Hello!
Sorry I haven't been as vocal on Steam as I have been lately, but I wanted to take some time today to explain what's going on with DXF Games.
For the past couple weeks I've been hard at work on updating one of my older games to be Steam compatible for an eventual Greenlight offering. The game actually takes place below the town in Just a Cleric, however it's a roguelike whose main star is an Xtoli. If you've played JAC since the expansion, that's one of those gray rabbit things underground.
The game's called Equin The Lantern, and it sports a Dragon Quest style battle system. My inspirations for this one were DQ, Diablo, and Dark Souls. The three D's! Dragon Quest in its battle system, Diablo in its randomness and things like champion monsters, and Dark Souls in that everything requires a bit of Stamina to execute. Also the lore is not immediately known to the player but is found out through bribing guild members and etc. Each weapon has its own set of actions in battle to some degree, like a sword that can slash but a weaker knife has the option to both slash and stab.
There are some cool and original things in this as well. The lantern is a mysterious object that appeared one day and your job is to set out and find out what it does. What it DOES DO is change colors through 5 different phases while you play. Depending on its color, some of the game's rules will change. This is up to the player to discover either through trial and error or more likely through those lovable, bribable, guild members.
So what's new? First off is I've remade the thing to include gamepad support. It's not necessary but it is pretty cool and I've been using it a lot these couple weeks myself when I test things. Second is there's now a save system (hooray!) which was a giant giant pain in the butt to add and took almost three days but it's done and working now. Thirdly is NEW CONTENT of course! We have some new floor events like a snow level, and things like jail gates you can open that house some pretty dangerous mofos. Mushrooms grow in the dark and can be eaten to heal you- or maybe poison you!
More as it develops, this is what I've been up to ːJAC_Cowː