Level system is changing

I wanted to talk a bit about the level system and the progression in Maze of Ambition, as those are going to change a lot in Update 3.

The idea behind the current system was to allow your character to grow a lot in a single run, so you could just do a run and experience the whole growth. It would impact gameplay a lot too, offering you different, more powerful cards, alongside a more powerful passive.

Truth is, it becomes stale pretty quickly. Once you got through that initial level cap, replaying through it, it was just another game mechanic. There were not a lot of key growth points to strive for. Also, cards being split into many levels caused you to not care so much about your deck as it's going to get replaced pretty quickly, and each level only had so much to offer.

It's not the first card game I make, and I think card design is overall pretty good. That said, MoA was my first go at a roguelite, and it shows. I made mistakes, but I wanted to give it a go, see if people would like it. And they did. You did.
So now, I want to thank you for your trust and support by making the game better.

I'm reworking the level system entirely. Characters are still going to level up and grow bigger, but at a slower pace, with more, lesser-impact levels to jump to. That said, the growth is permanent. You can bring your new growth outside the maze and to your new runs, with more powerful starts, and have evoluting interactions with characters.
Card level will be gone as well. To accomodate for the change, you'll be able to gather long-term resources in the maze to upgrade cards and items into a more up-to-level version, and cards will also have different rarities, to still allow you to get access to more powerful cards as you progress through the maze. This should allow you to always be progressing, while having access to a more varied pool of cards at any point.

Hopefully, the plan is good for you. I don't intend on having a lot of bigger growth content for the next update, as applying those changes, making the existing growth more impactful, updating all cards, as well as inserting the story in all of that, is going to take a lot of time. That said, those are not the only changes coming to Update 3. This is a big one, and I've been working a lot on it already! I'll keep you updated!