Tactics: Age of Affliction

Released: Dec 2, 2019
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Last updated: 05 Sep 2026, 05:15 GMT

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19 May 2020Developer post
Changelog for May 19th 2020 v24
This week's update contains a ton of small tweaks and features designed on smoothing out some of the main game phases, and fixing a pesky bug Kronlach reported in the forums so thank you for that! As always, I'm looking for feedback on the game flow, the difficulty, or even if yo
This week's update contains a ton of small tweaks and features designed on smoothing out some of the main game phases, and fixing a pesky bug Kronlach reported in the forums so thank you for that!
As always, I'm looking for feedback on the game flow, the difficulty, or even if you've got cool ideas! Thanks for reading!

Features:
New 'Wounded Humanoid' event
Attribute scaling significantly increased, all units will now hit harder and have more protection to make battles less lethal
Tweaks:
Can now open and view the equipment the Ensemble's Packmule is carrying, with a warning that they cannot be moved to the Armory until returning to the Capital
Can now open and view the resources the Ensemble's Packmule is carrying, with the above warning.
Reworked Ensemble status rendering to clarify what the Ensemble did last week versus what they are about to do
Added a tooltip for the Ensemble's status that describes what they are going to do that turn (ie Gathering, Patrolling etc)
Included brief description of the current week phase in a few tooltips to clarify when something is going to be done
Rework loot drop messages, for gaining or not finding any.
Tweak tooltip art from a plain black image to something with more texture
Display hiring costs inline on the Pub screen, so you don't need to mouse over everyone to see their costs.
Highlight hiring costs to make it clearer if you can afford them or not
Added resource icons on the Ensemble's Packmule resource panel
Spacing on the Resource and Equipment panels
Added a log note about an Ensemble returning to the capital
Fixes:
Fix Ambushes sometimes happening too often
Fix certain Gathering events not generating resources, or generating the wrong resource
Itinerary Overview no longer floats a message telling you that a step was successfully added, when it hadn't.
Fix battle initiative panel showing the wrong HP (and even hiding unit panels) incorrectly
Fix battle unit panels not showing up if they died at any point during the battle
Fix HP/FAT/MOR bars in unit panels appearing empty when a unit was at full health
Fix duplicate choices during a certain Patrol event
Fix debug event showing up during Patrols
Fix Gathering event reading as 'Gathered' when it should have said 'Gather', leading to confusion as to what is about to happen
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27 Apr 2020Developer post
Changelog for April 26th 2020 v23
This week's update includes a fancy tutorial and a ton of fixes, but more importantly it includes the long awaited Event System rework, which is to say that from now on, creating new events will take significantly less time, and will one day lead to them being fully moddable. But
This week's update includes a fancy tutorial and a ton of fixes, but more importantly it includes the long awaited Event System rework, which is to say that from now on, creating new events will take significantly less time, and will one day lead to them being fully moddable. But for now, it's baby steps.
All the events in the game, as of v23, are the same as they used to be, only they're using the new system. Here's a little capture of how they look in the new tool I've been working on:

Nothing crazy to look at, but man does it make life easier! The goal is now to start creating events with a constant regularity that'll make Dominions 5 look like easy mode!
Please continue to use the crash reporter, and make sure to allow it to include the save file and log file. It'll let me reproduce the issues a whole heck of a lot easier, since I can just jump right to where you were when the issue presented itself.
As for the non-event changes, I had some great feedback (and a pair of people recorded their gameplay with thoughts and then even went so far as to document their issues in a spreadsheet, which was amazing. Thank you for doing that!
The game is roughly a year and a half old now and still has a heck of a lot of growing to do, and I'm looking forward to seeing this bad boy grow. There's so much potential here, just imagine what sort of crazy events could happen! Maybe an evil boghag curses your hero with old age, maybe a gentile old bird gives you a trinket leading to your Ensemble finding a huge stash of resources next time they go gathering, the sky is the limit!
Anyway, I gotta get back to work, these Events aren't going to write themselves. Thank you for the support, and remember to reach out to me on Twitter @tankorsmash, or directly via email at [email protected] if you've got questions or ideas, or even just post them directly on the forums here!
Talk to you soon!
Features:
Reworked how Events are implemented. This shouldn't affect your experience yet, but it was a massive fourth month project to implement, and should eventually lead to easily creating your own events once the game is 1.0
Brief tutorial that goes over the UI once the Hero is created. This includes the main overview screen, the Itinerary screen, the Equipment screen, the Armory and Packmule screens
Tutorial saves/loads progress so if you exit the game halfway through, you're able to pick up where you left off
Tweaks:
Add option for tooltip delay so they can show up earlier or later
Add visual effect to the 'view battle' button to better inform you when there's something to watch
Reposition log buttons on the main screen to be off to the side
Add borders to unit portraits in the Chapel
Tweaked wording on failing to capture a prisoner to make it more clear what happened
Each game phase now has a custom tooltip over the 'advance time' button, rather than just one big blog of text
Can now inspect the starting heroes in the Hero Creator by right clicking, like you could any other unit
The building cost labels now include building names
Floating label when trying to build a new building in the capital has text highlighting for easier reading
Add whitespace for text box when removing a unit from the Ensemble
Animate the building info when mousing over an unbuilt building in the capital, and include the building's icon
Game window position persists across sessions, meaning if you move the screen to the right, it'll be on the right the next time it is launched
Add ultra-hidden/inaccessible match3 minigame I made during quarantine for fun
In the savefile, the unit's name is now at the top, for easier identification
Optimize some core battle logic so battles should resolve nearly instantly for anyone who it wasn't before.
Fixes:
Fix inspecting a unit during battle showing their final state (ie dead, if they died during the battle), rather than their state at the given instance in the battle replay.
Fix pressing ESC during the Hero Creator starting the game with bogus data
Fix clicking the 'loop' button sometimes not looping the Ensemble's orders
Fix Hero/Ensemble leader dying during a battle, and not being able to see battle results because they were instantly moved back to the Capital
Reduce texture size for slightly faster loading
Remove leading '+' character when inspecting armor
Fix Hero Creator's descriptions and stats not matching their names
Fix certain Itinerary steps not having a decision made
Fix reading name file from the disk too often
Fix crash on loading the game where your first Ensemble wasn't loading correctly
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07 Jan 2020Developer post
Changelog For January 3th 2020 v22
This is the first post-Early Access release! It's got a ton of crash fixes and a lot of integrated feedback from you guys! Don't forget that there's a free demo live that you can try out, which is actually the entire game. You can now cast a magical ritual named Dark Promotion at
This is the first post-Early Access release! It's got a ton of crash fixes and a lot of integrated feedback from you guys! Don't forget that there's a free demo live that you can try out, which is actually the entire game.
You can now cast a magical ritual named Dark Promotion at the Mages Tower to revive a dead minion (non-Hero) unit and have them become the leader of their own Ensemble. There isn't currently a cost to doing so, so I recommend making a handful to really get your exploration going!
I'm still working on writing the new event system so hopefully that'll come out sooner than later now that the holidays are over. Hope you folks are enjoying the game, it's been a lot of fun working on it!
Highlights: Creating new Ensembles, quality of life improvements and a crash reporter!
Features:
Add a new ritual that lets you revive dead minions and promote them to Hero, allowing you to create new Ensembles
Add a crash reporter, so you can submit instant bug reports
Can now see a unit's limb health. The fewer healthy limbs, the worse they'll do in combat
Can now remove units from an Ensemble. (Note this is temporarily not limited to only while not on excursion)
Tweaks
Add a glimmer effect to 'Embark' button to make it more obvious the Ensemble is resting
Added the Itinerary Index (ie '#3' if its the third entry) to the world screen
Replace 'On Excursion' with the actual entry name for clarity
Reword 'UnsetCondition' to 'Alive' to better reflect that the Tactic applies to any target
Add a button to clear the currently planned-to-cast Ritual
Shrink and rephrase the empty Barracks description
Use the same color for HP/FAT/MOR in the equipment screen and the world screen
Change 'Send' to 'Bury in Chapel' in the Memorial so it's more clear what's happening
Reword some entries in the credits
Use a mono SFX effect for opening menus, rather than slightly off-center
Add a visual divider between weeks in the world log
Remove extraneous spaces on stat explanations when inspecting a unit
Fixes:
Fix crash when viewing an ensemble without valid members
Fix crash when hiring a new unit from the Pub and immediately reopening the page
Fix crash on inspecting certain Itinerary Entries (travelling, returning to base etc)
Fix showing the dead minion's widget at the top of the world screen
Fix crash for when you hover over a second ensemble
Fix surviving battle members to always having at least 1HP
Fix units not always healing when resting in the Capital
Add logging in several places for dealing with multiple ensembles
Minor optimization of sprite backgrounds
Don't show unexplored locations when you inspect an Itinerary Entry
Original post
03 Dec 2019Developer post
Early Access Release!
It's been over a year since I started working on the game, first as a simple little app to simulate how the systems might work, to giving it a very rough UI, to adding features and mechanics, and even potential modding support (way down the line!), it's been crazy. I'm excited an
It's been over a year since I started working on the game, first as a simple little app to simulate how the systems might work, to giving it a very rough UI, to adding features and mechanics, and even potential modding support (way down the line!), it's been crazy.
I'm excited and nervous at the same time, the last game I put out was a little brick breaker but Tactics is becoming something several times more complex and is all kinds of challenging to build. I've learned a lot, and I can't wait to see how the next year of development will look with your feedback!
I hope that I can put up a free demo version of the game so that you can give me feedback as easily as possible, but only time will tell. I figure it makes sense to make the game as accessible as possible while it's being built.
There's so much left to do, so I'm going to get back to it! A special thanks to Dopamine, Cablenexus and everyone else for giving me so much constructive feedback over the last betas on Discord, it means a lot!
Oh, here's a changelog for all the latest changes for everyone who's been playing for the last little while:
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Changelog For December 2nd 2019 v21
Highlights: Early Access Release! More art, prettier UI, tons of tweaks

Tweaks:
Can now click on itinerary entries to get a better idea of what they do
Can now click on the construct outpost entry to view its cost, in addition to hovering over its button in the dropdown
Add an confirm modal when aborting to make it clear what you're doing when you abort your active Excursion (similar to looping)
Action button on the main screen now tells you which Ensemble has actions to take
Use new event screen layout with pretty art
Make the quest complete popup prettier
Add padding for 'remove equipped weapon'
Tweak weapon stat layouts when selecting a weapon in the loadout screen
Tweak armor stat layouts when selecting a weapon in the loadout screen
Tweak spell stat layouts when selecting a weapon in the loadout screen
Add portraits to swapping unit positions
Add border to unit images in the loadout screen
Add a background in the left of the loadout screen to hint where you should click to close the menu
Reword ambush choice text to make it clear you can't sneak by
Moved changelog and discord buttons out of the world screen and into the main menu
Changelog no longer pops up on first load of a new build, instead flashes the button
Show building construction costs when you click on it to build without enough resources
Buildings cost more resources as you construct more of them
Fixes:
Optimized startup time
Fix text alignment issue when inspecting an actor
Reword some of the first-load welcome text
Change 'automatically' to 'manually' on chapel corpses
Add missing comma and whitespace in various event texts
Fix location dropdown not being clickable by moving it upwards when it would have been clipped by the border (ie anything on the bottom quarter of the map)
Fix loadout screen not opening when clicking on portraits on the world map screen
Fix events sometimes having buttons without any text
Should be invisible to the player, but started moving events into data files so that they might one day be moddable!
Fix clouds not moving to reveal new unlocked zone
Original post
08 Oct 2019Developer post
New beta update: V19, October 8th 2019
After a long wait, this beta update has finally arrived! Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas and bug reports! This marks a year Magnolia has been in development and I believe an Early Access release isn't more than a few months away! So much to do though, more quests, way mo
After a long wait, this beta update has finally arrived! Thanks to everyone who contributed ideas and bug reports!
This marks a year Magnolia has been in development and I believe an Early Access release isn't more than a few months away! So much to do though, more quests, way more events, more unit progression, and much more is in development. Brooke and I have been kicking around some neat ideas for ways the Itinerary can be manipulated, whether it's by enemies confusing you, finding an artifact on an excursion, boosting your units' power, or by adding perks for itineraries with a specific length. A lot of cool stuff to come!
Don't forget to add Magnolia to your wishlist, and to join the discord to get a free beta key to try these updates yourself!
Last but not least, here's the changelist in this update!

Features:
Added The Chapel for burying the dead
Can now move dead units from an ensemble resting in the city to the Chapel grounds
The Mage's Tower will eventually use these bodies as resources to spend when casting rituals
Can cast a 'revive' ritual, which has a chance to revive a buried soldier
The game now skips phases where no actions are taken (ie when all ensembles are travelling, or resting in the capital)
Added basis for 'perks'/'attributes' and weapon affinities. The more you use a weapon, the more the unit will gain an affinity for it.
Every weapon now has a category like 'swords' or 'staves', and you'll get up to three attributes per weapon category
Gain XP for a given weapon category by scoring a hit or dealing damage with it in battle
Added Training Grounds to the capital, where you can leave units in order for them to forget their weapon affinities, allowing them a chance to learn a new variant
Added Opposition Points, special events that inflict a debuff on ensembles on active excursions, until they're defeated
Have a random chance of spawning and can be seen next to the associated location button in the World Overview
Keyboard shortcuts for the main menu (SPACE to skip intro, O for options etc) and World Overview screen (SPACE to advance time, C to view capital)
Locations are now marked as unexplored until they are visited for the first time

Tweaks:
Reword advance time button to 'Confirm Plans' and 'Resolve Choices' instead of 'Commit' and 'Resolve Events'. Let me know if this is any better
Show currently selected ensemble's packmule on the World Overview screen
Last selected ensemble persists across screens
World log is now visible by default
Added right-click to inspect unit in the bar along the top of the World Overview screen
When going Windowed mode, the window now appears at an offset, instead of flush with the corner of the screen
Text highlighting for constructing outposts, to make their costs more obvious
Quest text rewritten, font size tweaked
Quest progress is now saved across play sessions
Added tooltips to units' stat bars on the top of the World Overview
Added tooltips for main menu buttons
Added animation to tooltips
Resources gathered via Gather are now shown in the world log
Hide the opposition buttons when the opposition points are inactive
Replace quest/itinerary/equipment/packmule/resource buttons on the World Overview with text icons
Added a 'move 100' for transferring resources to/from packmule and capital
Completed quests now notify their completion
New Game button has been added to the main menu.
Shrank modal sizes when inspecting a location, and reworked the layout a bit
Quit button in the World Overview now has a confirm modal, instead of immediately quitting
Resize inspect unit modals to fit new attributes
Tweaked the outline for the selected ensemble in the World Overview
Renamed 'Prebattle' screen to 'Equipment' screen
Fixes:
Fixed deleting a savegame without restarting the game causing a crash
Tooltips no longer activate over invisible widgets
Known issues
Tooltips sometimes stack up
Tooltips move too much while animating in
Original post
19 Jun 2019Developer post
Update! New Capital, Rituals to cast, New Events!
This week's beta update has a ton of crazy stuff to check out. Now your Ensembles remember their fallen, you can take prisoners from battles, and so much more. I'm really happy with the way things are shaping up! I mean just take a look at that art! Let me know what you think of
This week's beta update has a ton of crazy stuff to check out. Now your Ensembles remember their fallen, you can take prisoners from battles, and so much more. I'm really happy with the way things are shaping up! I mean just take a look at that art!
Let me know what you think of the changes! Would you be interested in having the beta build available as a demo on the Store page, before the game goes into Early Access, or are you happy keeping it to the folks in the discord?
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Changelog for June 19th 2019 v18
Highlights: Rituals to cast, Prisoners to capture, Reworked Capital art, New choices to make!

Features:
Added 'Rituals', a style of out-of-combat magic that allows you to manipulate the world
Can now attempt to capture defeated enemies, in order to hold them prisoner in the Mage's Tower
In the PostBattle screen for battles you've won, a new 'Capture' button has been added.
Ensembles now have a memorial for permadead units.
Add 'Pond' event, with mutliple outcomes. Will you drink from the pond, or try to walk away?
Added a debug menu bound to KP_PLUS to view some of the data in-game. Will be removed by release

Tweaks:
Added flavour text for attacking a troll (NB: no actual troll to fight yet)
New flavour text for all events in the game
Added new choice for the highwaymen event
Moved the Ensemble icons lower on the world map so that they don't clip
Tweaked Tactic setup widget, ('[X]' to 'x', etc)
Replace placeholder descriptions in Hero Creator
Added tooltips for explaining what Alert Levels are
Removed Storage building and replaced with Mage's Tower
All Modals now animate in, instead of just appearing
Added colors to Marketplace for easier visual identification
Moved date display onto two lines on AllEnsemblesOverview
Don't fade out Ensemble icons on map when they're travelling
Take Action button is no longer red when an action is required
Flash the Ensemble icon instead, to show that there is action required
Fixes:
Fixed not having post-battle event-specific text
Fixed the marketplace being resolved before the week was over
Fixed the take action button always saying 'Action Chosen' on Results Phase
Added another attempt to fix tooltips showing up incorrectly (appears to be unsuccessful :[)
Fix crash when hovering too quickly over too many buttons
Fix floating labels being clipped by the top of the AllEnsemblesOverview screen
Fix text overflowing results modals
Fixed Marketplace panel being too wide, cutting off the close button
Fixed Marketplace not using the icons for the sell listings
Fixed Ensemble icons scaling over the Location button on mouseover
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30 May 2019Developer post
Update! New art, units remember things, and combat animations! May 29th 2019 v17
This weeks patch smooths out a few edges, adds some new polish to the UI and as always, fixes a few crashes. Let me know on discord what you think! Check it out: Changelog for May 29th 2019 v17 Highlights: Week recaps, Heroes and Minions track their own stats, and more icons Feat
This weeks patch smooths out a few edges, adds some new polish to the UI and as always, fixes a few crashes. Let me know on discord what you think!
Check it out:
Changelog for May 29th 2019 v17
Highlights: Week recaps, Heroes and Minions track their own stats, and more icons

Features:
At the end of every week, you are now shown a recap of everything that happened
Added a 'disable recaps' option
Units track a dozen stats, from number of battles, to weeks spent on excursion, visible whenever inspecting a unit
Equipment and Resources now has visible icons
Battle replays have simple swipe animations
Tweaks:
Resources in storage are now visible on the AllEnsemblesOverview
Resources in the Ensembles' packmules are now visible on the ItineraryOverview
Minions are rendered on the map, next to their leading Heroes now
show equipped weapon and armor in PostBattle
add a placeholder for eventually story text on startup
fadein/out unit panels in Prebattle
selected Ensemble outline now animates slightly
added starting weapons to each of the three starting archetypes
text size on inspecting units is resized to better fit new icons
removed 'lowercase i' prefix on location buttons, since the Capital button has its own special texture now
reworded most Decision text to use 'they' instead of 'you', since the events have to do with the units and not the player directly
highlight dependant stats when hovering over master stats in the unit inspection modal
Fixes:
fix portrait ratio in the Pub and Barracks modals
fix selected Ensemble outline disappearing between phases
use new vanity discord url (https://discord.gg/theworldoutside)
fix dead units coming back to life after reloading a save (thanks Cablenexus!)
fix Ensembles not being allowed new units after units permadied (thanks Cablenexus!)
fix status icons overlaying over tooltips
speed up startup loading
fix 'wipe save' not working properly
fix crash with loading old saves
disable remembering the last selected unit
fix equipment icons leaving 'ghost' icons
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21 May 2019Developer post
Changelog for May 21st 2019 v16, New UI, New Art, New Mechanics
This is a big change! Adds all kinds of great little pieces of art to the game! Reworking how the Alert Level works, making the UI easier to use and a ton more. Changelog for May 22nd 2019 v16 Highlights: Totally reworked main screen layout! New portraits, equipment images and st
This is a big change! Adds all kinds of great little pieces of art to the game! Reworking how the Alert Level works, making the UI easier to use and a ton more.
Changelog for May 22nd 2019 v16
Highlights: Totally reworked main screen layout! New portraits, equipment images and status icons!
NOTE: This wipes your save, and you should use the new Erase Savegame in the Options if not!

Features:
Reworked main map screen
Can still access old UI by hitting TAB (for now!)
Added a main menu
Hitting ESC now moves you back to this, instead of quitting
New unit portraits!
New weapon/armor images!
Can now tell what equipment is without clicking on it
New Ensemble status icons!
Can now see what Ensembles are up to at a glance
New Map image!
New Highwayman event where you may lose resources to ransom
Added the World Log (back in)
Added a 'delete save' button to Options

Tweaks:
Can now right click to un-equip a weapon or armor in PreBattle screen
Fade out 'take action' button when no action is needed
The 'take action' button is now plain red when an action is needed, so that it is impossible to miss
Tweaked animation for the quests button, since its now in a more obvious position
Can now hover over equipment in the Marketplace to see its value
Using new art for clickable and regular cursors
Progress bars for HP/MOR/FAT now have an outline
Swap out WPN and ARM for actual weapon and armor icons in Marketplace/Packmule/PreBattle screens
Add margins for Marketplace and Packmule panels
Removed SFX for when your cursor leaves a UI element (thanks Cablenexus!)
Added 'placeholder' prefix to placeholder text in Hero Creator
Moved the length validation label above the name input and slowed it down
Removed the Workshop from the Capital, as its no longer needed
When you load an invalid save, instead of crashing, it simply wipes your invalid save.
Tooltips are now smarter about their position on screen and should not appear offscreen
Changed 'Add to Ens.' to 'Add to Ensemble' in a few places
Add tooltips when moving Resources from Packmule to Armory and vice versa
In the Hero Creator, whenever a new validation label spawns, it removes the old one
In the Hero Creator, the text entry blinks so that you know to click on it
Add special placeholder button for the Capital button to visually distinguish it from the others
When inspecting a Location, you can now hover the 'A0' alert label to get a brief explanation of what its for
Incorportated new Alert Level system in tooltips for Gathering and Patrolling Itinerary entries
New tooltips for labels for phases i through iii
Can now click instead of hovering over the units in the Pub and Barracks to view them.
Fixes:
Fix units not healing at all when returning to base
Reduce savegame filesize by about 30% and increase loading performance by about that much
Fix font sizes throughout Magnolia
Fix text clipping throughout Magnolia
Increase font sizes throughout Magnolia
Fix Marketplace and Packmule panels equipment buttons overflowing
Significant optimization to screens with a number of tooltips
Fix a crash when adding Locations to your Itinerary
Fix a crash when adding someone to an Ensemble from the Pub
Fix a crash when adding someone to an Ensemble from the Barracks
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18 Apr 2019Developer post
Changelog for May 10th 2019 v15, Hero Creator, SFX, New Tactics and more!
Wishlist the game and join the discord to try the closed beta! I'm excited to say that this new update has finally released! So much is new, and the game is so much smoother to play. Quality of life fixes like improved tactic management, clearer tooltips, new music and SFX and so
Wishlist the game and join the discord to try the closed beta!
I'm excited to say that this new update has finally released! So much is new, and the game is so much smoother to play. Quality of life fixes like improved tactic management, clearer tooltips, new music and SFX and so much more.
I can't put it any better than just pointing you at the massive list below and taking a look for yourself.
Changelog for May 10th 2019 v15
Highlights: Hero Creator, Retooled Tactics UI, Music and SFX, Options

Features:
On first load, you can choose an archetype and name your Hero
You choose between a strong, smart or a mystic hero
Your Hero's Ensemble is filled with 4 other randomly generated minions
New songs for the main screen, battle music, and prepping for combat
New SFX for UI some elements
New Options screen for resolution and volume levels
New Feedback button for submitting feedback in Options screen
Clear tactics button
New Confirm Quit dialog, instead of instantly closing game (Alt F4 still works)
Added new custom cursor for mousing around and over buttons and widgets, helping identify what's clickable
New Event system is in the works. This is the start of something cool.
Fixes:
Tooltips should no longer appear if the widget is behind another
If tooltips do appear longer than they should, you can now click to close them.
Fix typo in Ensemble status display
Fix Kobold Archers instantly dying in combat
Fix Kobold Spear Slingers having Acwel's profile picture
Fix map scrolling even if you weren't mouse over it
Fix map scrolling if you were mousing over it, but the changelog was covering it
Fix black background on PostBattle scene
Tweaks:
Main map screen now shows alert level and outposts built, instead of leaving that only displayed in the Itinerary screen
Can now right click on an Ensemble button to jump right to their equipment screen
Can now hit ESC to close equip weapon/armor/tactics submenus in equipment screens
Added counts on Resources in Marketplace/Pub/Armory if there was more than one stacked
Added [X] to close all modals in the game. Can stil hit ESC to close them.
Added tooltips to most widgets in the toplevel equipment screen
Choosing an action for a given decision now closes the modal, instead of requiring a double click
Toggling fullscreen with F4 now persists across sessions
Tooltips fade in more smoothly now
The default battle speed is slower now
The current battle speed button is highlighted
Tooltips animate in on top of fading in
Tooltips now shrink to better fit their contents
Quest button now animates a little bit so that you notice it.
Can click the Quest button once to stop it from animating.
Map in AllEnsemblesOverview once again has clickable location buttons, but they're now prefixed with an Information icon to differentiate between them and the Capital button
Changed Ensemble status buttons' text into actions instead of status (ie 'embark' instead of 'resting')
Ensemble status no longer clips with Hero name
Improved logging on startup
As always, please wishlist the game and join the discord to try the closed beta!
Original post
12 Apr 2019Developer post
Watch me play my own game!
I made a video to show off some of the systems I've been working on, and ended up getting surprised by a few weird interactions in my game. I had a lot of fun recording it, and I hope you will too! If you haven't wishlisted the game yet, please do here ! In other news, the save/l
02 Apr 2019Developer post
Update! UI Tweaks for improving your life! Changelog for Apr 2nd 2019 v13
This is an update that's focused on smoothing some edges across the game. Not polish so much as making sure things are as readable as they can be. Lots of reports of the text being tough to read in general, which makes sense, so I'm hoping that that can be addressed in an upcomin
This is an update that's focused on smoothing some edges across the game. Not polish so much as making sure things are as readable as they can be. Lots of reports of the text being tough to read in general, which makes sense, so I'm hoping that that can be addressed in an upcoming change
Highlights: UI Tweaks for most screens
Tweaks:
Remove Capital button from ItineraryOverview
Change wording in the ItineraryOverview to present tense. ie 'Patrol at location' instead of 'Patrolling at location'
Add 'week XYZ' prefix to the Excursion Itinerary
Remove 'Finally, return to base' since it was made redundant
All Itinerary Entries lines are sized the same, rather than only certain interactive steps being highlighted
Reword 'move 10' Resources to 'pack 10' and 'store 10' on the Packmule modal for bringing Resources on the excursion
Change 'Abort?' and 'Continue?' to 'Resting' and 'Continuing' to clarify their current state
Add space between Packmule and Marketplace to clarify that you're moving equipment to and from the Armory
Add floating label when you create a new sell listing at the Marketplace
Added image of the leader of the ensemble to the AllEnsemblesOverview to better distinguish which Ensemble is which
Tooltips fade in, instead of instantly become visible
Fix inconsistent casing for certain buttons
Fixes:
Fix crash that could occur when viewing multiple battles within a single session
Fix mouse dragging anywhere on the AllEnsembleOverview and ItineraryOverview always moving the map. Mousewheel still scrolls anywhere though.
What's Up Next:
adding saving/loading
more unique encounters
Original post
28 Mar 2019Developer post
Update! Huge World Map, Constructing Outposts, Quests and more! v12
New update this week, and it's a huge one! Make sure to jump into the Discord and get to know what other people think, and join the free beta to help grow the game! This update is focused on clarifying more of the many systems in the game. Magnolia is not nearly finished but alre
New update this week, and it's a huge one! Make sure to jump into the Discord and get to know what other people think, and join the free beta to help grow the game!
This update is focused on clarifying more of the many systems in the game. Magnolia is not nearly finished but already there's so much to do that it's all too easy to get overwhelmed right out of the gate, so adding the Quests log helps orient you towards what you're supposed to be doing next.
Next up, it seems like I'll be working on saving and loading, so you don't lose all your current progress when you shut the game down which will be a lot of fun. Might even have music and some art too! Here's a preview of some of the character portraits we're going to have
Be sure to join the Discord for all the latest news on Magnolia, and to let me know what you think!
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Changelog for Mar 28th 2019 v12
Highlights: World Map, Outposts, Quests and more!
World Map and Outposts:
Over a dozen Locations in the world now.
Construct an Outpost on three Locations and you'll expand your Domain
Outposts cost Resources that your Ensembles must be carrying in their packmule. Careful not to die on the way!
Move resources from the Storage into the packmule while your Ensembles are in the city via ItineraryOverview
We're planning for more enemy variety as you explore new locations too!
Features:
New Itinerary Entry type, Construct Outpost
New World Map that reveals as you conquer and construct Outposts
Drag mouse or scroll mousewheel to move map
Many new Locations to discover
All Locations have proper non-final names instead of 'The Forest'
New Quest system to help guide you to your next goal
New Resource screen to move resources to and from your Ensemble's packmule
New tooltips to explain some of the subleties of the game
Tooltips for AllEnsembleOverview, ItineraryOverview, InBattle, PreBattle and CityOverview screens
New Tactic Action, Do Nothing, to allow your units to skip a turn
Ensemble images on World Map are clickable to jump directly to their overview

Fixes:
Fix needing to travel if you spend two consective entries at the same Location
Fix crash if you embark on an Excursion without any entries planned
Fix hovering over invisble widgets
Can no longer embark if you have no entries planned for that Ensemble's Excursion
Tweaks:
New description of the Capital city, Jorvik
Clearer explanation of why you can't equip a unit in the PreBattle screen
Fade in the overlay when opening a modal
Better logging for crashes
Use 'Packmule' instead of 'PackMule'
Changelog cuts off after 5000 character instead of showing all 15000+ characters. Can always view full changelog in Magnolia root directory
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12 Mar 2019Developer post
Beta update! New Building: The Marketplace
This week's update adds a new mechanic to your capital: you're now able to sell your weapons and armor for coins! If you want to try it out, hop on the discord and I'll send you a free beta key and let me know what you think! The game is early but feedback makes all kinds of diff
This week's update adds a new mechanic to your capital: you're now able to sell your weapons and armor for coins! If you want to try it out, hop on the discord and I'll send you a free beta key and let me know what you think! The game is early but feedback makes all kinds of difference!
The next update is planned to have more locations and tackle the idea of capturing locations and building outposts, and maybe even adding a boss to the game, so that you can grow your forces to be able to tackle the boss. We'll see how it goes. If you give it a shot, please let me know!
Changelog for Mar 12th 2019 v11

Marketplace:
Place up to five Weapons or Armors into the marketplace. Each week, there's a chance one of them will be sold for coins.
You have control over the price variance, whether its default, priced low for a higher chance to sell, or a high price with a lower chance to sell. No guarantee any items will be sold each week, max of one item sold per week for now.
If you sell a sword, all weapons will be less likely to be sold the next week, likewise for armors
Each week an item is not sold, the higher the chance it will be sold the next week
Eventually, we'll have upgrades to increase the amount of items sold, and manage the marketplace's demands, but this is a start
Can right click on the marketplace listings to inspect the items' stats
Tweaks:
In order to clarify how packmules work, you can no longer open the weapon or armor windows if the ensemble's packmules are empty
The 'empty packmule' warning now persists even after you open a list of weapons/armors on the PreBattle screen
Fixes:
fixes a few crashes relating to watching battle replays
fixes a crash relating to ending an excursion without any units left
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06 Mar 2019Developer post
Reworked Excursions and time travelling battle replays
Hey, this is a huge changelog! If you want to try it out, hop on the discord and I'll send you a free beta key and let me know what you think! The game is early but feedback makes all kinds of difference! A lot of what has changed is thanks to valuable feedback! Changelog For Mar
Hey, this is a huge changelog! If you want to try it out, hop on the discord and I'll send you a free beta key and let me know what you think! The game is early but feedback makes all kinds of difference! A lot of what has changed is thanks to valuable feedback!
Changelog For Mar 5th 2019 v10
Highlights: Reworked Excursions, Battle Replays

Reworked Excursions:
Turns are now split into three phases: World Phase, Decision Phase, Results Phase
World Phase is where all the world events happen (time advances, visitors enter the pub).
Decision Phase is where you choose to embark on, or abort the excursion. Then, if your Ensembles encounter something that turn, they get to choose an action (whether its engage the encounter, or try to hide, etc)
Results Phase is where you get to see what happened after the decisions you made were resolved. Maybe you get a battle replay, or you gathered resources
Can now opt to stay in the Capital, instead of always going out on an excursion
Can now see where an Ensemble is on the AEO world map
Patrolling now works so that you seek out enemies and can choose to engage
Gathering now works that you gather resources and may get ambushed. If you are ambushed you cannot avoid the battle
The UI on AllEnsemblesOverview has been reworked to only show you the buttons you need when you've got a decision to make, or a result to view.
No longer have the OnEvent screen, instead modals are used on the AEO screen
On the ItineraryOverview, you can now see exactly all the steps on the Itinerary
Can see what step you're on as well.
Battle Replays:
Since battles are all resolved between phases, you can now rewind and replay battles while you're watching them.
This means you can rewind to the start, or hit the arrow keys to skip around turn by turn, and really get a sense of went wrong that turn
It's a little wonky for now, so let me know if something breaks
Added 'return to start' of battle replay speed control
Fixes:
ESC should now always return you to the AllEnsemblesOverview (instead of quitting)
Fix typo in PreBattle 'no equipment' warning message
Fixes misc crashes when watching a battle and when an Ensemble returns to base
Tweaks:
Text uses shadows instead of outlines, making things a little easier on the eyes. (UI is still very much placeholder though!)
All decisions and results should be logged in the world log
Game phases now float a message helping identify what's going on
Advance turn button updates content as game time advances
Tidied up button positions in turn controls InBattle
Use better randomized names for units that join the Pub
Tweaked text on 'clear output' button for InBattle screen
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06 Feb 2019Developer post
Changelog for Feb 5th 2019 v9: Minion permadeath, better minions recruiting, World Log
This week, I wanted to get Magnolia closer to the vision I had of the game, where every unit you have is precious, and what better way to represent that with permadeath. Now when a minion dies in battle, it has a 50% chance of being revived by an ally, or being lost forever. To o
This week, I wanted to get Magnolia closer to the vision I had of the game, where every unit you have is precious, and what better way to represent that with permadeath.
Now when a minion dies in battle, it has a 50% chance of being revived by an ally, or being lost forever. To offset the constant unit loss, you are able to recruit vagrant units that come join your pub every few weeks.
Next week, I'm reworking how the Itinerary planning works and its user interface!
If you want to try the game out as it's being developed, join the discord and I'll send you a beta Steam key for free. It'll help me out, I'm always looking for more feedback!

Minion permadeath:
Minions (everyone but the one unit the ensemble is named after) can now permanently die.
If they go to 0HP in battle, on their next battle turn, they make a 50/50 roll. If they pass, they survive the battle with 1HP. If not, they are dead forever

Better Pub minions:
Now have names (no longer all called Acme)
May be a strong/common/weak unit, and have a random assignment of stats based on that unit type
May cost anywhere from 15 to 65 resources, randomized based on their unit type
Scaled encounters:
To better support permadeath, alert level now, on top of affecting who you'll encounter, now determines how many enemy units you'll be fighting
At alert level 0, you will likely see only two enemies at once, but at alert level 3 or higher, you're fighting enemy ensembles as large as five.
World Log:
Added weekly log in the AllEnsembleOverview.
Anytime anything notable happens, you'll have record of it. If you'd like for something else to be logged there, let me know.
Currently tracked is: when a unit dies, when travelling/preparing/arriving, when a unit joins the pub, when dropping resources off at home, for advancing time
On booting the game, the world log contains a quick primer on how to play.
Removed suffixes from unit names: no longer says 'Mage/Ranger' after a units name
Added backpanel to the leftside of the PreBattle scene (used to be raw black)
Only show first 12 characters of a unit's name in battle
Sharpen unit names in battle
Widen changelog modal
Add fadeout to preload message
Added floating label for clicking 'advance time'
Fix crash when monsters would try to rout from their party
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31 Jan 2019Developer post
Changelog for Jan 30th 2019 v8
Follow the blog or join the discord to get a key and help me shape the game. For all current and future testers, here's the most recent changelog for v8, as of Jan 30th 2019! tl;dr is now you can recruit units from The Pub, and use The Barracks to add them to your Ensembles. Stil
Follow the blog or join the discord to get a key and help me shape the game.
For all current and future testers, here's the most recent changelog for v8, as of Jan 30th 2019!
tl;dr is now you can recruit units from The Pub, and use The Barracks to add them to your Ensembles. Still rough around the edges (like you can add people to the Ensemble, even if they're at The Forest), but it's a good first step

The Pub and Barracks are now available with the Capital
The Pub lets you recruit wandering minions for a resource cost
Lists their stats and equipped weapons and armor (if any)
Every 4 turns, a new one joins the pub
Costs resources to hire. Cost for now always 50 Grain, and they're always called Acme
Shortterm plan is to make their stats, inventory and cost randomized.
Longterm plan is to bind some rare minion types to world events, and newly added seasons
The Barracks shows you all the recruited minions not in an ensemble
There's an add-to-ensemble button that allows you to add the minion into an ensemble, given that the ensemble doesn't have the max 5 units into it
No current way to remove minions from an ensemble, but that is in the pipeline, along with minion permadeath
Added a preload message informing people that there's no saving/loading yet
Replaced Weeks Passed display with the current date, ie Year 12, Early Summer; Year 3 End of Winter
In the future, that will have an impact on the types of monsters you fight, and the sorts of events you will encounter
Reworked AllEnsembleOverview status line into a widget with two buttons, one for viewing an Ensemble, and another for taking action on the event
Can now hit ESC to close most modals/popups
Fix ESC shutting Magnolia down after viewing a battle and returning to the ItineraryOverview
Fix rare crash when a battle was resolving and a unit managed to survive without any available limbs
Fix being able to view an event while you were travelling
Playback speed now defaults to 1x instead of 4x
Remove Storage panel from AllEnsembleOverview, since it's available in Storage now
Tweak text outlines across the board to improve readability (InBattle, ItineraryOverview, AllEnsembleOverview etc)
Tweak "Advance Time" button size
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24 Jan 2019Developer post
All the changes in the alpha so far!
Follow the blog or join the discord to get a key and help me shape the game. For all my testers, here's the most recent changelog! Changelog for Jan 23rd 2019 v7 AllEnsembleOverview is now a map instead of the town Added 'The Capital' button to go view the city, where the Storage
Follow the blog or join the discord to get a key and help me shape the game.
For all my testers, here's the most recent changelog!
Changelog for Jan 23rd 2019 v7

AllEnsembleOverview is now a map instead of the town
Added 'The Capital' button to go view the city, where the Storage, Armory etc are now
Added playback controls for battles, can now play at up to 4x speeds
Added Battle Row labels to the PreBattle scene to clarify what is where
'Take Action' button now jumps to PostBattle directly, if battle was already completed
Placeholder hover texts ('hover over a keyword') panels are now hidden unless there's something to hover over
Fixed log displaying incorrect info when being critically hit
Tweaked status lines for ensemble statuses in AllEnsembleOverview
Tweaked how Magnolia logs damage taken to clarify impact of being critically hit
Added more logging on startup to help diagnose some startup issues in a virtual machine
Changelog for Jan 22nd 2019

New equipment system (tl;dr equipment is now a limited resource, and must be taken with you on your excursions)
Magnolia now tracks the amount of equipment you have, instead of allowing one weapon to be carried by everyone in the party
Equipment must be stored within the packmule before being equipped on a unit
Locations now become aware of you and your units the more time you spend in one location. The more time you spend in a location, the more advanced the enemies you'll fight
Every week a location has an ensemble there, the alert level goes up by one
After two weeks of no ensembles, the alert level goes down by one
Be sure to plan excursions so that you don't raise the alert level too soon, or else you'll be overwhelmed
Added Armory to AllEnsembleOverview to track all the Weapons, Armors, and Items stored at your base
can filter by Weapon/Armor/Item or unfiltered
doesn't list the weapons equipped on your units
Added the 'Packmule' button to the ItineraryOverview, that lets you move
equipment to and from an ensemble and the Armory
equipment must be first added to the packmule in order to be equipped on the units within that ensemble
equipment looted from a combat encounter gets added to the ensemble's packmule and must be offloaded when the excursion is finished
Added alert level display on...
the ItineraryOverview map, above the location names, if the alert level is non-zoer
the Inspect Location panels that pop up when you right click on a location in your ensembles queue, or the map itself
Can now unequip weapons and armor from the PreBattle screen
Renamed 'Hunt' to 'Patrol' to better reflect what your ensemble is doing there
Tweaked text on the AllEnsemblesOverview screen
Tweaked position of the Forest button, to make room for the dropdown

Changelog for Jan 15th 2019

Swapped out ItineraryOverview with handrawn map
Victories have a 50% chance of dropping weapons and armors
add clickable panel to PostBattle showing you if you found an item or not
adds looted weapons to the PreBattle screen, allowing you to equip them
note: no rarity yet, everything equipped has the same chance to drop (even claws)
New Tactics
can now script tactics against enemies in a certain row (Front/Mid/Rear)
can now script tactics against enemies' most/least current or max HP. Very useful to ganging up on a single target
Replaced most green text in the Tactics submenu with softer colors
Added ensemble name to the ItineraryOverview
Changed 'Add Location' buttons text to 'The Location'.
Added 'View Location' button in the location submenu to inspect the locations

Changelog for Jan 11th 2019

Added travelling time: it takes one week to move somewhere, then then next week you arrive. If you schedule two steps at the same location, you avoid the travel. Plan wisely
Added healing per week: 3HP and 25% fatigue reduction
Added listing items (Totems so far) in the Storage screen, alongside the resources (grain, stone, wood) you saw
Remove 'todo' label from the Construct button
Updated ensemble status lines to represent the new states
Can no longer add to itinerary while on an excursion; you must be in base. (Previously, you could only not clear the itinerary)
Changelog for Jan 9th 2019

Added Hunt or Gathering action to the itinerary planning, which determines the encounter rate vs gathering rate
Added 'weeks passed' display in the AEO (AllEnsemblesOverview) screen
Added inspecting locations, to view location description and a description of the activity you're planning to do there
Removed the third ensemble from the AEO screen
Changed itinerary from five The Forest visit, to three visits to all locations
Can no longer add to excursion while it's active
Changed "Embark!" to "Take Action!", since it no longer makes sense
Changelog for Jan 8th 2019

Added healthbars to PreBattle screen, to better show general status at a glance
Added changelog popup on first enter. Will not be shown again until next update, or changelog button clicked
Added quit/changelog/toggle fullscreen/discord buttons along the bottom of AllEnsembleOverview
Fixed viewing the next event immediately after failing the entire excursion
Fixed Breastplate not being show in Armor list
Fixed crash on trying to embark when there's no event to load
Fixed crash on changing shortbow weapon
Changelog for Jan 7th 2019

Wood, Grain, and Stones available from the locations from The Forest, The Plains, and The Mountains, respectively (13-17, instead of 15 Grain)
Arcane stat isn't literally twice as high as it should be (means you should be dealing roughly 2-4 less magic damage)
In battle, battle log output for casting spells has been highlighted, and no longer shows 'generic battle log message [project]123[/project]' under it, and shows a more detailed hover text message
minor text tweaks
clarified resource gathering in combat vs non-combat events
fix 'ghosts' in prebattle scene
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