Hello and welcome to this third devlog entry!

This time I'm gladly reporting that the demo is fully sounding! I have created many new sound effects, some of which are placeholders but indicative of the general direction. Regarding music we now have 3 tracks, one of which was composed by the great Fabian @fogheart

Besides working on the sfx and music I have also fixed plenty of bugs, made corrections and adjustments to the systems and created many new art and concepts. Still you can encounter bugs and inconsistencies but we are gradually working towards a polished vertical slice. Though I think it is polished enough to get some playtesting going.

Here are some of the concepts and artwork that has been cooking:

Boss concept

Here is a sketch of the boss I want to start working to be included in the vertical slice, plus a new playable character Kuyen!

Architectural work

Here we can see some work in progress shot of the architectural work being done. Some of these are still not implemented but are the building blocks from which later scenary will be built upon.

Jewel system

One of the features that didn't make it to this vertical slice but is already in the works is a jewels system, which essentialy is an ability perk system, were you can attach a jewel to a combat ability that will enhance it in some way. For now the jewels that are working (but not in the VS) are the melee jewels. You have the MP, HP and AP jewel. The MP and HP ones add MP and HP to your unit each time it hits an enemy. the AP jewel reduces the AP of the enemy that it hits, making its action meter a bit slower and so the enemy takes a bit longer to perform its combat action. This system will be implemented for the next update.

That is it for this update. I hope you can get to test this new VS and would love to hear about your impressions.

Thanks for reading this far.

Until the next one!

-Ramón