Secrets of Grindea » Weekly Recap #116: Patched Up

With the beta now up and running on Steam, feedback and bug reports have been flowing in like never before, to Teddy’s combined delight and despair! In times like these, the ability to quickly roll out patches on Steam really shines. In fact, it’s so easy to update that a better way of delivering patch notes was in order. As such, one of the week’s additions to the game is an in-game patch note viewer!

Whenever the game has updated and there’s new patch notes, a notice will appear on the start menu informing you about this. By pressing Tab, you can access all recorded patch notes.

The game records when you played it last, and if you have missed more than one update, you’ll have an option to aggregate the patches. This will create a combined patch note showing every addition, change and bug fix in all patch notes since the last time you played, allowing you to catch up easily!

Fred has stepped away from the flavor and NPC-crafting (for now) and started working on some new enemies. Below are some of the enemies that will pop up in the upcoming Season Change Temple (working title).

Knights

Like the name implies, changing seasons will be the main focus of the Season Change Temple. Player will be able to change season between Fall, Winter and Summer (spring is excluded for a reason!) with each season affecting the dungeon both visually and gameplay wise.

The season change-ability will be the main ingredient of the puzzles of the dungeon, but it will also effect the enemies within it. As seen above, every enemy comes in 3 different versions that each represents a different season. For example, changing the season to Summer will boost the stats of all summer enemies as well as allow them to use certain skills. The same goes for the other seasons!

To round things up, here’s the idle animation for the Summer Knight!

Posted by Secrets of Grindea at 2014/03/25. Tags: animation, Enemies, Interface.

Johnny wrote at 25/03/2014 02:06:

I’ve been watching this game’s development for a long time and it looks like it’s shaping up to be quite amazing! You are taking some of the best elements from of the most classic games and are still able to incorporate new and exciting idea. Keep it up!

Houmaboss wrote at 25/03/2014 03:51:

Is it possible for me to get access to the steam beta? Would REALLY appreciate it :D

This game looks amazing and day by day I know it’s getting better. I can’t wait till the final polished product, but it’s killing me not being able to play it. As always thank you for the update!

Jake ~ Pyr0n1c wrote at 25/03/2014 06:18:

2nd temple Hype?

Any info of when we can get into that mountain zone (if we already can I should probably go back to campaign mode then :P)

Solomon wrote at 25/03/2014 06:20:

Would love to get in on the steam beta. Have wanted to play since I first saw and voted to greenlight it years ago. Keep up the great work, I’m looking forward to the final release.

Donald wrote at 25/03/2014 07:37:

This is the kind of game I’d like to see on the early release program on Steam, I think enough content is ready to make a good case for give the creators some hard earned money and at the same time have a lot of feed back coming in.

I’ve been waiting IHeartPie’s video’s and just the arcade mode alone is more then some of the other stuff thats on early access all ready.

Give it some thought as I know I’d pay to play this now, it’s looked amazing ever since greenlight campaign.

Good luck

Ark626 wrote at 25/03/2014 09:25:

I easily LOVE the new ingame Changelog.
Its a very nice improvment for bughunters :D

I hope we didnt stress Teddy to much with our bugreports :D

claudekennilol wrote at 25/03/2014 14:07:

Those sprites look awesome. One thing, though, for the summer knight’s idle animations, for the front (left) and profile (right) and profile views, when he “bobs” the hammer goes away from his body, but for the rear view (center) the hammer goes towards his body. Obviously this isn’t a big deal as there’s nothing that says the idle animation has to be the same from every angle (this isn’t a 3d game where it’s just a single animation). And I’m sure in the game no one would ever notice–it’s just something I noticed while looking at it here on repeat.

As always, super excited and can’t wait for you guys to have a release. Good luck, and keep up the good work.

Antar wrote at 25/03/2014 17:32:

I have a feeling that a Steam release is really near! Also I’m loving those new enemies, for some reason they remind me of A Link to the Past. In fact, the whole game is like a multiplayer/coop A link to the Past but with more content. I can’t wait for it!

Sogomn wrote at 25/03/2014 20:39:

Awesome! Just played a round of arcade with my friend! Though it’s every time alsmost the same, it is still fun. Looking forward to the new dungeon!

Sogomn

Justin wrote at 26/03/2014 00:35:

How does one go about applying for a steam beta key? I’m a tester by day and game designer by night, so I’d love to get a chance to help poke around and work out the kinks.

Hadig5 wrote at 26/03/2014 10:46:

Haha, so cool, kinda reminds me of Minecraft update system! Anyways GL guys..

Sushi wrote at 26/03/2014 16:35:

Long time lurker, first time poster here.
This game is looking more and more fun to play as each week passes by. Reminds me so much of both old megadrive/snes games and Ragnarok Online, I can’t wait to be able to pay for a early access. I’m hoping it won’t be too long now, as there seems to be already enough content to justify it (IMO even just arcade mode would’ve been enough).

Keep up the good work ! ;)

Anonymous Person wrote at 30/03/2014 03:35:

D: Y U No invite me D: I’ve waited A YEAR ALREADY D:

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