Margoq's Lair Demo V1.2.0 now live
Author: ZilloGames,
published 1 year ago,
[h2]Summary[/h2]
This update includes:
[list]
[*] A brand new tutorial level, where Harald himself guides you through the initial steps of the game.
[*] The difficulty has been adjusted once more, as data still shows that it is a bit too difficult for a demo.
[*] Reduced amount of levels to 4 - 3 normal levels and a boss level.
[*] Polished some more UI
[/list]
[img]https://clan.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/images//44680941/8fae00f7ae7ee4812b9534c466bbec60be3b6e5c.png[/img]
[h2]Looking to extend demo playtime[/h2]
In general it is going quite well with the demo and a lot of people seems pleased as they come back multiple times to play it, however, there is also a significant amount of people that quit really early. The data seems to indicate that they fail the first level rather quickly (in less than 1 minute). Then try again and fail again. At the same time the demo still haven't been beaten by more than a handful of people.
In my opinion this indicates two things:
[list]
[*] The difficulty in general is still a bit too high. Most people don't make it past 2nd level, and many already fails on the first one. Also, not enough players get to complete the demo.
[*] The game is not intuitive enough to play, so people die because it's not easily understood how to play.
[/list]
Therefore I focused on making a tutorial, which can hopefully help to bring down the amount of people struggeling to complete level 1, I reduced the length of the demo by 1 level to make more people complete it, and I lowered the Normal difficulty a little bit further.
I monitor the data in the coming days and see if this helped or futher adjustments needs to be done.
Thanks for playing the demo and please wishlist today.
Best regards,
Mathias Zillo Christiansen
Zillo Games