Public News Post 1/18/24

Hey folks!

Hope the new year went well for you all. 

I wanted to make a quick public post about the game. 

First off, we are finally finished with that testing server and crafting redo is finished! It's currently being testing for bugs within the team for now and we'll have a whole month to focus on making sure it works rather than releasing it with bugs. After that, we are going to focus on bugs fixes and remaining polish art planned for 0.0.24 build. 

With the new tester server, we can now auto push the game to testers and get more people to try the game. This would be the latest build but it's the best way to help us with the game. We had a lot of bug problems last year and we wanted to spend the time to fix that. This will however be a feature for patrons only but also optional. If you just want to support the game only and just get the stable builds when ready, then that's more than okay. We just wanted to give the game to people to find bugs easier and make more stable build for backers. If you are interested, check the discord for the VIP channel for info or reach out to me with an DM. You'll need to do a forum to sign up as a tester. You'll be listed as a tester in the game credits and a special discord tag/name for your trouble.

Aside from the crafting work, we will finally get a new monster, items and events for this new build. Everyone on the team working towards this build.

Since I now have extra help, I can focus on parts of the game that has been lacking in the past. Animations was a big problem I was dealing with since it took way too long for me to create anything and also do the coding monthly. Since EOK is now a much larger game, we recently switched to a few months for the update rather than monthly. Down below in the files are some of the animations I was able to work on with the new schedule, mostly around fixing old animations and some for some new effects for combat. 

We also finished the voting poll for the final knight. Welcome Fen, the fennec fox! They are going to be the bard for the group. I'm happy that we finally have the full team. I'll be posting more art of them in the future but for now you can see the first image of them below links.

 We are hoping to finish 0.0.24 update at the end of February. Patrons will still be getting some extra rewards for backing the game and some sneak peeks. They also get more art overall as they have access to a vip channel. I hope to show them some new music Warden made for the game. Since game dev isn't linear, we have some cool stuff made for future parts of the game that I cant wait to show off. But don't be discouraged if you can't pay for Patreon, feel free to join the discord as I will post random stuff in the public wip channel.   

That's it, thank you for reading and stay safe out there!