Thistlemine Bouquet
Translations are about 95% finished. Might be done this month, I don't know. Once everything is cleared out, there's JP playtesting, further bugfixing, and the eventual release. Not much else to say.
I've been entertaining the idea of porting Graveyard's dialogue, choice, and battle UI to Bouquet. I may do so in a future post-release update.
Thistlemine Graveyard
The past month has largely consisted of p...
2024-02-01 12:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Thistlemine Bouquet:
- It's still being held hostage by the local translator
- Translation is 70% done, currently stopped at Astr Glass Eyes
- Because that section is an actual nightmare
Thistlemine Graveyard:
- Covey / Fragment Economy ready, BALANCED
- Tower Stress / Maintenance Economy added, ready, BALANCED
- Logistics Economy ready, not balanced
- Weather Phenomenons integrated, not balanced
- Variable schedule menu and Weat...
The prototype for Thistlemine Graveyard is ready to be played.
Current features:
- A full-length prototype build of the first scenario
- Mildred's Fragment Economy and Portier's Logistics Economy is functional
- Miasma, Stalker, and Tower modifiers are present
- Combat sequences mostly laid out
- Two major region-wide logistical "boss battle" events
Number of early testers consumed by the Graveyard: 7.
Good luck.
2023-11-02 16:37:07 +0000 UTC View PostMajor changes:
- 90% of Glass Eye descriptions have been rewritten, alongside some dialogue
- The Black Watch Rift has been added
Minor fixes:
- Changed some of Yselle's skill priorities to allow her to move first
- Micro adjustments to some battles to allow unconventional strategies
- Fixed some item costs
- Various changes and fixes I forgot to write in the change log
I've also been working on the gameplay trailers. There's 4 of them that's ab...
2023-10-03 20:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
End of the line. Good luck, and have fun. Steam release soon.
The final act, the End Garden, has been cut due to the scale of it doubling the size of the base game. I'd hope to make it a free update in the future, but only my health and sanity will tell. Thistlemine's structure is, in a word, maddening. There's about 5 layers of mechanics to sift through with each test session, all of it just barely balanced to work across the spaghetti of subroutes. Wo...
2023-06-04 06:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostThistlemine's soundscape has been altered to reflect the setting and tone a little better. Less gamey than before, but it should make it more pleasant to navigate through the puzzles. Especially when hunting down alternate paths and taking on the "true" puzzles of each area.
I spent more time making these than I'd like to admit. I think I did manage to get a unique sound and tone in the end, however. Neither gamey or realistic, alien and still familiar, unsettling but calming, dreamlik...
Ironing out the bugs and finishing up what's necessary. May be done at the end of this month or early next month. I'll see if I can distribute the English version to Patrons early as its still being translated to Japanese, but in the mean time, this chapter of Thistlemine is concluded and just about ready to go.
There's still a few things to touch up like audio, a few attack animations, and maybe a couple QoL improvements. Besides that, there's really nothing left to do or add.
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Seinneia's theme finally came in, composed by かたほとり and sung by 愛原圭織. I've been a fan of their work since プチリズムCHU and the formation of ちぃむｄｍｐ☆ back in like 2010 or 2011. I still can't believe they made something and I honestly have no idea if I'm having a psychotic episode. It was an incredibly stupid request turned into an incredibly good song. I don't know how they did it.
General changes:
- Single encounters with multiple phases now have...
It only took 16 months and 7000 drawings.
2023-01-04 03:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostAstr Underground and the Light Garden have undergone extreme changes.
- All of the Astr sisters now have a second phase
- Many have been buffed slightly
- Most Astr attack patterns have been altered entirely
- Hildegarde does twice the amount of nothing
- Rosetta Ruadris has been added to the Light Garden
- More flowers have been added to Valka's summoning pool
- Light Garden now has puzzle variation based on route
Due to some odd item qualities causing soft-...
2022-11-04 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
And some banners.
New enemies added:
Cosmoira Auri
Miasma Wraith
General changes:
- Added variation to Valka's summoning patterns
- Hidden conditions added to encounter Carregia Canoinn
- A simple tutorial puzzle added to the White Boundary
- Small adjustments to Tulips
- Made some changes to how the hint system functions
- Cooked some spaghetti
Auri will be replacing Marguerite in the normal ro...
2022-10-04 14:40:01 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral new animations added for a number of attacks. And the soundtrack for the Light Garden has been completed, entirely done by the wonderful kidlit.
There's not much to write aside from development concluding either sometime this month, or early next month. Updates going forward is largely going to consist of animations, art book progress, and probably music. Release date is still undecided.
Assuming I can figure out how to implement the content I've cut, which had to be done ...
2022-09-05 14:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The primary showcase for this update is the revamped tutorial area, item upgrades, stat rebalances, and the opened solo route. 2 super bosses have been added, one optional with her own puzzle area, and the other is a mandatory encounter in the solo route. They are stupid hard, and one demands a 70 turn attack string (no items, no scrumpy).
Enemies have received various changed. Some changes are mere numbers, others are entire attack patterns. The basic solution to their battles remain t...
2022-08-09 00:59:59 +0000 UTC View Post
New enemies added:
Stalker Suri
Stalker Fiora
Stalker Quincy
Anomalis Quincy
New area added:
Somni's Maze
Major changes:
- The White Boundary has been completely overhauled, adding 2 new subroutes
- Players can now immediately access the Tulip's area selection upon defeating Quincy
- Noa's starting HP raised from 50 to 200
- Sagi's HP raised from 400 to 500
- Yselle's HP raised from 800 to 1000
New enemies added:
Rootlass Sisters (Rootlass, Dire Rootlass, Splinter)
Stalkers
Excavator Rui
New items added:
Small Cosmo Artifact
Red Cosmo Artifact
Golden Daisy Artifact
Fist Artifact
Corrosive Grenade
Stalker Patch
General changes:
- Status icons have been completely redone to be circular
- Status icons can now be seen below enemy HP at the end of the turn or during target selection
...
2022-06-01 17:13:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Thistlemine is now playable from beginning to end. There's still a lot of placeholders present, and plenty of polishing that still needs to be done, especially in the alternate routes. It is, however, in a satisfactory and playable state.
You can temporarily download it from here.
Good luck.
2022-05-05 22:11:09 +0000 UTC View Post
New enemies added:
Astr Potatoes (Meiana, Meia)
Astr Idols (Seinneia, Rinneia)
Astr Mions (Mionrainn, Miongardi, Mionion)
Astr Guardians (Rainareia, Hildegarde)
Astr Iyovine (Iyovine, Sword, Cross)
New areas added:
Light Garden A
Light Garden B
Light Garden C
General Changes:
- Noa now starts with additional skills Black Watch Regeneration and Glass Eye Artifact
- Black Watch Regeneration is a ...
2022-04-05 21:40:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The normal route and solo route should work fine. Alternate routes are still in progress and are severely bugged and unbalanced. There are 5 areas and approximately 30 unique battles in total.
This was originally posted on demo day, and it's only been slightly adjusted since then.
Major testing build coming in Easter. Please look forwar...
2022-03-02 22:11:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Still working out the legibility of the buff text, but overall it's working all right.
2022-02-02 18:32:05 +0000 UTC View Post
New enemies added:
Roselin Sisters (Naira, Taira, Kaira, Misaira)
Rosebell Sisters (Airesma, Airesfa, Airesca)
Rosebell Siorare
Carregia Canoinn
Chiribita+
General Changes:
- Added a number of action effects for enemy buffs, which subliminally informs the player what stats they have increased, whether on itself, an ally, or the entire group
- Balanced Yselle's skill set to be focused more on support
- Added some story elements a...
2022-02-02 18:19:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Both Roses and Ladders alongside Rhizanthella Underground should be finished sometime during February. A new demo is scheduled to be out around March 2.
2022-01-01 20:54:33 +0000 UTC View PostI spent a month composing a single song only to find it has no practical use presently.
2022-01-01 20:49:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Roses and Ladders
- Third area now "blunders" after 8 inputs to force players to restart the puzzle and prevent players from being stuck in the looping trap for too long
- Fixed a metric ton of weird bugs with rose calculation
- Created a ridiculous snowball of game imbalance with the addition of Yselle
Cosmo Crossroads
- Added optional white flower checkpoints to pace difficulty escalation
Stairs and Tulips
- Added pseudo-RNG to...
2022-01-01 20:36:22 +0000 UTC View Post
- Added the Cosmo Crossroads
- The Cosmo Crossroads has been greatly expanded and improved from the prototype counterpart
- Instead of following the path from one check point to the next, certain conditions must now be met and then confirmed in order to progress through the maze
- RNG has been added to the puzzle area, making it slightly more engaging and disorienting
- Experienced / intelligent players now have the option to take a shortcut through the maze with sligh...
2021-12-01 17:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
The prototype of the game. It's buggy as all hell and more or less a thing of pure comedy, but it outlines what to expect in the later parts of the game. Whatever psychological damage you receive is by all accounts self-inflicted, caused by your own morbid curiosity.
It isn't a sane decision to play a prototype in the first place, especially for a game like this. But it does work once you get past the jank.
2021-11-11 05:25:15 +0000 UTC View Post