Here's a new video showing the opening of the game. I pretty much have all cutscenes set. Now I just need to do some item and dialogue placements. After that I'll just need to do some testing to make sure everything is balanced.

Currently filling the areas with items. Halfway done at the time of typing this. 

Finished putting items in the areas. I had to go back and change some stuff because I figured out a better way to track what has been picked up better than what I was doing before. Right now I'm putting spells together, here's a couple I have done so far. BTW These animations aren't by me they're made by Pimen https://pimen.itch.io/ who has a lot of amazing magic effects that perfectly capture what I wanted to go for, I just adjusted some of the coloring and added an emission layer so I could use the bloom effect on them. 

Found a new better way to do spell shading, and I think it looks better than the previous version.

I'll just need to do some readjustment to the color on some.

Enemy attacks are almost done, I just need to do some more balancing. I also have a handful of battle areas to show. So the demo is almost ready, all that's left after finishing enemy attacks is to do some bug hunting to make sure everything works, and just a couple of adjustments to UI.

Discovered a small issue with missed attacks where if you press the button after it leaves the interact zone, it will instead consider the next attack as a miss. I'm gonna take some time to look through this carefully.

Okay, I spent a lot of time looking at it and I believe the bug is fixed. I still need to do more testing just to be sure, but it looks like it was fixed.

Finished the adjustments to UI. Still working on balancing enemy stamina usage (The main problem is that they keep spending it all instead of taking a break to refill it, it's just a matter of finding the right amount for attack cost and their stamina capacity). 

Other than that, I'm hunting some music for the mining area, for the credits, and music for a battle victory. Having some trouble on the last one, if anyone has any suggestions that are royalty free, I'd really appreciate it if you shared them.

Keep up the good work. Art looks great

Found a new bug in the build today. When loading a battle scene it will sometimes freeze for a brief moment and then unfreeze, problem for this is that it skips transitions once it finishes loading. I'm looking into a way to preload the scene better to prevent this.

Almost done with the demo! I just need to do some extra debugging with the build, and find a way to make a good tutorial. After that it'll be ready to be uploaded on my itch page.

Okay! So I believe I got all game breaking bugs, at least all the softlock ones that would occur in combat. So now I'm just in the middle of trying to figure out how to incorporate a tutorial into this game. Since it is a turn based rpg I was thinking that I could use Unity's Timelines in order to create a sort of mock battle, where it will wait for specific inputs from the player before continuing. If anyone can tell me if this is a good idea or not I would greatly appreciate it, and if you know a better way of doing this then I am fully open to your suggestions.

I know I've been lacking on footage for the current state of the game, I've been trying to learn how to do some editing so I can make the footage more clean, instead of just relying on only OBS recordings done in one take (So don't worry I'll have some footage out soon).

So, apparently the editing software I was planning to use only had a limited time to try it, so now I need to find a new one that doesn't have a paywall.

Anyway, I was in the middle of making the timeline based tutorial but I had a better idea, I could just make a coroutine system that waits for specific inputs to be made by the player, it would be a lot easier to manage too. So I scrapped everything done for the timeline tutorial I made and got to work on a coroutine that will handle everything in one run.

The only issue I have right now is how to have the player be limited to specific movements. I'm still working on that solution, but I'm sure I'll find one.

Hoping to get this done within the next 2 weeks so I can let all of you try out this little adventure.

Okay so I found another editing software for when I record some gameplay to post here, and i've gotten a hand of the basics in it so far.

The tutorial is almost done I'm just triple checking to make sure it's good to go. Here's looking to posting the full game next weekend, as long as no new issues come up.

Alright, I should've gotten this done a lot sooner but irl stuff has been a pain lately. Anyway here is some gameplay footage of combat for the game. BTW the demo should be up in the next few days, I'm just trying to make the page look nice. 

Game will be up a little later today! Just doing some spell checking on the game page.

Edit: Here it is incase some people clicked last page https://armond-rivera.itch.io/seekers-aldric

Now that the demo is ready, I'm gonna start working on the Chaos Labyrinth mode. The mode will essentially be just an endless mode where you will get randomized encounters, with a shop every 10 floors to buy items and new weapons.

If you wish to learn more about this mode, then you can visit the game page to see a new post that I made going into detail about it more.

https://armond-rivera.itch.io/seekers-aldric

Hey, its been a while since last post. Unfortunately work has been making my sleep schedule shift a lot. BUT, I do have some new stuffs for today.

Here is what the Chaos Labyrinth area looks like as of now, I plan on adding some more effects and stuff later. The particles you see are the encounter zone, where it will start a fight with a randomly chosen enemy group, after which you'll return here and continue on to the next floor.

I also have the new shop menu nearly ready, I just need to make an NPC to open the menu when you interact with them.

The buy and sell menus are pretty much both the same thing (visually).

The only menu that looks different is the Quantity menu after you pick an item from either menu.

Here it will just display the chosen item, the (cost/sell rate), the amount you want to (buy/sell), and then the total amount of gold shards it will (cost/sell for).

I'm also working on some balancing that needs to be done for some enemies, such as the Man-Eater Flora, and Niddhogling. I also decided that it would be a good idea to add a new mechanic to battle victory. I've noticed that players can be nearly out of stamina after a battle, so I added a stamina reward to the grading system. This will allow battles to be less tedious when entering a new battle and having to spend your first few turns restoring stamina.

These are the current rewards for each letter grade:

S+ = 50% of max stamina recovered

S = 40% of max stamina recovered

A = 30% of max stamina recovered

B = 20% of max stamina recovered

C = 10% of max stamina recovered

D = 0% of max stamina recovered

With this it should help with making grinding less of a chore, and be quicker.

I've already finished charting the values for each level up to 25 so far, all that's left is to make some new spells, and new items too.

This is all I have for now, once I finish Chaos Labyrinth I plan on beginning work on the other 3 party members, then I'll be starting work on part 1 of story mode.

I've also been thinking of making a discord server for anyone who wants to try out new builds of the game, and give feedback so I can improve things before uploading it to the download page. 

Currently working on implementing status effects, so far I've laid the ground work out for each ailment that will be in game. So far I have poison set up for the player, and now need to set it up for enemies.

I also finished the shop menu, so now I can put a shop anywhere I want in game.

Really sorry for anyone curious about this game, I've been trying to take both my cats to the vet, nothing serious they just need their vaccinations updated. But hopefully I can get back to this more.