can you make a android port?

I have to ask ... Are you the developer behind InfinityRPG?  I really like both this game and InfinityRPG.  There are certainly similarities, and also big differences between the two.

In Our Ascent I am maybe a third of the way through the third character Hina's map (I have completed the first two).  I can see that from one character to the next, the upgrades (both equipment effects and upgrades from boss points and stuff) get progressively ... weirder.  And harder to tell which ones you should use.  I may not have completed Stan's story if I hadn't figured out the value of an accessory that increases the number of battles by 3 (and making a second equipment set taking advantage of that).  I don't know if I'll complete Hina's story or not.

Of course I'm looking forward to seeing what comes next in this game!

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I did manage to play through what's available now as four characters.  I never got royally stuck.

There are a lot of elements and design decisions here that I very much like.  The speed goals and number of battles goals are really cool, and so is the way the player gets rewarded for them.  When you've gotten stronger and kinda 'nail it' in the early parts of the run, it's fun to see like 15-20 new points after the run.  The subtle map layout differences from character to character are awesome.  And the character dialogue is really one of the highlights in the early going.  When I made a video, I started from the very beginning of the game to catch a bunch of the dialogue.

I've played all the "progress / tower" games, and this one is one of the best made, balance and lore and "connectedness" are all well done.

My biggest gripe with this one is that item stats are really hard to read. Showing both the item stats and removed/recalculated stats in the same side panel makes it quite hard to see the actual item stats. The equipment UI needs a rework.

any idea why my progress got delated?

Something seems to have happened and with the most recent (downloaded) version; the level frequently fais to load, forcing a quit. Alt+f4 works so it's not completely crashed

Is there currently any way to transfer saves from the web version to the desktop version? 

I am saying this as someone who's played a game of a similar format (though not as animated as yours), and in response to another commenter's comment.

Considering that excess EPs are carried over and to be used in the next location (i.e., a continuation as opposed to fresh start), I'd argue that the current final bosses' difficulty levels are just right. They are after all not the FINAL-final bosses. Perhaps if any adjustment is to be made, maybe it could go into the next stages' development instead, e.g., somehow make the enemies difficult for Stan's natural attributes but easier on Apolonia's.

Well done, Noobilator7! It is an addictive game. In my experience, even my already being familiar with the game format does not take away from the gratification.

very fun game. i beat it with stan. it was a bit rough in the beginning with his low hp but his amazing attack and agility just shredded enemies before turn 15ish where they start hitting each other randomly lol.  I noticed that he got nerfed, but his damage output is still leagues higher than Apolonia's haha. 

some of my other thoughts:

beating the final boss of glades was rather underwhelming

core gameplay loop got a bit stale towards the end, felt somewhat grindy

I never got to reach those (??? difficulty) mysterious islands, any idea how to get there?

liked the game a lot, keep up the good work! also im excited for whats coming next!

I really wish you could quickly cose the shop/stats up menu with tab/q/esc or a key like that, would make playing the game a lot smoother.

The nerfs hit Stan like a ton of bricks. Keep getting 2 shot and defense doesn't help because he only gets 2 per stat point.

Huh. Just got here, was super hyped about seeing the new version having come out - and apparently have lost my progress. Not sure why, haven't cleared cache or anything like that. Not super worried about it honestly, but figured I should mention it, wasn't sure if it was intentional or not.

I liked the game overall and if the development progresses at this quality level, this game will surely deserve at least a 4-star rating (or Steam thumbs-up).
Regarding constructive critic:

My personal playstyle is very agility/luck based. So far I played 2/1/2/4/4 and 2/2/1/4/4 so far. Currently it feels like the game is not supposed to be played like that?

I have trouble identifying when to progress into the next zone and the punishment for doing so too early, or having a build around luck where random loss is part of the build, is very harsh. With just a dozen or so allowed fights (unless slightly modified by equipment), every loss in a playthrough hurts very much, especially when the level-up curve is so extreme (which I generally approve of!).

I would accept this as part of my playstyle if I had not felt like hitting a progression cap. Persistent equipment is migrating the problems, but I seemed to have capped the buyable equipment quite far and to unlock other slots I would need to replay the game in other style I enjoy less. Maybe do not cap the equipment slots behind that criteria?

For the equipment, some random-stat dynamic equipment may help lessen that issue (Diablo-Style)?

As of now, I would probably rate it 3-Stars (subjectively due to my playstyle), but as it is "just an alpha", it does not deserve this as a public rating.

kinda sad i seemed to lost my progress when i reopened the game

my only complaint is that the rest of the game isnt out yet 🔥🔥🔥 (but fr this thing is a banger but the question is: when the rest of the game is released will it be released on itch too is it all moving to steam?)

I get a black screen whenever I try to play fullscreen.

Very addictive. Pretty good progression flow, there's just a point where it's hard to make more than ~$5k gold that gets tough. 

thank you for being upfront about the usage of AI art in your game! i won't be playing due to this, but it's nice to see someone honest about it

I really enjoyed this! There's a lot of content, and the autobattling system is pretty satisfying.

I haven't actually played anything like this before so maybe take this with a pinch of salt, but I have some feedback :)

• there's a LOT of information here, and the vast majority of it is displayed with text. It's a lot to take in, particularly for new players. I can't really offer many solutions here, but it's something to consider!
• the art style is super inconsistent. There's pixel art mixed with vector art, and it's not even consistent with where each one is used. A lot of the art is genuinely gorgeous, but is most of it asset packs? It certainly feels like most of it is asset packs - and that's because of the inconsistency. 
• I'd like to see some sort of cloud save system so I can switch between devices. This is something I can see myself playing on my phone for a bit on a long journey, then loading up in a browser on my laptop when I get home!
• took me a few attempts to realise that when I was clicking things to level up, I was only changing distribution not the skill points themselves. That's a little bit of user error, but there's a disconnect there that I think is wholly unnecessary. It's more satisfying to click the thing and have number go up, rather than click around a bit to set the distribution and have things go up automatically.
• menus need juice! I want things to jiggle when I click them 😂 in Unity that sort of thing is really easy

Overall, it's a really solid loop you've got here. I'm really impressed! Looking forward to seeing more 😁

I have been thoroughly enjoying playing through this and discovering more effective ways to get farther. Glad that it looks like you're pretty on top of things here, and I think any complaint I could've had has probably already been mentioned by others. I look forward to seeing what else you do with it, and can't wait to play it on Steam too.

Edit: Oh, I suppose one question I could ask - do you happen to have any idea if the save from the browser version will be ported to Steam? I'm not sure if the way it works is any different or not, but it was something I was curious about. I'd understand if it is not possible, but.. I do have hope. 

I hate the style of progression in this game so much. I know the devs either made or were inspired by that inflation rpg game. I've played them all so I always know what/where any game comes from (root wise) but, just like that one, you hit annoying walls here.

DIGGING THROUGH THE SHOP TO FIND SOME ITEM THAT MAKES ME WEAKER IN SOME WAYS BUT ENOUGH STRONGER IN SOME WAYS TO POSSIBLY MAKE ME A LITTLE MORE EFFECTIVE ASSUMING I'VE UNLOCKED THE ITEM ASSUMING I'VE EARNED ENOUGH MONEY THAT RUN TO AFFORD IT IS NOT F*CKING FUN.

This game seems to have died on me when I clicked the fullscreen icon. I guess I'll refresh and try again?

Beat it once, I think (it said I would continue with the current character sans gold, but I didn't actually get to do that).

I like the current Log-scale health bar system.  If there was a numeric version I would probably use that instead because of the tactical advantage, but I prefer the current system because learning to guess the remaining health based on the shown bars is fun.  It would also be cool if the base for the log graph itself increased each bar so that higher bars are increasingly unresponsive, so then you could have an enemy where fully half its health is hidden is a sliver of a health bar and it looks like you aren't making progress until you push through and then you only have another 50% hp to deal or so.  I wouldn't want a sliver of health to be more than 50% of max hp, though, or it would be less fun, so maybe base should asymptotically approach some finite limit?

I like the routing aspect of the game, and I hope that remains a focus in future versions.  Stat allocation and equipment selection is okay, but routing is the main strategic element I enjoy.

It's a little weird that you can keep playing if you switch to an equipment set with more encounters after using the last one fast enough, but will die if you take too long clicking.  I see that a pop-up dialogue like when in the equipment menu might feel bad, but what if you automatically switched to a loadout with more ep left if one exists when you run out?

So I finished the current game (all bosses with both characters) and  I have a couple of suggestions-

I'm not sure I like the multiple health bars. They make it difficult to tell how close I am to killing an enemy. It's a cool visual so I think it can be made to work, but it might be worth adding an option for a % health indicator or a single health bar. 

Have you considered using abbreviations for large numbers (ex. 100k instead of 100000)? It's not a problem now, but if the numbers grow exponentially as the progression continues it could become one.

I know this comment is getting long, but one more suggestion I have is having the character skill screen and character select default to the character last played, instead of defaulting to the first character. When I played the second character it got a bit annoying having to manually change to him every time I finished a run.

I hope the feedback is helpful, feel free to ignore if you disagree, you are clearly better at this than me. Regardless, the game is awesome and I'm definitely looking forward to playing the final product. 

Is there a way to see which regions still have unbeaten enemies?

This game feels amazing to play and I finished both stories, but I was a bit annoyed at the presets: basically I mostly have the same main equipment most of the time and only change rings and when I buy new equipment I have to update all of my presets (of which I usually use 2 or 3). It would be cool if you could share slots between presets, here are some ways in which you could do that:

1. Preset 1 would define what equipment "empty" slots are in other presets

2. Add a new pseudo-item which would copy equipment from a given preset

3. Have a "base" for a preset, which would replace empty slots with items from a different, selected preset

4. Add an "equip on all presets" button next to the regular "equip" button

In all cases I think the "copied" item should be a ghost and not at full opacity so the player knows its a copied item, and if it chooses from a specific preset maybe add a "number badge" to it.

If the game is built around repetitions, make sure that the player can jump back into the game relatively quickly. Right now, every time EP runs out, the player has to go through multiple menus before they get back into the game. It's especially annoying when there is nothing to upgrade and the player is forced to spam-click through menus and animations before he can play again.

It is also an issue that playing with other characters makes this even slower as the player has to repeatedly choose the non-Apolonia character over and over again after each run. The game should remember which character the player has chosen.

Loving the game so far, but started on browser, and didn't realize the game would be so fun and long, and since I've lost saves on browser games often, I'm wondering if you know any way to download a save from the browser version? Either way, awesome game!

I've played the game for quite some time now (like 4 or 5 hours) and the game is very fun. The only problem i have is that the progress seems to slow down very fast after around level 1200. It just becomes too repetivie, getting one equipment every run and a run takes like 10 min (5-10)

I think, AI art is good to use, especially if this is not final version!

Great game in overall, thank you!

I've completed the first area and it's fantastic so far. The only complaint I have is that sometimes you can't see the bonuses of nearby when you're in a large area. Sometimes it's worth it to do an earlier section if it has a gold or exp multiplier, or you can move to a higher section if it has an enemy debuff, but you have to hike back and forth to check. It's particularly bad in the second to last part of the first zone, where there are a lot of sections with similar levels, and I want to check if any of the zones has a bonus. Some solutions I can think of are adding the ability to zoom out further and/or adding an effect to the borders of a zone when it has a bonus.

Very nice game. I created a profile here  just to say  that.. :D

You just accidentedly built one of the most addicting gameplay loops ever. I cannot believe this is an alpha test. I literally love this no end. 

I like how boss points encourage you to switch characters. I was intially opposed to the second character, but then realized I could build my attack extremely high for him. High risk, high reward. I love it.

What does EP in the top right mean? I see it go up as the remaining encounters goes down. It confused for me for a while, I though EP meant the remaining encounters, which lead to a couple unexpected deaths.

For a early alpha, this has a lot of charm to it. I'm excited for a full build of the game!