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Supermodel Snapshot - Version 1.1 (Patreon)

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2023-02-21 16:04:27
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IMPORTANT: Uploaded a hotfix. If you already downloaded 1.1, I strongly recommend updating to 1.1.1.

The day is finally here. Today, you get to try out the card game for Supermodel, though in a limited form. This is what I've been putting so much work into for about a year or so now, and I hope it shows.

What can you expect from this release? First, there is a brief, non-interactive tutorial I strongly recommend you go through. After that, there is one single match of Snapshot that you can play as often as you like with a premade deck of cards against Vanguard from Supermodel: Defenders of Desire. Each such match should take you about 10 minutes from start to finish.

What can you not expect? This isn't Supermodel: Defenders of Desire, not yet. You won't find any storytelling, dialogue, porn, or even nudity in this release. There is a lot of sexy stuff here, but nothing explicit. I want Snapshot to be streamer friendly. If you want porn, wait for the full (well, full first release, anyway) Supermodel later this year.

I've kept things simple for this first release. Your deck mainly contains Common cards, the game's most straightforward, essential cards. These cards form the bread and butter of most non-advanced decks and should cover many playstyles. But I have also included a small handful of Uncommon (green) and Rare (blue) cards to show what they might look like. In later releases of Snapshot and the full Supermodel, you will only get these cards by playing the game and opening card packs (earned with in-game money -- no microtransactions here!). While Uncommon and Rare cards tend to be more powerful than Common cards, they are also more situational. They might require specialized decks to truly shine. As such, these cards may be hard to find good uses for in this version. But they can turn the game around alone if you can get them to the table.

Needless to say, the full game (and all future releases of Snapshot) will contain many more cards than what you see here. This is simply a preview to whet your appetites, though I don't want to underplay things. This version still has 24 unique cards for you to play with.

Why am I releasing the card game as a standalone game instead of going straight for Supermodel: Defenders of Desire? Well, card games like these are enormously complicated and impossible to balance as a lone developer. I need feedback focused exclusively on the basic card game to make sure that it's as good as I can possibly get it and that all the game mechanics work correctly before I integrate it into the final game. Furthermore, I must ensure the game is FUN before committing too hard. I find it very enjoyable to play, but then again, I'm biased. I want YOUR opinion and to hear everything, both good and bad. Did you play a particularly exciting match? Tell me about it! Did you play a match where you felt doomed to failure no matter what you did? I want to know. Do you feel some of the cards are useless or that others are overpowered? I'm all ears! I want feedback; the more, the better.

Finally, it deserves to be mentioned that this is no ordinary first release for a crowdfunded game like this. I have given Snapshot a massive amount of polish to make it feel slick and professional, at least for a game made in Ren'py. I even spent an inordinate amount of time composing the music myself to avoid a repetition of the licensing mess in Long Live the Princess, so I hope you like it.

What's next on the agenda after this? First, I intend to finish version 1.01 of Long Live the Princess and release it for free. This shouldn't take me long. After that, work will continue on Supermodel Snapshot version 2.0. My current plans for that version are to add the ability to earn cards through gameplay and a deckbuilding mechanic that allows you to create and customize your own decks that you can then play with. I also expect to add one more model for you to photograph, but more on that later. Once 2.0 is out, I'll be ready to move on to work on the first version of Supermodel: Defenders of Desire, which is the real goal here.

A note on the Android version: Supermodel Snapshot was developed with Android tablets in mind and has been extensively tested on one. It should play wonderfully on a tablet. However, Android phones are NOT SUPPORTED. The game's interface will likely be far too small, and Ren'py's in-built phone adjustments will likely mess up certain parts of the game. If you wish to play Supermodel Snapshot on the phone, you do so at your own risk.

In any case, you probably want the download links by now, so here they are:

Download links:

PC 

Mac 

Android (Tablet only. Phones are not supported)


Patch Notes:

Update 1.1.1:

  • Fixed a potential exception at the game over screen.

Update 1.1:

  • Added two new, less punishing difficulty levels to help ease new players into the game.
  • The Common level 3 Upgrade cards now generate an additional Heat per turn, making them a more attractive upgrade option.
  • "Turned On" had its Heat cost reduced by 3 to compensate for the above change since it does not generate more Heat than before.
  • Playing cards on top of your own cards (i.e., upgrading or discarding them) now requires the cards to overlap more closely. This makes it easier to play cards when your play area is crowded.
  • Situations where some Challenge cards are "skipped" while dealing indirect damage should no longer occur.
  • Attempting to play an Upgrade card out of order (such as trying to upgrade a Skill 1 card with a Skill 3 card) now notifies the player why the upgrade failed.
  • Added error handling for the unlikely event of failing to draw Challenge cards, for example, if the Challenge deck runs out. The game should no longer throw an exception when this happens.
  • Streamlined and standardized the terminology for Heat and removed the concept of Temporary Heat:
    - "Total Heat" is the total amount of Heat you have gained in this match, which is the value you must increase to win the game.
    - "Usable Heat" is the amount of Heat available for you to spend on things like playing cards. Any effect that says it costs Heat refers to Usable Heat unless otherwise specified. If you end your turn with more Usable Heat than Total Heat, you lose any excess Usable Heat.
    - "Heat" is shorthand for BOTH Total Heat and Usable Heat. If you gain Heat, you gain both types. If you lose Heat, you lose both.
  • Rebalanced the "Insecurity" Challenge card to make it less punishing overall, particularly in the opening turns.
  • Rebalanced "Ready When You Are" to make it more useful.
  • Fixed a bug that caused "This is Fine" to generate more Heat than intended.
  • Adjusted the hue of red and green values on cards for clarity.
  • Manually discarding a card now gives you +2 Usable Heat.
  • Cleaned and updated the tutorial.
  • Replaced the "OR" wording on Challenge cards with "ELSE" for clarity despite the resulting grammar being suspect.


Known issues:

  • If you discard a card during the mulligan phase, your first attack against a Challenge card in turn 1 won't be highlighted to show its validity. This is purely a cosmetic bug and doesn't affect gameplay.

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Comments

Anonymous

Version 1.1.1 feedback: Bugs: - Can carry usable heat across turns. In the action phase, with full usable heat, discard a card then quickly end the turn before the "+2 usable heat" animation has completed. You won't see the extra usable heat immediately, but in the next turn, attack a challenge card and I think you should see 2 usable heat suddenly appear above your current total heat. - I know there's a bug with the challenge card not highlighting on the very first attack, but I think I got a different one where the card border actually turned red even though it was a valid attack. (Possibly by attacking with one card then quickly dragging a second card over the challenge card? Perhaps this was just the game saying to wait until the previous attack animation completed?) - I also once got a hang at the end of the final turn. Not sure what I did to cause this. I may have had two instances of Snapshot open (to play the main title music), clicked "End turn" on the final turn and alt-tabbed to another window. When I alt-tabbed back, the final score screen didn't show and the background image kept moving until I tried to drag a card in my hand, whereupon the final score screen came up. Difficulty levels: you're totally right that the goal for total heat combined with the number of challenge cards drawn per turn translates to overall difficulty. I had gotten so used to the initial version that I won the first two levels on my first try, so I spent the rest of my time on the default difficulty for a challenge. Discarding -> 2 usable heat: this feels good, and incentivizes drawing through your deck, which I suppose is the intended play pattern. I'm able to upgrade engines to level 3 much more reliably now, and only really struggle with having enough usable heat in the early game. I even thought that 2 usable heat might have been too generous, but then I lost several times from playing greedily or getting bad draws, so now I think it's about right. Challenge card images: my biggest piece of feedback is that I would prefer to be able to know at a glance what challenge cards were played rather than having to read the text on each card, especially when having to distinguish between cards of the same challenge type. At the moment, the challenge cards are only really distinguished by their text (and challenge symbols). Once you've learned about the kinds of challenge cards that can be played, it would be so much easier to understand what's going on just by glancing at the board if the challenge cards had images. Glow effect for when a card can be played: this is feedback I gave earlier, which I would like to expand. It is definitely a nice feature to be able to drag one card over another and see a green or red border indicating whether it's a valid play, but I think the information could be communicated even earlier. My suggestion would be to look at MTG Arena and see how card borders sometimes glow while in the hand, although I realize there may be technical challenges to achieving this in Ren'Py (maybe just giving an outer green/blue border would be enough?). The glow/border could also change color based on confidence/trust/skill type. The places I think something like this could be used are: - During the challenge phase: any card in your hand that has a valid attack target glows. - During the action phase, a card in your hand glows if it can be played: you have enough usable heat and, when relevant, a valid target (i.e. for upgrades). - When lifting a card out of your hand during either phase: all valid targets glow (i.e. all challenge cards that could be attacked, or valid upgrade targets) even while not actively hovering the card from your hand over them. - Also, I'd like to second what another commenter said: card rarity is less important during gameplay than the game mechanics. If you still want to visually distinguish between card rarity types, maybe having the outer rim of the card border be black/silver/gold could work instead? Card idea: increase damage of sweepers. It took a little time to learn that "increase attack values" doesn't include sweeper effects like "Deep breath" and "Overpower". It might be nice to have some upgrade do this in the future. I know you said you didn't want feedback on balance, but I had these thoughts while playing and wanted to share. Feel free to skip. No catch-up mechanics: if you're below 25 heat on turn 5 or so, it doesn't feel like you can reasonably catch up. At the moment, it feels bad going into the final turn knowing you didn't gain enough heat and not having any draws in your deck that could possibly rectify this. More trust: since there is a trust challenge card that duplicates, the deck either needs proportionally more trust cards, or more sweepers that specifically damage trust cards. Engine power levels: my current thinking is that the skill engine upgrades are the most powerful (since challenge cards are drawn every turn, more damage is always good), followed by trust (reducing cost is good only if you have playable cards in hand), then confidence. I'm not sure whether just gaining more heat is enough of a payoff. Once you pass your goal heat, getting even more heat has diminishing returns compared to the other two effects.

longlivetheprincess

Okay, that's a lot of feedback. Thanks! Let's see... - Usable Heat is intended to carry over between turns. Being able to interrupt the discard status change is not intended, however, and will be looked at. - The red border on the Challenge card you mentioned is most likely there because the game is busy with something else. The border tells you if the play is valid *right now*, a state that might change at any given moment. - I've seen reports of the game having soft locks in the final turn before, but I don't have enough information to lock down the cause. If you run into this situation again, please provide a screenshot of what your board looks like while it's frozen. - I'm not going to put illustrations on the Challenge cards, partly due to the lack of available space, and partly because the concepts communicated through those cards would be incredibly tough to illustrate. I'm considering ways to make effects and keywords more recognizable, for example through small icons or color coding. - I will look into ways to show valid card plays without necessarily having to draw cards all over the place. It's technically tricky to do and could cause a LOT of annoying bugs (just look at the lack of border in the first turn, a bug I'm unable to understand why happens in the first place), so it's not a high priority. If it seems viable to do at some point, I will definitely try. - Showing card rarity during gameplay isn't important from a gameplay point of view, but it's meant to make you feel good. Seeing your deck gradually grow from nothing but grey, dull cards into a colorful set of powerful abilities is supposed to feel satisfying, and so the colors are used the way they are. It's part of the dopamine rush of games like these. - The cards that deal damage to multiple Challenge cards at once are not really intended to be upgraded, though the reasoning behind it isn't necessarily obvious. I divide cards into Confidence (focus on earning Heat), Trust (focus on drawing cards and playing them fast), and Skill (focus on attacking Challenge cards). The "sweepers" as you call them are meant to offer Confidence and Trust decks a way to deal with Challenge cards since they are less capable of relying on direct attacks. A deck focusing on Skill cards doesn't want to rely on sweepers and is meant to attack directly, with lots of cool effects that you will only see as the game expands. The point is that the sweepers aren't meant to be hugely powerful, at least not yet. The ones that truly offer competitive damage will come at immense Heat costs in later versions, so expensive that you either need to reduce the cost (Trust) or have a lot of extra Heat (Confidence). Skill will be unlikely to use them. - You're not correct on that 25 Heat before turn 5 thing. If you have 5 basic +1 Heat Engines in play on turn 5, they alone will earn you 20 more Heat until the end of the game, and you are likely to upgrade them further. Heat gain is exponential, and your Total Heat is likely to be quite low until the second half of the game. This makes it difficult to estimate whether or not you'll win by the halfway point through a match. What matters is which Engines and Upgrades you have in play on the final few turns when they matter the most. The true game-killer is if you haven't fully populated your play area by turn 5. If that happens, you might be in a bit of trouble. - Regarding the "more Trust" suggestion, this should resolve itself once deckbuilding and more cards are in. Trust decks will, among other things, allow you to draw more cards, which fixes the issue you describe. - The Engine power levels you mention matter only for this deck and this challenge. You will have plenty of cards with extreme Heat costs in later versions, which will make you thankful for that excess Heat that is often wasted in the current version. Again, thanks for the feedback. It is very useful.

Anonymous
>>103956179

You misunderstood the very first bug. Using the steps I gave, you can start a turn with _excess_ usable heat that should have been awarded and then cleared, although the heat gauge won't update until you interact with the screen in some way (i.e. pick up then put down a card in your hand without playing it).

longlivetheprincess
>>103956179

Ah, that's different. It's something that shouldn't be too problematic to fix, though it will have to be done across all similar effects. Thank god for the state machine I implemented for this game making changes like these straightforward.