Game News for April

Hello everyone!

Sorry for my delays, had a rough start to the month and a slight burn out but I'm back. This news post will be slightly smaller, as everyone is still in the middle of working.

First off, the game finally got some art polish in. I'm really happy with the new look of the campsite. I might need a slight edit for some fixes but for the most part, it looks way better.

The inside of the camp and the visual novel art for the intro got some polished work too. I'll let you folks see that in game.

I also started reworking the animations for Avina. I mostly plan to add some new animations for different weapon types and effects. This is the reason why you'll see Avina in the game without hair at the moment. As seen below.

Working on the animation system, I decided to keep her hair on a different layer. This needs to be updated with all her old files, so that's the reason you'll see this bug in the current build. While I'm doing this rework, I'll start working on male Avina. On top of all that, some monsters need to be finished or reworked as well.

So I've decided that I'll be doing nothing but animation work for this month. I might try to polish some of combat UI as well.

On the coding side, Minle is bug fixing some of the rework. While we have most of the new system in place, it's time to start cleaning out the old system. My cancer old is starting to not play well with the new code. As Items got put in, we had some bugs from old items/armor popped up.

Because of all this, it looks like I'm going to have to push back a public build on steam. I want to make sure when we hit alpha that the game is solid and feels good to play.  Instead of pushing every month, I decided to just wait until we are ready to finish with the build. This will mean no new content beside just polish and new art.

What does this mean for the steam release? It means we are going to first update the public build first then after a decent update we will release a full demo on steam. I want to make sure we have a good foot forward before anything else and don't worry, I will make sure you patrons get the new content first before the public.

That being said, I will still offer you folks some extra goods for supporting. At the moment, some of you might have noticed that back in February I took part in the Strawberry jam! Its a game jam for adult creators and during that time, (when I had free time) I went ahead and made a quick game using Maria as the main protag and based the game setting it in the world of EOK! It takes place before the events of the main game.

If you want to play the current build here's the link.
https://blindwolfgames.itch.io/witches-dare

It was a wonderful experience and it's nice to be able to release something short.  I do plan on updating this game once more with bug fixes and post jam content. There were extra stuff that I made that I didn't have time to implement and was cut in order for me to submit the game in time. You lucky folks however will get first dibs before the public as a thank you.

After that, I'll see what more might happen in regards to this game. I think instead of rushing EOK, I might work on the side projects to build up more fans and hype for the main game. Also this will be a nice opportunity to give a game to folks who don't like the themes of EOK and would rather have something more lighthearted.

Finally, I had mentioned in a past post that I had planned on releasing a few new tiers like a merch tier. We had some delays on that front. I am currently working to fix this soon so I could release it. I don't have a set time when it will be ready but I'll go ahead and start showing off some mock ups. I really want to be able to give you guys a new way to support this project and get something more in return. I'll post those images later this month. I'm really hoping to draw in more fans to help push the Patreon and hopefully get to a point where I can give some money to the team.

I'll end this post with some new art from Gummi! Bottles and milk. Because of some of the bugs, I couldn't get them in fully into the game last build but I'll see if I can get them in for this month.

Thank you all again for the support. Please keep an eye out for more updates.