Progress Update - Fleshing out the upcoming areas and more!

Hey Guild Leaders! I've been making lots of progress on the new areas and classes. Here's some details!

The Sewers

I've been fleshing out the upcoming Sewers area - one of the things I added was chunks of rubble on the ground, which make the sewers look more ruined and abandoned than before - as well as heightening the tiles it appears on.

This means that unlike water tiles, crossing rubble tiles doesn't cause slow.

I've also been working on different room layouts to keep things fresh, like this hatched floor.

And this one which has an area in the middle surrounded by water besides a few bridges.

The Damp Caves

The second upcoming area is the "Damp Caves" - full of odd mushroom enemies...

Here's a model for one enemy I want to add - while other mushroom-men debuff you, this guy pushes you away from them defensively, reducing your movement. I've also started working on loot for this upcoming area!

(Mushroom shields)

New Class Progress

I've been wrapping up the Healer class abilities!

Mandrake Root: Buffing allies as well as enhancing and triggering bleed on enemies.

Cleansing Ritual: Cures the first (leftmost) negative status effect, heals +1 HP and buffs ally speed. The abilities for the new classes are about 70% done, here's an overview:

Alchemist: Abilities done (but might add more)
Duelist: Abilities done (but might add more)
Healer: Missing one ability
Hero: No abilities yet

What's next?

Improved bonfire UI -Two to Three weeks I want to make the bonfire interface clearer so players experience less fiddling and confusion when healing their characters. Visual Overworld -Three weeks The Overworld interface is a bit lacking and gray - so I was thinking about redoing it by displaying some things like the guild with custom 3D visuals. Will work on these while progressing on the new areas and classes in preparation for the upcoming major update.

Fin

And that's all for now! Thank you for checking out this update, see you next time (: -David

[ 2024-04-12 10:51:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Netherguild
David Vinokurov

Developer

David Vinokurov

Publisher

Planned November 2022. Wishlist to be notified!

Release

Strategy RPG Singleplayer EA

Key Features:

Bonfires:
Construct campfires underground, rest and eat next to them. The food items you consume affect your guild members and the rest of your expedition, with passive effects, permanent changes and more!
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Combat:
Learn how to defeat different enemies (and when to flee) in combat. Hitting enemies requires no RNG - so you can depend on your abilities, but watch out for tricky enemies that are immune to your strategy, unfortunate circumstances and surprises!
In Netherguild, combat is another form of resource management- how can you prevent your characters from getting hurt, or receiving harmful debuffs? When is it the right time to use a powerful ability, when should you save it for later?
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Oddities:
Different oddities you find underground will present you with various choices that may affect your expedition and the game world at large.
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The World Above:
While you explore below, different events may happen above-ground, presenting opportunity and choice when you return from expeditions.
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Replay Value:
Random equipment, random character backgrounds with different skills each playthrough and procedurally generated levels every time you descend underground mean that playthroughs feel different every time.
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Additional Features:

Roguelite with Persistence and Story: Keep your characters at the end of each expedition (if they survive), equip them with powerful items and level them up over time. Netherguild's story progresses the more you explore and find out about the secrets of its world.
Dungeon Crawling Resource Management: Powerful abilities have a limited amount of uses. Your characters have limited inventory space. What is more important? The priceless loot you bring up back to the surface, or the firewood logs that let you descend even deeper?
Original Game World: Netherguild may be fantasy, but don't expect it to play by genre conventions at all; No Orcs, no Elves, and no wizards casting fireballs. Expect to find strange biospheres and denizens far underground.
Cute Voxel Aesthetics: Contrasted by a story with serious themes, as you face against plague and conspiracy!
Solo Developed: I'm always happy to get feedback, suggestions and inspiration from players. You can reach me through various channels such as my twitter, the Netherguild discord and Netherguild Steam forum. If you love Netherguild, dislike something about it, or you have a fantastic idea you think should be added to the game, please let me know! :D

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1464220/Netherguild/

Early Access: Risks, Plans and Expectations:

Risks: It's possible that during development, I would run out of money and wouldn't be able to continue full time development.
If that were to happen, I'll take up part time or full time work and develop Netherguild in my spare time. This game will be finished as long as I'm physically able to work on it.
I'm doing everything in my power to combat this risk - for example, marketing and getting to a certain number of wishlists before release should prevent it from ever occurring - but I think it's still important to be honest about risks like this before release.
If you want Netherguild to be successful, help me out! Let your friends, favorite streamer or gaming news site know about this game (:
Plans: Updates will happen in regular intervals; With a new update every week to three weeks. I would like to have weekly / bi-weekly updates for the most part, but of course that depends on development, with bigger changes taking longer to update, but containing more content and additions.
Expectations: Expect progress to be slow and steady- being a solo dev means I can't finish the game in a year, and big updates will take time. Also, expect me to always be active on the Netherguild discord during Early Access, listening to your feedback.

MINIMAL SETUPProcessor: 64-bitMemory: 8 GB RAM
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 740 1GB
Storage: 220 MB available space

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