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A- Hey, guys, it’s been a while! We’ve been working day in day out these last few weeks to get the next demo in order, and we’re really excited to show it to you. I just haven’t had a spare moment to gather up some screenshots and make a proper post about it, but I’ll do my best.

B- So that everyone’s on the same page, here’s the scoop: this demo will contain the missing Part One chapters - those of the lords Eliza and Tristan. The story structure may seem alarming at first, but if you play the chapters in the order they are listed, the story will play as intended. If you are continuing from an existing save file where you have completed chapters as Uther, you need only play the new chapters as they unlock.

B- In addition to a script overhaul and a restructuring of the story, I have been developing the Codex and preparing it for integration into the game. I can’t promise that it will be ready in time for the next demo, but it will certainly be in the demo after that. Included with the character bios and chapter overviews will be explanations of the mechanics that may be difficult to understand, such as the archery triangle or growth overflow. These entries will become available as you encounter these concepts, or when you visit the appropriate houses.

B- I’ve also finished work on the Intermission and have began writing Part Two’s script, but you won’t be seeing either of those in this release ;)

B- Besides creating all of the interesting characters that fill out Tristan and Eliza’s chapters, our spriters have also been working on new villager sprites and a number of characters for the Intermission and Part Two. We inherited a large number of orphaned sprites from another project, as well, which will find homes where we can fit them. Our animators have also been working on new sprites for the demo, and we’ve brought on some new members to help with things such as skill icons.

B- We’ve grown our playtesting team to a more robust size, and put them to work not only testing the new chapters and how they play, but also the overall game flow with the addition of the new chapters and the altered mechanics. We’ve tweaked a number of features to fine-tune the balance of the game and encourage more engaging play, which we hope you will enjoy. Some of the changes include changes to the weapon triangle formula, throne effects, experience gain, difficulty mobility, promotion gains, and more.

Hi, everyone. I expected to have this post done a week or so ago, but things are still pretty turbulent here. I'm not on a stable income stream, but I am with my family, and things seem like they are going to be better.

With the scripts out of the way (and with no access to photoshop) my duties have shifted to polishing the level design for Part One and beginning pre-production for the next release. Yeti has sent me a number of new builds and as we refine the flow of each chapter, and the rate of experience and resources the player gains, we also bugtest and check ranking and completion data. It's also important to make sure a variety of different team builds can make it through the game, so we've been using different teams and spreading the experience at different ratios to see how the balance changes. When I first tested Ch7x a while ago, I one-turned the chapter, because we hadn't anticipated a player having hoarded as many slayer weapons as I had. The starting positions and enemy strength have been altered, and we are now testing these changes on both normal and hard mode.

Anyway, as I mentioned in the flash report, I'm going to motivate the spriters to turn in some work by waving some digital cash under their noses. Hopefully by the next one of these we will have seen some results.

Flash Report found here