Hey folks. The 4-day weekend push went pretty well: both of the dungeon art sets are at what I’d call 90% complete: the main thing left for both is what I’ll call the “doodads”: things like the flickering torches, eyes peeking out of a hole, etc. that you see in the existing dungeon sets. But the vast majority of the work (the normal floors and walls) on both is complete.

Based on that, I think the end game build should be able to be released by sometime in October. I’ll try to pin down a more specific date as we get further along.

Cheers!

Hey folks.

Not that it’d be easy to notice with only limited information releases about the next build, but work’s picked up a bit which I admit has slowed progress. It feels odd perhaps to say that given nobody would have likely noticed anyway with the spoiler blockage, but I’ve always been open about delays in the past, so I wanted to speak up anyway.

The good news however, is I have a 4 day weekend coming up next weekend. I hope to knock out the dungeon art during that, which is the biggest chunk of work remaining. After that, the only things left would be a few more character sprites, a little bit of coding, and some testing. Though I will not be showing the dungeon art for spoiler reasons, I will update that Tuesday with how the push went.

Cheers!

Another bonus coming in the next build: Geminimax has been going through and doing upgrades on his previous character sprites. Here’s a few samples of some of the results (old on left, new on right):

Ukobach: ->

Blob: ->

Pelesit: ->

Ghoul: ->

Zar: ->

Umibozu: ->

Kitsune: ->

The new sprites look pretty awesome, no? Thanks Geminimax!

Not every character you meet in the end game is a unique. Some minions and normal demons stand beside them… here’s part 1 of a preview of these servants of those who await at the Tower’s end.

Hey. Still working on the pile o’ art the end game build needs. Unfortunately, no character preview today: there aren’t that many more I want to reveal before the release itself, so I’m going to spread the rest out a bit more. I will try to think of something else I can do to ease the waiting a bit in the meantime. Cheers!

A small but special surprise today: a preview of a character I have never even hinted was coming. Don’t worry, I’m going to save plenty for the build itself, but I wanted to have at least a few reveals of entirely new-to-everyone things to show during the dev cycle.

For our next preview, here is Jeanne D’Arc, another Hero you will meet at the end of your climb of the Tower.

The run up to this next build’s tricky. Since it is now pretty much entirely end game content (having put everything about it that wasn’t into the previous build), it is going to be difficult to find progress to show that is not kind of spoilery.

Still, that’s a tomorrow problem, because I did already reveal at least a little about what’s coming, which lets me at least show some goodies related to those elements. So, meet Merlinus

Hey folks. Popping by real quick to say development work resumes July 1st (at the start of a nice 5 day weekend from work, no less.) To the Tower’s top we go!