New Units: Mercenary Outrider and Dire Beast
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New Units: Mercenary Recruit and Veteran
So this will be the first public post, from here on out, all unit, UI, and art preview posts will be patrons only for a week and then go public, with a new one releasing every Monday and Friday. We're just pushing this one out early to show folks we're still alive. A new, refocused build is in the works, and as soon as it's playable we'll be pushing it out.
Because we have so many different factions but limited numbers of units, these mercenaries will act as the 'baseline' for all possi...
2022-05-21 16:52:34 +0000 UTC View PostThings to Come
Hetros here,
It has been a tremendously long time since I was able to communicate with all of you directly. Various obligations, duties, and frankly, just base survival took priority over what has become the passion project of very nearly a decade for me. Duke has also been struggling with the same things, while fighting off burn out and keeping the lights on for the project.
I hope to be able to tell you that your patience will finally have paid off in the coming weeks. We are cu...
2022-05-07 17:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.539
Still working full-time. Might quit in a few months to work on my own original games and resume part-time work on Towergirls. We will see.
Small public patch for everyone with the play-preventing softlocks fixed. Also the enable cheats cheatcode has been changed for forseeable future :DDDDDDDD.
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Important Announcement
Development has stalled this past month or two, largely as a result of my massive reoccurring burnout. There's a patch 90% completed, and getting ready to release, which has the last major feature for Towergirls- the policy events. Similar to Divinity: Dragon Commander, every so often the player (if they have at least one territory) will be given some event with several choices on how to resolve an issue. Princesses chime in and can lend advice on what to pick, and then a fe...
2021-11-01 01:25:02 +0000 UTC View PostShort Patch Delay
This upcoming patch with kingdom Policy Events and other stuff (TM) is going to be delayed a day or two. Thanks for bearing with us.
2021-10-01 03:55:43 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.538
It seems that trying to get Golem Princess in this month was a bit of an unrealistic goal. I am extremely burned out on Towergirls (again) and the 3d dungeon work and artwork is going much more slowly than I had expected. As a result this patch mostly contains some siege unit additions (two 3d, animated monsters) and some slight balance changes, in addition to some bug fixes that have been plaguing the game for a little while.
Working on the kingdom stuff has been a little r...
2021-09-01 03:52:24 +0000 UTC View PostPatch Delay & Announcement
ACTUALLY JOKING.
Here is the patch, such as it is.
Short story short I sold my chunk of wild Florida land away and drove back to the west coast. It was something like a week of driving (42~ hours in all), but I should have less drama in my life and a lot more peace and quiet. This unfortunately means that I missed the last-minute-p...
2021-07-30 15:34:16 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.536.2
Edit: Uploaded a hotfix for item consumables not healing.
Edit: Another minor patch, why not?
This past month has been a pretty huge change of pace for me. As of late May, I've been living on some family-owned land and working from a laptop. It's a bit of adjustment going from suburbia to a bushcraft yurt, and relying on a solar system for all my power needs, but I've been getting settled in and slowly figuring out how I'm g...
2021-06-30 16:15:39 +0000 UTC View PostSplash Addition Write-Ins
The last six princesses are being added to the splash image as we speak (Squire Courtier, Mouse Princess, Dusk Elf Princess, Eldritch Princess, Moth Princess, and Sphinx Princess). We’ll be adding three more this month, but before the event occurs, comment below on characters, knights, later gen princesses or whatever, that you’d like to have a chance of appearing on the upcoming splash vote. The most popular requests will be added and be voteable.
2021-06-02 20:46:17 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.535
We (I) are not dead yet! This train will keep going!
This (smallish) but long overdue patch marks the re-release of Knight Princess' rescue quest and the terrifying Roll Tower. Rescue Knight Princess and her band of men from the terrible clutches of the dragon scions! There's no dungeon map or really any decor yet, but you get to fight Yven, so who cares?
On a more serious note I'm happy to finally have a patch out again. The Roll Tower was pretty fun to co...
2021-05-25 05:15:37 +0000 UTC View PostPatch Delay
Unfortunately there likely won't be a game patch released for the end of April. Pretty much all that remains for engine-work is policy events, and otherwise I have heaps of bug fixes and dialogue parsing to do. I am extremely burned out on bug fixing, and parsing old dialogue into the new format is about as fun as pulling teeth.
Knight Princess' dialogue has been partially parsed, despite this, but I've been unable to force myself to work on that this past week. As is,...
2021-04-25 21:54:04 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.534
I'm going to be taking a short break for a week or so to try and get over this most recent bout of burnout. As it turns out, being the only person working on the game, and almost solely fixing bugs, gets tiring very quickly.
On the bright side we're making good progress on that cool stuff (TM) that I've hinted at once or twice. Hetros and I have been working on turning Chivalric Games into an actual game studio, so we can do stuff like make a page on Steam, or merchandising....
2021-03-31 09:17:57 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.533.1
It hasn't been too long since the last patch, and I've been burned out on bug fixing, so there isn't a tremendous amount of bug fixes or new content. I have managed to include some fixes that should make kingdom management recruiting/building functional once again, along with a few other minor things. Refreshingly I was able to add in the siege units for both Frozen Church and the Forgotten Garden. If you care to, it might be fun to mess around with those using the testsiege...
2021-02-28 04:35:42 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.532
Edit: Stealth patched some issues with the same build number.
I made the mistake of working on some content that requires some writing and a little bit of art so it ended up taking way longer than I wanted to get it added to the game. And the art is still placeholder but what can a man do.
There's several smaller additions in this 0.532 version, along with another heap of bug fixes. Of particular mention is the addition of Messenger Knight (...
2021-02-18 14:13:20 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.531.1
Edit: Added another small patch with a few more fixes.
Public post for everyone, woo!
I'll see if I can get a bit of new content added before the end of the month, for Patrons, but that depends on whether or not I can get some writing and a new character sprite from the other devs. Whether or not that ends up being the case, I've ended up settling for a whole heap of bug and issue fixes. One of the Discord-goers, Psion, has been very helpful...
2021-01-23 19:56:04 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.530.1
Turns out I broke sieges in 0.529 and no one's told me about it, and I haven't noticed myself. This is a very WIP 0.531 patch with a fix for that included. Not even going to bother posting the changelog of what new stuff has been added so far in January- I'll save that for the official patch later this month.
Towergirls 0.530....
2021-01-08 01:31:24 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.530
Edit: The game is once again too large to append to these posts as an attachment. Get the build from this download link.
This version marks the addition of Field Princess' rescue, although Bandit Tower still needs decor and a final art pass. Instead of going through the extremely tedious effor...
2020-12-31 01:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.529
Kingdom stuff is almost entirely functional, woo! I've been crunching away hard at kingdom diplomacy and army management, and as a result it's much farther along. It's nice having tasks that I can do myself. These changes include much more UI popups on the overmap, more information displayed on armies and their pertinent units, several entirely new kingdom management windows that were never even in the Game Maker version, and a whole slew of diplomacy code and enemy kingdom ...
2020-11-30 19:49:53 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.528
I am happy to announce that I am mostly through the most recent burnout of working on Towergirls. Resuming work on kingdom management, and army stuff, has been a very refreshing and fun turn of pace. This means I was able to get a lot of work down this past week and have something of a half-decent patch. There's been several new kingdom management screens added to the overmap (the old useless dungeon buttons are gone from the overmap and replaced with new ones, once you own ...
2020-10-30 22:29:49 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.527 & Important Announcement
This patch contains a working Human Princess rescue. It's working, but not exactly prettified completely yet, and still has some known bugs that haven't been fixed yet. Another version of the game will be released shortly with that needed layer of polish, and bug fixes, so that the re-added Human Princess rescue can be properly enjoyed. In addition to this, there's been a slight overhaul to the dialogue parser which brings the functionality of dialogue options c...
2020-10-06 03:06:58 +0000 UTC View PostHuman Princess Patch Delay
Human Princess' rescue is just about ready but we're still missing a handful of art assets and a little bit of dungeon decorating. With this in mind I've decided to delay the patch a few days (at the max) to avoid the use of graybox assets.
On the bright side Peasant/Field Princess' rescue is also partly completed, so we should easily have Field Princess also back into the game and rescuable mid-late October. More soon to come.
2020-10-01 01:10:20 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.526 & Kobold Demo (Public)
I found a fairly big issue with Dialogue Options, in 0.525, so I'm releasing a smaller 0.526 build to address that and some other small bugs. Not a whole lot of fanfare this time. Future builds will be released four weeks later to the public as normal.
Human Princess is going well, and it's looking feasible for her rescue to be added back into the Unity version pretty soon. We'll keep you* informed on how that goes.
Towergirls 0.526
Towergirls Unity 0.525 & Kobold Demo (Public)
I am still so damn tired of fixing bugs.
But most of them have been fixed. I've been having people go through the game and test for issues, along with testing Towergirls on roommate's computers, and it seems to finally be back into a mostly stable state. Because of this, I'm feeling comfortable enough to finally start doing some light advertising. We've also spiced up combat very slightly with the occasional realtime event for Ser Knight, wherein you get to spam ...
2020-08-20 18:05:43 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.524b & Kobold Demo (Public)
I am so damn tired of fixing bugs.
You have no idea. So tired of them.
That said, it is still totally July, and here is the promised end of July release. I'm probably going to be fixing bugs for a few more days before we start actually advertising, but this build is more or less the one that we'll be advertising. Heck, I'll even be appending fixes to this same build for a little while. Other than that, it's been a long journey, but I'm happ...
2020-08-01 06:17:20 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.522 & 0.523
I've been grinding away far more hours each day than I typically do, which means yet another patch! The game is suitably stable right now, and I've been working hard on adding back in some of the old patron content and important missing features. One of these missing features, that I've been waiting way too long on, is adding back in a little news feed at the main menu. When the game is launched and out of date it will alert you to go and download the latest version.
T...
2020-07-21 05:19:49 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.521b
I am crunching away like a madman. Typically I prefer to have fewer larger patches, over more numerous small ones, but there were a few game-play inhibiting bugs introduced in the last patch. This version includes fixes for those, numerous other fixes and code improvements, and the re-addition of a patron requested overmap encounter.
The plan is to keep crunching away, add back in the rest of the overmap encounters + queued up patron items + missing artwork, and releasing th...
2020-07-14 21:53:17 +0000 UTC View PostSplash Page Update
We have been absolutely terrible at keeping on top of the splash votes and maintaining the splash image. For that we're deeply sorry. We've added six princesses* this time, and we'll be holding a new splash vote shortly for adding in a whole another eight or so characters. Hopefully this will make up at least a little bit for our tardiness.
This time Plant Princess, Fairy Princess, Holstaur Princess, Tricops Princess, Giant Princess, and the one and only Bard Knight ha...
2020-07-14 20:04:32 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Charts: Gen 5, Angler Princess of The Fisher Farms
Fisher Farms is the capital of ancient humanity. It was from here that Human King set out to create a continent spanning empire that would change the world. This is a place of the old ways, one tied to its ruler by unbreakable bonds. Without one it rots, but to be lead by an unfit ruler would be the death of its people. For this reason Fisher Farms languishes in absence of someone capable of wearing the crown and forging a new future.
The peasants eke out an existence...
2020-07-14 02:05:40 +0000 UTC View PostTowergirls Unity 0.520
Apologies for the month between patches. The team has been moderately burned out, but we're getting over that hump and back into the swing of things. More encouragingly we're very close to releasing the first actual Towergirls Unity Demo and advertising! Hell or high water, the demo is coming out this upcoming month, July.
The patch notes aren't quite as long as last time but that's mostly due to the nature of what we're working on now. There's o...
2020-06-30 23:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post