Hi all, work continued on the third game last month. You can find the link below.

https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/update-3?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Fixed an issue with the progression indicators on the world map displaying the wrong values in some contexts

Fixed some issues with unit selection in the preparation screen before battles.

Changed some off-center UI elements, and extended the range of ranged units by 1 space.

This month, a major update was released, changing the game to a tile-based format. You can find a more detailed summary here[illun.substack.com].

In any case, here is a full list of the changes made:

• Steam achievements were added to the game. If you already meet the requirements, you can automatically receive the achievements by booting up the game.
  
• The game was changed to tile based.
  
• Both melee and ranged units have had their attack area downsized. Movement range has been given a slight increase in general to compensate for this, but I won’t pretend that it’s a one-to-one system.
  
• Performance has been improved on maps with a high number of units.
  
• The game should be more responsive in some places.
  
• The mouse camera pan is slightly less janky.
  
• The message box UI has been changed.
  
• Preparation screen UI has changed.
  
• Battle UI has changed.
  
• Various other UI elements have changed.
  
• Cutscenes now have a border to indicate a difference from overworld gameplay elements.
  
• Units and NPCs cast simple shadows now.
  
• Slight character art adjustments.
  
• Slight dialogue adjustments.
  
• There is now a small indicator for action command timing.
  
• The Bard class has been adjusted so that they need at least 5HP to use their ability. Using the assist will cause them to lost 5HP, so now it takes a bit more thinking to decide if you should use their assist every turn or not.
  
• The Tempest badge has been adjusted so that it will not trigger 100% of the time, so now you won’t be able to autopilot the endgame with it.
  
• Ending a unit's turn early now takes 2 right clicks instead of 1.
  
• The world map has been changed, with a red glow indicating more difficult areas.
  
• Misc bug fixes.

If you would like to keep playing on the older version of the game, you can do so using the beta branch "archived". However, after a certain point, save files made on the newer build will not be compatible with the older build.

That's all for now, Merry Christmas to all of you.

Here's another monthly update.

You can find the link below. It covers some cutscenes, environment art, and alternate art directions.

https://open.substack.com/pub/illun/p/november-2024-update?r=46mtlh&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Hello, everyone. It's been a long time since I released Game 2, and if you aren't on the Discord, you might be wondering where I've been.

In the past, I've been uploading all my monthly updates to Discord, but I don't feel this is the right way to go about things, since not everyone uses it, Going forward, I'll upload all of my updates to an exterior site and I'll notify everyone across sites whenever a new post is made.

Anyway, last month I revealed Game 3 after being radio silent for about a year or so. If you want to get caught-up, you can read about it here[open.substack.com].

And this month, I wrote a new devlog. and you can read it here[open.substack.com].

In other news, I do have some plans to revisit and address some issues I have with Magellania and Juno 06, but with how busy I am with Game 3, this might not happen immediately,

Anyway, thanks for sticking around, I'll see all of you next month.

These issues had been bothering me for some time now, but now they're addressed.

-Made some changes to the way the UI scaled on bigger screens.
-The game should no longer crash when alt-tabbed.

Fixed a combo system related bug that sometimes happened in the tutorials.