It's been busy over here at Roundguard HQ. We just completed a full pass of World 2, adding in lots of new monsters and traps including petrifying trolls, armored skeletons, mysterious rune stones, and orcs with steam blasters blowing everything around. (Rogues, beware. They can blast your arrows and smoke bombs too.) That brings our unique peg type total up to more than 40 and we've still got World 3 to go! But our biggest new addition is *dun dun dun* BOSS FIGHTS.
We wanted the world breaks to end with a bang, so we created a boss fight unique to each one. At the end of World 1 you'll face the alchemist with her collection of ever-changing unstable potions, and at the end of World 2 you'll take on this big guy...
While the bosses at the end of each world stay the same -- so you have something to strategize toward as you develop your build -- they each have procedural elements that change every run to keep you on your toes. New potions are brewed, eyeballs are shuffled, and topnotch threatening laughs are manufactured. (BWA + HA + HEE-HEE?) Okay, I made that last one up.
The next month will be jam-packed as we cram to get in the rest of World 3 and tidy things up for the beta. Plus we've got events! Roundguard was nominated for the Indie Pitch Competition at SXSW so Kurt and Bob will be down in Austin for that, and then I'm on my way to SF 'cause I got picked to join the Pixelles at GDC. If you're gonna be at SXSW or GDC, give us a shout! And of course, no matter where we are on the planet, you can always find us swapping bad puns and bug GIFs in the Roundguard Discord.
Talk again soon!
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Andrea