Also coming in the next build: four new sets (three each, one for each ‘tier’ of the Tower) of modifiers. Like most non-unique modifiers, these will be able to show up throughout the Tower at random, pre-applied to the demons you encounter. Additionally, existing demons will be reviewed and, where appropriate, will have one of these new modifiers replace their current inherent one.

As a preview, here is the tooltip of the lowest tier member of each new modifier set:

Finishing up abilities, so here’s a few more previews.

Work picked up a bit, but I’ve still been making progress on abilities. Over 3/4ths done with them now, so here’s a few more previews to celebrate.

Hey folks.

A small announcement: I’ve decided to split the upcoming end-game build into two builds.

The first build, which will come relatively soon, will include most of the new abilities, distributed throughout the Tower’s existing demons and modifiers, as well as some new modifiers and a few bug fixes.

Then, work will continue on the second build, which will strictly be about the end game content. This will also be where the remaining abilities are introduced.

To clarify: the only abilities not introduced in the first build will be those that only appear in end game content. Most of them will be available even in the first build.

I decided to do this because I have come to realize that the end game content is still a fair ways off, and I wanted to release something new for folks to enjoy during the remainder of that wait, and as it turns out, this is a pretty good solution to that.

I’ll try to get a release date for the first build posted in the near future, for now it is “soon(tm)”

I’m about halfway done implementing the abilities. Here’s a few previews that, with some extrapolation should reveal a fair bit of what’s in the list:

And now, they’re all done. 118 new ability icons! Once these are actually added to the game, we’ll be pushing pretty close to 1000… though not quite there. Work has begun on actually implementing the abilities these’re tied to, so future progress updates will include some of their in-game tooltips as content previews. Until next time, good luck in the Tower!

Not too much to say, but a bit to show. I’ve been chipping away at the ability icons. Bit of a heavy period at work last week and this coming week, so not as quick as I’d like, but slow progress is better than no progress.

Alrighty, I’ve finished the ability design for the upcoming end-game build.

A little to my surprise, it turns out we’re looking at over *100* new abilities coming into the game. As you’d probably expect, while most of the new abilities are not exclusive to the end-game characters being added, many of them will only show up on Tier 2-3 or Unique modifiers…. but, that said, there will be a non insignificant number likely to show up earlier than that too.

I’d originally planned to do the character sprites next, but since ability previews are *much* less spoilery on average than character previews for a build like this, I’m going to reverse course and work on ability icons first. That will enable me to start doing ability previews sooner, which will be good preview content without also being super spoilery.

See you next update!