Lars Doucet

Instead of stringing out skill point bonuses, it's way more fun if we concentrate the benefits.

By merging both parties together, the White Hat leader was at risk of being overshadowed. Let's lean into that for both story and gameplay purposes.

We mix things up in four new levels during which the White Hats and Black Hats briefly trade party members

The first thing you tell a player to do in your game will become the default way they expect to interact with everything, and this pattern repeats fractally through every one of your game's sub-systems

The presence of a leech in a battle gives the player a choice: 1) Dedicate defender(s) to killing the leech, taking them off the front lines? 2) Focus on the battle lanes and let the leech steal half your juice?

We just added 8 new characters to Defender's Quest 2. How do we keep all this stuff balanced?

This month we talk all about level design!

September's progress report includes changes to item design, status effect display, defender placement, and lots of other details.

Once again emphasizing visual communication: - Energy shields - Show buff zones more clearly - Ultimate is now a 2x2 sized unit

In previous months we've talked about how we ensure that DQ2 is balanced.Today we're going to talk about how we ensure that DQ2 is fun.