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Fusing Battling tops and Roguelike Deckbuilding together to create an unlimited source of battling tops fun! Collect new tops, combine them together, pair 'em up with synergistic relic and go on a short adventure, From the Top!

HK$ 26.00

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Update 1.42

5:03am

GAME GO VIRAL?!?!?!

Awesome and epic moment hit the game last week. It went viral! Again!

Thanks to this one tweet, [x.com]the game gained a lot of visibility over this past week, it's really awesome! Thank you so much for the positive feedback and enthusiasm. I do feel that the game doesn't quite meet the expectations some people have for it, but at least most people seem to be having fun with it, which is great!

To answer some questions, yes, this game is our first commercial project, we did it part-time over the course of a year (which unfortunately shows in some parts). Regardless, we're very happy with the reception and please look forward to our future games!

That said onto the bug fixes!

Bug Fix

You no longer unlock Bell when entering Foundry
- This is actually a leftover from when Bell was supposed be unlocked in the foundry. Fixed now
Vamp now no longer shows up as a boss fight on stage 2 and 3 upon saving and continuing.
- Very surprised nobody encountered this much earlier, but tis has been fixed!
Saving too early doesn't cause the save file to get corrupted and just straight up prevent you from selecting anything on the map
- Again, nobody encountered this?!?!! It's fixed now, but really made me wonder how often the save and continue feature gets used. Maybe it's because the game crashes less now :O ?!?!?

Known Issue

Graphical issues on Intel integrated and some AMD GPUs, aka the Grey screen
- Sooooo, I think this problem is caused by my specific version of Godot and is pretty well documented. Unfortunately, I can't really upgrade my version of Godot due to some issue with Jolt among other things.
- If you encounter this issue, there are two paths you can take, either
  - Refund the game
    - Look, it sucks that the game doesn't work properly on your machine, I want everybody to play the game and have a great time, but at some point the problem is so hard to fix that the best course of action is unfortunately to give your money back.
  - Downgrade the Game's rendering into compatibility mode
    - BUT, if you still want to play the game Reeeaalll badly and don't care too much about how it looks I do have a solution for you.
    - Go into your game properties and under launch options add [c]--rendering-driver opengl3[/c]
    - The game will look a bit weird (especially on the splash screen) but turn on the 'reduced filter effect' under options and the game should look pretty decent!
    - It's still missing some effects that are not available on compatibility mode but at least it is now playable!

Message to the community

I'd also like to take a moment to make some clarifications about the game's future

There is currently not a plan to add any further content to the game
1. I know I know, not very contemporary indie game dev of me to stop updating the game. especially when the base game doesn't have a lot in it and after it went viral like twice
2. I do have some reason for this though.
  1. First, as previously mentioned, This current version of Godot I'm working on is not the most stable. For the nerds out there I'm using Godot v4.3_Beta2 with Jolt as an add on. Transitioning this into 4.6 is very hard :( I tried twice and it broke everything both times.
  2. Game's code sucks. MY CODE QUALITY IS NOT USUALLY THIS BAD, FUTURE HIRER PLEASE DON'T DISQUALIFY ME JUST FOR THIS. In short, the project was rushed and the timeline was all over the place, so I duct tape a lot of things and things are just simply not built to scale. Many lessons have been learned and I won't repeat the same mistakes again, but tis a wound this game cannot heal from, am afraid
  3. It's like 4 bucks and I do in fact have to make good financial decisions. while one of the game's selling point is that it's so cheap it's basically free, it also make it hard to scale for financial success without other ways the game can earn. It's very hard to continue putting effort into a project knowing that I'll be draining myself financially (again). Future historians will use this passage to confirm my capitalist tendency, which I concede is in fact true, I need money :(
  4. I just don't want to work on it. Look, I got burned out working on this project like 3 times. People who have been on a creative journey might relate better to this experience, at some point you've associated so much negative emotion to a project no amount of enthusiasm and audience can bring back that energy that you have when you started it. I know 1 year is actually a very short time frame for game dev and I can probably deal with all the problems I've been mentioning by just toughing it out, but my heart's just not really in it anymore frankly.
3. All that said, while I don't want to work on FTP anymore than I need to, it doesn't mean I don't want to work on games ever again. I really like doing what I'm doing here and if this project shows me anything, it is that I'm actually pretty good at it and can probably make a decent living out of it! Matter of fact, we're currently working on something I think is pretty awesome, so stay tuned ;D
What is planned for the future of the game
1. Language updates
  1. I'm a bit unconvinced that there's any significant audience interested in the game outside of English speakers but there's a lot of effort being put in by the Latin audience for the game, so I figured I might as well throw them a bone.
  2. Godot is actually pretty good at localisation, so I'm very excited about learning how to do it here so that I can use what I learn here on future games.
  3. First Language that will be added is probably gonna be Indonesia (that's the other language I'm fluent in) and with that future language support can be added via mods or official translation!
2. Android Build
  1. Did you know, the game was originally planned to be released on Android shortly after its Steam Release???
  2. Tis in fact true! I got the idea from my dad! My Parents are big supporters of this project but they only play games on their phones, so I figured this is good enough reason to add mobile support into the game.
  3. Also also, the game accidentally has good touch screen support thanks to it being fully playable using only a mouse!
  4. Also also also, I already tried it before on my phone and like 80% of the game's feature is already working!
  5. Also also also also, I have no idea how to do this on apple, so wish me luck!
3. Steam Cloud sync
  1. Just like language, it was pushed to backlog under the assumption not many will use this feature.
  2. But, I figured if I want to make this into a career, this is probably pretty important to figure out
  3. It's really just more about figuring out how to do it using the steamworks plugins I'm using, so this shouldn't be too hard!

From The Top

Double or Northing

This perk doesn't seem to work on for the enemies? Seemed like I was the only losing 2 lives on knockouts.

It's Chobo

15 hours ago

General Discussions

Cant see any gameplay?

Everytime I launch the game it shows me the menu and stuff but i cant see any of the actual gameplay. I just get a buggy gray screen where the stuff is supposed to be, verifying files and installing on a different drive didnt help :/

CJ The The

20 Jan @ 9:33am

General Discussions

Difficulty Cliff

Lone Vampire is... a lot. The idea that I get back 10 stamina when I beat a top and my opponent gets... 25? That's a bit ridiculous. This top has got gravity, stamina steal, is heavy enough to avoid getting pushed around, and is basically not doable considering I only have 5 total beys and few upgrades available. I want this to be good but so far I am vexed....

Deceased Crab

23 hours ago

General Discussions

Update 1.41

8 Jan

New Feature

Routes now no longer resets between saves!
- You remember back when we added the save system and there's that weird limitation of the map always being reset everytime and how it might end/ruin some runs?
- We fixed that now! Now the route no longer resets! It's actually not that hard to implement
- You're also limited to only the rooms in the path you've unlocked, so no more jumping between routes in the entire row!
Seedssssss
- As a bonus feature, we can now also do seeded runs!
- You can select and input seeds during character selection. And see what seed you're using in the option menu!
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Mous size toggle!
- On smaller screen -particularly of the deck variety- it can be a bit hard to see the cursor, so now there's an option in the setting to make it really huge!
  - Will adjust the sizing, but tis handy!
Give Up toggle!
- That Give up button is way too easy to press sometimes, so now there's a toggle to just turn it off! Never give up!

Bug Fix

Portable repair now can no longer repair past 6 lives.
- Silly me, it was hard coded instead of following max life like everything else
Stone should stop causing crashes. I think
- After reading the logs from a fresh crash, I think I finally pin down the issue. Hopefully it's fixed now, Fingers crossed
Fusion top in your save file no longer get randomized! Rejoice!
- Fun fact, it's not actually random, it's either Control Wheel DEF20, Guard Wheel DEF20, or Stone Wheel RGN5
- If you're wondering how I was able to pin this down, it's because these are my own save file that I accidentally integrate into the game. The fix was to delete my save file from the game. OOps

From The Top

Update 1.41 (Beta)

3 Jan

No new feature this time, just debugging some problems

Bug Fix

Player top now will restart the next round instead of just reducing life and keep going
- This was my attempt at fixing some other issue, but it ends up causing a game breaking bug, oops
- Thankfully it was caught before it got live, so Yippeeee
Stone should stop causing crashes. I think
- After reading the logs from a fresh crash, I think I finally pin down the issue. Hopefully it's fixed now, Fingers crossed
Fusion top in your save file no longer get randomized! Rejoice!
- Fun fact, it's not actually random, it's either Control Wheel DEF20, Guard Wheel DEF20, or Stone Wheel RGN5
- If you're wondering how I was able to pin this down, it's because these are my own save file that I accidentally integrate into the game. The fix was to delete my save file from the game. OOps
Continuing from a save now only unlocks the rooms in a row that was connected to your last finished room.
- I've fixed it in such a way, previous save file still works but you'd still have the entire row unlocked until you finish at least one room and do another save

From The Top

2 people found this review helpful

Not Recommended

1.3 hrs on record

Posted: 17 January

While I really really adore the premise, sounds, and visuals, I can't recommend the game in it's current state.
Won my first 2 runs without really any difficulty. They were just long and drawn out. If the game played a bit faster and wasn't overcentralized on a few key abilities/perks it would be stellar. In its current state a few bugs popped up just in my first two runs, with crashes, items not working, and a round ending without any reason. If this game ends up getting patched to address these issues I would gladly change my review because again, a lot of it is incredible.

HighlyHylian

204 products in account

2 people found this review helpful

Not Recommended

1.5 hrs on record

Posted: 20 January

Fun while starting, but as the game goes on enemies stop following the rules implemented at the beginning. That tied with passives and upgrades just stopping to work after a few rounds makes runs stop dead in their tracks. For how short the game is, the basis its built on should be solid. Needs work.

Zephec

248 products in account

1 person found this review helpful

Recommended

1.6 hrs on record

Posted: 22 January

I really like the concept of this game. Though, I must say, I am really not the biggest fan of the art style, but that is simply preference.

What is not preference though is the amount of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ currently in this game, which i will come to, but I'd like to point out some bugs I found first.

One big issue is the randomness. On my very first run, the map was full of encounters at the top, but only shops, and other non-encounter events. But no matter how hard you try, you simply cannot beat 3 encounters with only the starting tops. Kind of frustrating to be confronted with that directly after the tutorial. But there should be an easy fix for this issue.

Another thing I experienced, somehow there is a bug when using the ghost ability when the opponent has slime. Somehow it lead to both tops getting pushed toward the camera, resulting in the whole screen being filled with the color of the trail of a top. This did not seem intended, and made it extremely difficult to win the fight.

So what do I mean with "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in this game"?
The fights feel extremely unfair, which in turn, makes it rather frustrating. For example, I had the "honor" of being confronted with a Stamina+ (has a lot of health and can control its movement) Slime Opponent on a small moving plate. It was near impossible to beat. Now this might seem, like I am complaining about difficulty, but I am not. My problem with this is that a single battle took AGES! I used a defense top, the Stamina+ enemy was able to jump on top of me because of the moving platform, and each contact slows down the game for a brief moment, while the defense ability lets you get invulnerable for a brief moment.

So this did not work, no worries, I will switch to a ghost top, which lets you charge up a shockfield. I did this, but the Stamina ability was too strong, and it could not be thrown out of the stage. Again a single battle took ages.

What you had to do: Repeat the ghost strategy and simply pray, that somehow the opponent will not make it back into the arena.

Using the attack ability (the one where you charge really hard in the mouse direction) seems to be broken, as sometimes it will simply not dash towards the mouse position.

But on a more positive note, I think this idea has potential and while I was frustrated at times, I did return the next day. So there has to be some fun involved. The price is very cheap and therefore I do not feel like I wasted my money or anything. It would be interesting to see some sort of sandbox mode or multiplayer pvp, where you can configure your spinning top and simply battle for fun.

I will therefore recommend this game even though I am not fully content about some decisions.

Three, the Dawg

195 products in account

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Progression UI overlapping

In the tutorial and the main game, the track for your progress seems all overlapped on itself. I don't know if thats intentional or the track UI is just squished (tried at all aspect ratios) but it is a bit hard to discern the various tracks. The tutorial was more difficult to see what I was tapping, without the pop-up...

Jeto

15 hours ago

General Discussions

Final Boss not appearing after winning or losing a battle against the final boss

I was gonna beat the game day 1, and for some reason it doesn't make the final boss appear again after winning or losing the first battle. Plus picking Jack from the start of the game crashes my game.