Another small balance update


I was replaying through the game and it bugged me how useless the moves Robot Abuse and Kamikaze were, so I've changed them a lot in this new update.
- Robot Abuse now heals you to 50 health, and uses 100 energy
- Kamikaze reduces your health and energy to 1, making a useful last ditch effort if an enemy's attacks have gotten too powerful or if you have reached the end of the room.

This definitely makes the game a lot easier, but honestly, I would rather have the game be too easy than have some moves be completely unusable. The player can always set challenges for themselves if the game is too easy, while if it is too hard, most are probably gonna quit since I'm sure they have more important things to do than play a weird free itch.io game for hours on end. I'm aware the game is pretty flawed, being probably too overcomplicated when the optimal strategy is to just stun and attack, but I'm still really proud of it which is why I wanted to update it to make a different playstyle more viable (probably TOO viable but yknow).

Thanks to anyone that played!

(PS: The next project I'm working on is gonna be a 2D platformer arena shooter/roguelike, at the moment called PROJECT TRUNK, about I guy who shoots bullets out of his trunk. Pretty cool!)

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The Short Scientist and The Robot Factory 1.4.zip 34 MB
Feb 02, 2021

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