Kandria
Eternia is feature complete!
We did it just in time, Eternia: Pet Whisperer got completed on Friday evening, and we've only been testing it and fixing stuff that was reported since.
It was quite hectic, and we did end up having to drop a couple of ideas from being implemented due to a lack of time, but overall I think we all did a very fine job. The game has a substantial amount of content, and a good amount of polish for how little dedicated development time there was.
The game will be up for sale on Steam on Monday the 3rd, next week! If you want to support us, please wishlist it so you get a notification when it goes live.
What's left to do
We're not quite getting back into Kandria yet, though. This following week is going to be cleanup, planning, and such things. For one I still need to make a trailer for Eternia before it can be sold on Steam, and then there's a lot of other minor bits and pieces to look at: bugs to fix, project organisation to fix, minor things to polish. I imagine most time will be spent trying to plan out the next few months, however.
Most likely I'm going to allocate a good amount of time first to promoting Kandria with a new trailer and some new assets, fixing what issues people reported for the vertical slice, and polishing what we have even more. I think it would be useful to have the first act be really well polished so we have at least one part of the game that sets the standard for the rest before we move on to building a horizontal slice.
I also need to spend a good chunk of time being free to practise level design and combat design. Both of those skills I'm painfully aware are not up to snuff and I need time to focus on them to improve them. So far I've never really had taken that time, and I think the more I put it off, the more it's going to hurt the project overall.
A new team member
The long, long search for a composer finally concluded this week. I'm very happy to welcome Mikel Dale onto our team! We've settled the contract and all, and he's eager to start with us next month. I'm going to ask him to write a blurb for the monthly next week, so he has a proper chance to introduce himself as well.
That's it for now
A shorter update for once! I hope you'll take the time until next week to try out the Kandria vertical slice if you haven't yet!