We're sorry to say that the update we hoped to push out, a dialogue system that was less buggy and more standardized by integrating Ink, has taken a bit more rejiggering than we had hopped. Ideally when this process is finished, the Ink development kit, which is a tool for creating visual novel style dialogue systems among other things, will enable us to make more complex dialogue faster than before, but it's going to take us a hot minute.
I asked Addyfo to break down for everyone a li...
Latest build involves us swapping to a new dialogue parser to hopefully speed things along and allow us to add more features! We've also nailed a few bugs and are experimenting with various methods of handling issues in the siege battles going forward to hopefully smooth those systems out more!
And with this the opening questline for human princess is fully implemented from beginning to finish! The art stuff still needs to be touched up, but the writing should all be in there!
Once again thank you so much for getting us to this point, everyone, we couldn't have done it without your help! In the coming months we hope to refine things further and perhaps work on making a coherent starting tutorial section that will make this all flow much better.
New cheat code: “amessagefromtheking!” - After Human Princess is returned and you are given the Barony of the North Woods. There will eventually be a random overmap event that will call you back to the Human Capital. This cheat skips the waiting and immediately triggers the kingly message event.
Additions
We've added the start of the Human Princess Rework to the Build! Soon we hope to add in her new sprites, and get the rest of her story functioning through kingdom unificiation!
We're still steadily grinding along with a focus on getting the gameplay moving smoother and feeling nicer to play. Thank you so much for your patience so far everyone! We hope that at the end of this stage we can turn our focus towards content making once again!
Changes
Fixes
<... 2023-05-01 01:14:12 +0000 UTC View PostSome issues this month kept us from getting very much done but we're still narrowing down on fixing the issues and getting the core game loop as playable as possible.
The steady progress continues, now with an updated UI for territories, and a new background map that is steadily being improved and interated on! We're going to continue focusing on usability, UI, and generally making the game feel good to play for the next updates, trying to focus fire on making the game FUN before we start seriously working to import old story beats, but hopefully you'll see our steady progress in this regard as we move forward!
Slow but steady progress guys, rough months and low funding keeping us from being able to push forward as fast as we want. Gonna keep focusing down on refining this process. We truly need feedback on ways to make this work better in our discord!
Additions
Poka got a colored version done! Hurray! This is to all of our supporters and patrons! We hope the holidays have treated you well, and that you'll continue to support us in the coming year!
A textless version is available to our patrons early and will become public next friday!
It took a bit but Poka got it done! Thanks again for all of your support and we hope that the holidays have treated you all well! Textless version available for patrons a week early!
2023-01-13 22:44:11 +0000 UTC View PostA place for us to store whatever the latest public build is since google drive isn't quite cutting it.
2023-01-05 20:59:53 +0000 UTC View Post
We're making headway with deeper system additions now! The Freemode is explained below, but in short should turn on the ability to start building stuff on existing nodes on the map. We're still working on the details but soon we'll have things working properly between the two modes.
Note: When you complete the demo, the game will automatically overwrite save slot 1 with an autosave
Sadly it's only a sketch for christmas due to computer troubles on the part of our artist Poka but we wanted to share it anyway!
2022-12-25 20:42:30 +0000 UTC View PostWe tried to get ambitious with this build but sadly the ambitious additions, but sadly we had to ramp back on those. Hopefully we'll get them unbugged and pushed soon and the demo can be finalized! We'll be discussing exactly what we'll be tackling in the next month over the next couple of days, and announce it as soon as we have a plan!
Note: There is a small bug in the post-battle dialogue at shaded coast where a dialogue option is nonfunctional, however it can be byp...
2022-12-01 04:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post
A sample of how the finalized Geography is going to end up looking!
2022-10-28 16:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis one came a little later than we wanted, the save system reworks gave us more trouble than we liked. The original plan is still going on however, and our next focus is on army interactions to start getting the world turned on and more alive before we begin expanding the story once more.
The Cheatcode phrase has been updated as well, so our Silver and Golden Donators will want to check the post out for that!
A mostly finished map of Corona, this is stage one of the changes we plan to make, as time goes one we'll add more customized sections and segments of the map for each kingdom.
2022-10-21 16:45:01 +0000 UTC View Post
While we're about to start coloring, this one covers, more or less, the final line art of the world map base. As time goes on, we'll be replacing individual kingdom territories on the map with far more styilized areas, but the idea was to get things on the baseline all done.
2022-10-14 16:45:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis month's build is mostly focused on Quality of Life changes and bug fixes, with next month going to be focus on a combination of writing improvements (as we've figured out how to get our writer directly linked into updating the unity build, meaning we don't have to divert programmer time to do so, expect a few hot fixes with basic spell checking/grammar/story pathing improvements), and improving the army systems. The primary goal is to get it so that the player can generate new armies, as...
2022-09-30 17:54:12 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Been a quite month and not a huge amount of changes to the build, but we've been ripping out and replacing the navigation system, which took way more time to get working than we thought it would. That said, the start of it should be in place now, and we're hoping to improve on it and world map interactions in the coming weeks.
Please play through it and give us tons of feedback on this post and our discord server for any bugs you find!
