Megalo

0.1.22 RC is now live for Snorkelers+

Added 2024-04-24 06:24:09 +0000 UTC

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Hey all!

It's Tuesday! That means it's patch day!

2D Art

The Cassandra Training 2 scene, along with its associated CGs, is now available. Additionally, the Blacksmith Job is playable—refer to previous snapshots for more details. We've also introduced new busts for Seras and Grimnr, and updated various other busts.

Prologue Updates

Every scene in the prologue has been touched to some degree. Most notably the Finding Cross scene and Camp Fire scene. Next we'll be smoothing over the dialogue in Day 1 along with one very important context improvement to the story/setting.

Combat

Still plenty to do here but I've messed around with stats and stat growth scaling. The game will have a soft cap at level 50 and hard cap of 99. Probably the next major item I need to nail down here are skills and at least some better placeholders for animations and sounds.

Dialogue System

I've made a lot of improvements here under the hood. Slower devices should no longer have issues with sporadic characters flying everywhere as their busts are loaded in. Adding in new dialogue is also significantly faster from a development PoV. For now this newer system is only in the prologue.

Sprites

Lots of new sprites. Seven to be precise! We'll just have two more batches left after this which you'll see implemented over the next few updates.

Cursed Realm

I've updated the map here. We are still using placeholder tiles for now. The current plan is to get custom tiles done for crystals and then we'll update the rest of the tiles as well. Their design will match the Cursed Realm CG's monolith.

Prologue Quests

During the prologue you'll be able to complete a small quest with Kazuma. We are also in the process of implementing one with Cross but we are still waiting on a few mechanics to be completed first.

And more! Read the changelog below for more details!

Next Update

0.1.23 should be a much quicker turnaround compared to our last few updates. It'll mainly be due to there only being one snapshot this time but also I'm going to force myself to focus on the corruption system and balancing how various scenes play out/are triggered and Emma's reaction to them. Of course we'll be getting some H-CG scenes and more playable days!

Estimated Upcoming Release Schedule:
0.1.22 RC | Toe Dippers | 4/30/24
0.1.22 RC | Public Release | 5/14/24
0.1.23s-1 | Snorkeler+ | ~5/3/24
0.1.23 RC | Snorkeler+ | ~5/17/24

Changelog 0.1.22 RC (Includes notes from snapshots)

added 2 CG sets
added Cassandra Training 2 scene
added playable blacksmith enchanting job
added corruption gauge to main menu
-various events should increase it and once it fills up Emma's corruption level should increase.
added Seras's bust
added Grimnr's bust
added new expressions for Emma's bust
added Kazuma prologue quest
added new "Battleground" scene
added new Lyra Sprite
added new Cassandra Sprite
added new Lucian sprite
added new Cross sprite
added new Duke sprite
added new Hermit sprite
added new Hilda sprite
added Battlefield Map
added Cross Prologue Quest placeholder map
added Kazuma Prologue Quest placeholder map
added training room placeholder map
added 3 new music tracks to dance event.
added Combat-Off mode
-just wack em!
added new menu option for toggling combat on or off at any time
-default setting will be "off" for only this snapshot.
added new dialogue system
-should remove wonky behavior when new busts slide in over older ones.
-also adds support for greying/tinting non-speaking busts.
-updated all dialogue in the prologue to this new system
added Grimnr boss fight
-should be easy mechanics-wise
updated cursed realm map (still placeholder)
updated/rebalanced all stats (not final)
updated Kazuma prologue dialogue
updated Cross prologue dialogue
updated love scene dialogue
updated Demon Lord encounter dialogue
updated castle storm dialogue
updated Demon Lord H-CG dialogue
updated Demon Lord encounter 2 dialogue
updated 2nd Eye Text
updated Finding Cross Scene
updated Camp Fire Scene
updated Garland Talk Scene
updated Demon Lord's bust
updated Garland's bust
-Also added new props
updated Kazuma's bust
updated Cross's bust
added a tiny amount of zoom which should help reduce shimmer.
added a wooden dummy to the camp map
fixed some events that showed the older pixel art for Cassandra and Lyra
fixed several lines that repeated in the first visit to the Golden Barrel innroom
fixed a typo in the merchant quest
fixed a repeating line in Cassandra's Training CG
fixed a missing word in the butler's text when visiting the mansion
fixed a pathing issue on the camp outskirts map
fixed a freeze when doing the pot cleaning quest
fixed collision issues on camp map
updated plugins
improved overall performance
fixed several typos and polished even more dialogue