Hero Generations - Heart Shaped Games LLC

**Killswitch** · 3 Weeks Ago

This thread is for the discussion of Hero Generations. Note to the developers, if you wish to take ownership of this thread, please let me know.

An innovative roguelike/4X strategy game about life, legacy & love from the creator of Highgrounds. Praised as "the offspring of Sid Meier's Civilization, Jason Rohrer's Passage, and The Legend of Zelda."

In Hero Generations, each step you take is an entire year of your hero's life. You explore a procedurally generated world in search of fame and a mate to have a child with before you die. After your life ends, you take control of your child in the world you left behind, in the hope of continuing your family legacy. Each turn becomes a meaningful life decision: you can focus on building and crafting the world around you, or adventuring to far off lands to make a bigger name for yourself.

Key Features
- Limited Lifespan and Permadeath: Each turn your hero takes = 1 year of their life.

- Generations, Mating, and Having Children: find a mate, start a family, have a child. Then take control of that child in that same world!

- 6 Strategic Paths and Meaningful Choices: grow in Strength, Exploration, Love, Wealth, Fame, and Wisdom.

- City Crafting System: build great towns and morph their cultures.
Expansive Overworld: explore a 3x3 connected grid of world, each with their own unique tileset (Volcano, Desert, Island, to name a few)

- Meaning: a surprising and thought-provoking experience, that explores themes of death, legacy, family, love, and more.

**takedownmak** · 3 Weeks Ago

i really like the game so far its simple yet complex. so glad to have a game like this on OUYA.
my only complaint is that the game seems to be to far zoomed out it does not look like the pics on the store
so it makes everything look way to small IMO. but i still think the game is worth it

**sbrodie** · 3 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by takedownmak

i really like the game so far its simple yet complex. so glad to have a game like this on OUYA.
my only complaint is that the game seems to be to far zoomed out it does not look like the pics on the store
so it makes everything look way to small IMO. but i still think the game is worth it

Hi! Thanks so much for checking the game out. Over the next week i'll be making a number of improvements to the game, including increasing the text size of certain elements. The game tile size itself unfortunately was not build to scale up, so that size will stay the same. But I'm planning to do all I can to make it a better "10 foot" experience in the next update.

Let me know if you have any other feedback on the game! You can also follow me on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/brodiegames) for regular updates.

**takedownmak** · 2 Weeks Ago

thx thats great to here.

**anatomality** · 2 Weeks Ago

I bought this... And as it is, I regret it. Sorry

. The game is so zoomed out that the text is barely legible, I can hardly see what's going on and more than half the screen is just a blank solid color. It didn't look anything like this in the pictures or video. I'll give it another try tomorrow, maybe I'm just having a bad day... I really like the concept of the game, looking forward to seeing the improvements you are going to make.

**sbrodie** · 2 Weeks Ago

@anatomality - I'm working to address a few issues by the end of this week:

1. overall performance - hoping to increase the speed of turns and framerate.
2. forced return to main menu after extended play due to graphics memory overrun.
3. Adding additional borders / graphical polish to the white space on sideview and map screen in 1080p.
4. Increasing text size of critical text elements.

The issue are a hazard of my engine and low dev experience, but I'm hoping to get the game in shape for you soon. Apologies for the bad experience.

**Eldon.McGuinness** · 2 Weeks Ago

Glad to hear you are working to polish the game! I personally can not wait for it, in the off chance that you need a beta tester you can count me in! Contact information can be found in my signature.

**anatomality** · 2 Weeks Ago

Thanks, I'll try to hold off until then, I realize that I can't just make demands on devs... Looking forward to it, from what I saw it's a very clever game design.

**RiotingSpectre** · 2 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by anatomality

Thanks, I'll try to hold off until then, I realize that I can't just make demands on devs... Looking forward to it, from what I saw it's a very clever game design.

Your interpretation of demand is odd. Relax, anatomality. Your previous post was fine. Constructive criticism and respectful to boot.