devlog 3

hi! here's an update because i love you. progress has been slower than before because a) we're still busy with university and b) we did a lot of the easy stuff already, but we did do some stuff!!!!

things i said we would do next in the last update

the new intro has not been done yet, same for renovating old areas. some work has been done on old brainland and the temple though! some new npcs and corresponding houses have been created for old brainland, while a few characters who we've had laying around for a while now have a full intro scene in the temple as well as musical themes. wow!

(a house)

the battle system

there are two main gimmicks to the battle system (as of now at least), one easy to implement and one hard. the easy to implement one is MP does not exist - instead, all magic will use your HP, or 'Blood' as it's called in TJOATP (this acronym sucks too). we know this is easy because we've put it in the game already, there are plugins that do this for you.
the harder one is the stocks mechanic. we haven't worked on this yet, but the idea is this:

instead of attacking/using magic/items etc., you can spend a turn 'investing' in a party member or enemy
investing costs something, maybe blood
when you invest in a character, their stats improve
with each investment, there's a chance of the stock 'crashing' - that party member's/enemy's stats go way down, below the starting point
with each repeated investment in a character, the price and chance of a crash increases

there are some other ideas about the stock market (e.g. enemies may drop more loot if you beat them while they're buffed, enemies might be able to invest in eachother, there might be blood magic that involves stocks) but those are the core elements of the battles. we didn't do any of the work on last month, but we do have a more concrete idea now of what we want battles to be like, what role each party member will serve and what the UI will be like. also there'll probably be 3 permanent party members and 1 rotating party member. say hello to a character who i don't think has a concrete name yet but i've been calling 'worms'

music

a lot of the songs have shit titles that have nothing to do with what they sound like or their in-game context, so we compiled a list of what songs could do with a name change. we have not been very successful at coming up with new names yet, but here's hoping. we also tried to make a new title theme (our current one is just the audio from this) but after an hour of trying our experiments proved unsuccessful. whoops

other

ernest built some more cool things out of clay 👀

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here's to a more fruitful november -ben

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