AutoForge Announcement
After several years of development I'm excited to finally be announcing my new game project, AutoForge. Much like Crea, AutoForge is a 2D sandbox game. However, it has a pretty big twist - it is a factory building game too! Visit the official website for more information: Wishlis
After several years of development I'm excited to finally be announcing my new game project, AutoForge. Much like Crea, AutoForge is a 2D sandbox game. However, it has a pretty big twist - it is a factory building game too!
Visit the official website for more information: http://playautoforge.com/
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Join in on the Chaos and celebrate the release of the "Chaos Awakening" update along with the best discount yet! Here are a few things we will be doing:
Something deep in Crea seems to have been disturbed some time ago. It has been growing unnoticed and today it has broken free!
A brand new update for Crea, Chaos Awakened, is now available to play! This update focuses on adding new content, bolstering bosses, balancing, incorporating player feedback and resolving many outstanding issues. This update has something for everyone.
Rumors are that a new inhabitant of Crea, the Chaotician, reveals himself to those that have truly engaged Chaos.
Chaos has further corrupted the creatures of Crea and many new monsters can now be found roaming the world.
The corrupted Aer (Bosses) have been rejuvenated with this surge of Chaos and will undoubtedly provide a worthy challenge. Unlocking bosses is now much clearer. Their attacks and mechanics have been greatly refined. The Chaos has culminated into a new high difficultly boss only the strongest can face.
Chaos has weakened the natural healing abilities of Crea and adventurers now much look to other means to survive. Healing tonics are great for recovering health and can easily be refilled with alchemy; however, acquiring new and stronger containers prove to be costly.
The Chaos Effect is wide reaching and more can be learned from here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/280520/discussions/0/1640918469750611138/
I am extremely happy to announce that Crea's latest update, Magnificent Mechanisms, is now officially released. It started out as an innocent update but slowly grew into the beast of an update it is today. So what exactly does this Magnificent Mechanisms bring?
What are these issues even? Dungeons are currently huge sprawling areas with interweaving hallways and massive rooms. This sounds great but in practice it lead to players running aimlessly hoping to stumble upon the exit. Exploring was uninteresting and monsters could often be entirely ignored - unless the exit objective required you to kill them in which case good luck tracking them all down. Needless to say the progression was empty and culminated into absolutely nothing when the end presented you with no boss or any sort of climax - dungeons fizzled. These are fundamental issues which necessitated fundamental changes. Mechanical issues also plauged dungeons with the most popular being hallways being blocked by rooms preventing progress.
Looking at these issues I worked to shape the dungeon design into something more coherent. First, dungeons should focus on survival and not exploration. The main world is where the exploration should happen. To reinforce this focus on survival it made sense to narrow exploration into something much more linear. Additionally, it is crucial that dungeons build to a climax to make completing dungeons feel both challenging and satisfying. So how does this all translate into a new system?
Sectors have become the pivotal component in dungeons and they are receiving much attention. Sector objectives will range from "kill all monsters" to "flipping a switch in a room guarded by monsters to power a treasure chest in another room that has the sector key in it". Objectives will have lots of variety and there can be a supporting objective to add even more. You will never know what to expect in the next sector.
Focusing on survival, there are many threats within dungeons the player will face. Hazards such as lava pools, poisonous plants and spikes will be despersed throughout. Players will encounter many traps as well such as flamethrowers, dart shooters, bomb launchers and monster alerts. Even monsters are going to prove more challenging as they will patrol their area and will link with other monsters if you're not careful. Don't be a Leeroy Jenkins and rush into rooms!
Afterwards we decided to move back to California and once there I found myself in a not so great place. In the past I have kept up the facade that everything is great even when they're not. I decided to stop that and instead share the struggles in hopes that it may help others and maybe in the future it will help me too.
After the 5+ years of working on Crea I was extremely burned out. I had suffered from minor burnout during development but nothing close to this. My desire to do any game development entirely dissipated. With my productivity gone I felt aimless and empty which resulted in me becoming depressed. Occasionally, I would struggle in an attempt to be productive but my motivation was at an all time low and my attempts where fruitless. I retreated into an old MMO with my brothers which lasted until the end of February when my brothers' grew bored of the game. At that point I was forced out of my routine and fortunately I discovered my motivation was renewed and productivity slowly returned. This is certainly not the best way to handle this situation but I think talking about it is a good step in the right direction.
Since the end of February I have been very busy with Crea and several side projects. For awhile I was juggling them and then I decided to finish these side projects first. That way they can be completed finally and I would be able to focus 100% on Crea once more. Another week or two and I should be back on Crea fulltime.
