Happy Friday, Friends!
As Janna recovers from her week-long illness, I will be hijacking this week’s development digest. For those of you that don’t know me, I am DD, and I do a lot of quest design and writing for the game. For those of you that do know me, hello!
Before I talk about the progress we made this week, I would like to give you all a friendly reminder that Swords ‘n Magic, as well as the OST, are both currently on sale for 30% off. So if you haven’t grabbed a copy yet, now is the perfect chance to do so before the sale ends.
For starters, a lot of my work for the past couple of weeks has involved rebalancing our current Job Board system. At times, the jobs either felt too difficult to complete, or the rewards didn’t properly represent the difficulty of the jobs. I hope that the new jobs and rewards will feel a lot better in the next update! Along with this rebalance, I have continued adding more quests to the Windless Woods. Because let’s be honest, who doesn’t love questing.
Here’s where you will be able to find the job board in the Windless Woods when you are ready for more jobs!
Now for the rest of the team. Louis has continued to work on the combat system, as well as the map. Here’s a WIP mock-up of what the new map could look like. If you’re interested in seeing more of what Louis does, you can find his stream here.
Kindred (also known as Michael) has been busy making a whole ton of models. A lot of it is still too much of a secret to be shown off just yet, so enjoy this screenshot of some of the new alchemy ingredients found in the Windless Woods which can be shown off instead.
Wendy has also been a busy bee (pun intended) with work on the wasps’ nest. You’ll definitely want to explore it, but be careful not to get yourself into any sticky situations.
For those of you interested in seeing even more behind the scenes screenshots of what we’ve been working on, check out the Patreon! We have lots of cool things posted, including my personal favorite, this snail decoration.
I hope you have all enjoyed seeing all the fun things we’ve been working on this week. We can’t wait to share more with you. Until next time.
- DD