October 2024 Progress Report

Hey everyone!

First thing’s first, I want to apologize. We don’t have a build for Santa Lucia or Homecoming prepped yet! ^^’

However, I did manage to put together a small test demo for the battle system I have in mind for The Book of Annwyn. I’ll be attaching that to this post so you guys can check it out and give me feedback on it. It’s definitely rough, but I’m interested to know if it’s even “fun” or if I should try taking the system in another direction. Also worth noting that literally everything in it is WIP, and it’s probably the roughest “finished” piece I’ve ever put out, so bear with it’s quirks please! (It's also only available for Windows at the moment, sorry!)

No, the sprites and character designs aren’t final, I know I shouldn’t have to state this but it’s better to put it out there just to be sure.

On the art side of things, Dev has crunched like a madman this month getting the rest of the Homecoming side cast sprites done. He’s in the final stretch, then we’ll finally be comfortable getting the next build of Homecoming out. The goal was to bring the quality of the game up to a higher standard, finally getting rid of all the gray silhouette placeholder sprites that have been plaguing the game for years now. I’m also attaching a few samples to show off his work so far. I know it feels like I keep stringing you guys on when it comes to the Homecoming update but we’re seriously coming up on the final stretch, haha!

Finally, we’ve partnered with a few of our developer friends the past couple months. We have a spooky season themed collaboration project we’re working on together that we’re going to try to have ready sometime before December. This is our first time doing something on this level, so we’re pretty excited to see where this goes! A little diversity in our portfolio never hurts either, hehehe…

Anyway, that’s all I have this month. Again, I’d really appreciate any feedback you have to offer on The Book of Annwyn’s battle system test. It’s not the most glamorous of releases, but I wanted to make sure I had something tangible for you guys to interact with this month. I also included a screenshot with my recommended keybinds. If you find the game a bit odd to control, I'd highly recommend going into the options to change the keybinds.

Cheers!

~Dzahn

The Book of Annwyn battle test (Windows only):

https://mega.nz/file/HQVjEKaK#P9Kf5uuL0bZzfUNt3wKBuWNSyh14QcAiytJ2o12T3Xg