Sesalia

December 2021 Devlog

Added 2021-12-20 15:06:58 +0000 UTC

Dear players, we will soon be celebrating Christmas and New Years!

On the eve of the holidays, we would like to share with you some news and plans for the coming year and also sum up the results of the outgoing one.

Let's start with the 2021 results.

This year turned out to be very productive for us, although in the first months the development slowed down a little. It was due to some personal reasons that were successfully overcome.

In the second half of the year, we have already tried to please you with updates more regularly.

Now we have made it a rule to release a new update at the beginning of each new month. And we're going to stick to that rule next year.

By the way, you may have noticed that now the word 'we' is used much more often than before. In 2021, we have expanded our team and now the game is being developed by more than one person, as it was before. For example, this devlog is written to you by someone whom the members of our Discord know under the nickname Zahar (greetings guys!).

Now let's talk about the plans for the next year, which became available to us with the expansion of our development team.

1. As already noted, you will now regularly see a new game update at the beginning of each month;

2. On the 20th of every month there will be a devlog like this (there will be some news, plans, announcements of upcoming updates, etc.);

3. We liked to conduct polls among our players regarding the future development of the game. We did it a couple of times this year and will continue next year;

4. In early 2022, we will completely move to a new game engine (more on that below). This will undoubtedly make our game more convenient for both developers and players;

5. Next year you have to finally see all the sorceresses who are now looking at you from the header of our patreon page: follow the news on patreon and in our discord: https://discord.com/invite/Xd4f5Wz

A few words about the upcoming update (the last one on the old game engine):

The update will be released in early January. This will be the last part of Cassandra and Lisanna's backstory. We'll tell you what led them to the forest in which the platforming gameplay takes place.

And do not worry. This will be the last story update for at least the next 3 months.

We ask you to excuse us for the fact that the last few updates did not contain gameplay innovations. This was due to the transfer of the project to the new game engine and technical difficulties related to that. We tried to avoid doing the same job twice, so as not to duplicate the same mechanisms on the old and new engines.

And now it's finally time to talk about how the game will look on the new engine and what will change.

We are transferring the entire project to Unity. This is a modern game engine that will allow us to be much more free in choosing ways of further development of the game.

The old engine was once chosen for its simplicity, but today it can barely handle the current version of the game. It is impossible to use it further.

We have been working on porting and improving Ero-Gen for several months now, and in January we will present it to you with a completely redesigned appearance and game interface.

From the player's point of view, the gameplay will be very similar to the one you know before, but it will be much better optimized and the game will have fewer bugs and all kinds of inaccuracies.

We are also working on some balance tweaks that have looked relevant for a long time, especially in the very first part of the game, where the battle with Zahar takes place.

For objective reasons, we cannot release all the content that is now exist in the current version of the game on the new engine at once. It will take us a couple more months to fully port all existing content.

However, we are confident that it will be worth it, and you will love the result of our efforts. In addition, now several people are working on the game, each of whom has specific tasks. This means that the further development of the plot and the creation of new characters will not be stopped for the sake of transferring the game to a new platform.