Minerva Labyrinth - A dark magical girl dungeon crawler

[Jubal]

I think that probably is enough: my general personal preference is that games shouldn't penalise me for doing a build that isn't obviously silly, but like four of the same character class is clearly into the "OK I'm doing something obviously silly now" category.

I guess it also depends on playthrough time a bit. If I'm stuck with a bad decision I made for an hour, that's different to ten hours, which is in turn a very different kettle of fish to being stuck with it for forty.

I'd expect most of your players will take the default party on a first run of the game (and not many players replay many games - some of my all time favourite games I've still never done a second playthrough of - so you're getting into the most "core fans" group for people doing multiple runs and really getting into the party spec system). So I think as long as the default is well balanced, you're unlikely to have any problems.

[Antiquity]

Just pushed the really definitely final (barring catastrophe) launch version and got everything set up for release.  There's more that I want to do, but it can wait a little while.  If I happen to get any feedback from players, that will help me know better what to focus on.  For now, it's time to just leave it alone for a few days and do something else.  I spent a while yesterday playing some indie games (including EntangledPear's TSFTAMO) and leaving feedback/reviews, something I haven't been able to do much of during this ten-month development crunch.

My goal at the beginning of the year was to release it in 2025.  That ended up being really hard, because the game turned out to need a lot more refinement and tuning than I anticipated.  All of that has served to make it a better game, but I haven't done very much else with my free time all year.

I probably put too much pressure on myself, because nobody would have died if I had pushed it to 2026, but I was adamant about not doing that.  Five years is long enough to hold onto this project.  I'm excited to release it, but I am also ready to let it go and start thinking about my next project.

[Jubal]

Just had the Steam email about the release pop up in my inbox. Congrats on getting it out there!

[Antiquity]

Thank you!  It feels strange to release something that I have been working on for so long.  Almost five years, off and on.  I'm eager to start working on a new dungeon crawler, which hopefully will not take quite so long to finish.