salamoun

Progress

Don't really have anything to show of since the last week I mostly just fixed some bugs and filled in some gaps in few events. The important thing to announce this time is that Elise is now done with school and therefore can focus on more development, her estimate on having stuff done is within 2 weeks, so we should have a proper full update release this month. That includes both the missing mansion scenes and properly implemented magic school this time, with all the Juliette presentation as ...

Progress

FISH! "Um, mermaid is not a fish..." Details! As mentioned last week, I've added fishing activity just because I could and no game is perfect until it has a fishing minigame! Also as mentioned was busy this week so not much has been done, but hopefully we'll make some strides next week.

Thank you all for your support and patience.

Progress

You know, I completely forgot to put up progress reports after releasing the "semi-update 2.0", so here I am, like a month late with a progress report. Elise is currently busy with school, so there hasn't been much done on her part, but I have been slowly adding more random stuff like the alchemy lesson, entirely new fishing minigame, filled in the missing Juliette dialogue and as you can see by the pic, some new missions to enjoy. Overall I am strangely proud of what I've made this month and...

Announcement

Hey everyone!

This is Elise here - I'm sorry to be the cause of delays, but this week is finals week for my grad school, and unfortunately, we're going to need to hold onto the update a little longer than before. Salamoun wanted to finish and release his content (mostly the Magic School) first, while my stuff (mostly the Paladin Camp) would release later in May once I got home and could work on it, but after a bit of internal discussion, we both agreed that it wouldn't be proper to rel...

Status

So just to catch you up on things, the update is currently waiting for Elise's approval, but she won't have time till this weekend, so we'll have to wait till then. Hopefully it will be fast so we can have the early access out soon.

Thank you all for your support and patience.

Progress

Hello, sorry for my absence yesterday, got a minor emergency, so I couldn't make the post. What I'd like to say tho is that I am practically done with the school finally. This means that I'll be handing it to Elise for testing, because she wanted to see it before the early access release. I'm not sure how time she'll have for it because school and such, but hopefully I can get it to y'all soon. I'll keep you updated about it in the following days.

Thank you all for your support and pati...

Progress

Sorry for the radio silence in the past 3 days, it was mostly for the aforementioned lack of progress. That said, I was expecting to be actually done today, I have finished the final mission, made all the chats and have outlined the graduation. The main thing that is still missing and is the reason for no release is that damn test, I hate quizes by default, so having to make one now is really irritating and I can't find the energy to bruteforce it today. For other details I did instead is fix...

Progress

Well I managed to squeeze some energy out of myself and get at least 1 of the 4 outcomes written for the final mission (you can now eat everything), meaning we're now 1/8 out of the final scraps of things left to fill in. Hopefully I can get another one done tomorrow, the more I force myself to do during the week, the less I'll have to clean up at the weekend.

Thank you all for your support and patience.

Lack of progress

Yea, I have done basically nothing today, I just didn't want to leave it out on silence since I promised daily updates now. But it would also be annoying to make daily posts just to have half of the "I did nothing", so I'm just gonna make it that if there's no new post that day, it means I failed to do anything meaningful. I still want to finish it all by the next weekend, there is now quantifiable reason for it, the daily updates are mostly to see if I manage it sooner since I am in a second...

Progress

I think I overestimated how much I'll be able to make during the week, 9-5 is a bitch. Anyway, I have forced myself to write a few options at least, got all the fight variations set up for the graduation mission. Maybe tomorrow I manage to write one or two of the outcomes. To quantify how much is still needed to be made: 4 outcomes of the big mission, the test, graduation ceremony (success and failure versions), few minor dialogue alterations based on some choices. So overall 8 things I'd say...

Info and all

So yes, it's sadly still not done, the sickness is over luckily, but it combined with all the doctors and such really killed the past week for me and only this weekend I was able to finally get back to it. I have spend most of it working on the game, trying to fill in all the gaps and polish as many things as possible, but I keep coming across small things that I didn't account for and they really piled up for me to not have everything as I wanted. The good news is that all the needed mission...

Premptive warning

So this is probably the worst timing, but I'm currently sick. I still want to release the school this sunday, but depending how severe this gets, the release might get delayed a few days. I just wanted to let you know beforehand.

Progress

First of, yes, I am a day late again, but this time it was on purpose as I had free monday as well and wanted to see how far I can push it. Now I got good news, bad news and potentially exciting news. The bad news is obviously that the update is still not out yet, the good news are as you can see that the school is almost finished, I mostly need to do cleanup and polish, like adding the quests for the missions and some belly edits because I left that for last. Also I still haven't decided how...

Progress

So I have gotten myself into this weird spiral of poking the same part of the game for so long that I'm losing my focus on actually finishing it. To get my mind off of it, I've decided to fix some things that were bothering me about certain parts of the game not specifically attached to the school/centaurs, one of them as you can see was how needlessly big Ruvkus was and how annoying it was running through it during testing, so I have reworked the layout and shrunk it into a more compact and ...

Progress

I've been away the past weekend, that's why this progress is a day late again. Also I don't have much to say that wasn't said before, just trying to force myself to finally finish all those spread out pieces I started and be done with it. The desert with centaurs is still quite some way off, the school still not fully done, I am really slow with the progress and I want to apologize for that. to have something to show, I want to give you a preview of that gal that shoves you aside when you fir...

Progress

There sadly haven't been much of it this week... I have been poking around with the desert content for the centaur portion, but I haven't really done anything notable to showcase, hence the lack of screenshot/teaser this time. Elise is currently finally fixing all the missing scenes that got lost from the last mansion update and then we'll hopefully start finishing and polishing the update so we can finally release something after all these delays.

Thank you all for your support and pat...

Progress

So I have been chiseling through all the remaining bits of the magic school and I know pretty much finished the whole rebalance part in december, but it was bothering me too much to have discrepancies in amount of spells for each element, so I brainstormed some extra spells so we'll now have 5 spells per element you can learn in the school (which makes it 35 spells you can learn in the magic school). They will be divided into 3 tiers based on power level and you'll be able to learn the more a...

Progress

So I have made a little checklist for myself to have a better grasp of what is and isn't done for the magic school. Just to clarify, not having check mark doesn't mean I haven't done anything, all of those are probably like 70-80%, the checkmark is just for what I have 100% (which is currently just the proper way of actually obtaining new spells). I could theoretically finish each of them within a day or two if I really crunched myself, but knowing my track record, I probably won't. From the ...

Progress

I'm a bit late again, stupid sickness... But I ain't letting it stop me. Y'all deserve some preview again so here's one of the future missions that I had help with. The good news is that the school is nearly finished as I have majority of the scenes at least written and I just need to plop it all into the game properly. The bad news is that the whole paladin portion is really barebones still and I honestly don't have a concrete plan for everything there so...

I am now faced with decisio...

(Not really) Progress

I want to apologize for making this post so late and also that I pretty much made no progress in the past week... I had some family emergency that I needed to take care of so I was unable to get much done, but it should be resolved now so hopefully I can get back to things this week. 

From the poll it seems most of you want it to be more free, so that's how I'll aim to combine it, there will still be some milestones so you won't just become an archmage or something by just doing bu...

Progress

No preview image this time since I've been working on more of the background stuff again and I've realized 2 issues with the school that I needed to set up correctly. The first one being that even though I have most of the lessons and mission written now, I didn't actually have them connected in any meaningful way. I'm honestly not sure if I should weave them together like "do one lesson, then do one mission, then do another lesson, then another mission..." or if it should be just the intro y...

Progress

So it is kinda obvious that the update is not happening this month, but I want to bet on February (both to give you a closer date and also to hopefully motivate myself to finally finish it). I've been also getting some help with writing, which is definitely helping speed up the process as the dialogue continues to be the most time consuming part of developing an RPG. Lastly in the image you can see what the alchemy teacher will look like, I am honestly still contemplating how complex I want t...

Progress

No real image this time, haven't done much this past week that is original or showcase worthy. Just slowly chipping away at the lessons that I struggle more and more with thanks to my inner hatred towards school.... I need to think things through sometimes. But anyway, I do want to finish this so I can move to more fun stuff and I also have some extra help with the missions so that should hopefully speed up my lack of progress. Mostly just wanted to fill y'all up on my and the game's continuo...

Progress

Was getting a bit annoyed with all the school stuff, so I decided to make more progress on the desert portion with the paladins. Some of you, who are digging through the files, have asked about this lycan (yes, it's a lycan, not a neko or kitsune) and where to find her. Well she'll be part of another abandoned ruins you can explore in the desert. Yes, there will be more puzzles, I actually quite enjoy making them, despite the limitations of the engine, so I hope they'll be fun for ya'll as we...

Progress

Haven't done much this week, getting back to work and all after the holidays, but I am slowly chipping away whenever I can. As you can see in the image, the school will now actually teach outside of the introductory lesson there was there previously and the classes will be interweaved with the missions to give you stuff to learn and apply in practice. The lessons themselves will be more than just world lore and flavor as I include battle tips and mechanics (hopefully) seamlessly included in t...

Info to catch up with things

So it's pretty apparent that the full update sadly won't come this year anymore. I was really hoping to make a lot of progress in December considering all the holidays and vacation, but the celebrations are deceiving time and it took a lot of my my time doing personal family things so I had little time to actually get to the game...

I am sorry to bring such a sad news, but we'll need more time to do all the event stuff with school and paladins. I can't really give exact dates, but our n...

Semi-update (reupload)

https://mega.nz/folder/kLQj0Yyb#y8IWgf47r84ncDfoPKggkQ

Do note that it's purely the combat/balance rework with none of the new events/areas planned to be in the full release, I'm sharing this just to have more people test out the reworked combat and see if I made something too broken or underwhelming. There is a new NPC in the magic school that gives you bunch of spells to test out different elemental magic until we e...

Quick FYI

So I wanted to release the semi-update today for y'all to play around with, I have most of the numbers and all rewritten finally and even found some new mechanics I can implement. But I've also realized that the player is kinda limited in options right now, some elements useful in certain locations are currently not even available right now. So I'm gonna be adding few new spells that seemed redundant originally, but will be useful now thanks to having different elements and I'll be spreading ...

Progress

No image this time again, I'll try to get something next week. In term of the meat, the only thing left to balance out are pretty much just the enemies. I'm actually thinking of releasing a sort of semi-update by the end of this month, where it would be just the combat rework with nothing else so I'd have a bigger testing sample if stuff is more consistent and balanced or if there are some new broken tactics that I might've overlooked. Let me know what you think of that. We still need to add ...

Progress

I've honestly haven't done much this week, the most notable part being rework of how all the items are prices to hopefully make them more proportionate of stats/gold. I will probably go over the gold rewards later as well to see how rich/poor can you be for the various playstyles. For the image, it's one of the various scenes that will appear in the magic school if you choose to study there.

That is all from me this week, thank you all for your support and patience.