Tilecraft: A New Horizon

If one memorizes the recipes and never bothers with the farm/researching thing.. this happens I guess lol

We'll see if I can beat this eventually xD

Hey there! I got the game on steam and have been looking for a place to post bug reports... do you have a discord or anything or is this the best spot? I am really enjoying the game but there's a few things that really lower my motivation sometimes. 

Archers are a little hard to figure out, sometimes they just won't shoot and one time one harvested a resource when things respawned, I believe it was either fiber or berries, and just refused to attack any enemies. Maybe I missed a prompt on their description about their range? If so, maybe when the player has selected an archer and is dragging them around, islands around them could be highlighted in red or something indicating their ideal range (changing as the archer is dragged around)? I find the description text in the bottom left very hard to remember to check, so maybe I just missed something.

Less frustrating, just confusing is related to food and units. I've found that it's easy to break and pass the max level for units by just continually feeding them food and didn't know if that was intentional? Usually feeding them food in groups of 3 is what breaks it. I say 'breaks it' because if they did have stars before, I'll find them removed and the prompt for the "food to power up" reset. I had a knight with both stats into the high teens before realizing that that might not be what was intended, maybe it was! I think the three star knight had lower stats than that.

Also, after coming back to a saved game, all the furnaces and alters were gone.

I'm on my phone currently but if you need screenshots or anything I'd be happy to provide later! This game has been so much fun though and it's really incredible that you made it in less than the months! Well done and thanks again for creating such an enjoyable game :)

Edit: back to my computer with screenshots!

I uhhh got a little carried away with food on this one....

This is a water thing not producing even with the worker, had to build a new one:

This is my worker past its max level, with no stars anymore:

Hi, I am a Korean gamer. Many Koreans love the game called Stackland. And I found this game has the potential to be as good as Stackland.

These are my suggestions:
1. I hope there is a boss monster like the devil that is powerful enough to make the player feel accomplished when they beat it. It would be a good idea to find it in a particular area while protecting a particular artifact or summon it through specific combinations.

2. In the game, I found there were many high-tech items such as cars, semiconductors, batteries, etc., but I was disappointed that they weren't much useful. The hospital was a good idea. It would be fun to use batteries and semiconductors to make a greenhouse or a factory that automatically produce food or something with no need of farmers.

3. Later, the inventory quickly fills up and the tiles are easily messed up with resources. I hope there's a way to organize this (ex. a building that can store some resources like the refrigerator, or the ability to scroll up and down the inventory)

4. I think it's a little too much to have three big tabs that give information on screen. It would be nice to be more simplified. (The biggest advantage of your game is its simplicity.) 

5. There is a bug that cannot be pulled out when a knight or archer enters the house. (found in alpha v0.9)

The concept of this game is very good. If you keep adding more content to the game, it will be much greater. Keep it up!

I beat the game after the GameDev stream, and towards the end I was getting a little frustrated at trying to keep track of all of the things.  I also realized that once someone uncovers copper, a chest, a boss, and oil, there isn't really a reason to explore further.  For me, the satisfaction of having to search for a hidden secret or having an achievement of exploring everything is something I prefer, but I may just be a completionist like that.  Good job on the game, and hope things go well for you.

Sadly missing a Linux version...

I have to preface this by saying that I generally speaking don't play these kind of games and only played to help a fellow gamedev "get gud ";) 

At any rate, to me it wasn't clear as to how to play this ... so the first thing I did was drag the resources I made into the little window on the right (I expected like a house unlock to appear) ... at least I thought I did ( as it apparently dragged it on a tile I couldn't see ...and one of my minions died ) and then I couldn't click on anything anymore .

And to me it is unclear how to actually build a house , I think it would be better if you just get a pop up once you have enough resources to build a house showing a house icon (which you can drag on teh map).

The music score is good though  and I like the overall look and feel ... keep it up!

Awsome work. I like it. Two things I think it COULD use is scrolling view with mouse and right click instead of shift... just so I would never have to use more then the mouse.

Ok, I managed to beat the game :D 

It was really fun - I love this type of games. I do have few more comments: 1. I found no reason what so ever to create archers. 3 knights were sufficient enough to kill all the enemies anywhere, especially after building hospital. 

2. I expected the fridge to be storage space rather than 'processing station'. As a result I destroyed all the food resources I had. I would suggest it processes food as other stations - with farmer or something. That way if somebody makes similar mistake they will not lose everything as I did. 

3. This is really personal opinion - I am not saying it is correct or valid but... I feel the items like computer, car and circuit to be a little bit out of place. Everything else seemed to be more fantasy based. 

4. I wish some crafting resources where more useful. In the sense that I produced milion bateries and milion graduation caps to use them in 1-2 receipies. 

5. When the new resources spawn and my farmers get killed I would love to have a quick way to see where it happened. Maybe under the 'idle' button there could be another one for 'warning' or something like that and when you click it it takes you to important event place. 

Besides that I really think you have done great job. The game seems very polished, I didn't encounter any bugs or anything like that. The pixelart is very cute and works very well. I cannot wait to see where you will take it next!