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🌟 NEW RELEASES 🌟

We're proud to reveal the Long Gone Days Collector’s & Standard Editions 🥳 Both editions come packed with collectible goodies and can be pre-ordered today!

Long Gone Days is out NOW!

Buy the game on your platform of choice today: Game Website: https://serenityforge.com/games/long-gone-days

Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/510540/Long_Gone_Days/

Nintendo Switch: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/long-gone-days-switch/

PlayStation: https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10008650

We're happy to announce that Long Gone Days is going to be out this October 10th on Nintendo Switch, PS4/PS5, Xbox Series X/S and PC/Mac, thanks to our publisher Serenity Forge!

We're super excited for you all to experience the whole story, because we poured all our love into it!

Progress Report: TinyTeams, New Tracks and More!

Hey everyone!

This month we bring a new progress report about the current state of Long Gone Days.

We’re still working on the final chapter, which will be coming out before the year ends, finishing the last maps and cutscenes of the game. There isn’t much we can reveal without spoiling the experience, BUT we can show you some some new screenshots without too much context for you to speculate~

We also wanted to tell you that Long Gone Days is part of the official selection of The Yogscast’s Tiny Teams 2021 event, where several indie games made by 3 people or less are being featured! And to celebrate the occasion, the game is currently 25% off until August 14th.

Before we go, we don’t want to pass up the opportunity to thank you all for your patience. We know it’s been a long wait, and we couldn’t do this without your support. Especially to our Discord community who cheer us up with their fanarts, memes and theories!

And finally, we leave you 2 new tracks of our soundtrack for you to enjoy:

That’s all for today’s update! For more frequent updates (and lots of fanarts and official illustrations) follow us on:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/lgdays Discord: http://discord.gg/longgonedays

The Indie Bundle for Palestinian Aid is live and it includes over a thousand incredible games for $5 (donating more is encouraged)! 100% of the profits will be donated to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

This gonna be big, I spent too much time living as a hermit, hiding all of this, I’m bursting. Also, monthly devlogs will be a thing from now onwards.

So guys, this game is fully done in pixel art! Portraits and menus are also in pixel art and everything is the same pixel size. This was a step up for us since doing the portraits is now 10 times faster, and it’ll allow for us to do palette swaps on everything. Big step up for consistency as well! We also added a slight chromatic aberration effect for a more retro/80s general vibe, as I was graphically inspired by PC Engine titles and 80s anime for this game. You can take the effect off if it bothers you, though! Now, check this very attractive menu palette swap:

Now, for the fun part: Combat!

The first major difference from Virgo is the absense of Purity.

In this world, Music produces Electricity.

This means you’ll have to use your personal Electricity Points (EP) in battle as well as your overall health represented by Life Points (LP). By itself, Electricity doesn’t do much, but is your base fuel for your LIFE moves. You can generate more EP by playing music with ELECTRIC moves.

In battle, you’ll juggle between Life Attack, Life Defense, Electric Attack and Electric Defense. Each with a different purpose. Each of these slots can be customized with several types of equippable items, but in general, you’ll equip weapons to LIFE slots and musical instruments to ELECTRIC slots.

With Electric Attacks you’ll use your instrument to attack the enemy and steal their Electricity, dealing Life damage if their EP bar is empty. Like so:

With Electric Defenses, you’ll generate Electricity after playing music with a rhythm-inspired timed-hit, but that also causes enemies who hit you to damage your EP instead of Life.

After you have built some EP, holding the attack button will begin charging your Life Attack, adding your EP into your next Life Attack damage, equal to EP spent, like so:

With this you can control how much damage you deal to an enemy. This is why draining enemy EP will be so important to stay alive, as it’s a constant potential damage bonus.

Holding the defense button will though add EP into a third bar, which functions like proto-purity; deflecting the next hit you take into a counter-attack, which will function differently per equipment you use. Like so:

About Equipment

Most equipment pieces will be equippable on more than one slot.

For example, the KATANA can be assigned to Life Attack or Life Defense depending on your preferences, but a GUN BASS can be either Electric Attack or Life Attack. Depending on the slot you put an equipment in, their animations and effects will be different. Some other items may be more specialized into a single function.

HOWEVER, equipment won’t feature a Skill anymore, as the effects of skills will be acquired from the Talent Tree (more info on that on a future post) and will apply to any equipment you have. We don’t have the Tree implemented yet, but we have an idea of how it is and plan on working on it soon.

This doesn’t mean equipment variation will be just cosmetic!

Apart from different timed-hits, equipment will define skill speed (faster speed = more turns you’ll have, with Ben’s new speed calculations!), targetting (if the attack is melee, ranged, area, etc) and if it’s on the Life Defense slot, also define how the Counter will play out.

Equipment will still have stat ups and downs, but unlike in Virgo, it’s going to be 1 up, 1 down, because Power and the baseline ATK stats have been synthethized into Minimum and Maximum damage.

(That’s something I really liked about how old CRPGs handled damage, with things like “Damage: 22-48” instead of an average, since I believe there’s going to be some sort of min-maxing relative to EP spent, so knowing your absolute highest roll for an attack is more important than ever)

Quality of Life changes

So, now you’ll have battle loadouts, you can put a certain array of equipment in a loadout and change between them in the battles. A lot of people asked for access to equipment during battles, but that would make the difficulty gravely decrease, so we’re adding an alternative instead that can help everyone!

Palette Swaps

Not fully implemented for Bobo, her Alpaca, Rocket, or any NPC and enemy yet, BUT we can already change menu colors as you saw already. This is mind boggling to me and when Veyerals and Ben made it I wanted to cry it was a very emotional moment :( BUT in the future you’ll be able to change BOBO’s hair and jacket color on the saloon, as well as Rocket’s metal color.

Some Virgo things you can expect to return in Keylocker but will be discussed in future posts:

Battle Rows

Difficulty options

Try again

Party members

Buffs/Debuffs/Instants

Item crafting/upgrading

Battle Items

Interaction with ALL objects

SHMUP minigame (representing the HACKING sessions, we’re very inspired by Nier Automata’s hacking minigame)

Big meaty choices

LONG GONE DAYS is now part of itchio’s Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality (DRM-free for PC & Mac)!

Get it here: https://itch.io/b/520/bundle-for-racial-justice-and-equality

There’s also lots of amazing indie games included as well, here are some of our favorites:

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