Hey everyone, a new release is out. It's faster than normal, since I really wanted a few bug fixes out, and I also had some more content prepared that I wanted to add.
Crouler
Downloads:
Content:
-Added a path to a new area in the elven city. A human noble lives there. There's some content there ready for you to try.
-Added a new random encounter to the world map. This one is a onetime only event and will always start if you step on the event. It's in the north, near the border. Southeast of Fuar.
-Added a new concubine. Defeat her two events (Hint is, around Rei-Long Oak, and then around Fuar ;)) You gotta pick wisely. She won't become your concubine if you don't make her happy.
Fixes
-Fixed entrance to player town's dockhouse.
-Fixed the elven city's doors. You now walk into them, you don't need to press the action button to exit.
-Fixed house in player city that would cause the game to freeze
-Fixed the game's starting graphic for the player
Upcoming:
-I will be redoing the journal system. It is not at all transparent to anyone, me included, when I work with it. As such, there will be some things that will and won't be added for now, as I try to ready the game for it.
Please note any wonky stuff that happens to the journal in this period of time!
For more bug info:
-Check the discord bug section for what bugs have been reported if you are interested.
-I know that the random events on the world map end with the player staying in his "wagon" or "ship" form and I will fix soon, promise! For now, change clothes, that should work. (In divine's private room you can change clothes)
-I realized the player walks "on top of" the stuff at the docks in the player city. Will try and fix soon.
Upcoming:
-More fixes will be deployed in upcoming releases. There are many bugs, and some take a long time to fix so I will be adding some fixes to all releases, if possible, from now on. Please, add all bug reports to the discord bug section. Adding to the blog posts can work, though I don't always get to check back to earlier posts if I didn't get to fix it for the current release. Discord is ultimately the best place to report.
-I realised I have done something wrong for a long time. If you find events where the characters you speak with seem to weirdly not turn towards you, let me know which so I can fix them!
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General info: The pornstash is unfortunately not a priority. Currently I am going for some revamps and content that will help finish up the game. There isn't much left of the actual game, but my limited work time is making it drag out. As for the pornstash, it is a minor priority, and as such will not be worked on for the time being, though I will likely add something alongside the revamped systems, as I will be making things easier for myself.
If you HAD to give an estimate for the 1.0 release, when would it be? by the end of 2024? 2025? The year 3000?
ReplyDeleteCrouler here:
DeleteThe answer is always this year. Was 10 years ago, still is :P
All jokes aside though, it really depends on how fucked up everything is. I started this so long ago, and I'm doing a few fixes here and there, while adding more stuff. I can try and split up what remains:
Main quest: I can probably finish this in a few releases. It's not too difficult, and there isn't too much left for this.
Adding to the world: I want to make sure there are no areas that seem useless. I have a lot of new, smaller questlines that need to be implemented for this purpose, as well as random encounters, etc.
Finishing lose ends: There are a ton of still unfinished quests.
My most dreaded part: Bug fixing: I need to go through the game once I finish everything else, and fix up all of this stuff. A lot of the game was made when I was starting out with RPG-Maker and didn't know anything about coding in general, which means it is really stupid. Like, it is horrible for me to see what affects what. It is so bad I previously considered just stopping, since it seemed like such a huge issue, but I have come this far and will see it end.
Proofreading: Yeah, this crap has tons of typos I wanna fix...
Finally - replacing systems: I want to redo the quest log so its implemented in the menu, with a much easier design. Kind of like the inventory, just with quests, only showing active ones, etc. I want to redo the summoning system to make it less of a hassle and implement it in the game better. I also had a system where I needed to add an end to all fights where it deleted the summons, which I sort of got away from, so I will add a general system for that. Income, and many other things.
So, while it would probably be rather quick if I spent all of my time on it, I do have work and lots of things going on, which means I mostly work once a week or so. Then again, lately I have been doing much more than I did for a long time. I probably do enough for weekly releases these days, and I might see if I can't make an easier release system to make it easier for you guys to keep up to date too.
I know it didn't really answer your question, but I hope it gave a roundabout answer so you can do some calculations on it, since I sure as hell can't, haha