Developer posts and news about this game.
With the Party-Based RPG Fest going on, I felt like it was a good time to make a post about some of the new content we've been working on with Trope Tales. To start: as I mentioned in our last post , game development has been very slow. Most days recently I can't boot RPG Maker M
Around February of this year I changed positions at my job, and the new position has been very taxing on my time. On top of this, my son has started potty training. On top of this, I've had several personal issues arise that have drained my time. To top it all off: whenever I did
Demo Feedback Update Thank you to everyone who has enjoyed our demo and submitted feedback! We really appreciate hearing what is troubling our players so we can try to help them find the fun. We recently reviewed all submitted feedback. Feedback is 100% anonymous, so unfortunatel
In preparation for NextFest we spent a few weeks combing through our game end to end and looking for opportunities to improve things. There's been a few major changes, a few minor changes, some bug fixes, and some balance adjustments. Major Changes Harps aren't useless! Hero's sw
Live dev stream of Trope Tales ! Let's enjoy this nostalgic throwback together. This is a labor of love between family and friends to deliver on comedy and tropes. Each step of any journey feels big before it happens and small once it is gone. That is what every piece delivered h
To celebrate the new year and prepare for Steam NextFest, we're rolling out a new release of the Trope Tales demo! There's a lot of changes in this update, but I'll try to cover most of it and break this into sections for easy consumption: More Bats Storyline Changes Feature Chan
We didn't want to spoil it before it happened, but we finally finished our cinematic trailer! You can check it out in the trailers available at the top of the Trope Tales page! Appreciate the voice acting contributions of our amazing friend: (Let us know if anyone needs voice act
We're super excited to announce we now support steam cloud cross platform saves! Now you can start playing on one device and swap to another without losing your save! Steam has a neat feature where you can setup cloud saves automatically by describing the file path and file exten
Based on preliminary feedback from the demo, a few changes have been made to the game: Fixed Bugs The "Shell" status effect (imparted by Shell, AoE Shell, Good Touch, and Good Breath) crashed the game due to a missing effect file The party and First Villain were not removed from
What Changed? When fighting the First Villain at the end of Chapter 6, the game would crash with an error: Failed to load: "img/enemies/Actor3_3.png" This file did not exist in the demo build of the game, despite existing in playtest and development builds. I've uploaded a new co
What Changed? Upon entering the Weapon Shop in Good Kingdom (the first city after you leave Arcadia) the game would enter a buggy state where it did not respond to any keyboard or mouse inputs and you could not exit the shop or interact in any way. This required crashing the game
Posting a quick update about the demo release (it IS coming soon, I swear!) As a new Steam developer, the thousands of options and buttons and features and actions in the Steamworks backend can be very overwhelming, and it's easy to think you've done everything right only to real
Tropes Tales Demo coming June 2025! After much thought and consideration, and a lot of poopy diapers, I have realized that it would be ambitious to release my full vision for Trope Tales in the next three months. While my vision is not grand, the best laid plans of mice and men o