Fur Quests Devlog 2022-07-20

Greetings dungeoneers!

The current access key is "37076".

Today's update was another minor one on the outside as we focus on expanding a few more complicated elements that we want in the game. 

Mainly with us adding so many new branches to the Erza questline, it seemed like the perfect time to add our reputation system. If you return with one heart, you get your reward, but that is about that. If you return with five hearts in hand, your fame will rise significantly higher, with ten being the obvious peak to this particular quest. 

But the system tracks a whole lot more than just your fame. It also draws on how you choose to behave in certain situations. If you are brutal with someone, you may gain a reputation for ruthlessness, and if CAUGHT in a lie, you may develop a reputation for being dishonest.

We tried to get a chart into the game to display this to the player but we couldn't get something that looked remotely appealing working. -.-

So ultimately, we figure that in the finished game you can speak to certain individuals like tavern keepers about your reputation and get a bit of in-universe feedback that way.

This system is heavily based around Pillar of Eternity's reputation system, which might be one of our favorite systems out there in any RPG. Rather than track two binary moral meters, it instead kept track of your personality. This meant that you had a lot more freedom to play the kind of character you wanted to play as.

For example; You could play as a ruthless warrior that was feared across the land, but was respected for your honesty and sense of duty.

This will hopefully give the player a sense of interactivity with the game world in a natural and seamless way.

We don't know when the reputation system will be fully implemented, but we hope to add more interactive elements in the future.

In other exciting news, we've contacted an artist about drawing some unique assets for the game. Up until now, Fae has done all of the artwork, while Pug has done some minor photo manipulations to add a bit of life to Erathor.

But with Fae focusing on the art and Pug working on the game and story, there hasn't been much to add more unique assets to the game. But thank to all your helpful donations, we can finally afford to commission another artist to do it for us.

We are very excited to see her work in the weeks to come, but for now, we'd just take this time to thank you dear backer, for your continual support. None of this would be possible without you.

50 dollars per month may not sound like much to be excited over, but for us, even this small amount allows us to inch a little bit closer to making Fur Quests into the game of our dream, with unique assets and voice talents, just a little faster than we would without you!

So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you so much for your contribution. <3