News From The Six Realms #6 - Progress Update, CG Poll, and More (Patreon)

Before we get started, as you can see above Erick has finished another great background for the castle, the forge. Won't be long now until all the rooms are done. :)

On to work - things are sailing along smoothly now. Nicc has finished his work on the map coding, and I've added the new map which is about three times bigger, and represents the western half of Rosaria. I know this isn't the most exciting update for you guys, but it will be a big help going forward since it now allows me to  create and export maps from tiled in json and add them to the game without any additional coding. This will save a huge amount of time in the future, and also makes mistakes much easier to fix as I'm looking at the actual map, and not hundreds of lines of code.

We have also implemented the first batch of balance changes suggested by DM from the time he spent doing QA over the last month or so. From now on you'll have to start paying costs to conquer / destroy villages and keeps as well, so hopefully it will start to feel more like a strategy game on the management side.

In terms of what is left before the release, just the events now. Yesterday I added the variation to allow you to claim Helayna as some of you wanted, and that'll have follow up events to show the consequences (might not make this release). What we mostly need though, due to the map size increase, is a lot of new resource events. I've brought in an extra writer, T51bwinterized, to help out on that while DM finishes up some other stuff, and he's hoping to have them done for the end of the month. They have to be coded and added after that, but I am aiming for any early July release.

That's enough rambling for today. I know this and the last release haven't been the most content heavy, but we are setting the groundwork for later. After this we'll be adding the job system and starting to move the turn count forward again, so things will start getting back to how they were before the spy release. Thanks for the support and bearing with us.

P.S. Oops, forgot to mention - the new poll has over 60 votes and the current standings are the dark elf femdom scene out in front, with three others practically neck and neck in second place. I'll let it run til the end of the weekend, and then announce the winners.