v0.9.3 Planning | Patreon Weekly #89

Hey Patrons!

The beta for v0.9.2 went live just a couple days ago! You can check out the public blog for it Here.

Also, I’ve got an obligation this Saturday and so cannot do a Q&A livestream this week, I’m moving it to Saturday of next week instead.

As for the rest of this weekly I’ve got the results for the latest poll and an overview of what I’m currently planning for v0.9.3.

Starting Containers Poll

Poll #14 ended late week, and it was close! The public vote total, which includes silver supporters, was 47 to 53. Reducing that to just Golden+ patrons puts the vote at exactly 50/50. Finally, giving out double votes to Shattered Supporters gives us a final vote total of:
Velvet Pouch:               55%
Existing Containers: 45%

I do want these polls to be binding, and so I do plan to make the change, but it feels a bit unfortunate that there wasn’t more support behind the winning option. In future I might try to think up more options for these types of polls instead of a simple yes/no, so that a potential middle ground option might be picked that makes more people happy.

The Plan for v0.9.3

Now that v0.9.2 is in beta and releasing soon, it’s time to consider what might come in the next update! I don’t have a solid plan for everything yet, but here’s a list of items that I feel are very likely to be worked on in v0.9.3:

• Obviously, v0.9.3 will include tier four talents. The current plan is that these talents will be focused on interacting with hero armor abilities after the Dwarf King fight. I’m excited to give the player a bit more gameplay development at this stage of the game, where builds are usually pretty locked in. In particular, I’m going to experiment with each hero having multiple different possible abilities, and the player getting to choose one via the talent system.
• Just as in previous updates, I’m also going to be keeping an eye on the balance of the previous talent tiers and making adjustments there if needed.
• Tengu’s Mask didn’t quite make it into v0.9.2. I might like to see if there’s time for me to that that, plus DK’s Crown and the waterflask changes into v0.9.3.
• As v0.9.3 will be focused around the lategame, I might also take the opportunity to expand the demon halls a little bit too. A quest will have to wait until later, but I might add a few new room types or a new enemy.
• I’m also starting work on getting Shattered running on other platforms as well! There won’t be any visible changes for this in v0.9.3, but I plan to do some behind the scenes technical work on it while developing this update.