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Small name change. Laying the groundwork for maybe a few graphical updates to come!
Small name change. Laying the groundwork for maybe a few graphical updates to come!
WyVRn: Dragon Flight VR
- Released
- Dec 13, 2019
- Platforms
- Windows
- Last updated
Updates & announcements
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Pinball Wizards (New Patch!)
What's New? A new level for the ball. It's a pinball game with a score, three lives and currently two waves of enemies: Zombies and Golems. Your spells are replaced by the flippers. The speed is a bit disorienting, but it isn't nauseating like you'd expect. At least for me. You c
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What's New?
A new level for the ball. It's a pinball game with a score, three lives and currently two waves of enemies: Zombies and Golems. Your spells are replaced by the flippers. The speed is a bit disorienting, but it isn't nauseating like you'd expect. At least for me.
You can also trigger the flippers with the arrow keys.
What's Next?
More waves of enemies for the pinball game. Maybe turtles.
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Trialing Times (New Patch!)
What's New? I've added a new time trial. This one is not only friendlier to the dismounted and ball movement options, but it was also designed to be run in the hamster ball. The giant turning gear at the end would be awkward to try as the dragon, though not impossible. Fixed titl
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What's New?
I've added a new time trial. This one is not only friendlier to the dismounted and ball movement options, but it was also designed to be run in the hamster ball. The giant turning gear at the end would be awkward to try as the dragon, though not impossible.
- Fixed titlecard for tutorial video #3, which was previously showing the title for the second tutorial video.
- Fixed a bug where the emergency spells for the ball form would float in front of the mounted or dismounted positions, whichever was last, instead of at the ball.
What's Next?
I dunno. I might put the hamster ball into a pinball machine. Or a pachinko? That'll be fun, right?
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Race Against Time
What's New? Time trial mode added to the side missions list! Go through all the target points as quickly as you can. Comes with a new music track for going fast. This one's a shorter one, should take around 40 seconds to run through. What's Next? I think I'll make one or two more
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What's New?
Time trial mode added to the side missions list! Go through all the target points as quickly as you can. Comes with a new music track for going fast. This one's a shorter one, should take around 40 seconds to run through.
What's Next?
I think I'll make one or two more time trials. One that you can run while dismounted or in a hamster ball.
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Ouch (New Patch)
What's New? Pain! Things make sounds when hurt now, at least. Everything, including yourself. Not just 'living' things, but also the balloons and spawners. Hopefully this way, it should be easier to figure out if you're actually accomplishing anything, or if you're in trouble now
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What's New?
Pain! Things make sounds when hurt now, at least. Everything, including yourself. Not just 'living' things, but also the balloons and spawners. Hopefully this way, it should be easier to figure out if you're actually accomplishing anything, or if you're in trouble now.
Phylactery Defense: Fixed a bug where the phylactery was invincible.
What's Next?
Tune the sound volumes, ranges and such. Maybe make them more unique between units.
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New Tutorials (New Patch)
What's new? The four tutorial videos have been reworked to use new footage, instead of stuff from where the old footage, where the textures were MS Paint (if they existed) and the enemies were weird Gumby-esque white clay men. Smaller things: I rearranged the emergency spells to
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What's new?
The four tutorial videos have been reworked to use new footage, instead of stuff from where the old footage, where the textures were MS Paint (if they existed) and the enemies were weird Gumby-esque white clay men.
Smaller things:
- I rearranged the emergency spells to be better, too.
- The emergency spells also tell you what the level's objective is.
- Brightened the level lighting for Message Delivery... again.
- Fixed behaviour where moving spells would face them the wrong way.
What's Next?
I think I might be making a new level to race through the level. A time-attack of sorts. It'll be fun.
Aside from that, it's time to make fore more responsive sounds! It's not always obvious if you've dealt damage to someone or have been dealt damage. I want to give some audio feedback to that kind of thing.
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Final Gameplay Trailer!
Look at that trailer. Finally finished that sucker. Look how far we've come from the first trailers. From here, there's basically just replacing the tutorials, maybe working in a few extra voicelines to explain the goals of a few levels between me and my calling this game 'done'.
Original postWatch on YouTube Look at that trailer. Finally finished that sucker. Look how far we've come from the first trailers.
From here, there's basically just replacing the tutorials, maybe working in a few extra voicelines to explain the goals of a few levels between me and my calling this game 'done'.
I'm still planning on adding a few extra levels after release. They just won't be tied into the vague storyline of powerful egotists that we've got, though. Just some things to entertain you for a while after you've exhausted the main levels.
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Quality Control (New Patch!)
What's New? The have been improvements to the quality options! The fog now disappears for lower tiers, and the fog in general has been tuned down to be a bit easier on your cards. The max option layers the fog more interestingly in the sky levels. Level select! Bugfix: Tutorials
Original postWhat's New?
The have been improvements to the quality options! The fog now disappears for lower tiers, and the fog in general has been tuned down to be a bit easier on your cards. The max option layers the fog more interestingly in the sky levels.
Level select!
- Bugfix: Tutorials no longer autoplay when entering level select.
- The tutorial buttons should also be a little more reactive.
- Tweaking preloading so it doesn't play audio and largely visible sound effects during level select.
Message Delivery: Brightened the level... again.
General:
- Approaching the ground for a landing should be easier, now.
- Fix to keep zombies you've bitten from disappearing.
Phylactery defense: Fix for golem using the wrong pathfinding mesh (No longer walks into a wall and gets stuck).
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More touchups! (New Patch)
What's New? Bringing in changes that I think were lost with my hard drive in (see two posts ago!) Touched up some lighting and textures and post-processing specifically in the message delivery level. Trying to make the buttons in the intro section a little better. Fixed George no
Original postWhat's New?
Bringing in changes that I think were lost with my hard drive in (see two posts ago!)
- Touched up some lighting and textures and post-processing specifically in the message delivery level.
- Trying to make the buttons in the intro section a little better.
- Fixed George not biting down on zombies properly.
- Made George's firebreath bigger to avoid those awkward gaps in it.
- Made barriers a little more transparent.
What's Next?
More small changes as I play through to capture more gameplay footage. Still picking out blooper audio.
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Testing, 1, 2, 3 (New Patch!)
What's New? There's a new side level. It's a sound test! Listen to all the voicelines. Also, as a side-effect, a bit of refactoring to make it easier for me to add and rearrange options in level select. What's Next? I think I'll pick out some bloopers I've got to put into the voi
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What's New?
There's a new side level. It's a sound test! Listen to all the voicelines. Also, as a side-effect, a bit of refactoring to make it easier for me to add and rearrange options in level select.
What's Next?
I think I'll pick out some bloopers I've got to put into the voicelines!
Gotta collect new footage for the trailer, too.
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Computer compromized, but it's okay (New Patch!)
What's New? So! Been a bit since I've had an update. Life's happened a bit. Went away for a conference for work, had my computer broken into and ransomwared. But it's okay, because I had backups and remote storage! Just had to redo all the changes work after August 5th. Soapbox t
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What's New?
So! Been a bit since I've had an update. Life's happened a bit. Went away for a conference for work, had my computer broken into and ransomwared. But it's okay, because I had backups and remote storage! Just had to redo all the changes work after August 5th.
Soapbox time! Always have backups. RAID isn't a backup. A duplicate on your drive isn't a backup. 3 separate copies, on 2 different types of storage media, with at least 1 of them stored offsite.
While I was redoing stuff, I changed the Luncheon Defense level to use fragments of the golem as obstacles instead of just stacks of pillars.
Oh, you might have noticed that the store page has changed from "WyVRn" to "WyVRn: Dragon Flight VR". This is so we actually show up in search results for Dragon and VR. Get us in front of more eyeballs, you know?
What's Next?
The files for the trailer footage were too big to maintain constant backups of, so I lost all of those. Back to collecting footage I guess!
P.S. Steam's changed the announcement posting system, sorry if this sends you some weird notification or looks to be the wrong place to put patch notes.
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Tweaks/Bugfixes (New Patch!)
Airship: has a new camera angle focused on the airship. Airship: Fixed the collider code so the pieces that fall away don't fall through the airship or spin weirdly. Balanced the double Air Spell to launch less dramatically high. Tweaked the stun code so that enemies who happen t
Original post- Airship: has a new camera angle focused on the airship.
- Airship: Fixed the collider code so the pieces that fall away don't fall through the airship or spin weirdly.
- Balanced the double Air Spell to launch less dramatically high.
- Tweaked the stun code so that enemies who happen to be at the peak of an arc aren't counted as 'grounded' and recover midair.
- Audio: Fix bug where muting the audio would cause all dialogue lines to play at the same time.
- Level Select: Tweaked the position of George.
- Level Select: Gave the blackboard a wooden border.
- Enemies:
- Wizard: Tweaks for shield and the wizard hat so it doesn't violently launch when its user is stunned or killed.
- Wizard: Tweaked rendering so that they don't pop in and out of existence.
- Tortoises (Not the dormant god one): Now freezable (but not stunnable).
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More Quick Updates (New Patch!)
Been finding a lot of quick things to fix/touch up this week it seems. My fix for the ground-tracking introduced another glitch where you would slide off the golem as it moved. I've fixed that. I've also rearranged the level select objects to look nicer. Tweaked some pathfinding.
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Been finding a lot of quick things to fix/touch up this week it seems.
My fix for the ground-tracking introduced another glitch where you would slide off the golem as it moved. I've fixed that.
I've also rearranged the level select objects to look nicer.
Tweaked some pathfinding. Nothing noticeable should change, hopefully.
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Quick Emergency Update! (New Patch)
What's New? I redid some of the 'ride height' settings (the code that sticks you to the wall or lowers you onto the floor or whatever you're walking on) because after the changes in my foot IK patch, you were sinking through some stuff you were trying to climb onto, or getting bo
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What's New?
I redid some of the 'ride height' settings (the code that sticks you to the wall or lowers you onto the floor or whatever you're walking on) because after the changes in my foot IK patch, you were sinking through some stuff you were trying to climb onto, or getting bounced back by it. It should feel better, and also you aren't going to be sitting with your head straight up lower than the people that you're fighting.
While I was in there, I also added a few pillars and such to the Luncheon Defense level. They needed something to make the terrain more interesting for things like the other locomotion options, and now some of the pillars mark out the paths the enemies take.
Fixed a problem where parts of the harness disappeared in the IK update.
Fixed a problem from last patch where the dragon breath was colliding with the dragon's own face.
What's Next?
More footage capturing, more balance tweaks. You get the drill now.
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Tweaks! (New Patch)
No fancy picture for this one, sorry! What's New? I've rebalanced casting speeds across Wild, Encircled, and Cloned magic. Now, Wild and Encircled magic should be as fast as Cloned Magic can be. The Air + Iron spell is now a bit speedier. Fixed the instance of George the Wyvern i
Original postNo fancy picture for this one, sorry!
What's New?
I've rebalanced casting speeds across Wild, Encircled, and Cloned magic. Now, Wild and Encircled magic should be as fast as Cloned Magic can be.
The Air + Iron spell is now a bit speedier.
Fixed the instance of George the Wyvern in the level select room.
The Ice spells shouldn't spin out as oddly now.
Fixed issue where the 'boss' of the Message Delivery Level would not point his musket and shield in the correct direction.
Touched up dragon breath so there aren't large, obvious gaps between colliders.
Fix for the default Oculus Touch controls to get the grab button to work properly.
What's Next?
I dunno. More recording! More balancing out of spell effectiveness!
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Clawing Your Way Up (New Patch!)
What's New? Foot IK while 'walking'! To cut a lengthy explanation short, George no longer hoverhands the ground like this: Instead, he'll hug rounded objects and corners properly like in the top pic in this post. He might still put his arms through walls if you run up next to one
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What's New?
Foot IK while 'walking'! To cut a lengthy explanation short, George no longer hoverhands the ground like this:
Instead, he'll hug rounded objects and corners properly like in the top pic in this post. He might still put his arms through walls if you run up next to one though.
There are also a few more pillars in the practice arena to climb on.
What's Next?
I dunno. More balance tweaks.Maybe I'll adjust the IK so that George doesn't have his hand go through walls, and not just so that it matches floors.
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Having a Ball (New Patch!)
What's New? We're having balls: Canon balls, and hamster balls. The Delivery level got changed up visually. It's got a few more moving parts and accessories, namely some cannons on the ramparts. It also looks a little more in line with the other levels, aesthetically. Less... yel
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What's New?
We're having balls: Canon balls, and hamster balls.
The Delivery level got changed up visually. It's got a few more moving parts and accessories, namely some cannons on the ramparts. It also looks a little more in line with the other levels, aesthetically. Less... yellow.
Things relating to the hamster ball!
- Replaced the texture on the hamster ball to be better looking, less wobbly and crooked.
- Redid the placement of the ball when moving from mounted mode so that it more intelligently attempts to put the ball above the floor instead of partly inside of it (which causes the ball to shoot off up wards).
- Fixed a bug where the ball wouldn't appear in normal gameplay if select.
- Fixed behaviour where the initial placement and velocity of the ball would be erratic if the player was gripping the controls as the ball is created (by the spell or by the start of the Hamster ball level.
- Fixed a bug where the ball would play music over the existing music.
- Fix for letting the player 'pull themselves up by the bootstraps' in the hamster ball level.
What/s Next
More details to fill out the game! Maybe a rebalance for drawing speeds, as clone magic is much easier to get up to useful speeds than wild magic or encircled magic. Some things die too fast to AOE magic too, (like the tortoise, for example).
I'll have to stop putting off newer versions of the tutorials eventually, right?
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No Capes! (New Patch)
What's New? Got rid of the cape while on the dragon. It was misbehaving. Also added another bit of dialogue to the Phylactery Defense level. The Marionette level now has walls, a ceiling, and textures. Eased up on gesture recognition. Now you don't have to get it quite so close t
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What's New?
Got rid of the cape while on the dragon. It was misbehaving.
Also added another bit of dialogue to the Phylactery Defense level.
The Marionette level now has walls, a ceiling, and textures.
Eased up on gesture recognition. Now you don't have to get it quite so close to perfect for it to count.
Moved the spawn circles in the Tortoise Takedown level so they're attached to the shield ships.
Bug fixes!
- General: Adjusted elbow IK targets so you aren't jabbing yourself in the stomach.
- General: Adjustments to make fog less resource-intensive.
- General: Fixes/updates for some reflection probes.
- General, dismounted mode: Fix for body and camera rotation not following the player's head and hand positions.
- Phylactery Defense: Fix for level not responding to victory
- Ball Pit: Fix for the music persisting into the level select screen.
- Fix for the tutorial video buttons not working quite right.
- Airship Takedown: Fix for victory circle detection area being too small.
- Sky Navy: Fix audio balancing for one line being too quiet.
- Removed Parkour Experiment Level from build. Wasn't accessible, was just taking up space.
What's Next
More bug fixes. Audio tweaks/additions.
I'm thinking of adding more side-missions that are part of the core gameplay, rather than just random experiments.
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Hands On with some bug (New Patch!)
What's New? While the support for Valve Index Controllers has been in for a while before their release, the hands themselves have been stationary. Now the fingers should move around in response to your own fingers! Fancy. Aside from that, there've been a few adjustments to gamepl
Original postWhat's New?
While the support for Valve Index Controllers has been in for a while before their release, the hands themselves have been stationary. Now the fingers should move around in response to your own fingers! Fancy.
Aside from that, there've been a few adjustments to gameplay and a few bugfixes.
Adjustments:
- Your own health has been increased to about 2.5 times as much as it was before.
- Damage by golem lasers increased, and lasers stop bouncing (disappear) after they've dealt damage.
- The double air spell shouldn't launch things miles away anymore.
- The health circle above your head is now more transparent, and doesn't have the cubes in it. It also only appears from below. Views from above (like from the secondary camera) won't see it.
- Lighting and fog in the Phylactery defense level have been tweaked.
- Fog in general has been reduced everywhere as it was causing framerate drops.
- Killing also spawners in Phylactery defense will also now kill all the units they've spawned (so this doesn't include the golem). Hunting down the stragglers was frustrating and un-fun.
- The airship balloons now have less health. It wasn't obvious they were taking damage to begin with.
- Adjusted the position and angle of the secondary cameras to better capture what the player is seeing.
- Made it so that Toggle-Grab Off only lets you grab the harness if you've started the grab nearby. Less accidental grabs if you're holding onto something else and happen to move your hand near the harness.
Fixes (there's lots of them):
- General: Fix for weird rainbow reflections (especially in the level select). Reflection probes set to update only once in level load were misbehaving, so now they're just baked.
- General: Fix for harness behaving oddly (spinning around 180 or 360 degrees) when grabbed using the "Toggle Grab Off" setting.
- General: Fix for the golem being vulnerable to his own eye lasers.
- General: Fix for being unable to grab the lance (Iron-Iron Spell).
- Level Select: Fix for odd audio doppler effect when starting the game.
- Factory Assault: Fixing level terrain where units were falling into the void.
- Airship Takedown: Fix for parts of the level disappearing depending on camera angle.
- Sky Navy: Fix for toggling spawners not working quite right.
- Sky Navy: Fix for golem not walking towards enemies that are flying.
- Sky Navy: Fix for pathfinding using the cache from the wrong level.
- Tortoise Takedown: Fix for the most of the leaves being invincible.
- Tortoise Level: Fix for shield ships repeatedly giving of their "I've just been summoned" particles long after being summoned.
- Phylactery Defense: Fix for victory circle not showing up even when victory conditions were fulfilled.
- General: Fix for collisions happening where they shouldn't (Things were 'landing on' the 'floor' of the sky levels, where they should fall forever).
Told you there were a lot of them.
What's Next?
More bugfixes and game balance adjustments as I go through everything to get more footage for the final trailer and the final versions of the tutorial video. I might loosen up a bit on how accurate you need to be for drawing the magic symbols.
Eventually, that new tutorial video set will be ready to go, too!
There's still some other dialogue for the phylactery defense level and other places that needs to be put in the game, but the framework of the story is all there now.
I might add some of the fog and cloud effects back in under a system that's a bit smarter about quality settings and such.
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Facelift and Bug Fix (New Patch!)
What's New? Touched up George's face a bit. Now he has a bit more of a defined snout, and nostril flaps, instead of having basically a deep dish pizza slice. Bug fixes: Grabbing spells should work again, and match your settings (Toggle grab vs hold grab), instead of flickering be
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What's New?
Touched up George's face a bit. Now he has a bit more of a defined snout, and nostril flaps, instead of having basically a deep dish pizza slice.
Bug fixes:
- Grabbing spells should work again, and match your settings (Toggle grab vs hold grab), instead of flickering between ungrabbed and grabbed like crazy.
- Fix for some of the cloth-physics objects not rendering at all.
- A few tweaks that should strain computers less and reduce framerate drops.
What's next?
Just playing through the whole game a couple times, piecing together footage for tutorials and trailer. I'll probably find a few bugs along the way! Yeah.