Cleric Basics | Patreon Weekly #282

Hey Patrons, in this weekly I’m going to share some early implementation progress on the Cleric!

This weekly also includes an audio Q&A! You can find audio timestamps at the end of this weekly.

Cleric Basics

(keep in mind that everything here is a WIP. In particular the visuals shown here are unfinished, placeholder, or intentionally blurred)

Firstly, the Cleric’s base class features are all working in a slightly minimal way, they’re an option in hero select with all the detils you’d expect to see, admittedly with some placeholders. Here’s how that looks on mobile portrait:

and desktop:

The main interface that the Cleric uses to cast their spells is accessed through their holy tome item. There are still some refinements I need to make here but it’s completely functional. Here’s that WIP spell interface, and a description of each of the Cleric’s three starting spells.

And of course the Cleric also starts with four T1 talents! Implementation isn’t quite finished here, but I have added some initial images and descriptions. Here’s that initial talent interface, and the descriptions of the two talents I’m most confident about currently. One of them unlocks a new spell, the other empowers guiding light:

Audio Timestamps

This month there were 15 questions from 10 Patrons (I misspoke and said 11 Patrons in the recording!)

• 0:09 "my knight jumps to f7! which of your rooks shall you save?" - radiantchaos

• 0:42 "how was your day?" - Depresbian

• 2:24 "Any song/album/artist/genre/radio/etc recommendations?" - sickfreak666

• 3:59 "Will the crazy bandit ever get an updated journal entry? It currently has an identical description to the crazy thief, and afaik all other rare enemies have a description that gives more info as to how it is different to its common counterpart" - Joshuackiwi

• 4:52 "makin a dnd character for an upcoming campaign, thoughts? Extra context: Aaaasimar fighter, a high priest who went against their face, going on some quest to prove their allegiance. 1 i wanted to play a fighter and 2 i thought it would be cool to have their magic stripped and forced to prove themselves without it" - radiantchaos

• 5:51 "How much game development/programming experience did you have prior to working on shattered?" - OceanSmith

• 7:37 "do you eat your corn like a typewriter or do you twist it around?" - radiantchaos

• 8:17 "whats a hill you will die on?" - radiantchaos

• 10:15 "Who would win in a battle royal hunger games kind of situation among all the heroes?" - Veek

• 11:09 "Is there any game signifiance to the Duelist and Rouge being connected?" - #1 Cleric Enthusiast

• 11:57 "are you big shirt little pants energy or little shirt big pants energy?" - radiantchaos

• 12:35 "what's your favorite aspect of cleric to work on (i.e. the spells, the items, talents, maybe even the art (even though you might not be entirely directly working on the art, but I hope you understand what I mean)/lore)? " - MAXIBOB

• 14:31 "if you were to find a place safe from enemies, with everything necessary to survive, in the sewers: how long could you live there for before the magic seeping up starts to seriously affect you?" - Depresbian

• 16:19 "How are you planning to buff sniper in the next update?" - Zrp200

• 16:40 "You said you knew about bomb identification for quite a while. Are there any other exploits you are aware of?" - Block Vader