Today’s devlog is going to be mostly about the lore. The world of Elyndra has plenty of it to uncover. One of our Discord server members told us a while ago that some of the things in the demo didn’t quite make sense to them. Like, why are the villagers dismissive or mean? What’s the deal with The Arconian Empire? We’ll talk about some important concepts in this entry!

This post is spoiler-heavy, but it mostly features early-game stuff. If you’ve played through the demo, then there shouldn’t be any real big spoilers.

We’re also sprinkling in some nice art pieces and WIPs we have made as of late.

Before we get into that…


Wanna have fun and contribute to Call of Elyndra? Pop in tomorrow, Jan 18th 2025, 2 PM EST, to our Discord server[discord.gg]. We will be hosting an event for the community - let’s design a monster together! Through discussion, democracy, and a bit of craziness, we’ll create something that will become a mob in the full version of the game. We’re talking about both looks and behavior and attacks.

See you!


We had been working on the demo for quite a while. Its first version was ready around July. One of the first things that we noticed was that it takes a couple of minutes to get to the point where you start the current demo version. As it’s important to start playing the game as quickly as possible, the start had to be cut. We’re sure it was a good decision… But as a result, some explanations were skipped.


The intro scene shows us the dream that starts the whole endeavour. An entity that we’ll not talk about at this point, bestowed it upon you, Ariadne, and Kaelan. You are thus the Dreamers - ones chosen by destiny (...or maybe something entirely else?) to fulfil a very special task. A task of a more “mystic” and “ethereal” quality.

As the common knowledge says, it’s better not to ignore blatant supernatural signs you’ve seen in your dreams. Thus, you venture to Elyndra - a village on the edge of the civilized world. The place mentioned by the entity.


Elyndra wasn’t always this middle-of-nowhere it is now. As we mentioned in our previous devlog, it is what was left of a great city, a rich and bustling commerce centre. Due to cataclysms and hardships, the city fell. Its people started forgetting about their great past and their trading ways. The environment and circumstances forced them to live off the land. Some huge ruins nearby paint a bit of the story, but Elyndrans don’t wander there - the area is considered dangerous.

This isolation and simple lives made them self-sufficient, but not very talkative and apprehensive to aliens. This is why you are not exactly welcomed with arms wide open. They treat you and the other 2 dreamers as intruders. It would be hard not to see their point. They also heard that the Empire was making some aggressive moves in other parts of the world. Speaking of which…


The Arconian Empire is your homeland. It also happens to be the dominant geo-political force in the world. Life there was good. You lived with your mother and thought you’d have a regular imperial citizen’s life. Of course, it turned out differently. In the eyes of The Empire, it didn’t matter much. You were just a speck. It wouldn’t matter anyway soon.

By the end of the demo, Vexaris, the Chancellor of Arconia, waltzes with armed soldiers into Elyndra. This is what empires do. They expand, encroach on other people’s territories, and exploit them. A tale as old as the world itself. However, some questions arise. Why is he so nonchalant when talking about the possible use of violence? Why does Arconia need that backwater village? Are they calculated, just evil, or is there something else at play?

More answers and questions will come in the future.

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It’s been a crazy month for Quorum Games and Call of Elyndra. We’ve seen a lot of support, joy, and hope. We also received a lot of valuable feedback that needs to be introduced to our game.

This post is about our plans for the future. We’ll also talk about Elyndra itself.


Elyndra may look like a regular village at first glance… Second, third, fourth, and so on probably wouldn’t change much. For you, an inhabitant of The Empire, it’s a frontier village like many others. However, there’s a deep history in this place.

Elyndra hasn’t always been known as Elyndra. It used to be something grander - a municipality called Argentia. It was one of the grandest cities in the whole world. Unfortunately, it fell due to a disaster that obliterated the city and left very few survivors. Even though their home was wiped off the face of the planet, their life had to go on. They wanted to reestablish the city on the ruins of Argentia. It became Elyndra. One could say that the unbreakable will to survive and thrive of these people has become immortalized in the stubborn and resourceful inhabitants of the village.

Unfortunately, life there wasn’t what it used to be. Waves of emigration thinned out the population and from an almost city, it devolved into a town and then a mere village. With the people, the knowledge and memories also went. Gone were the great technological advancements and high culture. The descendants of those who stayed switched their focus to agriculture. Working the land became the main activity of Elyndrans. They were nowhere as sophisticated as their ancestors, but they could survive in this community.

Now, with the histories of old relegated to the status of mere myths and folk knowledge, Elyndrans live their simple lives. They are also aware of the old and mysterious ruins that lay nearby. Nobody knows what hides there.

Will you venture there and uncover mysteries thought to be lost to time?

Hopefully, you enjoyed that little bit about the lore. Now, let’s move on to the other part of the devlog.


We’re more or less a month past the game’s announcement and a week after the demo release.

We’ve learned a lot about how people perceive our game. It’s been mostly positive and it makes us quite happy. Our hard work wasn’t in vain and we’re looking with our heads held up high into the future. Still, there are some things we need to work on.

Three areas that universally demanded improvement were:

• The game’s performance.
  
• Movement and responsiveness of controls.
  
• Melee combat.

Our focus will definitely be on them. In order to see how our changes are perceived, we expect to update the demo build every few weeks and see what sort of feedback we collect. The reason why we opt for treating our demo a bit like a test build is that it contains most if not all inner workings that the game will have. Code, mechanics, and so on. This effectively means that while we still edit stuff in the engine and write code, we expect to focus on adding content to the game. New areas, monsters, graphics, so on.

In order to do that, we are about to modify some of our internal processes and switch our focus to adding content. We want to expand our team to make more content. The area that demands the most work to be done is animation. All of it is hand-drawn, pixel by pixel. The quality is great, but it takes time and loads of effort. Realistically speaking, we will be able to speed the whole process up and we feel quite good about that aspect.

Something else that demands a lot of work is the inherent stuff caused by RPG Maker, our engine of choice. The engine has a lot of great solutions in its vanilla form. Its big downside is that it is quite limited without customization. We knew that well, as plenty of our team members had worked in RPG Maker before. One of our goals is to create one of if not the most impressive RPG Maker game ever made. And we’ll need to navigate some uncharted waters to do that. Still, we’re quite confident in our ability to make the game as responsive, fluid, and pleasant to play as possible. These things are attainable.

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We’re about to finish this devlog. As this was only our second, we wanted to talk a huge part about the technical stuff. The future ones will likely be more about the lore and the art. Here’s a quick collage of some of the gifs that our gifted artists have made recently. Some of them are NPCs, some are monsters. All look cool!
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