Patreon has been such an unbelievable assist to me that I am giving a thanks shout out to the Patreon employees in addition to to all my patrons. (My Patreon is right here, btw.) Patreon is a means for folks to immediately assist the inventive folks they wish to assist. It isn’t for a particular undertaking like a Kickstarter, however quite for every little thing that individual is doing. It is truly much more enjoyable than kickstarter as a result of I get to indicate all of the in-progress stuff I am engaged on.
Here is a rundown of what I have been doing over on my Patreon these days.
Final month, I provided early entry to (bodily) Codex playing cards. Codex is a brand new tackle customizable card video games. If you would like to be taught extra about Codex, this is three articles concerning the sport’s design:
#1 Codex Design: Playing cards and Gold As Sources
#2 Codex Design: Heroes and Tech Buildings
#3 Codex Design: Fight and the Patrol Zone
Anyway, all these Codex early entry units already shipped out and my patrons usually play one another over Skype. In the event you missed out on that, you’ll be able to truly nonetheless get bodily playing cards by way of this publish (requires $25+ patron stage). Although you may as effectively wait till subsequent week as a result of there will likely be a steadiness replace inside every week.
Final week I posted a brand new Uncooked Sport Design podcast episode (for $10+ patrons) the place I focus on “reset buttons” in Codex (playing cards that blow up the board so you’ll be able to presumably come again from a really unhealthy place). I additionally focus on some adjustments to the Tower add-on. It is a solution to detect stealth / invisible items and it is tough to present the correct amount of detection. Lastly, we focus on what Geiger’s strikes will likely be within the Fantasy Strike combating sport.
I additionally posted an replace to the Codex rulebooks right this moment for patrons of any stage.
Inside a pair days, I plan to publish a giant replace to the Codex print-and-play model (for $25+ patrons) that has dozens of steadiness adjustments primarily based on the final month of playtesting. Inside every week of that, the identical adjustments will likely be accessible as bodily playing cards to patrons of any stage (for simply the price of printing + delivery).
Final and positively not least, I plan to publish a brand new playable model of Fantasy Strike, our simple-yet-deep combating sport (for the $25+ patrons). There’s slightly bit of information on the sport right here: http://www.sirlin.web/fantasystrike
The brand new construct has a great deal of bug fixes, a number of steadiness changes, and a brand new playable character, bringing our forged as much as 4 thus far. We’ve Grave, who has a projectile and is an all-around type of man. Jaina additionally has projectiles, and a few rushdown functionality, however the place she actually shines is zoning along with her loopy impediment course of flame arrows. Rook is a grappler’s dream, having nearly each software a grappler might hope for. And our latest forged member is Valerie, a manic painter who’s all about rushdown. She could bear some gameplay resemblance to Fei Lengthy. 😉
We have been focusing totally on gameplay thus far, however we’ll be upping our manufacturing values quickly. In the event you’re an knowledgeable 3D fight animator, or a visible results artist (in Unity), or a 3D environmental artist, get in contact with us at [email protected]. We’re additionally on the lookout for a volunteer idea artist to assist with our phases. Idea artists simply must know combating video games and the Fantasy Strike characters to work with us on the look of the phases. We want assist in all these areas, however one other skilled fight animator is what we want essentially the most.
Thanks once more to all my patrons. Your assist is far appreciated and all of the funds go immediately into these tasks.
