Equipmentris
Equipmentris is basically a turn based combat game where gearing is a simple block fitting mini-game in itself. Each won round of combat nets you either a trusty new companion or a shiny piece of loot. How far can you get? But beware, the swift death can lurk at any corner. And the death is permanent...
The game was made in a week for #7DRL and my idea was to combine a few of much enjoyed games from my childhood of early 90s. The first part is not Tetris really but some quite obscure and not widely know suitcase packing game I can't even remember the name of. All I remember is that I enjoyed it and most likely played way too much of it considering how simple the premise was.
The second part comes from a Finnish indie classic, Areena (Finnish for arena, obviously). Well the combat is nowhere near like that and it could come from anywhere, that is where my main inspiration came from. Even though quite a lot of the features and mechanics had to be scrapped due to the week of development time flying by way too quickly.
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Development log
- Patch 1.2.0Jun 07, 2022
- Patch 1.1.0May 17, 2020
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It's a neat little game, nothing too crazy that I'd get lost in, but neat.
can't even defeat the first level, I don't even slightly scratch my oponent like wtf is that match making?!
You probably just got very unlucky on your first opponent. Also be sure to equip some gear before going for the fight.
It's the second time this has happened (first time was running the actual .exe maybe 3-4 years ago, and I came back to play this again using the itch.io client today), so I presume this has something to do with progressing further than intended, or perhaps just a small chance to trigger the bug somehow and the large amounts of levels ended up triggering it and the save imploded?
What files do I need to delete to reset my save? I suppose the other question is, what files would I need to backup to have multiple saves, since the gold is kept through full party wipes? I'm on the .zip version on Windows and I've already checked in all of AppData and only found one folder with your name and the subfolder Equipmentris, but there only seemed to be one Player text file or whatever that showed a few errors when loading the game, presumably due to my game being bugged.
A couple suggestions as well, if you ever decide to update the game!
The save is not actually in a file but in registry. So run regedit and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Antti Haavikko\Equipmentris. There is a key named SaveData_something and if you rename that with a leading undescore or something, next time you load up you should get a fresh start but your money should remain as it's stored in a separate key. And also if you could give me a copy of that value so I could maybe debug what there is causing the issue. There shouldn't be any reason why getting too far in the game would do that. Must be either just some rare occasion error that just gets more likely the further you go as enemies get more and more gear or that the windows registry values can't contain enough data for the save.
Here's a MEGA link for the registry branch - I already deleted the most recent playthrough but it was the same bug nonetheless, character selection and adding items is fine, but as soon as you enter combat you'll find the enemies don't have slots and you instantly win combat, and are forced to hire one of the 0-stat enemies. The leaderboards simply show 3 empty, no-slot characters and no names or numbers where they should be.
In fact, after deleting the entire registry branch the leaderboards STILL show nothing. Is this a connectivity issue, or something else? I'd like to see where I sit on the leaderboards, but usually I tend to play offline and it looks like I haven't submitted a score since apparently 2022, which is the save in the file below.
https://mega.nz/file/SDZT0bAJ#BxNL6BEVdA3cZ-4LWTReK6X_erOUxmBtGiu2baaiXJE
As for anyone attempting to hijack this save, please let me know if you figure out how to make the save playable again. I'd like to see how far this old build can go ^^
Hmm true, leaderboards seems to be broken even with a completely blank save. There must be some weird score submission there preventing it from loading. That should be unrelated to your blank enemies bug though. There must be something still broken in the save if it keeps loading the same glitchy enemies every time. Try clearing the EnemyBones_something key too...
Okay so most of the time just Alt+F4ing and rebooting the game works to refresh the enemies, at least at low levels. I haven't yet tried clearing the EnemyBones_whatever key (it actually doesnt exist at the time of writing on the new save I'm on right now), but what I assume is that the EnemyBones_whatever key is the one that stores the enemies, and when they're randomly generated there's a chance for them to bug out and return a nothing? So not having an EnemyBones_ key in my registry right now suggests the deletion fix works. I'd have to get back to you on that one until I get to high enough of a level to encounter players though (iirc around level 50?)
I have also encountered the no items in shop bug that @potatobirb mentioned below. Rebooting in this case does not seem to fix the issue so I'm not sure what to clear. I don't see a value here that might store the shop's items, and I presume it randomly generates it based off of a predetermined seed every hour, since it refreshes even when offline.
Edit: Deleting the EnemyBones_ key did in fact fix the blank enemies bug :D
However, even after deleting the entire branch, the shop is nowhere to be found...
The leaderboards thing is now fixed. The issue was not actually on your end but my server service provider (which was migrated from another provider) had some strict firewall setting on and blocked all web requests from non-browser apps. For the empty shop I'll have to do some investigations but it seems like normally it works but there can be some items appearing which make it not work...
This game is really cool, but I found a bug where there aren't any items in the shop.
how
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i just started btw
PLEASE PLEASE PLEAAAASEEEEE make an easy mode without a leaderboard where you can keep your items. I know it sounds like im bad at the game (and I am) but holy is it a grind getting out of the first 4 levels. just straight grind grind grind just for you to die to rng
By the way, great game. IK its a old project but I really like it and I hope you keep making new games and adding changes to old ones.
Yeah, the default ones indeed should be there.
Seeing you update older games gives me hope something may come up here. I think this is probably your strongest game overall! Cheers
I have no immediate plans for it really. Would need to come up with something new and interesting to add.
An idea from my experience:
Add a "hardcore" mode where you get limited replays of levels, and are forced to keep moving up. Could make the early levels harder and reduce early grinding.
can you make it so nimble doesn't activate when they get revived because its having me stuck in this stage for over 10 minutes
Im addicted is amazing but my few slight problems are that if your farming items on level 1 if you encounter a 4 slot shield guy with a decent shied it ruins my run and also it lags a bit in the late game but great gameplay. alright im back removed my cringy texts but i'd still like to say that im not happy with the ai that wont stop healing so um oh yea i lost my level 103 run but im just happy Z is on the leaderboard on 33 for now so im just happy about that remember folks this thing is addicting
Incredible job for a 7DRL! Very engaging loop and polish is unbelievable.
Finally reach level 300 with only one member (solo leveling, haha), wish the devs can limit the undying limit (maybe resurrect 10 times) so i dont waste so much time fighting them, anyway this is a great game
Cool! Will keep in mind making undying less tedious on high levels as yeah it can be pretty much just a time waster.
Also the leaderboards displaying wrong items, was it just wrong colors? Something weird going on there indeed.
it displayed different equipment but now is showing the same equipment.
Weird
Are you going to release more content? Please do so.
Don't have anything planned right now but will do if I come up with some nice additions.
one is enough. by the way, why is my team in leaderboard shows different equipment as what i am using?
is there an end to this i feel like i will go on forever otherwise bc my build is kinda broken with my main slasher guy in front with 500-600 smth slash attack with max lvl cleave or i think max level at least then the hp is even more insane at 770
Nope, it’s endless and even the difficulty starts not getting that much harder other that the other player characters you face more frequently.
How to rotate equipment?
You can’t rotate.
Having lost twice on LV 2, spending my time Auto-Grinding in LV1 for Staves and stuff. Interesting game. Wish I knew what the best stuff per level was, but that's learning.
Wish I could sell from loot menu
There's probably no difference, but is it better to use the web or the desktop application ?
Yeah there should be no difference really except the web version might perform worse on slow computers and the save file is more sturdy on desktop as the web one won’t survive any updates and so on.
OK thanks :)
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uh i gliched the game
Nice! I made it to 4th on the leaderboard. What's interesting is I had the lowest party strenght among the first 7 players. That's because I chose to use only one fighter (I wasn't getting enough equipment for everybody, figured the other two would just slow me down). Needless to say, Bragrumass carried me up to level 107, where I was beaten by an undying enemy who had massive atk power and just kept on smashing me and resurrecting, lol. I had lots of fun! Awesome game, congrats!
Nice! I think past level 100 you only face other player characters and there is indeed some scary stuff there.
Gold doesn't reset on death?
Edited because typos.
Yup, it does not.
I would love an option to turn of the zooming in during the fights. It's almost nauseating in auto mode.
Does the Kunai work?
What do yo mean? It gives some ranged attack stat and with that, the character attacks automatically from the back row after the front one has acted.
While looking into how to explain, I realized it does work, but ranged doesn't seem to work when you enter battle with 2 people.
Oh yeah, true that as neither of them is ever on the back row.
I managed to make a ghost person. The way it happened was that I went to equip an empty character slot, and then when I exited there was the third spot unlocked.
Nice find, I bet this has existed since the first version without anyone discovering (or at least reporting) it. Seems like when you go to equip menu without a character in that slot, the game will generate a new one but it will have a zero grid size. And because they have no grid (and that isn't supposed to even happen) they are scaled way down and seem almost invisible.
Luckily that doesn't completely break the game. You just get a free flea sized party member who can't equip anything.
I found it on accident was curious what would happen if i did it does have some minor problems of if you try to put something on that guy the item takes up the whole screen of the menu there but that's really it for issues I saw I say it should be kept and used as an easter egg for those of us who know
I literally just did that great for a first free team member and makes for a nice easter egg or whatever
Great game but the undying perk should probably be capped at some point because for now you can make your fighters immortal
Oh yeah, I did cap it now to 90% on patch 1.2.0
I love this game, such a unique idea. Can't wait to see the next update :)
Suggestion : Make it 32 Bit (If possible) If you can’t its okay
waht does luck do
Increases crit chance if I remember correctly.
level 101 lol
Pretty nice! 👍 Though the difficulty stops really rising around level 40 or so. What was your team setup?
This game is very adictive congratulations
anttihaavikko you create my favorites itch. io game and this is my team qualities and i am bumar and sehua in the bendy strawmen inc
popweltor hp 2640
ranged 1280
femuh
hp 792
pierce 1513
popmevon 306
slash 1289
<3
very good game! I wanted to ask, what does entropy do?
Thanks! It's a random skill cast with highest applicable level. So one of the six damage types or heal with the damage amount of whatever is the highest or one of the utility active skills cast at whatever is the highest skill level.
I watched someone stream this game. Lots of fun to be had. Good music, cute animations. There is a bug (played in browser) where you can drop infinite equipment into the same slot (1x1 slot) and it gets applied; but noticed NPCs could also do that with one 2x1 and one 1x1 in a 2x1 slot. I would suggest to finish off the bugs, maybe expand on a story of some sort, and release it on Steam.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes, I am well aware of these bugs and even few more and I do fully intend to fix them and add some more features I had to give up on during the challenge week. Stuff like different character races, passive and active skills that make the combat stuff more varied and less repetitive.