Christmas Sales and Big News Update!

Hey everybody, I hope you're keeping warm. The project is still going ... however, as is usually the case I haven't been the best with news updates.

There's been a tight schedule lately, I have about an hour a day during the average workweek. Over the past few months, there have been major and important changes made to STLD to tighten up the system and trim out a lot of the fat. Most of it has to do with interface refining and clunky UI. But rather than a paragraph of details let's just list it out with some bullet points.

The following changes will be made with the release of STLD REDUX: Night Mist ...

( First Quarter 2020, hopefully )

• The game's resolution will be increased to showcase more details and visibility and make way for a less distracting User Interface.

• Investigate text will appear below the Player, and only while the UP key is held.

• The base widescreen resolution will be 800 x 450 and will adapt to your monitor.

• Changes will be made to the controls to make them less funky:

• To use an Item you will need to hold "UP" and press "Attack"

• The old Item use button will become the "Item Cycle" button.

• Double tapping the "Item Cycle" button will jump to the most useful item for the situation. ( Flash Item )

• Menu Interfaces will be reduced and altered with the resolution change.

• The Player will only trip when Stamina is empty and Health is Low

• The Players speed has been reduced to accompany the size correction.

• Scores will be retweaked to accompany the boss addition and trophy Icons will finally be added.

• The weapon discovery sound has been changed to something less loud and repetitive.

The Inquisitor needs the following:

• Animations ( done )

• Base Programming ( done )

• Two spell sprites animated ( )

• about a weeks worth of bug testing ( )

It's no exageration to say the majority of my time these day goes into the bosses AI system and adding/debugging his navigation and attacks, it's going fine, but it isn't perfect yet.

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End of the line.

A final weapon will be dropped upon defeating the Inquisitor, the player can use this to inflict massive damage.

Later Change : Eventually, the tutorial will be updated and simplified.

I'm aware I keep making alterations to the game, I want to take a moment and thank every single one of you wonderful ( and incredibly patient ) people who leave kind reviews for it. Every moment I spend taking the project to completion these days is because of you. I'm wishing you all the very best, and the happiest of Holidays!

Thanks again and Cheers!

-Pyro

P.S. You're probably hoping for a deadline on this stuff... Promising a deadline is always a bad idea but I can give a rough estimation and I will mention that once the holidays are out of the way I'll have more time to spend on it. With some luck and consistency on my part, I hope to have the final version ready by March 2020.