Weekly Progress Report

In the five-ish days since 0.2 came out, I've gotten a load of AMAZING feedback and useful feedback in various formats - thank you so much guys - so I've put a decent chunk of time into fixing bugs and improving the forest and temple areas. Less memes, some writing improved, some choices made clearer, etc. Not enough to miss much if you've already played it, and I'm not gonna spend months rewriting the whole game, just trying to make it more newbie friendly.

I'm kinda excited to say that the Mastery system should be a safe inclusion in 0.3! Tl;dr if you use an ability enough times you can choose one of two mutually exclusive upgrades to make it significantly better; for example, Stone Skin can be upgraded to give health regeneration or a Vitality buff in addition to its usual defense buff, while Wind Blast can be upgraded to do more base damage or have a higher crit chance. Balance is... going to be questionable for a while, I suspect, and not every single skill may have an upgrade in 0.3, but going forward they will.

Looking forwards, I feel fairly confident in saying that 0.3 will finish off Ashley/Sarah night options, and the next morning's content, including Metatron's proper intro/loredump, and probably including Celica's introduction. Metatron will introduce/showcase the corruption/affinity system properly as well. Unfortunately, 0.3 will almost certainly fall short of including the first random adventure and its related story character, since that will be a major investment to get it fun and replayable. I'm not sure yet about the training system, which will let you learn certain abilities/traits from allies on the off chance anyone actually wanted Aether or Nether magic, but realistically speaking that's probably going to fall to 0.4 as well.

So far I've had success with a two-week update schedule, so much like it says ingame I'm gonna aim for a release on the 8th, but may be as late as the10th if everything goes horribly wrong. I like the idea of sticking to two Monday updates a month though, so we're gonna aim for the 8th!