Posted December 20, 2025 by Daq_Vid
Well well well. It's that time of the year again...
So, since Christmas is coming up, I've been continuing to work hard on the continuation of Slice of Them and also my other personal work.
This is going to be quite the long log, but it's a lot of content currently being worked on, alongside more future works. But I'll get to it.
So far, here's what I've been working on:
- Skills revamp and balancing
- Agility Training Ability
- Stats Revamping
- Future plans for more story and lore.
... Oh. Oh god, that's a lot...
WELP. Let's get this all down slowly, one by one.
Skills
So, with skills, I've continued to battle down with the skills. In specific, I've wished to work on some abilities having secondary sub-skills if they're leveled up high enough. Examples include Spikes having a chance to poison the enemy and the Staer Smash actually killing enemies in 1 hit, whilst damaging bosses a lot more.
I've also altered many of the stats for about 4-5 of the skills, especially for the bottle of wind, which (and as I've said before) is way too overpowered. So there's that. Thankfully, it's been somewhat easy to alter, but now I'm planning to continue on with this before I push the first update of the demo.
Agility Training
Yes, I know I said I was done with Agility. Buuuuut I was kidding. I did manage to fix up the critical minigame, but I just had an idea for the training portion to be more fun. Basically, it's a fast fall slam.
I have had recommendations from others to make this destroy crates underneath, and that lays as a fun option that I could do. But for now, I'm going to wrap up with the agility portion and PROBABLY with the rest of the trainings.
Stats and Skills Revamp/Different Looks
Essentially, I've tried to make the area... more accessible and interactive? If that makes sense? I've thought about making the UI more in-depth looking by including some kind of screen about the skill. But I'm still a bit confused about how I could manage this.
So, the way I've thought about implementing this is that every skill is going to have their own special screen, which is also animated. This stands as a placeholder for the poison bottle, but otherwise, this is going to be the normal-looking portion of the skills and stats.
Future Plans
So over the week, I've been creating some dialogue. This is mainly important for... Chatting. With this, I plan to make the "important" individuals interactable so you can talk with them. I do remind myself sometimes that each of these characters is a figment of my personality and essentially all play an important role in telling the ENTIRE story of how Slice of Them came to be. So far, I've only worked on scripting for Gaze, and I also plan to voice act all of this too. How fun.
But in short, interactions with the characters can help you gain the power you need to hopefully destroy the final boss of the game. It's a little complicated, but this is HIGHLY inspired by the game Super Chibi Knight and I have no idea how I can TELL you why it is, but it was on the top of my mind when I was deciding to make the scripts and concepts of the chatting portion.
Otherwise, I think that's it.
I will say, I'm going to take a week break. It's expected the next developer log AND video will be done within Janurary 2nd, and this will feature many additions, including a hopefully completed skill revamp and a chatting option for at least ONE character.
I put a lot of work this week, and I felt preeeetty burnt out. So I'mma just chill out for a week and probably just play a buncha games.
Have a good Christmas, lads! Love you all for readin' all this and following me through my game making days.
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