Symbolsloth

Winter Swallocote

What should the next competition be?

Competitions are for getting your character in the game! Choose which area the competition the character in game should be for!

Title screen revamp

Swallocote

Ava and friends

That's one big candy!

Wow that's quite a race!

Dart minigame!

Another minigame that I've worked on for the tavern!

4 finger minigame!

A minigame to be put into the tavern and have some fun!

grumble groove!

Quite proud of this one, experimenting with getting particular segments of sample and remixing them more underneath the main drums and bass

10/02/19 Update - Chapter 2 Progress

Hey guys!

It's been a while since I've posted one of these but I think it'd be good to how the game itself is going along! 

As it currently stands Chapter 2 is going along nicely, the main story of Chapter 2 is mostly completed now, featuring another 8/9 days of content. I was hoping to perhaps have the main story done in Chapter 2, alas  I believe it might take 3 chapters to complete now, with the final chapter perhaps being shorter for main story.

In this chapte...

Nova Cafe inside!

This is a parallax background so I had more freedom instead of being bound to tiles!

Cafe Tunes

Blop blop blop!

Update to the air-minigame + 7 Days are complete now!

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That's right 7 days are complete now in the new chapter! I'm looking at 8-9 for the new chapter only at the moment! Each new day has also introduced a new mechanic to the store to stop things getting too boring!

Just to name a few...

-Customer reviews

-Massage Parlour

-Fire Exinguishing

-No...

Camera pan + Paintings + Organ View

So this place will be quite a big lore place. Explaining the two different kinds of magic in the world. This is also the museum area where there'll be paintings around for you to view and get more dialogue about the world. Ascot has both the museum and the library so it's quite lore heavy but its there for people that want it!

new minigames!

What can we see in this image?

A new minigame featuring (YOU!) mia flying along and dodging airship attacks, (ignore the player at the bottom of the screen and graphics, they'll be removed after)

This has 2 phases and is meant to be a successor of the truck minigame from chapter 1! Fasten your seatbelts! 

The Junkyard

So this is an area you'll be able to scour for rare item sin the junkyard that'll occasionally show their faces there. It's basically a big gamble. But its something cool to do and see! This includes a trigger that raises a bar to let you in, and also goes back down and prevents access once you try to get back.

It also prevents the player from speaking to the guy while the gate is already open, giving them a message of "Get in there and see what you can find!" instead of taking their mo...

Extinguisher Mechanics

(Sprite for the fire is temporary) 

But a new mechanic for the store! Stopping it from burning down that is!

A look at a new voodoo fight

So there'll be more than one magic shop in Retales universe, the idea is each shop has its own thing. So with Sym's it was synthesizing. With this one it'll be the ability to sell items. 

For another one planned in Chapter 2 will be exchanging items for other items. 

This fight has some similar elements to the Sphinx fight with only horrizontal hazards thus far, but also using floor hazards that are randomized to mix things up!

Dungeon level 3

The dungeon goes into a puzzle on level 3, similar to some games like Zelda, Links Awakening where you'd constantly be brought into the same room until you got the right combo. There'll be some clues on how to solve it though so look out for them!

Stream Updates

Hey guys! Because my internet is not always the best, and I hate letting people down when they get excited about something, streams will now no longer just happen on a Saturday at 1pm.

They can be at anytime, on anyday, whenever I have good enough internet at the time. I'll always announce on our discord in the managers office when I go live. Alternatively, you can DM me on Discord or message me on patreon for your request!

WanderRoad Theme

Iya the new Aurian Dragon

A new character that I've not actually shown on patreon! She's also voice acted! See below in the attachment for her voice!

First intro slide of chapter 2

Introducing you to the start of Chapter 2 to find out more about what's going on!

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Factory tileset/eventing

This is the marshmellow factory, with conveyer belts. This place will work a little differently where depending on which tunnel you enter you turn out into a different one. And the goal is to get to the one room with the blue square in there. 

I originally had this idea for the dungeon idea, if any of you have ever played Zelda DX back on the Gameboy which I grew up, (I think its also called Links Awakening,) When you went inside of the egg you were greeted with multiple rooms,...

Dungeon levels 1 and 2

This is showing 2 maps, levels one and two of the dungeon system. In this so far are NPC's that'll try and battle you, hiding places to avoid the battles and certain blocks in your way that can only open up once you find a key.

This is a place where you should be able to just work through a bit of it at a time. Every floor will have an exit, but if you return you'll have to work your way all the way back down. Throughout the dungeon, you'll only have 3 lives, until you have to restart. ...

Scary battle theme

To be used in a specific sidequest in the game

First looks at racing

Its all set up and works, with repeatable races and such. Would like to expand on these races in future and have more interest tracks. But just more minigames that are now in that you can have a go at!

Syms Christmas Message - A Big Thank You

At the start of this year, I was worrying if I'd even have Retale 1 completed, worried how it'd go down with people and worried if people would even care. Little did I know that I'd have all this support later on by you guys!

Back on April 23rd we launched Retale 1, and it became what I'd call a success, with many people loving the style and I think what hit me most was how a lot of people could relate to the experiences. I can't honestly tell you how thankful and how much I treasure yo...