Developer posts and news about this game.
The sea creature Kwidikwik joins the roster of of playable Gemwielders. The Trident rewards a balanced, tactical playstyle, mixing attack and defense, and synergizes exceptionally well with card draw and card sorting. I also added some new achievements to go along with it and pol
The player info, accessed via clicking your name in the main menu, now correctly displays statistics and match history for Onyx. Bug Fixes Onyx statistics are correctly displayed in the statistics panel. The match history correctly displays Onyx gems.
This major update adds a new unique gem, the Onyx. Thematically you are in a swamp setting, collecting herbs and gathering ingredients to grind up in your mortar and pestle. The gameplay of this gem revolves around getting rewards for discarding cards. Sokras knows how to use Ony
Hotfix to properly display the match history entries for Flute and Tome and another minor display bug regarding Ancient Recipe. Bug Fixes The match history correctly displays the icons for Flute and Tome. In online multiplayer, playing Ancient Recipe alternately (without paying t
After implementing the illustrations from the paper game and repainting the backgrounds I felt the models, gems and cards didn’t fit the rest of the game as well as they should. I therefore decided to make some major changes to the art style: Taking inspiration from paper theatre
Apart from fixing a couple of minor bugs, this patch tries to address edge cases where desynchronization would occur in online multiplayer games. Since these are not easy to reproduce, it’s very hard to tell whether I managed to fix them. Hopefully, however, I got to the root of
When another player is waiting in queue for an online match, you get an indication of that. In the main menu, he text “trouble awaits …” will appear and during a game a small icon in the bottom left corner will let you know that someone is looking for trouble. Another important f
I spent the last two week’s painting more backgrounds so there is a good variety of beautiful backgrounds in the release version. I also added another toy for Sokras that rewards building up your deck more slowly before dishing out damage, rounding out their repertoire. Additiona
I added a new gadget that Sokras can bring to class on higher Student Ranks, the Abacus. I really like the design space these provides and more will be added every now and then. Apart from that I updated Unity to fix the security issue and improved the way character highlighting
I updated my Unity version to address a known security issue. This made a few adjustments to the color of some fonts necessary. I also changed the highlighting of characters when you hover them so it would only occur during your own main phase for a cleaner look and cleaned up th
With the new visuals I had to rework the Steam page and make a new trailer. Therefore, the actual patch this week is very small. I fixed a display bug where the illustrator information would linger a bit and I made it so Sokras adds their special modification to their discard pil
Beta Patch v.0.2.3 I painted a lot of backgrounds, including one for a brand new battle stage, the Funky Swamp. With this patch, I am happy and proud to announce, there are no more generated images in the game. All illustrations and backgrounds are painted traditionally in ink an
As of now there are no more generated images present in the build and I am proud to say that all backgrounds and illustrations are hand painted in traditional ink and watercolor style. Content Brand new battle stage: Funky Swamp. Art Style Reworked title screen. Replaced battle s
I decided to replace all generated image illustrations with my own watercolor illustrations. Title screen and backgrounds are next. Art Style Replaced illustrations for all cards by hand painted watercolor and ink paintings. New Hammer art. New Sokras art. New card frames. New ge
I spent the last two weeks painting to replace the art for Hammer and Sokras. Now all generated images have been removed from the game with the exception of the backgrounds. These will be replaced next. Apart from painting I fixed a few minor bugs and added some polish. I also de
The improvements to the network code would be quite major by themselves, even bigger is the art style shift commencing in this patch: I decided to remove all generated images from the game. Those that still are in the client can be considered placeholders. During the coming trans
There is a saying in game design: “follow the fun“. During testing I realized that it is great fun just to play relaxed games against Sokras, no pressure, just the challenge to beat your patient teacher. And this was the case even while their deck was pretty basic. So I decided t
I spent a lot of time this patch on the matchmaking algorithm trying to make it more resilient to errors. There is still a lot left to do but things are being learned and progress is being made. Apart from that I introduced some quality of life features I planned to put in for a
Demo Patch v.1.0.5 Even though the Student Rank scaling provided an interesting challenge, losing Student Rank can be frustrating, especially when first climbing to Elder. Therefore I made it so you no longer lose Student Rank on a loss. Furthermore, Sokras stops scaling after re
The main focus was on matchmaking and multiplayer stability this patch. As the achievements I introduced a couple of patches ago turned out to be great fun to unlock according to everyone I talked to, I added more of them and many more are still to come. I also introduced a new i