What we've been working on [May Edition]
Posted: May 31st, 2026, 5:48 am
We've received a few PMs asking for an update, so here's May's tweaked or added features:
- Lots of combat related work done (targeting, party movement during combat, animation timing, fixed some lingering bugs in the the attack/defend sequence).
- Removed Cloaks (both as an item category and as a slot on the Equip panel). Cloaks where simply not adding anything of importance to the game (they were the least effective armor, and their enchantment bonuses could be easily adopted by other items), so that slot was changed to...
- Added Archery (as an Equip Slot). Now characters can have both melee and ranged weapons equipped together as part of a character's overall loadout. This solves a gameplay issue where manually switching from ranged to melee weapons, for 4 characters, during combat, just felt cumbersome and ruined combat flow.
- Modified several UI elements based on feedback from screenshots; the Stats panel got a big overhaul; added the Ranged Damage stat to the Detail panel now that bows/crossbows can be equipped along side of melee weapons.
- Started work on the Character Creator. As it has been, a New Game results in getting 4 random characters made for you. That's fine for early system testing, but almost impossible for game balancing.
- Lots of combat related work done (targeting, party movement during combat, animation timing, fixed some lingering bugs in the the attack/defend sequence).
- Removed Cloaks (both as an item category and as a slot on the Equip panel). Cloaks where simply not adding anything of importance to the game (they were the least effective armor, and their enchantment bonuses could be easily adopted by other items), so that slot was changed to...
- Added Archery (as an Equip Slot). Now characters can have both melee and ranged weapons equipped together as part of a character's overall loadout. This solves a gameplay issue where manually switching from ranged to melee weapons, for 4 characters, during combat, just felt cumbersome and ruined combat flow.
- Modified several UI elements based on feedback from screenshots; the Stats panel got a big overhaul; added the Ranged Damage stat to the Detail panel now that bows/crossbows can be equipped along side of melee weapons.
- Started work on the Character Creator. As it has been, a New Game results in getting 4 random characters made for you. That's fine for early system testing, but almost impossible for game balancing.
Of course, with the flexible character growth, it's easier as you can differentiate over time to fill party niches, but just four characters meet on the road and figure it out sounds kind of fun.