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Small update to my previous post about few games that I made/make.

Apparently, I forgot to add VL Gothic font in both Townlore_2_0 and Gardens of the Void. That problem was already solved.

There was also another thing. If you already had or get mentioned font and played Townlore, you get to the final sequence, basically. It happened because I put wrong save file in the game folder. That, however should be also solved already.

When did I write last post? About 4 months ago? Something like that. I wasn't very active here for various reasons, but I think it's about time to prove that I am still alive.

First of all, in previous post I mentioned that I want to remake Townlore... and here it is, in Download section on my blog. I've added a bit more of a background to the game, few clues that may help players speculate about what happened and most of all, I finally added Mainland - something that many wanted to be in the game. Of course along all these changes, game get graphical update and I (hopefully) got rid of some glitches that appeared in first version of the game. There is however one glitch, that I decided to left, for two reasons: first, I honestly don't know how to get rid of it without changing how certain event works, and second - it actually works in favor of getting that feeling that "game breaks". Ah, I also changed the "warning" document that's in the game folder. I got rid of unnecessary drama and decided to make it simple, yet a bit suggestive. All in all, I decided to make game closer to "Ring", rather than your usual creepypasta in which stuff happens just because.

Next thing is... another game! Yay!

Well, ok... calling it a game is an exaggeration. It's a simple idle game (I repeat - IDLE), titled Gardens of Void. To be honest, for me it is more of an artistic project, than a proper game. To advance, you simply have to repeatedly press Enter (or just wait long enough) for new things to appear on current island. Your objective is to collect tokens that let you proceed to the next island and so on, and so on. Currently there are only 8 islands - but I want to add more and more over the time. These currently available are related to characters I created over the time. Most of them should be familiar to you, if you've played Divinity Fatum. Gardens of Void is also available in my blog’s Download section.

Speaking of Divinity Fatum, the development is slowly progressing. It kinda pisses me off, that it takes so much time for me to finish this game, but I don't want to rush it. Also, I'm aware that many side projects and stuff I do distracts me from working on DF and for that I apologize to everyone who eagerly waits for it to be completed. For now, I can try to redeem myself by showing you some new screenshots from the game:

Next point - I'm currently working on heh... yet another game. It's a very short and small project, but let me tell you a bit about it anyway. The game's title is "Party at Foxy's" (after translating it to English). The game is currently made in my native language, but who knows? I may decide to translate it to English anyway. The game is - like Townlore 2_0 - a remake of one of my older games... and probably first game I ever made. As title says, action takes place in Foxy's house, where he, me and a bunch of our friends party hard - that is, until something dire happens. The game will be ridiculous and plainly stupid, but hopefully enjoyable.

Some time ago I found certain poster-like pictures depicting scenes from various games and animes. Their style caught my attention and I thought about doing something in similiar way as well. I spent two days to draw all more important characters from 2nd act, as well as their counterparts from act 3. Here are the results. They may spoil a bit, so be aware.

As for a progress report, I pretty much completed next location. I also figured out certain parts of plot, which as a result should give characters from 3rd act a bit more depth. First two acts had that good part, that I didn't have to come up with real dialogues. Act 3 bases on characters' interactions far more and I'd really like to avoid writing unnatural, illogical dialogues just to push the action forward.

So... after some hiatus it is finally time to get back to work.

I was working on Million Souls To Take for a while, but I kinda lost my primary concept for the game somewhere along the way. I may return to that game some time in the future, when I'll figure out exactly how I want it to look like. All in all, I spend most of my free time in last dunno... 2 month... relaxing and just having some break from everything.

But these times are finally over. Now I'm once again eager to work on my main project - Divinity Fatum. It's kind of sad, that my motivation rises from tragedy, but taking in consideration theme of this game, it may be suitable.

Anyway, for starters I get rid of few bugs that were reported to me. Hopefully I didn't miss any. I also added descriptions for other "frames" in Art Gallery, so it's more interactive now. Next, I must come up with some info to put in Library, so it would actually serve some other purpose than checking world map.

Battle with second Martyr - Regia Aculeo is finally done. I also added some MP cost for skills. It won't really mean a lot in most parts, though. We can also visit Emilyn in Hospital now. Next thing to do is "searching for the Tower" part.

Theoretically there are not that many parts of 3rd act to do. The problem lies with proper presentation of these parts. I may also consider adding some more content to the final act, but on the other hand I don't really want to spin off too much from main story... which is pretty confusing as it is anyway.

So, to sum it all, I haven't really done a lot from last update. I simply wanted to inform that I still work on the game and that development is slowly going on.

Oh yeah, I also decided to finally put an actual picture of Salomon's face in the game:

Finally, I don't know when I'll release new updated demo, but I guess it won't be anytime soon. I want to cover a certain scene first. Probably after that, I'll release next and probably last demo. After that, next upload would be a full game.

I started it on a whim. When returning home by train with my wife, we talked about some so called "RP groups". Then I came up with idea of almost claustrophobic, capitalistic Purgatory, where in order to ascend you have to buy yourself a ticket to Heaven. That - in a nutshell - is plot for Million Souls To Take.

Million Souls To Take is simple dungeon-crawler. We explore new locations, encounter monsters, collect loot and sometimes fall into traps to finally encounter domain's boss.

I want to capture in this game things that I mostly enjoyed in games, but it was never exploited to such extent to be fully satisfying. What I always loved in RPG games was character's grow and it's customisation. Thus, MSTT will feature Attribute System, which will give us control over character's development. I also intend to add A LOT of skills which we'll be able to learn freely. There will be also a lot of items and equipment with it's many variations (for example: there will be a simple sword and that same sword with fire attribute). Everything will be available in stores that randomly generate it's current ware as well as in "crosses" that serve as treasure chests in game. There will be also a lot of summons that will aid us in battles and grow alongside us. Everything put in simple, yet difficult game where we won't have much of a plot, but hopefully a lot of entertainment.

These... are however plans so far. Still I'm kinda surprised that I actually made something with that concept for a game. I remember that when I came with idea for the first time, I had on mind a loose mix between Danganronpa, Hotline Miami, Persona 3 and Diablo. What will be the outcome? Time shall tell. Anyway, just to be a little more brief, here's a list of game's possible features:

- Many different characters to pick

- Character's grow control (so far there are only two, but that will hopefully change)

- Many skills

- Many equipment

- Many items

- Variety of summons

- Upgradeable room

- Challange room

- Cohorts with gods

- Abstract locations

- Difficulty (not an option - a fact)

Yeah, that should be enough. Finally, some screeshots depicting current progress:

And, that's all for now.

It seems to be some kind of habit lately... I've noticed that I write a post pretty much once a month. In this past time I did... not much of a game, being honest. Main reasons for that were: - being physically tired - lacking concept for next Martyr's stage - being tired of working on Divinity Fatum (temporary, though - I'm not going to abandon this project) In a meantime I started working on some kind of side project (yet another one) to serve as some kind of steppingstone for me, when I get tired of working on DF. It's in an early phase as I only made "main base" and overworld so far. I guess that doesn't tell you much, so let me explain a little about that  project, before I move onto main topic. Game's title is: "Million Souls to Take". We're taking the role of recently deceased person. Action takes place in capitalistic Purgatory where we can literally buy ourselves a second chance by exchanging it for mentioned million souls. We can collect them from the "Fallen Ones" - beings that were once humans, but because they stayed in Purgatory for too long, they lost their identity and cause. I plan to make it into dungeon crawler being mix of "Elona"'s open world and "Persona 3"'s battle system (typical turn-based jrpg battles). I want to put there what I like the most in that kind of games - a lot of customization. I don't really mean character's appearance here, but rather a lot of skills, items, allies etc etc. I intend to even put there an option of making yourself a house and later on even creating something like a town. Except that, there will be a lot of dungeons ending with boss battles. We will be given all that, while fighting not only to gain a second life, but also to not turn into the "Fallen One" by ourselves. Everything kept in '80's theme (kinda. I was inspired by Hotline Miami here). Anyway, here are some screenshots of that something:

Now, a little about Divinity Fatum's development progress. First, I added a little visual adjustment in certain parts of the game. Basically, I thought that I could add script that I used in Townlore to enchant feeling of tension in certain parts of the game. At first I just wanted to make Martyr's stages to look more disturbing, but when I noticed the effect of this script, I thought that I could also use it in other moments of the game. With that little touch-up, I get something like this:

Next news is that I finally get an idea for second Martyr's stage, as well as how it should look like in the end. I had a certain idea for Martyr's image alone, but I found it not exactly threatening. After spending some time away from the game I get an idea of how I could make second encounter look like. I haven't scripted battle sequence yet, but beside that whole stage is pretty much done.

I should also finally force myself into maybe adding some dialogues with students from the School, add some books to the Library and write some descriptions for pictures in Art Gallery. These are the things that don't push the story forward and pretty much serve no purpose other than making the game more interactive. That, however is ironically quite important part of gameplay...

Finally, some screenies of latest little progress:

I'd also like to remind that there are save states for both Act II and Act III in download section here: http://divinityfatum.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html . If anybody would like to check out the newest add-ons by themselves, be my guests. Demo was also updated.

And that's all for now.