Hello and welcome to the 0.6 Loki update post ^^

We just handed out the updated game to our Early Access supporters, linked here:
https://subscribestar.adult/posts/1893022

Other supporters of our Game-Subscribestar will receive the 0.6 update in about week or two ^^

There's no intention to make the update available to the general public.
As the 1.0 version will be released on Steam, DLSite and other places.

Naturally, those elligible for a Steam key will get the 1.0 release with the Steam release ^^



Now for the actual update contents:

This update contains an entirely new area with new enemy variant and entirely new enemy, CG scenes and all.
And it pushes the game to about 66% complete.
(100% complete would be the 1.0 version)

You can visit this area immediately when starting a new game.
As the idea is that in the final version of the game, you can directly go into any of the 3 areas in whichever order you want to.

The Cursed Forest is a maze that is meant to be confusing to navigate.
However, you can find hints in the form of notes that tell you the right direction to take.

Other than that, it also comes with a stalker-type enemy that chases Loki across maps.
It can be defeated in combat, but it's a tough foe that you want to avoid if possible.

Managing to get to the goblin village and winning the bossfight gives Loki access to a new potion vendor.
Beware that these are strong potions with some downsides to make things more interesting ^^

There's also some secrets to find in the Cursed Forest, like a new skill for Loki to use in combat.
You can read about the exact additions and changes in the listing below ^^

If you have any questions, it's best to ask over on our Discord:
https://discord.gg/DB3F9jN

Have a wonderful day and see you at the next progress report!

~Wolfenstahl~


New additions:
- New Area: Cursed Forest Maze in the south of the village
- Goblin Trapper can restrain Loki
- Swamp Monster can hunt Loki across maps
- New Skill: Basilisk's Eye
- New bossfight in the Cursed Forest
- New potions (Berserker Elixir and Elixir of Stamina)
- New potion seller NPC (unlocked by winning bossfight)
- 5 new hentai CG scenes (2 Combat CGs, 2 Game Over CGs, 1 Event Game Over CG)



Changelog:
- Statue in village is now glowing to attract more attention
- Replaying tutorial now remembers the HP & MP you start with

Hello everyone ^^

This month (April) was more productive as I finished the CG scene writing for all enemies, game overs and the Event CG that is used in the Cursed Forest of the upcoming new area.

For the writing on the CG scenes:
I finished the goblin trapper writing last month.

So, more specifically, this month's writing was in regards to the "Swamp Monster" which is chasing Loki through the Cursed Forest.
The combat CGs (meaning in combat CG scenes used in grabs) narrative is about Loki getting railed by this abomination and her slowly falling to the pleasure.
The respective game over CG shows what happens after she lost to it in combat.

Finally, the event CG is about a tentacle plant capturing and lewding Loki inside of it.
You can see the CG by falling for the trap by having your HP hit 0 when you are near it.


I also reworked some of the maps of the Cursed Forest, so the Stalker-type enemy (Swamp Monster) that chases Loki across the maps is less likely to get stuck.

Here's an example of a map before:

And after:

I also made some new maps for the Cursed Forest, but I'm not quite done yet.
Currently I'm testing if 12 maps are sufficient or if I need to expand it to 16.
This requires a bunch of testing and back and forth.
But I'm slowly getting there.

Once that is done, I need to polish the maps by placing decorations, which serves no "function" but it's important to make it look as best as can be.
(and that can be quite time consuming)

Finally, the dialogue for the story, between Loki and the goblins need to be written.

Testing the new area will also take significant amounts of time.

But the new area is almost done and, once playable, will be shipped out to the $ 20 tier here on our Game Subscribestar for testing and feedback.

Likely after polishing that one up, we'll be releasing it to the other tiers.

The Cursed Forest release will mark the game at 66% done.
(and the final area will make it 100% done, but that is for later this year)

There will be no further "public releases" of the new builds.
Outside of the Game Subscribestar, we'll be releasing the full 1.0 version on Steam, DLSite and potentially other websites when it's done.

We've partnered with Shady Corner Games for the Steam release.

You can wishlist the game over on Steam here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3468280/Deathblight_Jormungandr/


Those who are eligible for a Steam Key based on old rewards on Patreon/Subscribestar had been noted down in our e-mail list and will receive the full game on release day, no worries ^^

And that is all for now!

As usual, if you have any questions, it's best to ask over on our Discord as we're very active over there.

Discord:
https://discord.gg/DgbaH6f

Have a wonderful week and I'll be seeing you at the next post ^^

~Wolfenstahl~

Hello and welcome to the progress report for March! ^^

As some folks may have seen, Cres and I (Wolfenstahl) decided to take it slow with things mid-March.
We've been working 6-workday weeks for 2 years by now, with no vacation or proper breaks, so we had to tone things down for 2 weeks to catch our breath.

Subsequently, I didn't get as much done as I originally hoped for.
But I feel the relaxed pace did help me with my creativity (which otherwise I was lacking) and I managed to write decent hentai scenes for DB Jormungandr.

Roughly spoken, the stress causing a lack of creativity created a situation where I write "generic hentai dialogue", then am dissatisfied with it, so I rewrite it later.
And I realized that, when I took some time off to relax, I had better ideas for a proper dialogue.
So... as much of a workaholic I am, I'm kinda coming to terms with the fact that pushing myself too much, is probably not something I should be doing...


Anyways, the "Trapper Goblins" are fully done now, including their hentai scenes.

Here's a screenshot of the game over CG scene of Loki being in a box for lewding:

I am about halfway through the "Swamp Monster" hentai scenes.
And then there's still work left to do for a sort of "tentacle plant" event CG scene.

The month still has a couple workdays left.
So I hope to finish at least the Swamp Monster scene before April.

The plan for April is to proceed with the mapping and potentially dialogue writing for the story.
We are slowly, step by step, finishing the new area/dungeon ^^

As for the Steam page for Deathblight Jormungandr, it should also be released sometime in April, so people can wishlist it then.
But more on that in next month's progress report.

If you have any questions, it's usually best to ask over on the Discord as we're very active over there.
(no pings required, we check the channels regularly)

Here's the link to our Discord:
https://discord.gg/DgbaH6f

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! ^^

~Wolfenstahl~

Hello everyone, welcome to this months progress report for Deathblight Jormungandr! ^^

Originally my plan was to simply map the southern "Cursed Forest" and place goblins as well as a swamp monster enemy type into this area.
Pretty much similar to the northern area that is already playable in the publicly available demo version.

After some consideration, I did think of an idea I had for future game projects and I decided to implement a "light" version of this for Loki.
("light" in the sense that the mechanics are not super deep and I'm trying the concept out for the first time, not including all the ideas and mechanics I thought of for potential future implementations in future games)
Namely an enemy that acts in a "stalker-type enemy" capacity.


What this means is that the new enemy type isn't placed on the map like the goblins are.
Instead, as you traverse the Cursed Forest, likely losing your way in the maze-type setup of this area, from time to time, you get chased by the stalker-type enemy.

This puts a bit more urgency on finding the right path, as periodically you get chased around the woods by this type of foe that is more difficult to get rid of than the average goblin.
You can either retreat to the village to "reset" the enemy spawning in.
Or you can fight them off in a battle to despawn them until they return, albeit this is risky.
Once reset, the cycle begins anew.


Coming up with ways to implement this and trial-and-erroring my way through RPG Maker's engine to try and make this feel as best as possible took some time, but I think the current implementation works.

Map is work in progress and kept to the "functional bits" (so no decorations currently) as I need to rework the maps back and forth to reduce the chances of the enemy getting stuck.

Other than that, the new goblin archetype, the Trapper Goblin, is added to the new Cursed Forest area.

While the coding for this area should be mostly done, the three things I still need to take care of is:
1. Writing of CG scenes
2. More maps
3. Writing dialogue

And testing of course, a lot of testing.

Implementing the swamp monster as stalker-type enemy definitely cost me about 2 weeks (as I had to plan and trial-and-error and adjust some things until it felt good), but I hope this helps with making the new area feel better and it's not just another enemy that "sits" on the map idly.
Even if future added enemies in new areas will be basically that.
It's just that I felt the Cursed Woods needed something like this, so here we are.

Anyways this is it for this progress report.
If there's any questions, you can ask in the comments or on our Discord:
https://discord.gg/DgbaH6f

See you next time ^^

~Wolfenstahl~