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Hello there again, it's me; your friendly neighborhood Zilby

So if you've been around Smitefire for some time then you might remember this blog from awhile back.
But if you don't remember here's the gist:

I'm a game developer / programmer currently in college.
I'm making a game called Refraction in my free time, it's a top down arena battle game built in the game engine Unity using C#.
I need playtesters again!

So last time I did this you guys gave a TON of great feedback, a lot of which has been incorporated into the game at this point. Since then there's been a lot of progress made on the game and overall it's much more polished. Some new features added since last time:

10 new levels!
New enemy types! (+ miniboss!)
28 achievements to unlock!
Rewards (ie: player skins and songs)!
Balancing! (Eg: sword got buffed, hit detection is better, certain enemies nerfed)
Checkpoint system for harder difficulties!
Controller support! (Sorta - still in alpha)
Optimization! Should run better, especially on the boss
Ten trillion other things! I haven't slept in months!

planned features

known bugs

But with all these new features comes a lot of edge cases for unexpected stuff, so if you want to help me out (or just have some fun) you can download it here (there's an .exe for windows and a .app for mac inside, keep the Refraction_Data folder in the same folder as the .exe for it to work) and give me some feedback!

Good luck out there, and as always, happy smiting~

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(46) |

See if you can put this on Steam when you finish it! This is already better than a lot of things on there.

(132) |

Notice: If you get a bug where level 38 doesn't finish please download the latest version from the same link, it seems I rolled out the beta a little too early >_<
It should still keep all your save data/progress!

(46) |

I don't have the latest but I played your "alpha", though that "should" doesn't sound to confident, hha. Is there a specific save file one can copy just in case?

(132) |

It's like a 99% sure, the actual path to the data is C:/Users/<User>/LocalLow/Zilby/Refraction/refractSavedInfo.zlb
I don't think you need to copy it though, the only circumstance where I could see it being deleted is if you went with some windows uninstaller to uninstall the .exe I gave instead of just manually throwing it in the trash bin.

(33) |

Let's see if your balancing is better than Hirez's...

(46) |

Has to be. I'm doing this stupid Siege gamemode right now and it's just as unbalanced as it was before 4.13. Might be even worse. And they said Siege was "due for some updates", and still they can't get it right.

(132) |

Lol, I mean take into account with my balancing that the intent is for the game to be pretty hard.

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(46) |

Still more balanced than SMITE lol.

(18) |

That reminded me of something peculiar.

Balance

(400) |

Oh sweet, I want to get that one achievement of dying 100 times.

Also..."Beat the game without ever upgrading sword length." Um...but this game of yours is so...alluring!!!

(132) |

Fun fact: I actually haven't beaten the whole game yet. I've gotten all of the achievements at various points in time or tested them by forcing them to unlock, but I haven't manually playtested quite a few, so if you unlock all of them you'd probably be the first.

(132) |

Oh and for those achievement hunters out there here's a list of them:

achievements

(400) |

Ugh...so far, died 100+ times, beat it on hard only so far, died by going out of bounds, i'm sure i died to a basic enemy 20 times. I hate you Zilby.

(132) |

I'm currently in the process of adding a stats/bestiary page, so you'll get to see the intimate details of all your deaths! :D

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(400) |

Also, just like last time, I totally forgot about Pulse...even though I was leveling it here and there, I pressed buttons and didn't find it (until after I beat level 30). It's the left bumper on my XBox controller =P Makes things a LOT easier.

FYI, I didn't spot any specific bugs as far as I could tell...I did get hit where I thought I'd cleared things sometimes, but I'm sure that was just me. Controller worked well.

(132) |

Yeah the controller setup was optimized for xbox so that helps haha. I still need to include button mapping and some other stuff to get it working better though.

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