Added another menu screen. The game now has three. One with no saves, one before finishing the game and one after finishing the game. The new menu screen shows when you have a save file but didn't finish the game yet. I even added simple animation that shows shortly after the main menu gets loaded.

It looks slighly different in the game since I had to chage the framerate and what not for the gif to fit here.

I will also add an option to switch between these three screens once you finish the game once.

Some screenshot from the story dungeon.

The story dungeon will be the direct continuation of the last cutscene with the generals. After some time, you will get contacted by them and they will help you find Mr. White (The old way of reaching him will be removed from the game). They will refuse to take you there if your weapon skills and physical stats are too low. In later versions, there will be more ways to reach Mr. White, many of which will not require combat.

The dungeon it self will be pretty linear with plenty of dialogue explaining some lore bits and giving more personality to the generals and one other NPC that will acompany you. Dungeon will end with a boss fight and you will meet Mr. White after that. You will give him the letter and get more lore and dialogue. 

After that, he will act just like he did before. Selling equipment and training you. The dungeon in the basement will also be locked and you will need a special key to open it. He will give it to you. The event for getting certain number of humanoid kills will also be different.

Work is progressing smoothly. I still have some tiles to make and I will have to make a lot of dialoge and eventing, but I'm slowly getting there.

The dungeon is now, graphicaly speaking, complete. 

I don't want to spoil everything so here is a screenshot of Mr. White's hideout. 

Apart from the layout, I also finished the boss fight at the end of it. The boss will be using skills and will require some tactical thinking to take down, but it won't be that difficult to take out. 

Only thing left to do is to make all the dialogue and some other minor things. If everything goes smoothly, the dungeon should be released next monday.

Also, this version will NOT be compatible with old saves (Unlock will stay, as always) so be sure to finish your playthrough before that.

Small thing I'm currently working on. Morality system.

This isn't really anything new, since basis of this system are already in the game. This will simply visualise your morality and flesh them out a little.

The way it works is really simple. Doing bad things, like taking drugs or killing animals and humanoids will lower your morality. Doing good things, like talking to people, working, doing quests or taking care of animals will increase it. 

It will range from -100 to +100. Every ten points you will gain a perk/trait. For example, first positive trait will give you 5% discount in shops. Next trait will increase the money you get from jobs and next one will incrase your mood gain and money you get from completing quests and so on.

Negative traits will do pretty much what they do now. First perk will remove mood loss from killing animals, second will lower loss for killing humanoids, third will allow you to butcher humanoids and so on.

While the initial system will be quite simple, it will give me more options in the future and it will give you more roleplaying options. You will be able to go from good to evil and vice versa, so you can play as a good character but then something bad happends and you can start acting badly, which will in time remove your positive perks and give you new negative ones.

It will also allow me to make better dialogue and quests.

For example, someone asks you to rescue a cat from a tree. Neutral character will get an option to say yes or no. Slightly good character will say yes automaticaly. Very good character will say yes and refuse any reward. Slightly bad character will say no automaticaly, but the NPC will offer you some money upfront. Very evil character will say no, no matter the reward.

This is all just a concept. I will see how things turn out.

First, I want to apologize for slower updates. I lost someone very dear to me which made it hard for me to do pretty much anything. I will get over it though and resume working at my usual pace in near future.

Most of the work on the morality system is done. Perks are ready, bars fill and decrease as they should and different actions increase / decrease your morality correctly. Only thing left is to actualy make the perks do something. No ETA yet, but I would like to finish this before the end of month.

The most important part of the new dungeon loot system is now complete.

This screen will show up when you open a chest. It shows you the list of items you can get, how many you get and how many points they cost. Top part shows how many chests you found and how many points you have. Right part of the screen shows you the item description.

Only thing I'm still not 100% sure about is handling of items you can't pick. Don't know if I should just show them as grayed out names or just replace their names entirely with "???" to make opening chests and getting point more interesting.

You remember these?

I almost don't. These events were not implemented properly and the success rate was pretty much always too low so I didn't bother doing them that often.

Next version will make this events more rewarding. You will always succeed and get a skill point plus some silver depending on your skill. Your morality will also improve a bit.

This will make doing these events always benefitial, unless you want to be evil.

Next new thing will be shrines.

You will be able to light the candles on these if you are member of the church faction. 

But you will also be able to donate and pray / meditate on these once a week. 

This will raise your mood, reastore some hitpoints and change you morality a bit.

A little update.

Next version will still focus on introducing proper faction mechanics, starting with the church.

This requires some pretty big changes to existing quests and a creation of new ones, among other things.

Before I get to these, I would like to remind you to report any bugs you find, or tell me how you like the previous updates, like the large story expansion or the new dungeon loot system. Now for the faction changes.

First, joining the church will be completely different. The bloodstone quest will be moved and replaced with a new, much more simple quest, where you will have to visit all the shrines around the game world.

Each shrine will have its own theme, like shrine of health or shrine of happiness. You will have the option to donate 10 or 100 silver and pray. Doing this will change your stats depending on the amount of money you gave.

Finishing the quest will make you an Initiate and allow you to use level 1 prayer on any shrine for free. You will also unlock the first activity, maintaining the shrines. You will also receive a simple mandatory quest once a month.

Maintaining those shrines and doing these quests will raise your rank in the faction. Once you get enough points, you will get the bloodstone quest. Finishing it will promote you and you will unlock new activities as well as the pebble system. 

Next rank will give you the blood staves and new activities. This will be it for this initial release.

One thing I also want to do is to overhaul the way Zacharias sells things. He won't accept money, but will take your faction points instead. Selling certain items to him will also increase your faction points. 

There is still much work to do. In the meantime, I'd like to know what you think about these upcoming changes, and what you thought about the previous patches.

I had a power outage when I was working on the game and my files got corrupted. Same thing happened to me few years ago and since then I was making backups pretty much every week. I lost a few days of work, but I caught up to where I was no problem.

Health limit system should be now complete.

Every week, you can heal the amount equal to your (maxHP +(wellness / 4)). Every 20% of this value will add bandage on your body untill you reach the maximum number of 5. Skipping a week in any way will reset this counter and remove your bandages, allowing you to heal again.

One of the complains I get semi-frequently is the amount of things you "need" to do if you want to play optimaly. You have to talk to all NPCs, kill all enemies on the map, clear all dungeons, craft all items you can and so on. This means one week can take you multiple hours to get through if you really want to do everything.

My plan is to limit the amount of things you can do at the start of the game and increase it as the game goes on. 

Hangout option will be removed, because I'm not really happy with it as it is and I will replace it with a better system later. Social points will stay in the game though. You will be getting them from the start of the game. Talking to NPC will take away one point from you and raise your mood and relationship. If you run out of points, you will get nothing. Only one point can be used for one NPC every week.

This means that you will have to talk only to a few NPCs to get the mood and relationship bonuses and you won't have to chase all of them every week. The amount of social points you get will increase with your age and traits. I will also bring back the chat option, so you can choose who you raise the relationship with so you don't have to find the specific NPC first before talking to anybody else.

Next, I will limit the amount of combat XP you can get per week. This number will increase with your age, overall combat level and other variables.

I will also limit the number of dungeons you can clear every week. Again, this number will increase as you play.

All of these changes should have multiple effects. New players will be less overwhelmed, since they will be limited in the amount of things they can do. Overall progression will be slowed down, which will allow me to gauge average player levels at certain dates more easily. Lastly, this will also make the growth of your character more apparent, since it adds more things that improve over time and allow you to do more things. Older players will be able to bypass some of these limitations to a degree by joining the cult early or usisng ichor.