You've joined a guild before, right? So, where's the trouble in managing a guild of your own, too? Guide your heroes, raid some dungeons, and grow your guild to rise from the bottom of the ranks right up to the top in Heroes for Hire!


This is a relatively early alpha demo to test how playable the actual game is. In a way, it's a demo for a demo. It isn't polished, it isn't balanced, and there is likely a large assortment of game breaking bugs.

I would like some feedback mainly on the tutorial and how easy it is to understand the flow of the game. There isn't a lose state, despite what the Audit tab says, that will come in the later polished demo.

A couple things to note.

  • The game isn't planned to be web based. I wanted to reach as many people as possible for this demo and I know people are hesitant to download files. It's sort of a miracle that it even works like this at all, frankly.
  • Game Maker Studio 1.4's HTML export is wonky, and there are some bugs.
  • There's no saving and loading. This is one of the known bugs I was facing, and this demo isn't really designed for long term play anyways. I wanted mainly to test out the tutorial first.
  • I'm planning a more polished and balanced demo for steam next fest, which is a couple of months away. For the most part, the content is complete, but this is the first wide test I've done so I don't know how people feel about the game.
  • The executable version of the demo doesn't have any of the bugs (as far as I can tell), and will allow resizing of the window. Besides that, it is functionally identical.


Known bugs with the HTML5 version.

  • The audit mission tab is somewhat broken, and can display unaffiliated graphs.
  • Unpinning windows causes the screen to flash for a frame.
  • The guild hall popup in general is very wonky.



UPDATE 0.0.0.1: 

  • Tweaked the tutorial up a bit so that it is far easier to follow along with, and that messages don't overlap.
  • Fixed a potential issue with the inventory wiping all items. (If you have played recently, this was happening with the crafting tutorial and has been fixed.)
  • Fixed inventory filter in HTML5.

Please be sure to leave feedback to what doesn't work well or doesn't make much sense.

If you enjoyed the demo and want to wishlist, feel free to click here.
If you want to follow along with development, click here.
Thank you!
Published 25 days ago
StatusPrototype
PlatformsHTML5
Rating
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorUntouch
GenreSimulation
Made withGameMaker
TagsFantasy, Idle, Management, Tycoon

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