Posted March 08, 2022 by Moonsoon
The day we have all be waiting for has finally arrived! The Demo version of our game is now available for everyone and anyone to participate in. We hope that everyone enjoys their time in their adventures across Arcana, we ask again if you come across any problems in our game please let us know via our discord server. We also ask that after playing users take the small amount of time to fill our our feedback surveys which will be posted on the games Itch page and on our discord server.
There are new roguelite and progression mechanics in place. Players can earn cards as they defeat enemies and bosses, or collect it from treasure chests. Beware that these cards will be taken from you when you die, leaving you to build up your deck once more. However, to alleviate the sting of death, dying will cash in your cards for gold, which can be used to purchase persistent upgrades. One of the places the player can purchase these upgrades is at various taverns they can find in the open world.
A new playtest means new challenges for you to undertake, each set of challenges will be available for 3 weeks. This gives players enough time to play normally, plan their strategy and figure out the best way to take on the challenge.
Series 1 of our community challenges contains 3 challenges for players to undertake.
Run Taro, RUN - Speedrun the main story in the current version of the game
Finest Knight in the legion - Complete all quests available in the demo (not including the final trial quest) in a single run.
Kingmaker - Complete the final trial quest (Quest #05)
Make sure to submit your completed challenges in our community discord server using the challenge submissions channel
Among the new update is a small amount of fixes and changes we have introduced based off of feedback from marking staff here at the university. These changes will continue to appear of the next few weeks, these changes may not even be noticeable unless you know where to look.
It's been another busy week for us with internal marking and getting ready for a big playtest. but we have decided to take a step back from the creation of Tiertarock and Dehsuret Lagros, so we can work on refining and perfecting the look, atmosphere and mechanics of the game as as whole. As well as Thoth, the East Forest Clearing and the Eastern Cave regions of Arcana that you are free to explore.
Tiertarock and Dehsuret Lagros may not be available to players when our course finishes this year, but do not fear, if we as a dev team decided to continue the development of Corruption of Arcana over the duration of our 3rd and final year, we will bring these areas with us and make them even better by adding new enemies, characters, secrets, looks and even mechanics. But you'll have to wait and see, in the mean time, enjoy the game we have spent our time creating.
Fortune favors the bold! - JD