LIBERTY'S PROFILE

orz
the idea was to wait until the misao round-up was done before putting up this month's game, frogge

:shake fists:

:cries in spaghetti:

author=kentona
Time to make MFTs - makerscore fungible tokens

so we need to rename badges, is what I'm hearing?

So that "little while" was about... 6 years, but it got done! Go forth and date all the pacas, if you DARE! >:D

I have a few games that nevergotreleased used touch encounters. Usually I'd have a reward if they defeated all the enemies in the dungeon - which gave them a reason to hunt down those critters.

I also rarely had enemies chase the hero - they'd just be doing their own thing (chasing other enemies for noms, sleeping, guarding chests, etc). That way players could choose to engage or not, and usually did engage because it was their choice and not usually foistered apon them. If they can see a treasure chest, they're going to go through enemies to get to it. If the way forward demands they kill an enemy, they'll do so.

Another thing was to have invisible on-touch encounters and ambushes at set points so that there was only a set amount of encounters per dungeon.

There's also the idea of multiple paths forward with different encounters and treasures, so you encourage the player's curiosity of "what was in the other path" allowing for more areas to encounter enemies in - especially if you train them to expect rewards for checking. (If you don't put something worthwhile in another path then they won't bother checking after that point.)

A combination of reward and strategic placement, I think, is the best way to go about it.