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Devlog #049

Hi!

A lot was achieved these last 3 weeks, and I have some menus to show off!

First is the character select menu. From this menu, you can add or remove any character you've unlocked to your party. Of course there will only be one Vuu in the final game, but this what it will look like once you've unlocked enough characters, either through advancing the story or through alchemy. It works pretty much as you'd expect, clicking on a character shows her stats on the right, and dragging ...

Devlog #048

Hi!

I've made some really nice progress recently! The screenshoot above shows the storage menu. You have limited inventory space, but chances are you won't want to sell every item you come across since a lot of them can be equipped, used for alchemy, or more. The storage allows you to store up to 99 of each type of item, as long as you have enough space in storage. Each "page" of storage can contain 16 different items, and you can unlock more of them through the use of alchemy. Dependin...

Devlog #047

Late merry christmas to you all! And early happy new year while I'm at it! :D

Slightly early update this time. Like most people I've been pretty busy with the festivities.

I still got some nice work done, even though I deviated a little from what I'd planned.

The screenshot up there shows the new pre battle menu! Like before, you can choose which character you want to fight with, but there are a few new things:

- Every time you access this screen, the backgr...

Devlog #046

Hi!

Time for a new devlog!

I was able to get a very good amount of stuff done these last 3 weeks, some of which I'd kept pushing away for a while now, for whatever reason. Which makes me feel even better now since it's finally taken care of!

The first thing I did was the characters' emotions and animations. Kind of like in Animal Crossing, characters have some kind of particles appear around them depending on how they're feeling (e.g. smoke rising out of their head when they're ang...

Devlog #045

Hey! This one is going to be on the short side since I got busy with work, sorry about that.

First is something I don' think I ever mentionned, the soul capture. I already explained how the item drop in fights, but here is a quick recap:

By default, you will get 0 items at the end of a fight. There are 3 main ways to increase the number of droped items.

- get a 50 combo to increase it by 1.

- get a 100 combo to increase it by 1.

- get lucky when opening a che...

Devlog #044

Hi!

I caught a cold a few days back and still feel a little tired, but I was able to get some decent work done anyways, to the point where I should be really close to done with the exploration system by the next update!

First of all, I implemented the new exploration UI and improved the way it works, expecially the direction buttons instead of having to hold a direction down, you can now double click a button to move around.

If there is any kind of pick up in the room you're trying...

Devlog #043

Hi!

It's been pretty busy for me these last 3 weeks, but I still managed to do most of what I wanted.

First of all, here is the new exploration UI. There used to be a heart in the bottom left, but what I had in mind for it kinda sucked, so I decided to remove it, and instead show a picture of the place you're in, and what floor you're on. The book on the right is the almanach, which you'll be able to access at any time to check your quests, the bestiary, recipes, and more.

I haven'...

Devlog #042

Hi!

Instead of improving the exploration mode, I ended up designing pretty much everything I needed, as well as improving the fights' look and feel.

Here are all the menus that are now ready to be implemented:

- Almanach (bestiary, items, world, quests, recipes)

- Pre battle

- Character select

- Storage

- Shop

- Alchemy

- Rank up

- Full map

Since I had already done that much, I thught I might as well redo a clean exploration UI and fi...

Devlog #041

Hi!

I'm back with a completely redesigned menu!

It mostly works the same, but looks a thousand times better.

I renamed the "Equipment" tab the "Spell Card". Like before, you can equip spells, relics and trinkets by grabing them from the inventory and dragging them over to the spot where you want to equip them. I also added a little scroll on each spell card spot which indicates what goes where. Some spots are unavailable at first, and will be unlocked as you rank up. You might noti...

Devlog #040

Hi!

I added a bunch of cool things since last time, but the biggest addition is what you see in the screenshot, HE Fights!

Every now and then, an HE fight will appear instead of a normal fight. In this mode, waves of heart eaters will appear one after another until you have destroyed enough of them. You won't be able to stun them the way you did until now however, as there is no grid in the background.

A new mechanic I added, which is also available in normal fights, is the ability...

Devlog #039

Hi!

I did a looot of cool stuff these past 3 weeks!

First of all, this screenshot is the victory screen, which replaces whatever it was that I had before when you won or lost a battle. I've worked hard on how it looks, and I'm really happy with it. There are all kinds of little animations, but I didn't post a gif since I wanted to keep the surprise.

What you see here is what happens when you win. All of the characters in your party earns some XP, but the one you played as gets the ...

Devlog #038

Hi! I'm back with some cool stuff! But before I talk about this low quality gif, there are a few other things I did in these past 3 weeks:

The stats now have a use! It's nothing terribly complicated : Your character 's affinity for a certain type of magic (it's color) affects the spell. Damaging spells deal more damage, buffs/debuffs last longer, that kind of stuff. Every monster also has resistances/weaknesses to each type of magic, which affect the damage received. Finally, both sides have a...

Devlog #037

Hi! It's been 3 weeks since the last update, and things are going great!

If you remember, I said I was goind to rework some code in the last update. The most important things that had to be fixed were the  buff/debuff system, the way the spells/relics worked, and the combo system. These used to work relatively well, but they would have become problematic in the long run, so I focused on these 3 first.

From a player's perspective, it looks pretty much the same, but the changes and cl...

Poll Results

Alright! The poll ended, and we have 4 votes in. That's not very many, but that's what I expected. Problem is, 2 people voted for 2 weeks, and 2 others for 1 month...

I think the fair thing to do would be to go with 3 weeks, at least temporarily. Maybe we can redo the poll later when we have more people onboard, but 1 update every 3 weeks seems like a good idea for now, so we'll settle for that.

In the meantime, I have been reworking some old code. The fights are the first thing I coded ...

Update Frequency Poll

As a follow up to last week's update, here is the poll!

If you weren't aware, I decided to lower the update frequency for several reasons (check the Pre Tutorial Update if you want to know more).

I wanted to do either 1 every 2 weeks or 1 a month, but I guess 1 every 3 weeks could also be an option, so I added it as well. This might sound obvious, but less updates means bigger updates, since I get more time to work on the game. Of course, if I have something special or important to say, ...

Tutorial Update!

And here it is!

You can access the tutorial by clicking on the sign at the beginning, otherwise, it's pretty much the exact same game.

I didn't fully check all the text and there are some small things that might need fixing, in which case I'll work on it as soon as I notice it, but I'm pretty satisfied with the result.

Alright. Now I'm going to bed. see you! :D

Pre Tutorial Update

So. I was supposed to release the tutorial update today, but sadly, it will be another 48 hours at most before this happens.

I was hoping to talk about this next week, but seeing as my situation has caught up with me, I might as well do it now.

I got a new job a month ago, and hoped I would be able to keep the same pace I had before, which is simply not the case. On one hand, this is good, because I am now able to keep working on B.E. Witches without worrying as much as I did before gett...

Devlog #036

Hi!

I'm finally coding again! And the tutorial is almost done!

Not only that, but I took advantage of it to make some nice text boxes that I'll be able to reuse later.

I'll be posting the new version of the game that includes the tutorial next week. This is only a small update, so everyone will have access to it immediately. The update that comes after that however will be a big one, and my 2$+ patrons will have access to it 2 weeks earlier!

Speaking of patrons, I'll also upd...

Devlog #035

Hi!

I've begun coding again, and I'm hoping to have the tutorial ready in two weeks. It won't add much if you've already played the game, but a bigger update is on the way, I'll tell you more about that when I have made some more progress.

So there you go, from next week onward, I'll be able to update you on game progress instead of monstergirl only! :) 

I also posted something unrelated to B.E. Witches on Deviantart/Pixiv/Tumblr, I needed to draw a character that wasn't m...

Devlog #034

Hi!

This month's monstergirl, the imp!

I tried something new with weird proportions, and I think it came out pretty good, she's definitely the monsteriest monstergirl right now.

Also yep, we're counting in months now. I'll be coding again as soon as next week, and the first thing I'll work on is the in game tutorial. After that, my plan is to add mechanics and content, and release a big update in the next months. It's hard to tell when exactly this will happen, so I won't give you ...

Devlog #033

Hi!

Very short update this week, I don't have a lot to say. There will be a new character next week, and a minor update after that which will add an in game tutorial, since a lot of people have been asking for it.

In the meantime, here is the rank 4 fairy, and you can check rank 5 on Deviantart/Pixiv/Tumblr.

Hope you had a good week, bye! :)

Devlog #032

Hi!

Sorry for being a few hours late today, but here is a new character : the fairy!

I'm working on another monstergirl that will look a bit more monstery than the others, you'll see in 2 weeks ;)

Other than that, I don't have a lot of information to share. That's another thing that coding instead of drawing will fix, luckily.

Anyway, you can check rank 2 and 3 on Pixiv/Deviantart as always.

Hope you had a good week, bye! :)

Devlog #031

Hi!

I've recently come to realize something : At first, my plan was to draw a bunch of monstergirls so that when I work on the game itself again, I can keep posting new monstergirls AND update you on game development. However, even by focusing on drawing, it takes me almost two weeks of spare time to make one monstergirl, so by the time I'm done, it's almost time to post it already.

Since this plan isn't really working like I wanted it to, I'm going to switch coding/drawing every two wee...

Devlog #030

New character : Alien!

This one is a bit weird, but drawing her was a lot of fun. I wasn't too sure what name to give her, so I settled on "alien" for now.

I'm working on more monstergirls, but I feel like I need to make some progress on the game. At the very least, I would like to release a small update that adds a tutorial near the end of april.

You can check rank 2 and 3 on Deviantart/Pixiv.

That's it for now, see you next week! :)

Devlog #029

Hi!

I don't have a lot to say this week, so I'll just quietly post Nightmare's rank 4 and 5 on Pixiv and Deviantart.

New character next week! It's kind of a weird one, but I really like her.

Sorry for the short update, hope you had a good week, bye!

Devlog #028

Hi!

This week is a bit different : New demo!

I changed a few things and updated the monster portraits. No more nondescript pixelated stuff, you're now facing actual monstergirls! :)

The next thing I will be working on will be an ingame tutorial, but in the meantime, you can expect more characters.

Kind of a short update this week, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway!

Bye!

Devlog #027

Hi!

New character : Nightmare

I'm pretty happy with how she turned out.

I'm in the process of adding a new pledge tier that will allow you to submit a concept for a monstergirl, I'll post more details soon.

Also no character next week, there will be something different this time :)

You can check rank 2 and 3 on my deviantart/pixiv.

And that's it for now, hope you had a good week, bye!

Devlog #026

Hi!

Rank 4 goblin!

I promised a small annoucement last week, and here it is: for a few months now I revealed one monstergirl per month and filled other updates with unrelated drawings. I decided to stop doing that, and instead reveal two monstergirls per month. There might be exceptions if I have something else to show, but that's what you can expect most of the time from now on. I hope that's okay with you! :)

If you want to see what the rank 5 goblin looks like, you ...

Devlog #025

Hi!

Here is a goblin! Just like the mud elemental, she isn't relevant to the story and is randomly encountered in dungeons and such.

I've had a lot of views and download on itch.io lately, which makes me really happy! I wish I could go back to coding and, you know, make the game, but I need to focus on drawing for now so I have something to show every week.

I'll have a small announcement related to my drawings next week. Nothing crazy, but I think everyone will be able to appreciat...

Hidden post #004

Hi!

I tried a bunch of new things with the colors and I'm really happy about how this drawing turned out, it's colorful and shiny. :)

I've been trying to figure out a good way to advertise B.E. Witches lately, if you have any idea, don't hesitate to send me a mail (nosebecc@gmail.com) or to leave a comment :)

That's it for now, new character next week! I'm eager to share that one with you.

Hope you had a good week, bye!