This is a small patch to address a couple of bugs reported by people. It is available to download on Itch, Gamejolt and Steam.
Fixed a crash in the Inventory screen when no items were available. This typically occurred when going from the items section to the weapons section with no weapons in your inventory.
Fixed a bug where optional details (ex. Health) were not cleared when switching between sections in the Inventory screen.
As I’m sure everyone following around is aware, we’ve been working hard on this demo for the past 1.5 – 2 years. When we released the previous demo we got A LOT of feedback from people. Most of the feedback focused on the art and how the game played.
The art feedback focused on the overworld sprites and how the battles played. The low frame count, and the design of the sprites were not appealing. For the battles, a lot of people were not fans of the vertical battle style, and preferred to have something more classically horizontal.
The game feedback was less on the story or characters but on the game engine itself. People found the collisions too floaty and bouncy, it was easy to clip through them if you tried, some people ran into crashes that was hard to reproduce, and others had some issues with how the levels were designed.
We took all of this feedback and decided to invest in getting this stuff right, but it was no easy feat. It required essentially redoing the whole game. So, yes, this last 1.5 years or so have been spent redoing the game.
We redid all of the overworld sprites, the title screen, added new battle animations, new UI, new game engine, more music, and new story.
We hope everyone enjoys the changes that we’ve made!
Release Notes
Due to the sheer number of changes (over 1000) the following release notes will be light on details, but will highlight some of the more important differences between this demo and the previous version. Note that major changes will be bolded.
Added
Added running and a run button
Added new Title Screen Illustration
Added new character specific themes and battle specific themes
Added a popup when you enter into a named area
Added a popup when you gain a new quest
Added a Statement Screen, which displays all gained testimonies, facts and evidence gathered
Added a new boss battle
Added sunset and nighttime shaders for select areas
Added a map screen showing the whole map of Gataela
Added new battle animation states for Idle, Attack, Damage, Death and Revive
Added a victory screen when winning battles
Added new options to the debate battles
Added a grass effect to look like objects are walking through tall grass
Added mountain TTBattle background
Added screen transition effects for battles
Added all of the NPC dialogue to the translation files
Added new endings for some of the debate battles
Added an indicator in the main menu to remind that some characters may have status points to be spent
Removed
Removed charisma stat and charisma bar from debate battles
Temporarily removed most crafted items from being usable in battle
Temporarily removed some enemy types from the maps
Removed one of the NPCs that provides bread during the second quest
Removed some homes and NPCs from the overworld
Other
Changed game engines from Cocos2dx to Gamemaker Studio 2
Redid the UI
Redid the opening sequence
Redid the portraits for all of the skits and debate battles
Redid all of the overworld human and animal sprites
Frame count for animations changed from 4 to at least 8
Redid all of the battle animations for enemies and party members and skills
Battles changed from vertical layout to horizontal layout
Rewrote the Klatchez main story quest
Rewrote almost all of the debate battles
Adjusted all of the skits and cutscene dialogue
Reset the version numbering to 0.1.0
Debate facts have been changed from being single statements gathered from one NPC to being divided into testimonies (gathered from many NPCs), facts (gathered from one NPC) and evidence (gathered from interacting with objects).
Changed being able to escape from encounters with patrol events to make Wiska Forest more palatable. May be changed to an option to toggle in the future.
Reduced game download size
The game should now run much smoother on lower-end devices and take up less RAM
Adjusted percentages of battle items. To be adjusted as more feedback given.
Simplified finding the NPCs needed to get bread from during the second quest
Removed most of the inaccessible houses from Vuni.
Changed Vuni’s layout for the market zone. This should make exiting the city easier.
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