Hey guys, this should be a pretty exciting week. There's a lot of things I'll be working on.
I'll be working to get the brilliant music Esperware developed and lent some time ago integrated into the menus and into the actual level of EP02.
I'm working on the first phase of rewards. Which basically will give the player the ability to strengthen the aspect of weapons or items they enjoy using. Theoretically adding replay value and giving you an edge on the higher difficulties.
Along with that I've been plotting out the rating system, the old version of STLD would rank you on how well you played with a trophy and an actual grade ( ranging from A - D ). I'm bringing that back with some more interesting dimensions added to it. And that will work along with the the reward system,
eg. the better you play the better the reward... basically the more you get to spend and customize.
So I haven't heard much from you guys on how you feel about the new Cultist enemies, as of now there are two. As previously mentioned when EP02 is complete there will be 4 Cultists in total and the actual survive challenge time will scale up to about 15-20 mins . When I first dreamed this Episode up I was trying to go really big, like level 1 on steroids.. That doesn't mean all future episodes will have such long Survive times, or always require Survive times for completion. I've been badly itching to design a boss battle. But that's later on down the road if the ship is still afloat . And if ships start floating on roads.
I've been noticing activity with the users and the project again and I can see it's slowly gaining life and getting some much needed momentum back. I just want to say thank you for playing, you guys are great. I hope the pricing is adequate , I don't want anyone feeling ripped off.
And as always please let me know if you have any ideas or complaints on things that are not working, could be better, or are absolutely driving you crazy.
Alright I think I'm done for this post
Cheers,
-Pyro