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May Update 2021 - One of these days.....

One of these days I'll remember to update this regularly.
One of these days we'll have more updates to give regularly.
One of these days all the patrons and the community will be happy becaus...

December 2020 Update - Happy Holidays!

Wishing you all a happy holiday season if, no matter what you may, or may not, celebrate! 'tis the season to spend time with your loved ones, wrap up 2020 projects and make plans for the coming yea...

October 2020 Update Part 2 - Good News, Better News and Great News!

Alright, so I'm a wee bit late getting this update out. I had to do a bit of soul searching this month as I realized that the team was stuck in diamond storytelling that, no matter which way we wen...

Remember Project: Bounty Hunter?

 Don't feel bad if you don't, it's been awhile since it was mentioned and longer still since it was relevant. We made the announcement for it back in December of last year but abandoned it whe...

October 2020 Update - Dead in the Water

Don't worry, Tierwach isn't actually dead.

As most of you know I, Dapper Gent, quit working full time back in November of last year for personal reasons, which also let me dedicate more time...

May 2020 Update - Still Alive!

It's been quiet. Too quiet.

At least on Patreon. Discord is still abuzz with frequent discussions and posts and what have you. Even minor updates are on there.

Though hopefully that'...

Current State of Things

Today has not been a good day for the team and, through it, the community. This is going to be a long, and somewhat painful, read. I apologize for that but I feel I have to say this.

Let ...

February 2020 - First Update of the Year

And do we have news to share!

First, and most importantly, is a bad news, good news situation. Bad news is that Phoenix, our programmer, had to step down from the team. Good news is I reach...

November 2019 Update - Good News and Bad News

Another month, another missed update day and Tier reveal, but this time there's reason this time.

The bad news is, after some reflection on the team and the scope of the project, I have come...

October 2019 Update - The Curse of Real Life

And then two months blew by in the blink of an eye. I didn't realize how much time had passed and that I had missed last month's post until a couple of days ago. I decided to get the reveals done b...

August 2019 Update - Vacation Month

It's been quiet on the Dark Impulses home front. Most of us have been busy earning pay checks and/or taking vacation with our families. Little to no progress has been made this month, I'm sorry to ...

July 2019 Update - Same Ol' Song

It's rolling around again, the monthly update. Again, not much news to report from the homefront. Though soon we'll be getting together to discuss where we're at with the engine, the game plan goin...

Training Facility Officers - Beta Designs

Here we have the current finished designs of the Training Facility Officers. There are seven Statesmen officers leading gyms that are maintained by the government. These are the ones that are speci...

WIP - Training Facility Officers

We finally have concepts for the 14 Training Facility Officers!

As the name implies, they are the officer's in charge of each major city's training facility. As Eisenheim is a militaristic ...

June 2019 Update - Busy, Busy, Busy

As the title says, it's been a busy month for us. With spring semesters ending, summer prep coming and new jobs for some of us, it's been an active month.

I'm very behind on getting last mont...

May 19 Update - 100 Tiers Down!

 Before I get into that, I want to reaffirm that all artwork being revealed up until the beta is available is all a work in progress. All ch...

Meet the Bachelorettes of Lichten!

Something we wanted to do for Pokemroph was create relationship arcs for certain characters. Those were Daisy Oak, Delia Ketchum, Angelica Magnus, Willow and Eevee. Yes, Eevee. But aside from a few...

April Update 2019 - Revving the Engine

Just want to cover a few things this month.

First, the artists have been fending off real life stuff so artwork has been far and in between.  I've been suffering through artist block mys...

Characters - The Protagonists

Meet the two main characters, Lucas Wolfe and Sophie Kaiser, the childhood friends from Lichten, Eisenheim,

As per their custom, every civilian enlists in the military at 15 years old in Eise...

Welcome to the World of Ather!

Well, at least welcome to the region of Eisenheim where the first part of the game will be taking place. This is a beta map. We'll likely add another town or two as well as several more key places ...

March Update 2019 - Making Headway

Late. Post is late. Between being sick and losing my day time job, the last week and a half has been busy.

Starting with the poll from the last update, it looks like Character Art won. Turns...

February Update 2019 - Tierin' It Up!

Greetings and salutations, my friends! It's that time of month again.

Val is still working on the engine. He likes to remind me how much he hates programming and how much it would help if we ...

Tier Types

Our beta type list. Aside from possibly altering the strength/weaknesses, this may be the final form as well.

Some of these are self explanatory. Such as earth, fire, wind, water, ...

Game Lore - Ather Balls

Before the Great War, crystals were rarely used to contain Tiers. Humans and Tiers existed in relative peace to each other, at least when it came to the domesticated ones. Ather Balls were created ...

Fun Fact: Discord Link

People with discord attached to their patreon will auto join or have their rank updated each pay period which is at the start of every month. That explains why no one was able to join automatically...

January 2019 Announcement - Good News & Bad News

We're going to start 2019 off with a bang. Sadly, this is not an update regarding the new engine. ValturNaa is still diligently working on it. He's making small breakthroughs every day but still no...

Bad News....

 I was hoping for just the opposite in the near future but fate did not favor us.  

We were but a couple of weeks from releasing the demo to our patrons. However, the programmer who h...

Discord

Just a reminder that a lot of the updates and art go through our discord, which is an open line with our patrons. Everyone who pledges has access to it. Due to a quick survey conducted recently, we'...

Just a little update.

I was goong to make a video to go over this update and share some spoilers and content info but I just haven't had the time to commit to it. Here we are, once more completely overshooting our expect...

It's. Getting. Closer!

I am overjoyed to announce that we are finally getting closer to releasing our demo! Estimated time to have that out is about 2 weeks. Hopefully we can stay true to that. This is in no little amount...