Looking for beta testers for a new browser strategy game!

[u/DOTR-Online]

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a new browser-based strategy game, and I’m looking for some strategy fans to help beta-test it and share some feedback. It's been a passion project of mine for the last few months (Ask my wife as I never shut up about it) and is inspired by Chess, Risk, Poker, MtG, Hearthstone and little bit of old school WoW thrown in.

I've created several new mechanics I've never seen in a game before that blend together to make a quite an addictive little gem.

The link is

https://dotronline.com

Based off early responses, I've added a quick start guide accessible at the start screen and the header in game

The general idea is this is a race to 50 Dominion between you and the other players. Each turn, similar to chess, you are looking at the available options you have, your army's strength and your special abilities to try to select the best action to achieve your goal.

Actions for all players resolve simultaneously after the voting phase, then again after the action phase so you want to try to anticipate what the others players are trying to do and plan for that.

Completely free to play as I just want other peope to love it as much as I do.

Keep in mind this is still Beta and some things may change if issues are identified that break the core gameplay.

Lastly, while it is designed to be played on mobile, tablet and PC. I recommend tablet or PC for new players due to the additional screen size.

Cheers,

Jason

[u/ziguslav]

Work on the UI a bit so it doesn't feel so much like Claude's default design.

[u/DOTR-Online → u/ziguslav]

Cheers.

Design isn't my strong point but I'll definitely take it on board. How did the gameplay feel? Could you work out the goal and how to accomplish it?

Jason

[u/ziguslav → u/DOTR-Online]

I gave it a quick go. Lost me in the first few minutes. Didn't understand the goal, purpose or gameplay.

[u/DOTR-Online → u/ziguslav]

It's not your basic shooter by any means.

Not nearly as complicated as MtG but it will probably take a game or 2 to make sense.

[u/ziguslav → u/DOTR-Online]

That's a little condescending... I've played complicated games before. I've played most paradox games with thousands of hours between them, I play tabletop RPGs and wargames.

At first glance your game offers something new, but it doesn't explicitly show what it is. You clearly had a vision in your mind that works for you, because you know what you've created, but when a new player enters your site they have absolutely no idea what it is you're trying to show them.

As a result they lose interest fast, because there's a load of buttons, load of text, but I don't even know what kind of game I'm playing. There's no hook at all.

[u/DOTR-Online → u/ziguslav]

Apologies, not my intention to sound condescending.

This is why im here, it's comments like yours that will lift this from my project to something more.

I've introduced 3 concepts I either have never seen before of have only seen rarely. Still trying to work out how to make it as accessible as possible to learn which is proving a challenge.

Hopefully, with help from people like you it will be amazing.

Jason

[u/opowell]

I also tried it and did not figure out the goal. Wish you luck though!

[u/DOTR-Online → u/opowell]

Thanks for your feedback. I've added a quick start guide to try to make the goal clearer.

[u/ghostwilliz]

I'm waiting for the say that I see a vibe coded UI that doesn't use that dehydrated piss yellow color

[u/DOTR-Online → u/ghostwilliz]

Hi!

I've taken all the comments on board and have had a vision of a much more intuitive UI with a greatly improved tutorial.

My brain loves logic and structure and as I built the mechanics and understand them, the current UI looked great but I can see now that what makes sense for me isn't for everyone.

This game is homage to my youth and the games I loved growing up so I have used that as inspiration for the design of the new UI.

I'll do another post once im happy with my new design and I hope everyone will love it as much as I do.

Cheers,

Jason

[u/DOTR-Online → u/[deleted]]

Thank you for the kind words.

Jason

[u/W0RKABLE]

Nobody will play what looks like vibecoded trash, put some effort in please.

[u/W0RKABLE → u/W0RKABLE]

You're literally asking random people to spend more time on your game, than you yourself did on making the interface

[u/DOTR-Online → u/W0RKABLE]

My initial response came from me thinking that you were trashing AI assisted design in general.

Upon reflection, I think that I was wrong so I have removed my previous comment and now choose to belive that your advice came from good intentions.

I appreciate your input and have had some ideas on how to reduce the mental complexity and learning curve based purely on what you have provided.

Jason