Welcome to November's summary of our work progress ^^
To get that out of the way first:
I unfortunately fell ill this month for a week and thus wasn't as productive as I hoped for.
But I still made good progress otherwise and aside of this delay, we're otherwise on track ^^
I've been working on the mapping for the 3rd and final area (Cursed Village) this month as planned.
There's some things I struggled with, as I'm quite inexperienced with map design etc.
So I'll talk about the previous maps for this to make sense.
The 1st area (Northern Swamp + Goblin Caves) felt quite basic, but still solid I believe.
Now I really like the 2nd area (Cursed Forest) with the forest maze and the Stalker hunting down Loki which creates some urgency and adds to the chaos of the maze.
For the 3rd area that I am currently working on (Cursed Village), I tried really hard to come up with something that makes it similarly interesting as the Cursed Forest.
But ultimately, I couldn't think of something and decided to just go with a basic map like the Northern Swamp again.
(which isn't bad, but also not great either)
Anyways, the map currently has 8 houses (WIP) and tunnels beneath the earth that connect some of the houses with each other.
The idea is that Loki has to traverse the tunnels to, ultimately, get to the center house where the area's bossfight will be inside.
Here's a currently WIP screenshot of the center house:
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| Cursed Village WIP, without any decorations yet. |
When you clear the bossfight, this time the enemies in the area will remain.
The idea here is that you should be able to fight the new enemy types even after clearing the bossfight.
(the previous goblins were also still fight-able after clearing the boss, but only when you gotten into the earlier regions of each area)
The Spiderlings will be mostly in the tunnels and some of the house ruins.
While the Draugr are basically everywhere where there's no Spiderlings.
Throughout December I plan to flesh out the maps and assemble the final area as much as I can.
I'm not exactly sure when the 0.9 version will be released as there's still a lot of work to be done and I need to test and bugfix the 0.9 before releasing it to supporters, which entirely depends on how many bugs I have to fix, which is always unpredictable haha
But! I can confidently say that we are approaching the finishing line ^^
You can get the previous 0.61 version of the game here:
https://subscribestar.adult/posts/2017281
Also feel free to join our public Discord:
https://discord.gg/DB3F9jN
~Wolfenstahl~
