Pyramidal Break is our first project to be shown at an expo

We can't stress enough how fortunate we are to have had this experience in Guadalajara last Saturday. We had tons of fun watching players experience the game, exchanging goodies for feedback and talking to other developers about our experiences. This wouldn't be possible without the Ingenia Zapopan sponsorship for the event.

Players were able to test a brand new Windows version (now available as 1.1.0!) and a special "ConCo" web version for iPad featuring incredible new character art!

Players feedback 

We are glad we got plenty feedback as it let us recharge and regain motivation for the project (we were scrapping it!). Everyone, kids and adults alike, had a lot of fun with the simplicity across both versions. People seem to really like the characters designs, and we were surprised that Qapaq seems to be the most popular. 

 It seems that the boss fight in the iPad version is really tough and could use some balancing. We also noted that the default keyboard option for touchscreens should be swapped to "Safe".  

Other people stressed how the keys should be established for each player to make sure there is no issues with that. One game designer suggested us to add more variety of key inputs, so we can get "game modes" or "party mode prompted input change" as it happens in Wario Ware, for example, that sounded pretty interesting and allowed us to open our minds more. Another consideration was on how the keys change regardless of who made the most correct inputs, and maybe we should separate both input prompts. 

Some players suggested we give each character unique traits, being stats or skills (this is probably not happening but we could see... currently I think those could be triggered by "1" and "0" on the upper numbers of the keyboard).

The weirdest request was for online mode as we are pretty sure that must be a mess, at least with latency!

Bug report

There was a bug where a player found the "ESCAPE" key appear as the prompted key during battles. This only happens in the "whole keyboard" mode, it seems.

Updates...?

We want to provide a few updates at least, with different levels of feasability.

New Update (Available Now!)

• Windows 1.1.0
  • New character art for all the main playable characters. 
  • New cursor.
  • Fix on Sacrifice mode character arts that keeps the UI in front of the character art.
  • New Qapaq Icon added for 64x64 or less.

Next update 

• "ESCAPE" key should no longer appear on "whole keyboard" settings.
• Clearer separation of keys for each player

Feasible Update

• "Input Mistake" Animations that help the players notice when they have inputed an incorrect key of its side. This could be on the UI (easy) or the characters themselves (hard).
• Separate inputs (so each player key's change in a separate timing).
• New art for the secret boss character.
• New art for each stage.

For the future

• New web version that allows touch controls for mobile compatibility.
• New party mode variable inputs.

Thanks for reading!

Pyramidal Break updates are coming, and we hope we are able to attend other local events soon. Every game developer should experience this at least once in their lifetime. Being honest, we would like to get this kind of feedback at least once per project, but we will see. Ingenia helped us a lot by making our entrances and tables completely free, so there's that too.

Try Pyramidal Break's newest version now!