And now, yet another mixed bag of additions, featuring another expression, the shop title for the balloon stand, and some drop appearances for new items:
Now, as part of one of our backer items, we're creating a balloon stand during the festival, where a NPC will sell a bunch of balloons you can put in your home! As part of that, a bunch of drop sprites were needed:
As mentioned a while ago, we decided to take a look at the list of things remaining and make a sort of priority list of the things we still want to add to the game. We've thrown out some more things that will slow down the last bit of production, and for now the next bunch of major things we'll focus on is this:
The Backer Items
As you may know, early in development we had some more expensive tiers over at the preorder page of our site, where you could opt into having an item of your choice (or such things) added to the game. A lot of the that purchased that tier have now messaged us back letting us know what sort of items they want added, so one of our top priorities is sorting those out! We've already begun with quite a few, but there are still more to come!
Trick & Treat
These guys will be sorted out properly, although not in the way you'd think. We're replacing our original idea with their house (which was a several floor long gauntlet pretty much), and replacing it with an ordinary home (well, it might still be a creepy home, but just a home for now). If we end up doing something more major with Trick & Treat, we'll do it post release as a Halloween update, since we don't feel it's vital for the game to be finished and we sort of like the idea of adding some seasonal stuff post release to keep people invested in the game :)
The Card Collection Room
As mentioned before, one of the keys to getting the true ending will be collecting all the cards, and as such I'll need to make the hall where you'll receive your reward for finishing up your collection.
Lin Mei the Ninja will be added to a house in Port Monnaie, where she'll end up giving you one of the backer items.
The Arena will be sorted out in the way we mentioned last week, and the Memory Room will be transformed into a conference room.
There will be Books added to the library and across the world, where you can read about a variety of things.
We'll revamp trophies, removing some old trophies and adding more interesting ones. We'll also add some kind of progress bar so you can tell how far you've gotten on each trophy!
....and some other things we'll hopefully get to (which I'll talk more about another day)! These are sort of in order of importance now, so the higher up the more likely it is we'll go about adding it.
So to start off this week, we decided to change some things around, so instead of having the previous portrait I made for the scarecrow girl's human form, I made this new one which matches the original scarecrow portrait a bit better:
Now, in Fred's department, he's been busy making all sorts of characters and details, some of which include Trunk (which you'll stumble upon as a cameo character in Story Mode):
Now, some additional expressions and portraits for the crew involved in the harbor quest in Port Monnaie, as well as some final fixes of the ship!
As we've continued to discuss where to go from here, we've made some changes in our priorities for the remaining tasks. One such thing that we've discussed back and forth since almost the start of our process of making this game is the Memory Room, where you battle bosses you've previously defeated in Story Mode. We've never really decided on whether to keep the room around or not, but now in this hopefully 'final' discussion, we've decided on some changes that will affect it, and more specifically, the arena.
Right now, there are two categories in the arena, regular challenges and VS, though we haven't added any modes for the later. In the future, there will still be two categories in the arena, but we're changing it around so there will be regular challenges and boss battles instead. As such, if you go to the boss battle section, you'll get a list of all the previous bosses you've defeated, and will have the option to battle them again, as you would in the memory room. The regular challenges section will remain largely unchanged, though we're playing around with the idea of having the challenges scale to your character's strength.
Because of this move, there will be an empty room to the left in the HQ, where the previous memory room used to be. This room will instead be changed into a sort of planning/conference room, where a few older collectors will hang around with a blackboard, planning the future quests for the collectors!
What will end up happening with the rest of the HQ will be decided in the near future, as we continue arranging these final tasks in order of importance! Stay tuned :)
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