WildFire
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About the game
You play as a fireplace that was abandoned at a campsite and try to protect yourself from the enchanted forest's wildlife that attacks in waves. After clearing each wave, you can choose 1 out of 3 random upgrades to further improve your abilities. How many rounds can you survive?
Warnings
To end a run press KFeatures
As of now (6th Dec 2023), the game features 102 upgrades and 13 enemies
Stuff to work on
- Rogue-lite transition: unlockables/upgradables outside each run
- Optimization
- Game balancing
- Sound FX
Next update Sneek Peek: More at Discord
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Development log
- v1.1.2 - Android version releaseDec 09, 2023
Comments
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I'm wondering, how do you access the skill tree on android?
That's enough. Very fun game!
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That's sick. Amazing job! How long did it take? Did you play on double speed?
Very fun and cute game!
The worms are the real menace here! 😆
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I got to 173. I got ALL the upgrades after I beat the red slimes. It ended up all white turtles. It ended up so I ended up healing so much they did absolutely no damage. It only ended because I clicked out of the screen, nothing had hit me since the orange slimes.
You should definitely try the experimental versions on discord! It's almost like a new game
Okay!
Fun game, though I think that if the enemies were a little less cute I would feel better about committing eco-genocide x)
This game is great! I love it. I do have a question for the more experienced players in the experimental version. What’s the best planet to upgrade to?
Thanks for playing! I dont think this version has the planet characters yet so some people might not know what you are referring to
Thanks for game. i Like it.
The gameplay is unique, and the mechanics around controlling fire are both challenging and rewarding. The art and atmosphere are stunning, making every moment feel tense and meaningful.
Dev, PLEASE MAKE AN UPDATE OF THIS GAME I BEG YOU I WILL SELL MY SOUL IF I HAVE TO PLEASE MAKE AN UPDATE
For anyone else playing the web version:
- Accuracy is device dependent: playing on my old tablet (Firefox for Android) the accuracy goes way down relative to playing on my desktop (Firefox for Linux).
- Also on the tablet, accuracy suffers while fast-forward is turned on. Maybe 30-50% of shots that land squarely fail to register. In combination with the accuracy difference, it's very possible to lose in the first 1-3 turns.
- Multicast doesn't appear to do anything, even with 100% multicast chance.
- Ice slow is far, far weaker than the description states.
The game is still beatable (at least on my desktop) if you're careful to avoid dud upgrades like the above, as well as Life Steal, Assassin, and Armor Shredding. Taking a bad upgrade is worse than missing out on a good upgrade, because it also worsens your future picks by putting clutter into the rotation. (Lifesteal would be fine if it capped at 15%/15%, it's removing the offensive upgrades that kills you.) (Armor Shredding is extremely good post level 60, it just doesn't help during the main game.)
I didnt know that accuracy is device dependent, maybe its just clicking accuracy as i dont see a reason why it would be different on other devices🤔 Multicast is useless though. Also ice is much better if you upgrade your health with it as it becomes stronger that way. Have you tried using dice cards more often?
- correction, multicast does work, it's just visually [maybe functionally? not 100% sure if it interacts with blue fire / burst shot] equivalent to having higher attack speed -- basically it's a worse attack speed upgrade until you hit about 6 shots/second.
- I may be mistaken on the shot accuracy thing -- it may have just been fast-forward mode causing shots to not register on slower devices.
- at least on the currently downloadable .apk version, the ice causes no noticeable reduction in movement speed even with 1750+ health (instead of the 60%+ slowdown listed).
- I didn't realize you could reroll upgrade options once each by clicking the circle-arrow under them; this helps immensely.
- at least on the currently downloadable .apk version, shots are centered on the bottom edge of each creature; this means with 100% accuracy, even at 19.75 shot speed, almost all shots will miss the red worms moving up from the bottom of the screen.
The splash screen explicitly says it's not designed for HTML + I assume all of this stuff is fixed in the development version; just posting so it won't drive anyone else nuts.
It seems like the downloadable version is buggy/glitchy 😶 I’ve had no problems in the web version at least. Also multi shot might work but even if it did there are better upgrades like burst shot or attack speed in the game. Also the ice glitch seems to be mixed, sometimes it doesn’t work but for me ice has worked fine (besides when it glitches on some enemies and doesn’t work at all but thats a whole different story). Also accuracy ≠ bullet speed, if you have max accuracy consider upgrading bullet speed to hit the red worms, or attack speed to fire more shots in general. TL:DR Every version seems to have its own bugs, the game is still in development after all
did you make the experimental version worse because when I go to it its the skill tree is different from the images above.
If you are stuck look at this guide:
I’ve 100% completed this game. Or altleast as much as you would need to. I’ve got pretty much every upgrade in the game and became an immortal god because of the vampire card. This is also based on the itch.io version as of May 2024, NOT the experimental version.
Here is my personal ranking of each card (I forgot the exact names):
Electric card: With high attack speed can shred through crowds of monsters early-mid game. Pairs well with cards that increase the amount of bullets like multi-shot or burst shot. Its quite literally free damage and i consider it to be the best early-game card.
Orbit card: Great for overall defense, which makes it great for early game and scales with bullet damage so a good add-on if you have a high speed build already. However it does have its glaring issues, mainly its low damage/the fact that when dealing with big slimes when they split, the smaller slimes can sneak into the circle. Because of this, it forces you to prepare counter measures like lava pool or ice. Great early game but even with upgrades becomes obsolete very soon in the face of red worms (Worst enemy in the game).
lava card: Completing for the best card in the game against vampire and electric, its great for both crowds and turtles. It also bypasses enemy armor and is viable mid-late game when upgraded. If i had to name any flaws with it, its the fact that you need to invest a large amount of upgrades into it, but besides that its one of the best cards in the game. It Pairs well with cards that allow more bullets like burst shot.
Armor shredder card: This one is a mixed bag. 10% of the time it gets rid of 10% of armor which sounds good until you realize you would need to hit 100 shots just to get rid of the armor, not even considering the health. It needs to be upgraded extensively which only makes it viable late game and at that point just get the assassin card which allows you to just bypass the armor itself with an extra bonus. This card just seems useless overall and is not something i would pick.
vampire card: This might be the best card in the game 0_0. Early game its good, mid game its amazing, and late game it makes you an immortal god, especially with high attack/bullet speed. Of course it pairs well with burst shot and multi-shot but honestly you could not spend a single upgrade on this card and it could still be extremely useful. If you are running a high bullet/attack speed build this is a must have.
Critical strike card: This is a also a mixed bag, but for a different reason. Its alrightish early-maybe-mid-game since you predictably need a lot of upgrades for it to be viable (btw 80% crit chance is insane) but under the right circumstances it can be an incredible damage dealer. But the reason im confused about it is because of the blue flame card which has the same effect and when fully upgraded actually prevents this card from working at all. Do not pair this with the blue flames and overall a decent add-on (And arguably better than the blue flames early game).
Multi-shot: Honestly haven’t used this card much but it seems pretty useless in the face of burst shot (like armor shredder). It might add-on some little extra damage early-mid game but by the time you have that maxed out late game you could’ve just used those upgrades on burst shot or blue flame.
Blue flame: As i mentioned it doesn’t work with critical strike but it still isn’t a bad card and might actually be better mid-late game. Yes the critical strike card does provide a higher damage boost but the blue flame allows for high consistent damage so this is a matter of preference.
Assassin card: Another great card. Allows you to pierce through armor (making armor shredder useless) and once the enemy’s health is low enough you can insta-kill. The armor piercing is already good enough but the insta-kill is the icing on the cake. This is basically a necessity mid-late game and you can think of it as a damage boosting card.
Ice card: I hate to say it, but this is another mixed bag. At first it seems like an amazing card; it slows enemies down (which also scales with max health), making it seem like the perfect card early-late game but it has one glaring issue. A glitch. Sometimes when effecting an enemy it somehow moves the same speed and ignores the slowing effect, which could easily end a run in the case of a turtle or red caterpillar. Still, it’s a great support card overall and i still wouldn’t ignore it, it’s just not a first pick.
Burst shot card: I know I’ve been hyping this one up, but for good reason. It allows you to fire multiple shots at once (to different enemy’s, unlike multi-shot) every 50 shots (bear with me there) and pairs insanely well with pretty much every effect card. Think about it, you can damage multiple enemy’s at once with 10 bullets of electricity or lava or even ice, which practically makes you unkillable mid-late game.
Honorable mention: Dice cards These are heavily underrated and are basically the key to getting past wave 30+. Their overhated because people dont like getting warm soup or armor on full health, but they ignore its obvious benefits like giving you more cards, allowing you to upgrade much faster. In early game it gives you a good foundation by giving you early accuracy and armor cards without having to waste rounds on them. Mid game it lets you upgrade your extra cards like lava or electricity much faster while also healing, and late game it can provide you with large buffs. Overall its one of the golden strategies to win, but in the end its up to you how you want to play, this is just some overwritten guide by someone with too much time on their hands. I’ll be surprised if anyone actually reads this lol.
TL:DR Vampire is op, Dice cards are op, orbit card is op, Burst shot is OP, become a minigun
Late game orbitals are still really good. The fact that they apply on hit effects is really good, it activates effects like vampire, statik, ice, and armor shred, and with 4 orbitals at 20 bullet speed it does so insanely fast. Btw, armor shred is absolutely good, as assassin doesn’t seem to fully bypass the endless turtles’ armor while as armor shred does. At max it gets rid of all armor after one hit, and it’s triggered by burst shot and statik, so it hits everything extremely quickly. Worst case, you take it after assassin’s armor pierce falls off and it gives you a very respectable damage boost after a little bit of scaling
I had almost forgot about orbitals applying on hit effects so they do scale with vampire, but to be honest I haven’t actually those on hit effects work with ice, static, and lava (I’ve used orbit quite a lot so maybe a glitch?). I still believe its a great card overall throughout the game, the point i was trying to make was that you just cant over rely on it. And you dont really need that much bullet speed for orbital to be OP, you can focus on adding orbs or just adding orbital damage and that works just as fine if not better (by the time you get max bullet speed its already late game and most things can tank that). By endless turtles i think you mean purple right? well at least in my experience if your already having a hard time killing the turtles that only makes assassin better as it kills them under a certain point (also for me it seem to bypass their armor for regular-red turtles). I will admit at max armor shredder does get rid of the armor but thats at max. of course its gonna be OP late game, the problem is that it takes a ridiculous amount of upgrades to get to that point and said upgrades are invaluable early-mid game. If you focus on armor shredding it will kill you early-mid game and i cant think of another card (besides maybe blue flame/crit?) that does that. Assassin on the other hand is good mid game, easy to upgrade, and also becomes OP late game. Once fully upgraded it becomes so OP that armor shredder is just obsolete. Since you are favoring late game in your comment; Armor shredder at least takes 1 shot to take off the armor of turtles and then you can attack. Meanwhile assassin can attack from the get go and insta-kills below half health. Although if your claim about it working with electric is true (I haven’t heard of that) then that might change things a bit late-game but early-mid game is a different story. It’s not hard to see which is the better card overall. Of course max Armor shredder with electric is better but there is no way you’re upgrading armor shredder to max and electric enough in a regular game without dying (which makes it only viable in endless mode). This is supposed to be a guide for beating the game not really for endless mode as you can just grab every upgrade at that point making a guide useless in the first place.
TL:DR Armor is still worse, orbit is still op
Correction, assassin armor pierce only gives incorrect amounts at earlier percentages, probably due to rounding if I had to guess. At 100% it goes through all armor, assassin is absolutely better. But as for orbital, I’ve had it do an amazing job at activating vampire ice and static. Lava, however, is an on land effect, meaning that it only activates with regular attacks, burst, multicast, etc. This is almost absolutely because of orbital, as otherwise it’d instantly form an impenetrable barrier of lava. The reason I focus so much on late game, though, is because I don’t tend to struggle with early/mid game, so long as I don’t get really unlucky with dice, but by all means that’s where orbital shines and armor shred sucks.
Stacking bullet speed is very valuable in the mid game though, as with high bullet speed, orbitals can make you effectively invincible with enough damage. So long as you target large slimes (or red caterpillars when necessary) before they reach your orbs, nothing can really get through it. Also bullet speed is just useful, as it causes you to lose less bullets when you switch targets and helps with red caterpillars which are otherwise too fast.
TBH I made the comment about orbital not knowing you could target enemies by clicking 😅. Orbital card is still overpowered for those reasons you listed above, i dont know if you thought i was trying to discredit it or anything, its still an amazing card by itself. The reason i say you dont need insane bullet speed to use orbital is that if you focus on adding small flames and damage its practically better than upgrading bullet speed. Its up to you personally whether you want to upgrade small flames themselves for them to be stronger or if you want to upgrade bullet speed (it’ll be weaker but better for you overall because of slimes and caterpillars). I’d say bullet speed is better to upgrade if your focusing on multiple cards, but if your focusing on orbital upgrade those corresponding cards first. Also you really shouldn’t run Armor shredder or assassin early game because those enemies dont really have armor (also i haven’t been effected by that assassin armor glitch) and assassin at lower percentages is still better than armor shredder at lower percentages.
Don’t get me wrong, the armor glitch isn’t significant in any way. It’s just that at 95% armor pierce you’re only piercing, like, 80%. And all I was doing with orbs was trying to give more examples of why it’s so good
The controls are hard for me 2 figure out, I miss most of my fireballs. T--T
there aren’t any, the game is automatic. You can increase your accuracy as you play
oh ty I thought it was my mouse being weird.
I thought the same thing lol. The only controls are clicking on enemies to target them and pressing k to end your run (die)
I didn’t know you could click on enemies 😗 So many deaths from red caterpillars could’ve been avoided 😭
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Sometimes when you switch tabs or scroll down you instantly die🥲
The enemies continue to move but you don’t continue to attack them while the game is off screen, from what I’ve gathered
When you have multi cast you can still get upgrades that increase the chance to multi cast
All of the abilities like multicast, burst shot, orbital flames, etc, have upgrades that you can get as you level so that they gain in strength
If you die or press K while the game is paused then you are softlocked.
Is there any chance you could post a link to the experimental version here?
found a glitch
This version is quite old so maybe it was already patched. You can try to replicate it in the newer version tho
salvador when will the new version release on itch io?
Great game had a lot of fun with the updates and survived a few rounds which was also really cool! I made a video to raise some more awareness of the game -
another thing, you really need to find a way to debuff the random arguments card that got me all that way
i have gotten so far in this game that i am on round 168 with all skills and it has gotten to a point where there will be a random +e at the end of my heal
you should definitely try the experimental versions, they are a tiny bit more challenging
When's the next update??? I'm loving this game so far and the next update looks great.
There are no official updates yet. However, you can join our discord to check out the experimental versions. The most recent one has a ton of new enemies, skills and even characters
NICE! Will do. Can I have the invite link?
https://discord.gg/nvmJcgpHEq
thx
guys how can i play if i got it downloaded?
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that suckkkks it a very fun game :(
The Android version is good, but there are not enough settings. Also, the game is very difficult if you do not have enough luck to obtain the required skills. I hope that you download the update for everything that you described in the description of the game. So far, I do not see anything wrong with a very small part of what you talked about.
Does This Game Have Sound Or Is It Just Silent?
No yet
i agree that at 100% accuracy i miss alot, i can think of two fixes, one being that the flame explosion lands on the enemy you are targeting 100% of the time or to increase the hit-box size of the targeted enemy. i think increasing the size of the targeted enemy's hit-box would also help with round one bc i remember a while ago i died round one due to bad accuracy. or just keep it how it is, this is just feedback.
this only happens when sped up btw
yo salvador, do you update this on itch ever. all the games i play on itch get abandoned
I can tell you that the game is not abandoned, however, new releases aren't being yet released on itch because they are purely experimental. If you want to try them they are completely free on the discord. Maybe the bug that you reported about accuracy is fixed already
wish I could, but I can't download games, I can only play on browser itch.io games. i'm sure you'll take it somewhere and fix the subtle bugs and balance. also cheat codes would be nice to test limits and just have fun.
There are web versions on the discord as well
good to know but my school chrome book has discord blocked.
I can send you the link details via email if you want
absolutely love this game
ps: you should really add some speed modes so the game runs faster
How much bullet speed do you have? Maybe the shots aren’t reaching the contact point fast enough. Could that be it?
I don't think that can be the case because it also increases the bullet speed, I try to keep it from 7x to more but even so, if it reaches 100% accuracy the Flame starts to make mistakes
uhh i don't think the multicast works. I got it up to a 30 percent chance and never got a double shot once. :/
The multicaster shots aren't different from the others, so maybe you aren't seeing them correctly or maybe its a bug indeed. Try the windows or android version and see if it works better. Might be a web problem
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I just got gold upgrades for the very first stage. All four were gold upgrades. Is that a record?
Yo salvador can you send me an invite to the server? The link isnt working for me. My discord is commentator_of_things
https://discord.gg/JRY9XreRVP Try this one
Discord links never work. Probably cause im on mobile. :/
I really like this game probably better than the experimental version, actually. I just have some things to suggest: For the frost fire, does it actually only slow down enemies for 1 second? (when it is not upgraded) because even right when you get the upgrade, the enemies are still encased in ice after 1 second, so could you make the ice go away after the certain amount of time?. Also, I have 2 ideas for new upgrades that you could add. 1. An upgrade to get bigger fireballs, so that they can hit more enemies at once, and possibly do more damage. Also: just an idea you could make it like when the fireballs are big enough, they create craters, like a meteor, they does more damage or maybe slows enemies down because they have to walk through it. 2. This upgrade would probably be really good, so I think you could make it one of the purple upgrades that appear on lvl 60. (it only appears on lvl 60). Hypnotism, so enemies can attack each other, and maybe they do like 20% of damage they would do to the wildfire.
Please consider my ideas! Also if you do add them in, can you also add them in this version? I play this one more so I'd prefer that. I know you said this version is like a year and a half old, so...
anyways, bye!
Hello thanks for playing and for the feedback! If the Ice is still remaining even after the duration it was supposed to last then its most likely a bug which was present in this v1.1. I saw that you said you preferes the version on this site (v1.1) more than the experimental (v1.4), could you elaborate on that thought so I can better understand why you like the earlier version more?
The experimental version is a lot harder, and I actually don't usually complete the whole tree because some of the upgrades I wouldn't use, like the plant one where I flower ponds? I think it is that but I forgot. and if I don't unlock them then I will have a better chance of getting the ones I want, (I like immolate and regeneration the most). Also, this version, it is more fun because I can go to like round 730 :) that was my high score before I had to restart my computer :( Maybe you can add a save option? Like a unique code for each game and you can save that in the menu option or something? Also the beavers in the experimental version make It really hard because they take so much of my max health and I have to defeat almost all of them every round, but like for the squirrels, I can let them leave the screen if my regeneration is upgraded enough, then their acorns won't do much.