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Not sure how to report on this devlog without massive spoilers, so I will just stay abstract, I guess...? I finished the second segment of the Final Battle Event containing a new boss fight. Those who played Metaphor may recognize the gimmick of this battle haha. Now there's "just" the large, last one remaining - the actual main confrontation with Richard.
The cut-off point is a bit weird this week. It would have made more sense to send the player into the clear room upon reaching Richard's Throne Room, but I wanted to deploy the start of the event because I felt it was unfair to a certain character who well um, well it, it felt unfair to her to not balance out what happens before with a certain other event happening here.
It makes a lot more sense when I'm not trying to avoid the big spoiler ok!!!
I will definitely also have to do a couple of editing passes once the entire Final Battle event is done. I'm quite happy with the individual events, but the transitions could still need some more work.
Anyways, that's pretty much "already" it for the week. Going to try and close out the Final Battle Event for the 0.50.0 release but as mentioned in the Project Plan post for this month, it might be tough due to family events for the Christmas Holidays interfering (mostly on 24th and 25th). From our assistant developer Trihan's side, no major progress this week.
Then, see you all next week hopefully with the Final Battle completed!
Changelog 0.50.0-prerelease-3 (20.12.2024)
Iterated Luciela boss battle
Implemented scene Defeating Luciela
Implemented medium vice variation for defeating Luciela
Implemented high vice variation for defeating Luciela
Implemented scene going to Richard's Throne Room
Implemented event Final Battle Star Shine
Added skill stub Star Shine III
Increased max killed bosses to 123
Balancing
None
Bugfixes
Fixed prerelease typos
Fixed Slash of the Tiger not being added when using SK
Fixed broken jump point in Richard Domain 8
Fixed Cursed Gourmet Meat discard check being skipped
Fixed outdated dialogue regarding Demon King origin in intro
We progress closer towards the good ending! This week, I added the first of the three final segments of the good ending. It's largely just a narrative section where we can meet the Goddess once more and learn more about her and Roya (and to do some difficult jumps for last minute extra mats :'D).
I probably spent more time double checking if I wrote anything inconsistent than doing the actual writing in this area. Mostly because while the general direction has always stayed the same, various details have changed over the development time, so I hope it all fits together. Besides the new segment in the Final Dungeon, you will find quite a lot of "stubs" in the changelog. I started working on the second segment on Thursday, but didn't reach a good stopping point. Today I mostly implemented the mechanics of the Luciela fight, but without the aftermath, you would just end in a bad spot for an end-of-content point, so I made that area unavailable for now. Similar story with our assistant developer Trihan, who has begun developing elements for the last two floors of Clockwork Tower, but our mapper (and pixel artist) has been having some troubles recently and is a bit behind, so it's not in a playable state yet.
To avoid spoilers on the final part, I will just use this new cut-in thingy as the post screenshot. I didn't like the hard change in the pixel art when Aura removes her collar and the sprite switches to the Star Knightess one, so to improve the transition I integrated a little Skill Cutin plugin that displays the above. Also looks cooler. I need to play some more eastern RPGs, I randomly stumbled upon the plugin in some random game I checked out. And in contrast to other cutin plugins it was relatively self contained without adding a bunch of other unwanted side-effects in to the game.
Then we have a couple of minor additions. I expanded on the corrupt aspect of the Nephlune Guild Clerk and gave him the option of cheating you +1's in your Novice Adventurer and Intermediate Adventurer count. In exchange for an increasing amount of Bloodshot Eyes, this allows you to reach the next rank sooner or while skipping out other quests.
Then the Verdeaux Workshop has a new mini-quest where you have to charge an Orb with a bunch of Mana - nothign particularly special about the quest itself. It was a candidate for a Roland quest where we ended up going with the Golem one instead, but since it's quite simple and provides an additional way of putting left-over Mana to use, I decided to add it to the game. It also gives a +1 to the workshop but as the quest is unlocked on level 5 and there are no additional artifacts yet unlocking on level 6+, that has no real effect yet.
Balancing wise, we also have some minor changes. The fee to join the Mastery Club in the Magic Academy got reduced to 5k to accomodate for the fact that the Humilitas Rune is now mandatory to obtain (kind of hard when you just spent 10k on getting a Rank 3 spell). Then, Clockwork Forest is no longer locked behind the Reverse Summoning Ritual and instead unlocks immediately as you reach Expert-Rank, so you are guaranteed to always have an Expert-Rank quest unlocked upon reaching it. Finally, the Patentia Rune got a little power up and increases your MATK by 50% instead of 25% now, to increase its tactical impact.
Finally, on the art side, we have a couple of points of progress. Rose now has her demonic corrupted form as you might have already seen in another post this week and we started the development of the Final Corruption H-CG. It's a wopping 2300 USD x_X pushing out our total expenses quite high for the month. But I think it's important to have a strong finisher image. Also, I mentioned our mapper and pixel artist earlier, while they are quite behind, they did make some progress on the last batch of 1.0 pixel art work. Most notably,
The Goblin Shaman and Goblin King now have distinct character images (although I now notice that when looking up the crown seems to be missanimated :'D). Anyways, no longer thinking an enemy is a Goblin Shaman and then getting surprised by it being a different enemy!
Aaaand I think that covers it for this week! See you next week!
Changelog 0.50.0-prerelease-2 (13.12.2024)
Added Demonic Rose Character Artwork
Added mini quest in Magic Workshop: Orb Charge
Expanded Nephlune Clerk to offer fake Novice and Intermediate Rank quests to advance towards rank-up in exchange for Bloodshot Eyes Drugs
Implemented Richard Domain 8 Memory Fragments
Implemented Richard Domain 8 Goddess Meeting
Integrate CutIn plugin to cover over SK Costume switch mid-battle
Added Luciela Cut In when she uses Nightmare Claw on a DROWSY target
Stubbed out map Richard Domain 9
Added meeting Richard in 9th level and stub battle against Luciela
Added customized pixel chars for Goblin Shaman, King and Empowered Avian
Added stub boss battle Artificer
Began implementation of Luciela battle
Setup timing of Clockwork Forest F3 traps
Updated Clockwork Forest manuscript
Balancing
Changed Clockwork Forest quest to unlock upon Expert-Rank unlock
Decreased Belphegor AGI to 15
Reduced Magic Mastery Club joining fee from 10000 to 5000 Gold
New release! This month's release mostly focuses on closing out the remaining dungeons. For this we have significant progress in two major areas: The Final Dungeon (Richard's Domain) and Clockwork Forest.
As usual, for the details, you can check out the weekly devlog posts. In this post I will summarize the month's work and go into closer detail on what's new this week.
To start off, let's look at the usual summary in Numbers! We have: 5 new dungeon areas, 1 new H-CG, 1 new character artwork, new items, new skills, and big bunch of minor improvements towards the 1.0 release.
Let's start off with this month's main goal: The completion of the dungeon crawling segment of the Final Dungeon! This month I added the last three demon general floors for Gluttony, Lust and Pride. This week in particular, I worked on adding the Pride dungeon, the main work here being that you can kill the final Demon General - Lucifer - at any point in the story, interrupting his Judgement of Pride quest. In theory, all states should update correctly, but to be honest, there are so many states, it's likely I overlooked one x_X
Anyways, as I said, besides the Pride dungeon, we also added the prior two dungeons. Asmodeus had also caused me some headache - in fact the most! To the point where we had to disable the option of using SK to enter Richard's Domain early before getting the Humilitas Rune.
On the bright side: Having fully handled Asmodeus' state allowed me to have one more need on the necessity of closing down the Maid Academy after his death. And while that still happens, I managed to update the state so that the player can still access the Catacombs and fight the local bossess afterwards. So a bit less restrictions on the order of killing bosses such as the Spirit Fox!
Besides the Final Dungeon, our assistant developer Trihan and me continued to also push another front: Clockwork Forest. The Western Clockwork Forest and the Hidden Cave have been iterated quite a bit, both in visual details as well as in content such as new loot! Obtain a new artifact and the new "blueprint" object that unlocks new stuff in Verdeaux's Magic Workshop.
While I was busy iterating existing content, Trihan focused his work on adding two new areas in Clockwork Forest: The first two floors of the Artficer's Tower. He tried to break the pattern of delivering his stuff last minute, but sadly was not so super sucessful at it :'D So once again, I obtained the second floor only late today. It has some very basic testing but F1 and F2 definitely will need an additionally iteration pass. That being said, only 2 more floors to go and the final side quest area will be complete as well!
And then, as mentioned, a bunch of smaller improvements towards 1.0. Some notable items here are:
This week a added a new variation of the Labyrinth of Happiness for a late-game corruption state. Instead of with the Cheerleaders, Aura will end up at Richard's.
The Liliana 2 scene received its H-CG.
Georgia has become a real girl with fitting artwork in the corruption ending!
We finished adding the last couple of remaining skills & opportunites to learn them.
Minor plot improvements such as receiving a warning about the time limit on Demon Generals recovering their strength and the consequences of death on Earth in the Intro.
I feel like I'm typing the changelog here so I will stop the list :'D
Okay, so in summary: Final Dungeon crawling DONE, next up some narrrative segments and then the Final Battle followed by the Epilogue in January. And for Clockwork Forest two more levels remain and then we can write off one more milestone: All quests done.
But that is hopefully for next month. As for a more detailed plan, stay tuned for either Sunday or Monday where I will post the December Project Plan. Until then!
Changelog 0.49.0 (29.11.2024)
Added Liliana 2 H-CGs
Added female Georgia character art
Added map Richard Domain 5 Gluttony
Added map Richard Domain 6 Lust
Added map Richard Domain 7 Pride
Added map Artificer Tower F1
Added map Artificer Tower F2
Iterated Western Clockwork Forest
Iterated Clockwork Forest Hidden Cave
Added boss Chaos Golem
Added item Blueprint: Power Core Forging
Added item Blueprint: Sight Enhancer
Added artifact Invigorator
Added skill Fade Into Shadows II
Added skill Peaceful Mind II
Added option to learn Slash III from John
Added reward Peaceful Mind II as skill reward option for Slay the Demon
Added option to learn Fade Into Shadows II at Main Cathedral
Added skill Horror III
Added minor Roland flashback in his death scene
Implemented trait whitelisting for Compendium
Implemented compendium tag to conditionally hide skill from skill list
Gave James Horror III after giving him Corrupted Humanitas Rune
Added option to learn Horror III from James
Unlocked Sick Workers after resucing Edwin instead of after entering the Congregation
Moved reveal that killing the Demon King on Earth moves his soul to Roya into Intro
Added dialogue at end of Festival for 100 day demon general limit
Update Judgement of Pride in case of killing Lucifer in Richard Domain
Improvde wandering NPC routines in Trademond
Disabled ability to destroy Richard's Barrier with SK
Removed desert and island from world map
Support possibility to enter Maid Academy Catacombs after Maid Academy closes
Added option to use Humilitas Rune to break Belphegor's Barrier
Added Richard variation for Labyrinth of Happiness after Aura agrees to sex with Richard
Iterated World Fog plugin and enabled by default
Implemented trap disabling on Artificer Tower F2 console
Updated credits
Increase max killed bosses to 122
Balancing
Improved ATK consistency among demons: Decrease Hi-Wrath to 200, Hi-Greed to 175, but increase Lucifer to 225
Reduced number of lava tiles in Richard Domain 2 and replace them with level 2 heat tiles
Iterated boss Ether Golem
Iterated boss Thunder Golem
Bugfixes
Fixed typos
Removed Primal Hunger triggers in Richard's Domain
Fixed being able to access backlog or save the game from title screen by going through options menu first
Fixed incorrect teleporter in to Gluttony Domain
Fixed crash in mid-cutscene saves if an event on the map was deleted during an update
Fixed tile passability issues in Richard Domain 5
Fixed autosaves no longer loading after a map is edited
Fixed Tenacity applying twice in New Game Plus
Fixed minor early game visual glitches in Hermann 1 and when learning Light 1
Fixed compendium recording hidden enemies after battle
Fixed Georgia epilogue dialogue not being pink
Fixed Lust Domain bombable wall teleporting to wrong tile
Fixed Absorb Air being usable outside of underwater areas
Fixed non-corruption ending events triggering on corruption ending start
Fixed broken interactions between Slay the Demon minigame and Cursed Gourmet Meat
Fixed visual glitches when triggering Sex with John while Adult Content is OFF
Fixed murmor effect sometimes playing in book cafe when entering
Fixed extra secondary lewd stats from Curiosity passives triggering beyond 5
Fixed missing hidden statistic increases in Roland 6,7,8
Fixed Refugee Camp visual glitch for opening door to Food Shed
Fixed being able to blow fog away in some Richard Domain 6 encounters and add a failure message
Fixed Fleura having duplicate dialogue
Fixed Thunder Golem obscuring state icons on lower Scout
Fixed strangely-positioned bear in Clockwork Forest encounter
Fixed missing security increases in Clockwork Forest
Fixed wrong enemy being affected by Sluggish trait in Sloth+Inferiority*2+Ignorance troop
Fixed rock blocking ambush point in Richard Domain 4
Fixed Wrath*2+Rage in Richard Domain 5 acting like player is in Wrath domain instead of Gluttony
Fixed Envy+Voracity*4 having redundant Sluggish code that paralyses one of the Voracity enemies
Fixed Resistance To Light from Obscurum still being applied on pollen maps
Fixed temporary auto spells not being removed after Reverse Summoning Ritual
Fixed troops containing Envy in Richard Domain 5 tinting screen incorrectly after battle
Fixed Maleficum access blocked in Richard Domain 6
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