Devlog 35 (Patreon)

Time for new devlog, strap in your panties.

So what's the state of current promised half update with Atlathkan storyline progression? Pretty much all art and writing is finished, minus occasional hotfixes we have to apply as we carry on. Most work left is scripting quest-line and other in-engine work.

Quest continuation will have a small adventure into hostile territory with bunch of enemies and stuff to explore.  Think of it as Mara dungeon but slightly more condensed and slightly less dungeon-y, though it has less monsters too... But we get even more glimpse into game world lore and do a heroic deed or two.

We will have a new scene this update as well, which will be mutually excluding with Alenai scene depending on your choice during this quest-line, consequences will show themselves a bit again in the future but game will stay mostly linear. ZlaSova did an amazing job on the animations. We had to figure out a few new techniques since we had to animate stuff we didn't do before. I don't want to spoil the scenes much so I will tease you a bit with a cropped pic.

We will have to make few sacrifices to keep everything on track though. Main one would be the boss for this quest arc will be in temporary unfinished state, you will be able to fight and kill him, but his mechanics and behavior will be simplified since we are planning to rehaul the combat anyway. This applies to pretty much all enemies.

As many of you know, Hiho won the last poll and she will get next update to focus on her quest-line update, similar to Samara. If everything goes well there should be same update as combat overhaul. We will have more personal Hiho quests and, obviously, a second lovely dovely scene where we get to hold her smooth scaly hands... amongst other things.

Additionally are we slowly starting to work on a small side project and getting some asset drawing help from Josbor. We will reveal what it is in the future, but no worries it shouldn't impact main game and majority of content will be reused in the game anyway. Have a peek at new WIP sprite for Aya: