Thanks for the kind words and support!

Glad to hear it! Unfortunately there is a timer on Android 5 support too, though it’s still a ways off. I expect I may have to drop 5.0 and 5.1 in another 2 years or so.

Technically it’s when the hero hits level 3, but yeah that’s the intent. Basically once it has become very likely that the player is going for randomized victory it’ll start reminding you to do it.

Frankly I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a game appealing to a specific audience and deciding not to let its experience be substantially changed in the name of inclusivity. There are SO many games out there and I think it’s fine for a game to not try to appeal to as many people as possible.

I’m not going to take this to the extreme of actively trying to fight save file editing on more open systems though (windows, rooted android, etc.) There’s no real way for me to do that without a system that would be overly awkward for regular users. The game already compresses save files, which makes them not editable as plaintext, and that’s good enough.

IMO if a game offers save/load (even optionally) it isn’t a roguelike. Permadeath is a core part of the genre. It’s like calling a game such as Call of Duty a ‘first person adventure with added guns’. There’s nothing wrong with a game offering choices if that’s what it wants to do, but it changes what that game is, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.

The rat is just a tester enemy here, the final vault area probably won’t feature rats. Its probably going to be flimsy, but I do intend to try and explain why vault enemies are more sluggish.

I think you’re misunderstanding me a bit, what I meant was that you have already gotten a legitimate win AND you just want mistap insurance. I don’t ever plan to put cheats into the game because there’s no way to verify the player is only using them for things like recovering from a crash or mistap. I’d rather not let players cheat generally as I suspect it will damage the experience of playing the game normally.