EOK 2023 and forward
Added 2023-01-17 08:00:24 +0000 UTCHello folks! Hope the new year is treating you well.
Thank you all for being with us this far. It's been more than a year since we started this journey. So let's go over a few things for the future of End of Knights.
Where the game is at?
First off the state of the game. Right now, the major thing left on the board is the boss system! We're finally here at the final leg of this prototype. Once we finish this month, the game will be moving into a new phase. More on this soon.
The combat debuff and status effects are mostly working. We plan on adding new moves like stuns and other effects soon but the core system is in place. Team battle as shown above has some progress done. We came to realize that for a full demo, you wouldn't meet your first team member till after the first part of the game.
Currently, the game is set up to show you the tutorial and intro. Chapter one doesn't start till after you beat the first boss and a bit after that, you'll get your first team member. So instead of making a whole system for a temporary team member ( which would just take up time), we decided to leave the team battle out till we finish chapter one or make good headway. However, enjoy our progress of team combat in the gif submitted with this post.
That's the state of the game. We plan on finishing the boss system this month and showcase the first boss. Later this week, I'll release some concept art of the first boss and art for citizens tier and spicy art for everyone else above.
Blind wolf Team
We finally have a team! Currently for programming, we have both Minle and Chika. Minle has been hard at work with the coding the boss system. And Chika is working on bug fixes, testing and later in the month adding in some new moves to the game. Now that they are up to speed, I can let them handle the coding side as I focus on the art. I'm the only team member working on art... for now.
New members
We have some new folks joining us. At the moment, I will give them an intro next post. But we have a new full time writer, aspiring voice actor and a concept artist joining the team. With them on board, we can start dishing out a lot more content. No more a whole month for a single new monster. It's been rough doing stuff solo and I'm happy to have them. At some point, they will be joining the discord. So please be nice to them and welcome them.
Moving forward
We are going to be changing a few things. This game was started as a side project while I did my full time job. I'm now full time on this project and I have people donating their time.
With that in mind and the cost of living going up, I will be discounting the citizen tier. When I made that tier, it was just myself but that's not true anymore. At that price, it's not helping much. For anyone above that won't change much. The tier will stay up till the end of the month then after will turn into just donation, you'll be able to cancel or change your tier when the change happens. Also everyone who had that tier will keep the citizen role in discord permanently. If you run into any problems feel free to reach me on the discord.
With that announcement, I will also be bringing back the Knight Tier. I'm still working on the tier rewards but now that we have other folks working on different content, I'm thinking it would be finally time to bring it back as I couldn't keep it up back then solo.
Another new tier will be available next month as well. It's going to be a merch teir! We are partnering up with a furry t-shirt brand to make some t-shirts. We will go into details next post about it, but you'll soon get to have EOK theme shirts and stickers. Each month, we'll vote on two different designs for the next month adn then I will ship you folks some merch. We'll also give you an option to pick out a shirt from their stock instead if you don't what the community chooses. This tier will be at a higher cost but it you'll be getting physical items and you'll be helping me to pay my team. More about this next post.
Lastly, the final major change might have already been on the discord. We are going to most likely going to have the option to have players choose Avina's gender at the start of the game. We don't know if this will be like say a curse or like a twin. We are likely leaning with curse. But we still have an on going poll whether we will do this. About next week, we'll close the poll. So here's the link. It's a public one, so feel free even if you aren't a patron to vote. https://strawpoll.com/polls/ajnEOzG9xZW
Finally, I'll be updating the Patreon page and giving it a new look. It's been a bit outdated and I haven't given it the love it needs. I'll also be updating the itch.io page as well.
Final part
That's going to be it for now. The last part is the timeline. I'll be releasing a timeline graph for where I want the project to go and what are our future plans will look like. We do plan on doing a steam release at some point, That might be our first milestone after this month. A full demo on steam does sound like a good plan. Once this month is over, we will also start back up advertising for the game. I was doing that when the game was first being made, but I ended up having to stop the upkeep since I didn't have the cash flow, prices went up and the game wasn't in a stable place. When we get that running, we plan on more people joining in. I hope to see if I can find someone else to help with upkeep on the discord and help build up a community. Right now our discord is almost at a 100 folks! Even if you don't have a tier feel free to join in on the fun for updates and to chat with fans.
Thanks it for this post. Thank you again for being here. Let's head forward!
