Weekly Blog Post 9/4/2021 Mass Amounts of QOL (Patreon)

Hello everyone and welcome back to another in depth look at what's in store for the next update for King's Fall! 

As we continue to add towards The Perion Story Chapter, we've also been busy in fixing up many areas of the game. For those that don't know, we put out a survey recently where we asked everyone what they liked and hated about King's Fall. We got a lot and I mean A LOT of feedback in that survey so we got to work instantly in fixing the game so that EVERYTHING is better. 

As you can see from the title, we've been extremely busy in touching up parts of the game that people just did not like. The first is something we finally discovered how to do. 

Showing what enemies are attacking you on screen

So going forward enemies with Swords above them are your main concern. Those Swords tell you who is attacking you and what isn't. Brilliant right? Well it's been a long time coming and we hope everyone has a better idea at what the threat is when you encounter enemies.

The next thing we wanted to address is telling the player who the big baddie of the area is. So let's see how Boss Monsters are showcased now.

Now when you bring up the Beastiary, you will see Boss Monsters in Yellow. Very small change but it will tell you immediately if the monster you're facing is a real threat!

Next we made changes to how you Dump Items

Now when you drag items, a little box will appear telling you if you want to Drop It. We're working on ways of fixing up your inventory because soon... There's going to be BIG changes to your equipment! Still you can now move items and Drop Them directly from the Inventory screen.

Up next we have the Touched up Settings Screen. Notice anything different? Well now the game will track your Playtime so you can see how much time you've poured into the game. We added this because even we don't know how long the game is but soon we will!

The other thing you've probably seen is the little name in the bottom left corner. Is that... The Name of the Song Playing in the Background?

Yes it is! We've incorporated a music player into the game meaning you can now change the song playing in the background to any of the 100+ songs that are currently in it! Now YOU can be in charge of what music is playing so we hope you enjoy this!

The game will even track how far a long the song is so if you want to see it for yourself, you can! 

The last thing on today's Blog Post is the amount of writing clean up there's been of late. Recently I've had a few people say that the Henesy's Chapter is all over the place in terms of grammar and readability. So I've take about 20 hours in the last month and cleaned up a lot. Over 20,000+ words have been removed from the script

You hear that and you think I've probably changed the story? Nope, I just changed how everything flows. I have 2 examples, the first is for when Asuna meets Leonore 

As you can see it's much easier on the eyes while also keeping the main tone that's being presented. I have another example from a scene in The Domain 

Again the tone is still there but how it reads and how it's presented is easier on the eyes. Every single NPC from Millie, to Ming, to Leonore and Sam has been touched up and made MUCH more fluid writing wise. This is probably the biggest change you'll see but replaying the game will be easier to do without getting bogged down so much. 

This isn't the only thing we're fixing this update either. Gameplay is one thing we looked at and it might be THE BIGGEST expansion we at BGE have undertaken. More on that later because it's quite a big change in the game and needs an entire Dev Blog to itself. 

On top of that Art is also being touched up. Our artist is taking feedback and is trying to increase his quality. Art like Millie and Oz will be touched up soon so look forward to that as well! On top of that Maria's BJ Event has already been re-made and will be available in the Recollection Room as soon as Perion is released. Plenty for everyone to replay that scene!

We at BGE want this game to be as much yours as it is ours. We want EVERYONE to enjoy it so look at this QOL as the first steps to making King's Fall the best game it can possibly be! 

That will wrap up this week's Blog Post! Join us next week when we dive back into Perion and what exists there! To our Patrons, thank you for your support! We hope all these QOL updates are what you all wanted and we hope to deliver many more. Thank you and we hope for your continued support!

Stay safe everyone and thanks for reading!