Had a bit of a breakthrough on the battle system today. It's a pretty simple system, based on a RPS mechanic, but after watching several reviews of other iPhone games and seeing the ones that get the best reviews, it's clear that I was lacking something in the battle system.
All good battle systems for casual games have a sense of progression. (Scrap that: all good games in general have a progressive battle system.) The problem I had with my battle system is that it didn't have any easy to implement progression that added small changes to the battle system. I had toyed with having some skill-based mechanics (ie. hand-eye coordination required mechanics) in each of the battle, but I decided a) that's lame b) everyone else has really beat that particular horse to death and c) this game is story, strategy and decision based. I don't want to throw in random crap like hit all the right buttons and get a grand slam kinda thing.
The main issue I'm facing now is how much health to give each character. Do I give each character in battle their own health bar, or do I have one energy bar for the whole team? I'm really tempted to use a team energy bar, but maybe that's too restricting.
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