Surprise! We haven’t melted away in our hot European weather - but we’re close! So let’s get into it so we can crawl back in front of our fans 🫠
How we choose and set-up stories
In Eldritch Empathy you will encounter many weird and wonderful things outside the relative safety of your village. There’s a lot happening behind the scenes when picking the right narrative node on the map - how far along are you on the map, how high/low is your Sanity and what story nodes have you encountered so far! We handle this partly with the tool Yarn Spinner and their new saliency logic and partly through many many lines of our own code that picks the right node, places the correct story assets and lets you actually experience the narrative.
Losing and Winning
This month we also re-worked our death and winning screen. While the winning screen appears after every successfully bested creature, the death screen only appears once you’ve lost all your sanity. We love stats, so that’s what we show in these screens!
You might also see a fun new mechanic: If you take a bit more time to carefully craft your symbols and work as efficiently as possible, you can increase your accuracy and gain bonus resources!
New Monster Designs!
This and next month is creature time! We’ve been collecting our ideas and your suggestions so we can lock in and start making weird critters, creatures and other eldritch beings. We’re also animating each creature which means adding bones, weight painting, and key framing every single monster - lots of work but so so worth it!
That’s it for this month - stay hydrated and safe!
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