3rd pvp round is 852 and seems quite difficult
Show HN: Number Gacha, a gacha game distilled to its essence
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#12Having never played gacha games but getting a good laugh out of this, is this really a thing people play? How different is the real gameplay?
Generally speaking I think the allure of modern-day gachas is providing a near-premier gaming experience (like paid RPGs, open-world games, etc.) while being free-to-play, at the cost of slowly encouraging you to spend a lot of time and/or money to get better characters in order to actually keep up with the end-game content and/or PvP side of the game.
If you commit to playing the gacha for an extended period of time, the system of:
- daily rewards that encourages you to play for a couple minutes each day to get enough currency to get good characters from the gacha
- newer characters being better than older ones (in visual design appeal and/or power-level)
- harder end-game content requiring better rosters of characters (or more grind)
- sales on the premium currency used to pull
- the ol' sunk-cost fallacy
all combine to encourage players to spend money over time
In this regard, the game in the post obviously does not have the scope of a game that actually costs money, and doesn't have the goal of getting you to spend money, but it does cover the grind and gacha part of pulling for different rarity characters and such.
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#13Very fun! There seems to be an exception when using the 10-roll function that might need some attention.
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#14Having never played gacha games but getting a good laugh out of this, is this really a thing people play? How different is the real gameplay?
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#15This is so silly, but I’m really enjoying it lol. If you wanted to add some extra juice, haptic feedback on the rolls would be super cool!
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#16It's not a gacha essence unless there are numbers with increasingly sexy designs.
Stupid, sexy integers
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#17Pulled a 100, A tier for PVE but still holding out for a 69 and a 42.
Don’t let your dreams be memes. Spend spend spend
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#18Having never played gacha games but getting a good laugh out of this, is this really a thing people play? How different is the real gameplay?
No, this is nothing like a real gacha game at all. Gacha games have a wide variety of mechanics, and can have significant depth to them. Trading card games were the original gacha games, and those have entire competitive scenes with tournaments, etc. (Magic the Gathering, Yugioh, Pokemon TCG). Digital gacha games are similar. In a real gacha game you aren't rolling for a static number, you're rolling for a package of numbers and modifiers and mechanics that feed into a complicated combat system, and there's tons of strategizing around how you combine different packages of numbers together in deckbuilding/teambuilding, plus the decision-making in the battles themselves.
Gacha is really just a monetization approach. The mechanics that accompany it are the real draw, and you can have card games, RPGs, tactics games, action games, etc.
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#19Love this! I wanna make parody games of all the game genres I don't like now, just to tease.
This game is inspiring. And reinforces my previous view that gacha is a silly genre.
Yet somehow addictive. What a let down it was when I finally managed to unlock the best number, 69, and it was just another number like the rest of them, because what else would it be?
There are layers to this parody. Love it!
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#20This is really clever and one of those projects that strikes the delicate balance of “I could’ve done this” and “actually no.” When I look more closely, the details (which I wouldn’t have nailed) sell it. The slow down as it lands on a number, the way it displays, etc.
It really does distill the whole experience down. It’s so reductive yet somehow it makes me want to keep playing. Honestly the more I think about it the more impressive it is.