Excited to announce that the first Test Build will be available to play on August 8th.

More information will be posted in the coming weeks, including how to pre-register and how to download the game client.

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The next Test Build will be available to play on March 31st.

This build will be a big step up from the first one and hopefully a lot more fun to play, which is deserved considering how long it has been.

I've given myself a bit of extra leeway this time, so if you have any feature requests for the next build let me know.

The last couple weeks have mostly focused on finalising and improving existing systems. This will remain the primary focus in preparation for the Test Build release.

That being said, I would also like to take any chance to implement new features when the opportunity presents itself. I have yet to work out a robust patching strategy, so the more features that can be shipped in the initial build the better.

The most recent of these new features has been Rental Cards. The idea behind this should be familiar to most.

Players are able to select a Rental Card prior to battle, occupying the fifth Ability Card slot in their deck.

Available Rental Cards are selected from the player's Following list as well as from random, recently online players.

Friend Ticket rewards are distributed daily based on how many times a player's card was rented, up to a maximum of 10.

Announcing the closure of the current Test build, effective as of the time of the post.

While there are still people discovering the game and trying it out every day, I'm very keen to start implementing and testing new fixes & features.

Thank you to all ~150 of you who took the time to play, test and break the game. Your feedback and commitment have been invaluable, helping to identify bugs, refine the game and ultimately lead to a more polished, functional and fun build the next time around.

Apologies to anyone who was unable to play due to technical difficulties. Mac players you will not be forgotten next time!

Please stay tuned for more information on the next build and the features to come.

Welp, I said I'd try to not leave the next update too long and that turned out to be a total lie. Never fear though, work is still being done on the project every day and night.

To be honest it's been so long that I can't quite recall everything that has been done since the last update but I'll try and break it down. Instead of a screenshot dump I've just included a few minutes of gameplay at the end.

The Field Map menu was given a big behind-the-scenes improvement, allowing it to logically and easily move between certain states, e.g. First Login Bonus, Battle Start, Teleport, Post-Battle etc. Visually I don't think there's much really new here other than the post-battle rewards pop-ups. Node / Path reveals and unlocks was also vastly refined.

Next, it was time to ditch the A-pose and actually take a crack at rigging and animating the player character model. The test model is fairly limited in it's detail - and I am very limited in my animation skills - so the animations do not and will not look very good. Right now though the goal is just to fill in that piece of the development puzzle.

The Battle System was also in need of restructuring, there's a lot of components talking and a lot of components listening It seemed logical to implement a Message Bus type system to decoupling everything. This has been very successful in maintaining my sanity and has really cleared the road to building on and improving the Battle System.

To be blunt, the Battle System is still very underdeveloped. Janky animations and locomotion aside, there are still some pretty foundational mechanics / features that have yet to be implemented, such as:

Break Gauge / Break Damage

Enemy Scaling

Proper conditional camera switches - this is half-baked right now

Calculated orb generation

Animations for Ranger / Mage jobs, remaining common animations for Warrior abilities

Ultimate Abilities

Particle Effects for most current offensive abilities

and this list is just what's on my mind right now. Nevertheless, it's only a matter of time until this all comes together and I can't wait to show it off.

I figured it has been long enough now since the last update that I ought to post another, regardless of the current level of completeness.

The last few weeks has been almost solely dedicated to refactoring and rebuilding the Deck Editor menu for almost the ground up. This has allowed for missing features to easier be implemented as well, which will be detailed below.

Only some slight improvements in the base level of the menu, seeds created by deck are now calculated properly and deck stat calculation has been improved.

The Sub Job Change menu was slighted reworked, it previously only allowed for five job slots. They are now generated dynamically (in sections of five) and can be swiped through, although this isn't really demonstrable right now.

The Skill Panel menu was rewritten to be much more driven by player save data sent from the server, previously the menu was figuring out itself what was visible / locked etc. and it was just really clunky. The ability to switch between seeds / openers for unlock has also been added.

The current Auto Abilities and Card / Ultimate Abilities applied to a Deck are now viewable. Ability stats are calculated based on the stats of the Deck.

Weapon Select menu has been implemented, showing Weapon model, Deck stat change and Auto Abilities. Weapons had previously been slightly ignored in development, so good to get over this hump.

Confirmation prompts have been added when changing Abilities Cards / Jobs, showing the differences in bonuses, stats, etc.

As usual, here is a video showing these new features in action: