Patreon has been such an unimaginable assist to me that I am giving a thanks shout out to the Patreon workers in addition to to all my patrons. (My Patreon is right here, btw.) Patreon is a means for individuals to instantly assist the artistic individuals they wish to assist. It isn’t for a particular mission like a Kickstarter, however fairly for all the pieces that individual is doing. It is really much more enjoyable than kickstarter as a result of I get to point out all of the in-progress stuff I am engaged on.
This is a rundown of what I have been doing over on my Patreon currently.
Final month, I provided early entry to (bodily) Codex playing cards. Codex is a brand new tackle customizable card video games. If you would like to study extra about Codex, here is three articles concerning the sport’s design:
#1 Codex Design: Playing cards and Gold As Sources
#2 Codex Design: Heroes and Tech Buildings
#3 Codex Design: Fight and the Patrol Zone
Anyway, all these Codex early entry units already shipped out and my patrons typically play one another over Skype. In case you missed out on that, you’ll be able to really nonetheless get bodily playing cards by this put up (requires $25+ patron stage). Although you would possibly as properly wait till subsequent week as a result of there shall be a stability replace inside per week.
Final week I posted a brand new Uncooked Sport Design podcast episode (for $10+ patrons) the place I talk about “reset buttons” in Codex (playing cards that blow up the board so you’ll be able to presumably come again from a really unhealthy place). I additionally talk about some modifications to the Tower add-on. It is a method to detect stealth / invisible items and it is tough to provide the correct quantity of detection. Lastly, we talk about what Geiger’s strikes shall be within the Fantasy Strike combating sport.
I additionally posted an replace to the Codex rulebooks in the present day for patrons of any stage.
Inside a pair days, I plan to put up a giant replace to the Codex print-and-play model (for $25+ patrons) that has dozens of stability modifications primarily based on the final month of playtesting. Inside per week of that, the identical modifications shall be accessible as bodily playing cards to patrons of any stage (for simply the price of printing + transport).
Final and definitely not least, I plan to put up a brand new playable model of Fantasy Strike, our simple-yet-deep combating sport (for the $25+ patrons). There’s a bit of bit of information on the sport right here: http://www.sirlin.internet/fantasystrike
The brand new construct has a great deal of bug fixes, a couple of stability changes, and a brand new playable character, bringing our solid as much as 4 to date. Now we have Grave, who has a projectile and is an all-around type of man. Jaina additionally has projectiles, and a few rushdown functionality, however the place she actually shines is zoning along with her loopy impediment course of flame arrows. Rook is a grappler’s dream, having nearly each instrument a grappler might hope for. And our latest solid member is Valerie, a manic painter who’s all about rushdown. She could bear some gameplay resemblance to Fei Lengthy. 😉
We have been focusing totally on gameplay to date, however we’ll be upping our manufacturing values quickly. In case you’re an professional 3D fight animator, or a visible results artist (in Unity), or a 3D environmental artist, get in contact with us at jobs@sirlingames.com. We’re additionally on the lookout for a volunteer idea artist to assist with our phases. Idea artists simply must know combating video games and the Fantasy Strike characters to work with us on the look of the phases. We want assist in all these areas, however one other skilled fight animator is what we’d like essentially the most.
Thanks once more to all my patrons. Your assist is far appreciated and all of the funds go instantly into these initiatives.
