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Hi All, Unity recently patched a vulnerability that would have allowed malicious code execution in certain scenarios. That vulnerability affected both the Unity Editor and games made with Unity. Since then, both Microsoft and Valve issued mitigations via Windows Defender and a St
Hi All, Today's update implements duty events. Some duties have a chance of an event happening. When the event triggers, you'll be presented with a short story that requires you to make a choice. At least one choice will be free, while the rest will cost resources: money, fame, a
Hi Everyone, Today's patch fully implements the Bow and Maul cards. Both two-handed weapons are good at range and can do some AOE. When starting a new adventure, you will receive three random weapons, two 1-handed and one 2-handed. The base shop also has a stock relative to the s
Happy New Year to all! It has been a very challenging year here at Read Play Code, but ultimately fun too. I personally read a lot of opinions and stories of game devs getting laid off, burned out, or struggling with their games, and I realized a few things this year: We are luck
Fixed an instance where the game was left in an unresponsive state.
Hi All, This patch brings a small number of improvements to combat. Full list: Card descriptions updated to be shorter Cards now get straightened and larger during highlight to help with readability Card keywords now get tooltips during card highlight Combat initiative now increa
Hi Everyone! Two quick things: Firstly, if you plan to buy our game, wait until the next Steam Sale - Autumn Sale starting on the 27th of November . Secondly, as usual, try the game first! Our Playtest is open to all, and access is granted instantly. This is one of the most signi
Hi All! A new big update is coming soon containing the changes talked about in the dev logs since last update. It already is on the test branch (for both the EA and Playtest versions), so if you want you can try it out right now and feedback would be much appreciated. To change t
Hi All! September went by in a flash, but we haven't been idle. The focus this past month has been on making the changes needed to support the mutations system. We're finally in a place where we can iterate content much more easily. We've also worked on AI, and some enemies might
Hi All, It's been another busy month, so quite a few things to talk about! While the focus has been on enabling the supernatural part of the game, we had to invest much time into the game progression, which the mutation system depends on. This new system will allow players to pus
Hi Everyone, It's been a while since our last update, and we've been busy. For the past several weeks, the focus has been on weapon variants and mission rewards. The first weapon variants introduced are several swords - some curved, some straight. They are historically inspired a
Hi Everyone, We're excited to reveal the latest update, introducing two interconnected systems into the game: Duties and Attributes. The attribute system, acronym S.A.D.I.C., adds more depth to the character progression and performance. Attributes values can range from Abysmal to
Hi All, The Steam Summer Sale is just around the corner, so if you were planning to buy the game, wait a little bit longer. As for development, I am still hard at work on the duties and attributes system, the latter of which has been the focus for the past two weeks. Progress is
Hi All, It's been two busy weeks since the last update. I have been working on the Duties feature; please take a look at the concept below. In your journeys through the lands of Unsung Ballads, the Legion will call upon you to undertake periodic, mandatory, and (sometimes) menial
Hi all, Today's small update changes how the initiative works during combat: - initiative values are now correctly taken into account; before, all characters started at 0 - delaying the turn will decrease the initiative at the end of the round by the character's max AP value - en
Hi all, Today, we bring you another vital feature: sparring! If you felt that combat was brutal and there wasn't any chance to experiment, this is the update for you. Sparring is a combat scenario that doesn't end the game when defeated. You can access it through the new interact
In this small update, we added a little combat tutorial. Enjoy!
Happy Friday, everyone! With this update, we introduce the first steps in our efforts towards better accessibility, as we talked about in this dev log . We also had a combat tutorial lined up, but unfortunately, our playtests showed that it didn't function properly in the release
Hi Everyone, Another week flew in the wonderful world of game development, wonderful despite the job losses and tragic choices. While there's no patch this week, I've been fully dedicated to enhancing the game's accessibility, even though that was further down the roadmap. It's b
This small update introduces a new popup that displays a larger version of the card and explanations for the secondary effects such as Bleeding, Opener, Finisher, etc. As part of that effort, we also had to move the card type to its own graphical element on the card. And finally,