancients - Baldur's Gate-Like RPG with Dual-Persona Character Development

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I see your point. In strategic mode did you have the bandwidth to actually drink the potion after pause and usually survive? Thanks again for all your help.
No, but having to drink in real time while battling isn't strategic, it's just testing your quickness with a mouse which shouldn't be in an RPG. It would've been more fun and less cheesy to be able to queue up drinking a potion while, but not getting the effects until unpausing.
 

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I see your point. In strategic mode did you have the bandwidth to actually drink the potion after pause and usually survive? Thanks again for all your help.
No, but having to drink in real time while battling isn't strategic, it's just testing your quickness with a mouse which shouldn't be in an RPG. It would've been more fun and less cheesy to be able to queue up drinking a potion while, but not getting the effects until unpausing.
What do you think about adding a cool down period between uses of potions? In your estimation do you think if this mechanic (cool down) were present you could survive the Stategic mode or would it still be nearly fatal? If we add applying potions after pause do you think you could survive the Strategic mode as is or is it set too high?
 

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I just wanted to let everyone know that we have uploaded a patch to the game (1.1). Details about it can be found here: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1014260/view/4476108833152827502?l=english . Aside from the many adjustments and corrections to the existing game we have added an extensive list of new features and enhancements that are described in detail at the link provided. I hope you find these as satisfying as I do. Thanks to everyone for your constructive comments.
 
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JonG

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I see your point. In strategic mode did you have the bandwidth to actually drink the potion after pause and usually survive? Thanks again for all your help.
No, but having to drink in real time while battling isn't strategic, it's just testing your quickness with a mouse which shouldn't be in an RPG. It would've been more fun and less cheesy to be able to queue up drinking a potion while, but not getting the effects until unpausing.
Just wanted to let you know personally that the new patch features both of your recommendations. You que up and drink the potion while in pause the effects are applied when you return to real time. Thanks for the input. No more cheating the system to complete the game.
 
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Lol When I read the "dual persona character development" thing in the title of this thread I was thinking something cool and introspective and le intelligent rather than you animorph into a gay argonian every now and then.

The creators are two Texan men in their 70s. That's certainly a thing.

Atleast this could result in some amusement.
 

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Lol When I read the "dual persona character development" thing in the title of this thread I was thinking something cool and introspective and le intelligent rather than you animorph into a gay argonian every now and then.

The creators are two Texan men in their 70s. That's certainly a thing.

Atleast this could result in some amusement.
Show some respect to the grognard, sir. :mad:
:killit:
 

JonG

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Lol When I read the "dual persona character development" thing in the title of this thread I was thinking something cool and introspective and le intelligent rather than you animorph into a gay argonian every now and then.

The creators are two Texan men in their 70s. That's certainly a thing.

Atleast this could result in some amusement.
Conceptually we wrestled with the concept of dual character development a lot since one of the core premises of this fantasy infiverse is that under the hood all living, sentient life forms are made of the same divine stuff. This philosophical dilemma coupled with the fact that as a three person development team we ran out of bandwidth and had to cut the skill trees reserved for the dragonkindt left the concept of dual character development admittedly threadbare. An issue we will most assuredly fix in the next chapter of this story.
 

JonG

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An issue we will most assuredly fix in the next chapter of this story
How viable is a sequel looking right now, financially? Is this game making you enough to consider the next project?
Too early to tell yet but wishlists have been robust. Fortunately we are a very small development team with relatively meager needs. We are hoping that our unique story line will gather a following and people will recognize where we are trying to head with all of this. In chapter 2 we will be doing voice overs plus text. We have had some criticisms that we have a fantastic story line but its all text based so therefore it's not OK. We were trying to avoid the issue where you do voice overs but get ridiculed for these voice overs if they are not top shelf (very expensive). Damned if you do damned if you don't.
 

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We were trying to avoid the issue where you do voice overs but get ridiculed for these voice overs if they are not top shelf (very expensive). Damned if you do damned if you don't.
Limited voice overs like Drakensang, the IE games and Nwn.
 

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