I’m back at work.

This next build will be a relatively small one, focused on balance adjustments.

One of the main ones will be Aux Guard and Aux Power (the Titan’s Fist starting upgrades) being converted to give a bonus to you *and* your demons, based on the number of active summon slots not used, but with the bonus capping at only 1 demon summoned. (Thus, you would no longer get further benefit from dropping to 0 demons summoned.) This will still make these Upgrades and Relic play differently than most builds, but should remove some of the overpowered / too un-Demon like gameplay associated with the current version.

Another area I’ll be reviewing is cooldowns, especially on non-free action abilities (which means especially on Light and Dark.) Over time, I’ve come to believe some of these abilities aren’t quite as powerful as they should be for taking up an ability slot but only being usable every few turns. Not sure exactly what adjustment will be made to these yet (likely, it’ll be case by case), but in general these will stay where they are or be strengthened.

There aren’t any other major headings I plan to make adjustments under, but I may make other tweaks here and there: these will be called out in the build notes eventually (or in a further blog post, if they are major enough to warrant it.)

Cheers!

Hey folks. Small post to let you know I’ll be resuming Demon work next week. That’s a little later than I originally planned, but I’ve got a fairly major deadline at work this coming Friday, so I figured I might as well get on the other side of that before getting back in the saddle. Cheers!

Hey folks.

Break or no break, I want to do a small build this weekend to fix a few ability bugs from the new content. Nothing critical (in fact, that was why I waited this long, I didn’t want to have turn around and do another if anything critical did pop up ), but didn’t want anyone to see it by surprise and think it was the balance build already either. :D  Cheers!

Hey folks.

I’ll be taking a break for a bit now that the Tower:27-29 build’s been released and seems free of any major issues. I hope everyone’s having a good time with the new content (or at least, with trying to reach the new content )

I plan to resume development in a couple of weeks or so, and the next build will focus on some balance tweaks and refinements, most notably to Titan’s Fist, which is a bit too “easy” and also a bit too “not Demon” for my liking after having a fair bit of time to observe it and take in feedback about it. Cooldowns will also be getting a general pass, as will Brands. Other adjustments and tweaks are also likely, but I won’t have more details to share until I get started on planning when I return to dev mode.

To celebrate the success of the new build, here is another awesome piece of Demon fan art from Zyalin. You can see more of Zyalin’s awesome work on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/Zyalin_Art

Cheers, and good luck in the Tower!

Not much to say here, just wanted to confirm we’re still on schedule for the Tower:27-29 build to release this Sunday October 4th.

Work’s going as planned on the build. To bridge the gap until release, here’s a quick peek at the unique modifiers available on the new demons.

Alrighty! We’re finally close enough that I can set an official release date: The new build, which adds 3 new Tower floors and related content, will be released on October 4th!

This’ll give me enough time to finish up the last bits of work, as well as do a decent amount of testing to make sure things’re solid.

I’ll see if I can think of any other interesting preview material to show before then, but most of the remaining work isn’t very visual (mostly bug fixes, a new option for skipping the main menu by default, some other minor bits.)

Hey folks. Not much new to show: I’m working on the last bits of details that need to be finished up before I begin testing: things like putting the new abilities in appropriate Modifiers, making the new Modifiers for the new Uniques, bug fixes, and feature requests that accumulated. Good stuff, but doesn’t make good show material for the most part.

Hopefully I’ll be able to give a release date for the new build soon. I’ve got a three day weekend coming up that I hope to use to make a pretty big chunk of progress: I should be in a position to pin down a release date for the 27-29 build after that. Cheers!