Saturday, May 7, 2016

07/05/2016 - New functional update

Hi there,

The live version contains the following changes:
  • Appropriate items can now be equipped
  • Equipment shows up in the character description
  • The player is now given a set of clothes to wear after the companion introduction scene, it increases defence by 1 and will be added to the inventory
  • Player stats now show up in the character description
  • NPCs can now open up shops. At the moment, only Bart has a shop. He sells health potions with or without discount depending on what you asked for after doing him a favor
  • Text in shops adapted to reflect changes
  • A player can now level up if he/she has the required amount of experience. This will trigger a status points distribution screen
  • The first battle against a slime will immediately level you up
  • The first battle against a slime functions as a tutorial. The slime is more likely to not do anything, has less damage and instructions on how to fight
A follow-up patch will be released sometime tomorrow, contain the following:
  • Icons for new items
  • Usable items during combat (health potion)
Like I mentioned in the previous post, it was a lot of work and there's not much to show for it at the moment. Obviously they will make the game experience a lot better in the future.

After the follow-up patch, I will continue the work I've done on the new content/story. Uncluding everything we have now, we're 35% through the actualy prelogue story. The following 65% will not take even half as long to create, since it's 80% writing and 20% coding now that all of the functional system are done.

Hope you look forward to the next patch!

Sincerely Yours,
JV

PS: Suggestions, feedback, bug reports or any comment at all is always appreciated!

3 comments:

  1. Yay, update ! I'm starting to get really curious abut who's watching you near the library.

    Through.... Errr... Just wanted to say the "You aren't supposed to be here" error still exists (with a "what do you want to do" - "start searching" in the choice box)

    As it was said by another anon, when the game start, after choosing the slime girl (and some more text, I guess) I'm struck in the City of Fellen. Clicking on any direction (or the search) put an error in the console ( see http://imgur.com/W2D97st )

    Everything went well after launching the page (no refresh that time, just lauching the game again). My bet is, again, that the game fail to load some data before playing (it totally may happen on my current internet, I guess)

    On a more positive note, I'm waiting for future updates ! Happy gamemaking !

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    1. Will take a look at it. Thank you for letting me know! Also glad to hear I piqued your interest.

      For some reason your comment got marked as spam, I just came across it by accident in the filter.

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    2. You're welcome ! And good job fixing that bug !

      And spam ? Maybe it's because I linked a picture... duh...

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