Hi friend!
Is summer over already? Oh well. I’m pulling out the fuzzy blankets and steaming mugs of tea, ready to warm myself in the glow of my computer screen… Time for cozy game dev!
It was so lovely getting to see old friends and meet new ones at PAX West. The Indie MEGABOOTH experience was overwhelming at times – sorry to everyone who I had to stop mid-sentence to keep the booth running – but I was so proud of our little game. The Indie MEGABOOTH has been my favorite stop for years and years and this time we got to be at the heart of it! Thanks everyone for making it such a good time.
On the home front, our biggest new update is: Fizz the Wizard is fully playable!
Fizz is a young adventurer, still learning to control her magic, but she’s pumped to explore the dungeon and give it her all. All her frogs, that is.
You may wonder where she keeps all those frogs. Well, you know what’s even better than dresses with pockets? Dresses with pocket dimensions.
Fizz has a bubbly personality and a talent for making (summoning) friends, but she’s no lightweight. She’s been electric on the leaderboards and the boss monsters cry out in terror when they see her frogs coming. But she’s also been a bit… buggy?
See, when she equips her lightning skill, lightning bugs appear on the side walls, pacing up and down, and her bolts zap in a line between her and the bugs. But as punishment to us for adding literal bugs to the game, these bugs have been the buggiest bugs ever to bug. There was that one time when they began multiplying into an enormous swarm that wouldn’t stop until it crashed your game. Or that other time when they just decided to take a vacation and disappear for no reason. I think after this next update we will have finally tamed these bugs, but I’m scared to say it too loudly in case they hear.
Anyway… Fizz has kept us busy, but we’ve been working away at lots more polish and tuning and new random encounters and all that good stuff. This weekend I asked the beta crew what they wanted more of in the game and they said level layouts. So I put some assets in the Goodies folder to let everyone build level ideas and it’s been a ton of fun getting those into the game.
Maybe you have a level idea you’d like to see in the game? Come over to the Discord and share it with us!
<3
Andrea