Tamer Vale [v1.7.1] [Completed]

Tamer Vale is a turn based card battler, where a collective of elven heroines, known as Tamers, journey forth beyond the safety of their hidden valley to find and confront the sources of corruption in the land, and bring balance to it using their special rituals!

The Elves of the glade are armed with unique skills and abilities. They will meet and subdue a wide range of foes, some of which are immensely powerful and can only be truly defeated by the Tamers secretive rituals!

The Tamers will need your help to guide them past the Gloomward and forests edge as they encounter the source of the demonic influences disrupting balance across their Glades.

Help them choose the way forward, manage their abilities, skills and rituals to keep the demons at bay!
Key Features:

• Build and manage your card deck through selection, upgrades, and removal.
• Enjoy over 150 diverse cards supporting various playstyles and strategies.
• Conquer 3 maps filled with unique enemies and challenging bosses.
• Experience 19 beautifully handcrafted pixel art animations depicting the elves and their encounters.
• Immerse in visually nostalgic retro-style pixel graphics, entirely hand-drawn and animated.
• Indulge in a musical score inspired by classic fantasy RPGs.
• Explore a vast array of content crafted with love and care by a small indie team of 2 people.

v1.7

New feature and content
New conversation exchanges are added when our heroines visit Caelia’s shop. Witness the blossoming of their relationships over time! As their bonds mature, unlock not only animations but also special new cards and achievements.

To sum it up, this update introduces

• 3 sets of new animated scenes
• 3 sets of stories
• 3 cards
• 3 new achievements

Other update

• The special skill Elvish Fortune will no longer draw herb cards when playing as Dusk, increasing the chance of obtaining valuable cards.
• The card Sleight of Hand will now be consumed after use.
• The card Pocket Watch will no longer break Dusk’s Hidden status.
• In the shop, there will be a price drop when upgrading cards and removing cards for the first time.
• Spirits summoned by Elaria (especially Welp) now have larger hit boxes, making it easier to drop a card on them.

Happy taming!

v1.6

Dusk Update

• New cards x 5
  • Stealth Slash and Stealth Shot – new attack cards, using these cards when Hidden deal extra damage
  • Opportunity and Golden Opportunity – new heavy-hitting cards that come at a relatively low cost. However, they introduce a new “Use or Lose” condition: If you draw one into your hand and don’t use it by the end of your turn, it will be removed from the current battle
  • Hasty Retreat: new card with Hidden ability with with 0 cost, but the next turn will start with 1 less energy
• Anxiety debuff
  • When dodging an enemy’s special attack, Dusk will now receive 4 Anxiety. Dodging normal attacks still results in 2 Anxiety
  • When emerging from Hidden, Anxiety will no longer be removed. Instead, it will halve every turn as a regular debuff
• Sleight of Hand can only upgrade to +1. +1 version updated to 0 cost and draw 2 cards
• Poison bomb rarity increased
• Hidden Pocket rarity increased
• All smoke bomb strengthened
• Sneaky Surprise rarity increase, +1 +2 version slightly weakened
• For all Shot and Slash cards, attack increased for +1 and +2 version
• Scaring Shot and Scaring Slash deal more feeble
• Crowdfunding can steal more coins, but it comes with consume

Shop

• Everytime you pay to upgrade/remove a card, the upgrade/remove price will increase for the rest of the journey
• Price for pre-upgraded card slightly decreased
• Pre-upgraded cards will appear earlier in the shop during a journey

Battle reward

• Pre-upgraded cards will start appearing slightly sooner in your journey as battle reward
• More coins reward for winning elite battles
• More coins reward for defeating Treasure Fae
• Higher score given for winning elite and boss battles
• Slightly more coins for skipping reward cards in elite and boss battles

Enemies/ Battle level

• Attack of a few enemies in map 2 and 3 slightly weakened
• Sundering wisp will do a low damage pierce attack as its basic action
• Map 2 and 3 has a higher chance to generate paths with less elite battles
• First battle encountering Skeletal Wyvern become easier
• Skeletal Lancer’s special skill will give 1 less Freeze card but hit slightly harder
• Skeletal Footman takes 1 more turn to charge special skill
• Rearranged enemies combination in levels so less enemy cards will be given in a single turn
• The Demonic Commander now gives a reduced ‘spike’ buff to its minions. Additionally, minion combinations have been updated for better difficulty balance
• The battle speed for both ‘slow’ and ‘normal’ modes has been increased
• Easy mode become a bit easier

Others

• When watching animations in the gallery, you can toggle the foreground leaves on and off
• More resolution options added
• Wording polish on a few cards
• Lower coins reward in upgrade node when you already have full HP and all cards already at max level
• Alchemist card art update to communicate its effect more clearly

Bug fix

• Starting cards popup in character selection screen can no longer be click through
• Final score display bug fixed
• Map popup visual bug fixed
• Overlapping victory and defeated message bug fixed

v1.2
Fixed the Unity exporting issues for Windows
(The boss in map 3 was slacking off somewhere in the pervious export!!)

v1.1

• Bug fix – Spirit’s crosshair visual bug
• UX/UI improvement – more noticable auto save message in map
• Shop price adjustment
• Difficulty adjustment

v1.00
Initial Release