Anyone who has seen Jason and the Argonauts, the Ray Harryhausen classic from 1963 might see a familiar scene here. The old blind man furiously defends himself from the daily curse of three fetid screeching Harpies. Save him if you want to get off this Island, but the price will not be simple at all.
Greetings and salutations, friends, from sunny Adelaide, where the Spring almond blossoms are out, and the Pale Ale is quite well made and delicious.
Hi there to anyone coming in from Party-Based RPG Event on Steam - Scourge is indeed both of these things. In fact the whole crux of the game design is to get back to that Party-based adventure feel from the CRPGs of old, the ones that were influenced heavily by table-top RPG games of the 80s, and hit their PC peak in the late 90s. I don't think I need to list out the best ones!
Over the last month, a great deal of testing has occurred with the most excellent test team working with me on Quality. We have managed to play-test right through Act 2 and are now starting on Act 3! Of 3 Acts! So that's pretty exciting. I'm only just keeping up with their swift progress and reports.
Want new features? I've added character Re-spec, smarter Enemy turns when they are packing special powers, better detail on Statuses like poisons, a more easy to navigate spell training UI with the spell chain easily read, and mounted Packs. Plus a great deal of super minor/tiny features that just improve the flow of play.
Steams Cloud Backup is on now. So you can play on from another device.
But mostly the work right now is focused on bug-fixes and "tweaks". Each week brings about two hundred of those! Most are minor, but the more serious ones are still being uncovered. Like the save game issue fixed this week, where loading old (scenes past) save games would only sort of work! And infrequent errors that the cause the enemy turn to just lock up. Not ideal. The light is at the end of the tunnel here though - the nasty ones are getting more obscure. Eventually they will just stop flowing in. I feel that's about a month away now.
Until next month, when I might possibly have completed the first full play-through of the entire 3 Act game! Woah!
