Developer posts and news about this game.
After a mysterious being from outer space crashes into Sylvia's tree-house and throws her into the vast cave system below she needs to experiment and explore a wide variety of items, spells, colors and caves to be able to climb her way back through her perilous adventure. Sylvia
Recently we have made a few changes primarily focusing on beginner players. First of all we have updated the tutorial in many different ways. We have reworked what information the tutorial teaches to the player and made some changes to how that information is presented with the g
These past two weeks we have introduced a new NPC into the caves of Painted Peril! We hope everyone will enjoy the presence of Tizo the traveling trinket trader! Err… or at least his cart for now… In Tizo's cart Sylvia can find many of her precious items which Tizo has collected
Tjena, during the last two weeks we have been busy with updating the level progression of the game. Meaning we have added and changed some routes of what level exit that leads to where to make the players decision on where to go more meaningful. An addition to this has been to re
This week we have important news to share with you. We now have a publisher for the PC version of Painted Peril, Fennonauts Publishing. We have been in discussion with them for a while, and since last week it is official. This is good news for us because this allows us to focus m
Wow, yet another dev update with new stuff. What we present to you this time is a mixed bag of stuff. For a starter we have now updated the tutorial (again) to make it fit the new gameplay mechanics (introduced in the previous two dev updates). Our goal with the tutorial was to s
After an additional two weeks of development we are finally about done with the three step rework of the core mechanics. At the moment we are still playtesting and polishing the change, so do expect us to do additional changes to the system in the future. We have also not updated
During the last two weeks we have been hard working in doing some major reworks of the core color system. Therefore, to start off we thought it would be interesting to discuss some of the underlying issues with the previous system which lead to making the reworks. First of all th
The last two weeks have been filled with doing administrative tasks, polishing and doing general cleanup. We have updated the tutorial areas, added level variation for a couple of levels and done a lot of polishing of the players movement. We have also done some significant updat
Happy Valentines day, this dev log has many things to update you about. For a starter we have added 4 new movement based spells that allow you to play more aggressively by moving and attacking at the same time. This includes painted swords that activate when using movement abilit
As January concludes it is time for a new dev update. And this time it is a large one. First of all we have added 8 new items and 2 new spells. This allows for several new combinations to be made and a lot more viable build options. Our goal has been to make each run feel more un
Hi everyone, hope you had a good holiday! To start this week off we want to announce that we will change the schedule for our weekly updates. Because we are moving closer to release we have started working more on aspects other than creating content for the game, such as polishin
More items have fallen down into the caves. However, a local worm has so generously offered her services to clean up in our caves and make it less cluttered. She says: “There is no trouble at all to help clean up in these caves. In fact, this has made me so inspired so I have dec
This week has been highly condensed on overhauling the final boss. The boss has been given several new attacks, the boss arena has changed shape and layout, and we have spiced up the different phases of the boss. However, even though the boss has seen significant improvements thi
This week's update will be a bit shorter as we have mostly been doing a lot of preparation work for content that will be added at a later date. This includes a boss rework and an additional. More information regarding that will come in the future. Other than this we have also add
This week we have gone over a few balancing changes. The most significant buff is to red where you now get to keep some of your shield instead of it all draining. Sylvia has also received a generous donation from Willow and now gets to start each run with some colors in each of h
Our quest for adding more content to the game continues even this week. As we mentioned last week we had started working on a new level, well now it is complete. In addition to adding a new level we have also added a new enemy, added more items, and made some major reworks to spe
This week we have focused on balancing health, adding items, and fixing color balancing and smaller issues. We have also been working in the background on adding more levels and updating NPCs, but those are updates for a later date. Our goal with adding more items has partly been
As promised last week, this week has even more updated levels. This time we have updated both the in between runs level and the first level. Our aim has been to make them feel a bit more colorful and have some more interesting level generation for level 1. So let me present Cave
Content has been added. More is coming. Exploration will be needed… E&M Also, did you know that you can get temporary access to the game by joining a playtest: Discord Server: