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 manner for individuals to instantly assist the inventive individuals they wish to assist. It isn’t for a particular mission like a Kickstarter, however reasonably for every little thing that individual is doing. It is truly much more enjoyable than kickstarter as a result of I get to indicate all of the in-progress stuff I am engaged on.
This is a rundown of what I have been doing over on my Patreon recently.
Final month, I supplied early entry to (bodily) Codex playing cards. Codex is a brand new tackle customizable card video games. If you would like to be taught extra about Codex, this is three articles in regards to the recreation’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. If you happen to missed out on that, you’ll be able to truly nonetheless get bodily playing cards by means of 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 steadiness replace inside per week.
Final week I posted a brand new Uncooked Sport Design podcast episode (for $10+ patrons) the place I focus on “reset buttons” in Codex (playing cards that blow up the board so you’ll be able to probably come again from a really dangerous place). I additionally focus on some adjustments to the Tower add-on. It is a technique to detect stealth / invisible models and it is tough to present the correct quantity of detection. Lastly, we focus on what Geiger’s strikes shall be within the Fantasy Strike preventing recreation.
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 steadiness adjustments based mostly on the final month of playtesting. Inside per week of that, the identical adjustments shall be out there as bodily playing cards to patrons of any stage (for simply the price of printing + delivery).
Final and positively not least, I plan to put up a brand new playable model of Fantasy Strike, our simple-yet-deep preventing recreation (for the $25+ patrons). There’s somewhat bit of information on the sport right here: http://www.sirlin.web/fantasystrike
The brand new construct has a great deal of bug fixes, a couple of steadiness 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 form 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. If you happen to’re an knowledgeable 3D fight animator, or a visible results artist (in Unity), or a 3D environmental artist, get in contact with us at [email protected]. We’re additionally on the lookout for a volunteer idea artist to assist with our phases. Idea artists simply must know preventing video games and the Fantasy Strike characters to work with us on the look of the phases. We’d like 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 way appreciated and all of the funds go instantly into these initiatives.
