Roll Player - The Board Game news & patch notes

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It's been over a year since we officially released Roll Player, and what an incredible journey it has been! During Early Access, we introduced many exciting features like playing against AIs, stats tracking, hall of heroes, online multiplayer, and more. Most recently, we added custom Solo game creation and Steam achievements. Each update has been a fun and valuable learning experience. Now, we need to ask for a favor. Your feedback is crucial for our ongoing efforts to improve the game and, most importantly, to increase its visibility and reach. If you’ve been enjoying Roll Player, please take a moment to leave a review on Steam. Your reviews not only help us understand what you love about the game but also guide us on where we can improve. Additionally, they help other players discover Roll Player and join our amazing community! If you also own the mobile version (iOS / Android), we kindly ask for your review on those platforms as well. In case you want to follow us on social media and keep in touch with what we're doing, please do so on Facebook, Twitter / X, Instagram, or join our Discord channel. We hope you take a moment to leave a review. Thank you so much for being with us and supporting Roll Player. Your feedback and support mean the world to us. Best regards, The Mipmap Team

You asked for it, and we listened! Enjoy 89 new achievements to enhance your Roll Player experience and showcase your skills! 🎉

Release notes:

• Steam Achievements: Unlock and collect 89 achievements as you play!
• 48h Game Fix: Attempted to fix the issue of 48-hour games sometimes disappearing. While this was difficult to reproduce, we believe we've made progress.
• Other Improvements: Various minor bug fixes and visual improvements to enhance your gameplay experience.

In case you own an iOS / Android version as well:

• Achievements unlocked on mobile device are automatically fetched when you continue playing with the same account on Steam
• Push notification is sent when a game is waiting for you to start.
• Push notifications now display a badge on the app icon for easier tracking.

We appreciate your feedback and support! Happy gaming! 🎲

We’re excited to announce we released an update for Roll Player that will enhance your solo gameplay experience. Now, when playing solo, you have the ability to choose your class, backstory, and alignment. In addition to this major enhancement, we’ve also addressed several other issues and made minor improvements:

• Account Creation and Password Reset Flow Fix: We’ve resolved an issue where swiping down on the phone screen to access your email during account creation or password reset would occasionally take you back to the previous step.
• Bard/Charming Gold Bug Fix: Previously, there was a glitch that allowed players to purchase cards without having enough gold. Fear not, as this has been rectified!
• Rulebook Link Repair: The broken link to the rulebook has been patched up. Now you can access the rules without any hiccups.
• Weapon Management Correction: Sometimes players could hold onto all their weapons even if they didn’t have enough hands. We’ve tightened things up, ensuring that you’ll need to make some tough choices when it comes to arming yourself.

Thank you for your continued support, and happy rolling!

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There was a major bug when playing a local game vs humans where a 2nd player could not finish their setup phase without restarting the game. The bug was introduced in the online multiplayer release while implementing simultaneous play during setup. It should be fixed now. Apologies to all who have experienced it and best regards, Devs

The wait is finally over! The game has officially exited Early Access today, on Apr 20th, 2023.

For almost a full year after releasing Early Access we have listened to your feedback and worked hard on giving you the best possible experience we can of the game you all enjoy and love. Here is a brief overview of the most important features we have implemented in this period:

• Cross-platform online multiplayer! You can play against players playing on Steam, iOS and Android.
• Public and private online games! Private games can be joined only by players who know the game's secret key.
• Cross-device play - Online game can be started on one device and continued on another.
• Hall of Heroes saves your best characters
• Various stats tracking your most commonly used weapons, armor, skills, traits, your average reputation with each race and class and more
• AI with 5 levels of difficulty. You can play against multiple AIs simultaneously!
• Numerous visual and UX improvements! Plenty of animations, tooltips, textures, new background image in main menu, winner declaration completely redesigned, adjustments made for various screen resolutions, windowed mode, and many more.
• Fixed plenty of bugs

We are extremely grateful to everyone who has been here with us since we started this project. Big thanks to our beta testers and our Discord community for all the suggestions, bug reports, and enthusiasm that you brought to this process! Have fun and enjoy the game! Best, Devs

For almost a full year after releasing Early Access we have listened to your feedback and worked hard on giving you the best possible experience we can of the game you all enjoy and love. In this process we have added the Hall of Heroes, various stats tracking, 5 levels of AI to play against, fixed numerous bugs and added significant visual and UX improvements. From the very beginning we stated our intention was to make a cross-platform online multiplayer before exiting Early Access and making an official release. Well, the wait is finally over! We are ready to announce that cross-platform online multiplayer is implemented, tested out and ready to launch!

The game will exit Early Access on Apr 20th, 2023.!

New features will include:

• Cross-platform online multiplayer - play against any player in the world, playing on any platform (Steam, iOS, Android)
• Create both public and private games
• Cross-device play - you will be able to start an online game on one device and finish it on another.

As usual, we also squeezed in some additional bug fixes and minor improvements. Thank you all for being part of this journey with us. It has been a hell of a year. Special thanks to our faithful and always helpful beta testers and our Discord community. Your feature suggestions, bug reports and enthusiasm really made this game better in ways we couldn't even imagine at the beginning of this process. Best regards, Devs

We have released iOS and Android versions recently. These are the improvements we made and that we now bring to Steam version as well:

What's new:

• Best heroes and recent games can be opened to preview character sheets in more detail.
• AI settings for your last local game are saved and preselected for the next game
• Abandoned games are counted in stats
• Setup phase - dice can be returned to the original slots while deciding where to put them
• Roll phase - click on initiative dice should also initiate their roll
• Phase popups can be disabled for singleplayer in general (i.e. in Solo or Local game vs AI only)
• Animated card selection highlights when executing abilities (e.g. MoveSilently, TowerShield, Diplomacy...)
• Added a footnote to the bottom of class cards reminding what certain attribute action does.
• Added "Choose character" text on Solo tab in main menu
• Pass & Play renamed to Local Game
• Exit preview button animated
• Added Back button to "Do you want to take attribute action" prompts.

Fixes:

• Fixed: Concentrate was always trashed in Solo
• Fixed: Executing Drud-Atuned ability with only 1 card in discard pile would make the game unable to continue

Thank you all once again for reaching out and contributing. Our focus is now completely on online multiplayer and exiting Early Access. Best regards! Devs

Major features:

• Play against AI (or multiple AIs and humans) with 5 levels: Adventurer, Shady (starts with extra card), Merchant (+10g), Treasurer (+20g) and Trickster (extra card + 20g)
• Profile screen keeps record of your best heroes, recent games and various stats
• New main menu background image and various design improvements

Next up:

Small update: opening character sheets of the games in your profile + iOS and Android release

Online multiplayer We feel this now completes a major milestone in our effort to officially release Roll Player and exit Early Access. During the last couple of months we received a lot of feedback and although it took longer than expected to address it adequately, we hope it was worth the wait. Thank you all once again for reaching out and contributing. We now continue with our original plan. After a small update and release on mobile platforms, we will focus our efforts on implementing online multiplayer and then exiting Early Access. Stay tuned! Devs

Minor bug fixes

• resolution picker would display duplicate resolutions on some monitors
• enemy die would remain frozen in air during tutorial if 1st initiative die was chosen
• after buying Courageous, some cards in inventory would become highlighted without apparent purpose
• tap on market tab button would sometimes not register on 4:3 resolutions with 3+ players in game
• gold coin displayed on avatar image would remain smaller or bigger after gold gained animation

Moving on with AI as our top priority.

Important features

• Windowed mode with custom resolution (accessible through Options in Main Menu)
• Enemy roll in Solo game and trashing of a card is visually displayed (can be turned off in Options)
• Tooltips (on mouse hover) explaining components of attribute score sum. Various other tooltips explaining attribute ability icons, backstory slots, some buttons etc.
• Various tutorial improvements - skipped setup phase so it’s not overwhelming for a newcomer, added highlights and extra explanations

Other improvements

• Mouse scroll sensitivity increased
• Final scoring sheet: click on card name, alignment, class or backstory opens its details
• While playing: click on alignment, class, backstory opens its details
• Attribute score number is highlighted a bit to suggest that the score was altered by some card in inventory
• Tower shield and Courages cards in your Inventory now have a label displaying their current assignment (to which armor set / attribute)
• Tower shield and Courageous cards in your Inventory are highlighted in Final phase
• Courageous ability - expected interaction upon activating ability is visually highlighted
• Gold coin image added to texts instead of “gold” text
• Various other minor improvements

Bug fixes

• Solo game setup now starts with 6 dice
• Dice bag now displays correct number of dice
• Tower Shield is now included while scoring armor set
• Reckless / Foolish / Weak / Clumsy are now including effects of other cards on attribute score
• Fixed game freeze when attempting to roll dice in Roll Phase really fast
• Other minor bugfixes

We are grateful to everyone participating in Early Access and providing very valuable feedback. We take your feedback seriously and wish to give you the best experience we can. Next major features on our roadmap: 1. AI, 2. personal stats (including recent games, hall of heroes etc) and 3. online multiplayer. Stay tuned! Devs

Hi, we have listened to your comments and decided we will create an AI opponent. Solo mode will still be in the game so you can choose your preferred way of playing. This will prolong an Early Access phase of the game a bit but we want to give you the best experience that we can. In the meanwhile, we are preparing a smaller update next week including:

• ability to click on cards on the end game screen so you can see where your scoring is coming from
• small hover tooltips to help you keep track what's affecting your attribute score
• in game menus for backstory and alignment so you can remind yourself of their story and how they score
• Enemy phase in solo game so you can see a die roll and how it determines which card gets trashed in the market
• bug fixes that you reported
• other minor usability improvements

Thank for being a part of this and helping us make a better game. Mipmap Team