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Miimuus Medicus | Patchnotes 2017.216

Patchnotes

minor fixes

minor polishing

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Miimuus Medicus | Patchnotes 2017.215

Patchnotes

Feature: Miimuu optical update reveal

number tweaking

minor fixes

Feature: Miimuu optical update reveal

Just in time for our release we managed to get the update of Miimuus into the game. Enjoy our fluffy little Miimuus and make sure to heal them all!

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Miimuus Medicus just launched! Build with love, true free-to-play & without ads.

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Miimuus Medicus | Patchnotes 2017.beta.207

Patchnotes

UX improvements

Bug fixes

UX improvements

You won’t need to long press the icon of an opened Circle menu any more to navigate to the Brew/Craft view of the selected item. You can now also directly long press the icon to go there. Cause all taps matter!

Bug fixes

Resolved an issue with the bubble animation for brewing Potions. It will now be cancelled as soon as you navigate out of its view.

Resolved an issue where the bubble animation could stop you from brewing further Potions.

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Miimuus Medicus | Patchnotes 2017.beta.206

Patchnotes

Performance improvements

Bug fixes

Performance improvements

We compressed all .png images used in Miimuus Medicus, resulting in ~5MB reduced file size. Furthermore we updated our core game engine, Phaser, to the latest version & also saved ~ 100kB there.

In total Miimuus Medicus will now perform even better than before with major optimization of file size, loading time & energy consumption.

Bug fixes

Resolved an issue, where the map content sometimes wasn’t rendered properly when starting a Jungle dungeon.

Resolved multiple issues with transitioning between Jungle & Cave dungeon maps.

Resolved an issue where Purple Shrooms sometimes were not set to the stock after Collection ended.

Resolved an issue with Fluffies added to the Achievement stock without spending them.

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Miimuus Medicus | Patchnotes 2017.beta.205

Patchnotes

Achievements!

Animations for Crafting Potions

Minor Bug fixes

Achievements!

You can now earn achievements for various activities in Miimuus Medicus. Some are pretty common and easy to achieve, others will be pretty hard to get for sure! Feel free to give it a try and report any issues you encounter.

Animations for Crafting Potions

We’ve added wobbly bubble animations for Crafting Potions.

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Miimuus Medicus | Patchnotes 2016.beta.202

Patchnotes

New feature: Disenchant all Quality stock

Updated InAppPurchase values & awarded items

Fixes

Minor performace tweaks

Disenchant all Quality stock

It’s now possible to Disenchant all stock of a selected Material Quality at once.

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Miimuus Medicus | Patchnotes 2016.beta.200

Patchnotes

New feature: Quick link

New feature: Gamble with Magical Dust

Loot chance has been completely removed. You’ll now get all Material you find in any Dungeon

Experience gained has been reworked, all activities will now award EXP

Experience curve got adjusted to fit the new amount of EXP gained

Fixes

Miimuus will now update properly after being healed

Lags in Caves have been removed

Quick link

If you don’t have any Stock of given Material you’ll now find a long tap / press indicator animation on the Material icon. Long tapping / pressing it will directly navigate you to the Combine screen of that Material to craft it. Furthermore we also added this mechanic to the list of all applicable Potions for the Healing Illness detail state. Long tapping / pressing it will here directly navigate you to to Potion crafting screen. That way we’re now saving 7 navigation steps. A small improvement :)

Gamble with Magical Dust

You can now directly craft a random Potion Quality with Magical Dust. You’ll pay more Magical Dust if you return Quality 1 or 2 but will save enormous amounts if you get anything above Quality 3. Gamble if you feel lucky!

Loot chance got removed

We reworked the dungeon settings state. You’ll now find all Material you gather during a dungeon run. The values for bonus time and experience gained have been adjusted accordingly.

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Miimuus Medicus | Patchnotes 2016.beta.188

Patchnotes

New Feature: Seasons

New Feature: Season Rewards

Completely redesigned Crafting

Miimuus are now more likely infected with all Illnesses cured by a single rare Potion (65% chance)

minor Bugfixes

minor number tuning

Seasons

You’ll have 5 days time to gather as much experience as possible. (Crafting, Collecting, Healing etc.) Besed on the level you reach you’ll get rewarded with a big stockpile of rare crafting Material, Fluffies and Purple Shrooms!

Changes to Crafting Potions

We completely reworked Crafting. It will now require as much Herbs as Ores and consume normal Material for normal Potions, normal and magical Material for magical Potions and magical and rare Material for rare Potions.

In addition Miimuus are now more likely infected with all Illnesses cured by a single rare Potion. (65% chance)

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Designing the User Experience for Crafting in Miimuus Medicus

Miimuus Medicus is an adventure game set on a mysterious faraway island. As the Medicus of your tribe of fluffy little Miimuus you collect Material in randomly generated dungeons, craft mighty Potions & heal your sick tribe mates from dangerous Illness.

The Game Mechanic

The Player needs to collect Material in randomly generated dungeons. All Potions can be crafted by Combining 3 different base Materials. To generate a positive User Experience here, we enabled Disenchanting for individual Material.

We want to avoid high frustration for users who certainly have no desire to play 20 dungeons at a time, only to find the last still needed Material. (It might help to cling to the hope that the RNG gods have mercy, though.) Should there be Players, however, who want to do so, we won’t put any obstacles in their way to go on the prowl as often as they like.

Those who can't wait that long, have the opportunity to use the Disenchant feature. Raw Material can be disenchanted into Magical Dust. The Player will then be able to Combine the necessary, not yet found Materials from that.

Material Information

In Miimuus Medicus there are 3 different Material Rarity (R) types:

Common (60%)

Magical (30%)

Rare (10%)

Additionally each Material comes in 7 different Quality (Q) types starting at Quality 1 and peaking at Quality 7 at higher dungeon levels as the Player progresses.

Since linearity quickly leads to boredom for Players we use a small Diminishing Returns algorithm for Crafting in Miimuus Medicus. It increases the Cost of Combining new Material with progressing Quality and Rarity levels.

Numbers, please!

The Cost to Combine a Material of given Quality (Q) and Rarity (R):

Q * ( R * 3 - ( R - 1 ) ) - ( Q - 1 )

The Yield of Enchanting a Material of given Quality (Q) and Rarity (R):

Q * R

These two simple formulas generate the following output:

Results (actually quite techy)

The creation of the next Quality level always costs at least 1 Magical Dust less than the most favorable possible combination of Disenchanting lower Quality levels of that Material yields.

The Player gets rewarded for Combining the exactly needed Quality levels of a Material.

The Combination of a Quality X Material costs exactly as much Magical Dust as the Disenchanting of 2 (QX - 1) + 1 (Q1) Materials yields on the same Rarity level.

The user gets rewarded for Disenchanting higher Quality levels, without being disadvantaged at lower levels.

Additionally, it always costs exactly 1 Magical Dust more to Combine a Material than being recovered by Disenchanting 2 Materials of the same Quality and Rarity.

The Player always needs to Disenchant 3 Materials to Combine an equivalent Material from the resulting Magical Dust.

The benefit of the additional Magical Dust income increases exponentially.

Win Win Win, without disadvantages to User Experience.

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Miimuus Medicus | Closed Beta Patchnotes 2016.0.beta.180

Patchnotes:

Removed custom loader & added splashscreen handler, improving loading time by ~40%

New feature: Healing Miimuus

New feature: Tutorial

New feature: Total Material count

New feature: Material Quality count

Modified data generation bolts for better gameplay

Added new sound effects

Added new translations

Increased loot spawn of magical Material by 10%

Increased loot spawn of rare Material by 5%

Healing Miimuus

You can now heal Miimuus. There are always at least 5 Miimuus waiting for being healed. At the Miimuus detail section you can choose to heal a Miimuu by using a Purple Shroom, directly healing all illness, or to heal illness one by one using your crafted Potions. The Tutorial will guide you here the first time you enter that section of the game.

Tutorial

Once you come to enter a section or key functionality of Miimuus Medicus for the very first time a short Tutorial will show up explaining the key functionality of that section or giving some additional advice.

Read carefully, there is no option to reset the Tutorial progress for now.

Total Material count & Material Quality count

At every place a combined Quality value is shown a small icon now indicates, that this is a combined Quality value. (Stock values of all 7 different Quality levels)

Additionally, if you come to craft a Flask, all ingredient Material will now be displayed as total Material count and not as Quality 1 preselected anymore. You need to manually open the Quality circle menu for given Material to set its Quality.

Entering a Quality circle menu will now additionally display stock information of each Quality level. You can directly see the Quality levels of your collected Material.

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UI Update

We just added subtle apply animations to the ‘Start new dungeon’ screen. Furthermore you can now see how much time you’ll get to clear a dungeon and the chance to loot items in it. You can now also reset an option by tapping it, once you selected it.

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Miimuus Medicus | Closed Beta Patchnotes 2016.0.beta.167

Patchnotes

New Feature: “Brew Potions”

New Feature: “Ingredients”

New section transition animations for “Table of Potions”

Minor text & translation fixes

Added & refined tracking events

New screen transition animation

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Miimuus Medicus | Closed Beta Patchnotes 2016.0.beta.162

Patchnotes

Statusbar overlay issue on Samsung devices fixed

screens will get rerendered and calculated after App resume

minor UI updates

minor bug fixes

performance optimization

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Miimuus Medicus | Closed Beta Patchnotes 2016.0.beta.161

Patchnotes

Feature “Dashboard”

Feature “Create Level”

Feature “Settings”

Feature “Collect Material”

Feature “Shop”

Feature “Storage”

Feature “Combine Material”

Feature “Disenchant Material”

Feature “Table of Potions”

All data that is generated, manipulated and saved during a session will be reset each time you start the app.

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Miimuus Medicus | Closed Beta Patchnotes 2016.0.beta.150

Patchnotes

All data that is generated, manipulated and saved during a session will be reset each time you start the app.

On initially starting the app it tries to read the users default language setting and, if successful, sets it accordingly.

Added sound effects for all user interactions.

Further reduced app size by optimizing images & scripts.

Polishing

Reach

As we’re now up to 100 Twitter followers, we’ll now add more accounts to be flagged for the first round of Miimuus Medicus Closed Beta. We’re currently running the final polishing actions for the build to be released as Closed Beta later in July.

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Miimuus Medicus | Closed Beta Patchnotes 2016.0.beta.147

Closed Beta Signup is now open!

If you want to be one of the first to play Miimuus Medicus in the world, just sign up to our Closed Beta list. With some luck we’ll flag your account. We plan on increasing the number of flagged accounts with each new Beta release, so stay tuned, you’ll surely make it in.

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Viewport handler

It might occur, that Miimuus Medicus is not yet supporting your device. We optimized it for the most common dp viewport, which is 640 by 360 dp. The other common viewports will be implemented shortly and included to the upcoming beta builds.

The Home screen

The home screen of the app is now implemented. You can directly access all three major game functionality: Collect, Heal and Craft. Healing and Crafting flasks as well as Info/About and Achievements is not yet enabled at this Beta build and need further improvement.

Collection, added bonus modifiers

On entering a new randomly generated dungeon from Collect, you now have the possibility to add some modifiers to the new dungeon. you can add more time and a better chance on successfully gathering material. Both will cost you a small amount of Fluffies (Coins). Both, costs and rewards will increase with dungeon and player level.

Crafting, select material quality

For crafting we added the quality selection for Craft material and Separate material. If you tap the selected material the quality selection circle pops up. You can now select the quality you want to set for this material.

Settings

With this build we also introduced Settings. You’re now able to set the ambient music and sound effect volume and change your active language for the app. On the initial boot of the app, it will check automatically for a preferred language setting and set that for the app. If this check fails, the app defaults to English. You can change your preferred language for Miimuus Medicus whenever you like.