You heard it, there’s one more festival post, but this could be the last one. What remains now is mainly for Teddy to put everything together, so hopefully we’ll have a prototype of the festival up and running sometime next week for our frontline users! :)
So what have we been up to this week? Well, first of all, Vilya finished the treasure cave you saw a preview of last week:
She also made a bunch of new expressions for characters appearing at the festival:
As well as creating a little space for candy, where she’ll sell candies to festival visitors:
She and Teddy also started working on getting the mini-games in place, meaning some simple interfaces:
As you might guess, this particular mini-game involves hitting a button at the right time (when the arrow is near ‘max’), in order to hit the machine as hard as possible!
We also added Oak to the festival, along with some pets to entertain the kids of Evergrind City:
And we’re also working on preparing the city for the festival, meaning once you get back to town after beating the Temple of Seasons, there will be some hints that something is about to happen:
We’re also planning on adding some additional NPCs working on getting this in order, which Fred is currently working on in fact!
Speaking of Fred, he has of course been busy doing flavor animations for festival goers as well! Here’s a few:
See you again next week, with a post that hopefully will have some non-festival stuff! :)
So, there are guns now in SoG? :D
Theodore (administrator) wrote at 06/10/2015 23:16:@Sogomn: We read some posts about people wanting the bow as a main weapon, but we thought why settle with a silly bow when we could have fully automatic thermal scoped assault rifles instead??
Next week we’ll be introducing a new skill tree for the Commando subclass, including stuff like molotovs, cluster grenades and tactical nukes!
Lol, sounds like a great addition ;)
Have you guys seen this? There’s some game that has almost the same exact skill menu. It almost seems copied:
http://i2.wp.com/cliqist.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/severed_world_2.png
aaaw, bows are so much better than auto rifles >_< bleeeh really.
I hope it will be added someday, anyway.
I love your game *-*
I'm just messing around with Arcade now, and mentioning of it, I hope you guys to add some style swords/weapons(exclusive to style slot) from Arcade quest rewards(or maybe actually fighting weapons) or that may be bought using statues. 999 statues for a hood is too much, also considerating that all the statue rewards are head or face styles.
I can't wait to play more story.
Hello Pixel Ferrets.
I saw your game come up on Steam back when it was released into Early Access. I thought it looked pretty cool. I started reading the Dev Blog from the very beginning and read the whole thing. Now I want to make a game of my own! Haha.
I bought the game about a week ago. I’ve been playing story mode and am currently trying to defeat Winter. Maybe it is something you guys will balance out, or maybe I just suck, but there definitely seems to be some odd difficulty spikes and peaks. Otherwise, I think this is a great game. It feels like classic top-down Zelda, but with more features.
The story is really good. I like your imaginations and how many different directions it all goes while still making sense. I really like the smart-alec talking bag.
Anywho, enough fanboy blabbering. I had a suggestion for the mini-game in this post:
What if you have a power bar, but instead of going from min/max, you have a sweet spot somewhere randomly generated that you want your arrow to hit. The bar starts out big like in the picture with the arrow moving up and down at a certain pace with a decent sized sweet spot. Each time you hit the sweet spot, the overall bar shrinks, the arrow moves faster, and the sweet spot shrinks until whatever point you have designated it to end.
You could either make it where you have to hit the sweet spot all the way through, or you could give prizes based on how many times you hit the sweet spot despite the increasing difficulty, with the fastest arrow/smallest sweet spot giving whatever your designated grand prize is for the attraction.
Just a thought! I look forward to playing more and seeing your progress. You are awesome!
***I meant to say difficulty peaks and valleys.
@Theodore: Yeah, I totally see your point.
Yay, thanks for keeping us updated with this blog. I am really looking forward to progressing in the game and particularly the festival! My husband is also looking forward to an update :D
Theodore (administrator) wrote at 11/10/2015 13:31:Just to make it clear, we’re not going to add fully automatic assault rifles with thermal scoping and nuclear missiles to the game. I was trying to make a joke, but I think it’s best to cease all such activities :D
The slime bosses are homing chainsaws already anyway ;)
“bleeh” meant I was kidding too. If I thought it was for real, I would type a text to show my indignation Ò_Ó And “I hope it will be added someday, anyway.” is for the bows, because I really like them. I can’t imagine this game with firearms lol if bows fires that fast, just imagine rifles or a single pistol XP
@Theodore: But but but, I trusted you~
;)
Woah, lots of new stuff in this post! :O
A quick tip on the Hitting Machine minigame:
Instead of having the arrow turn back around after it hits the top, most powerful, red portion, have the arrow actually loop back around to the bottom so it only goes in one direction; up. This is because it actually gives the minigame some challange and timing. If you risk waiting too long to get the most power you might end up getting the lowest power instead.