1/21 Status Update

Friday I put out the big At the Mountains of Friendship update I've been working on. 1.3 should be just as big since I plan to add a bunch of progression stuff like unlockable abilities for girls and items. So that should take a while. There's also been a few bad bugs found in 1.2 that I need to patch in the upcoming days.

1.3 will have Sk8er in it, work on her art should start this week. For people who don't remember the poll, a bunch of ideas for the combo so she should be fun. I'm planning on giving her the ability set I have code named "Death Eater", which is effects that happen based on if she gets the last hit on a monster. I considered making her a sanity healer, but I think sanity based abilities need to be more universal and lots of them will be included in the unlockable abilities girls are going to get. The way it will work is that using girls will give them meta "experience" and you can then spend that to unlock abilities or maybe buffs on a skill tree. Before playing a round, you'll pick a set of 13 girls, as well as what three abilities they'll have that game. 

I've also been working on the Steam release of Netoria Tactics. Art is starting to come in so let's look at some.

This art is for a bonus scene of female Carwyn and Gwen having some intimate time. Something they don't really do in the game. 

And this art is for one of the new female Carwyn centered endings that's going to be part of the free update coming at the same time as the Steam version. The new female Carwyn content should be done fairly soon and will have the normal release schedule of preview and test builds before the full public release. 

In addition to the new Netoria Tactics: Revolution content, Netoria Tactics 2 is looking more and more like a sure thing at this point. I have a solid idea about what it will be, but there's lots of details and structural things I'm trying to nail down. I've never made a sequel before, so it will be an interesting project. I'm not going to radically overhaul anything, just refine what worked in the first game and fix issues I felt it had. Things like integrating the TF content better, fixing the pacing and gameplay issues of the back half, have a bigger art budget with less shortcuts, etc. The idea is essentially to make something similar, but more refined.

There will be new stuff though, like a much bigger emphasis on class changes with unique art, think of what Gwen had with the dancer and whore classes but expanded. I'm also thinking about expanding the limited POV options of the first game to let you see the game from any of the main four characters POVs instead of just the main male character. I'll probably run some more polls soon to get some more opinions on things I'm considering and what players think is important.

That's all for this week. As always, thank you for your continued support.