Progress Report (9/16)

Howdy, howdy! This is just a check in to let you know about a change of plans regarding the WIP content. Since it's been so long since I put a WIP I decided to split WIP #1 up into two parts. I'll be releasing the first part tomorrow with the following:

1. Druid class

2. Berryable Enemies

3. Saevusen Player Models

4. April, June & July Suggestion Box Items

The other stuff such as the endless dungeon will be delayed to the next WIP. I still need to finish a bunch of dialogue & a handful of sprites for it. Going forwards to avoid such long delays between posts I'll be splitting WIPs up into much smaller releases every 2-3 weeks rather than cohesive updates. This will probably help with bug reporting as well. My apologies for going so long without a WIP. I spent like a month working on a bunch of recodes and bug fixes for 1.1.1, and a ton of stuff for 1.3's massive rework to the game!

After this WIP there won't be too much left on 1.2's development, as most of the hard work for the endless dungeon is done so the other two tiers will be released much faster. There's really just that and a handful of community quests to catch up on!

As I mentioned a moment ago 1.3 will change the game significantly. It will have an entirely new plot, a new reworked map, and a bunch of new characters! There will be nine quests in it but these quest are significantly longer than the current region quests. These also involve a lot more minibosses and story related dungeons! I'll be posting a formal devlog talking a lot more about this once 1.2 is done.

I'll be making a major announcement tomorrow as well, as I'll be taking two weeks off after this WIP release to work on a smaller side project and some commissions since I'm a broke ah bih 🥀. I've been working anywhere from 40-60 hrs a week for a few months straight now and need a bit of a breaking from working on Swelladia.

I'll have more details on that side project tomorrow! (It is smaller in scope but should be very exciting 🥳)