Good Citizens, After a year of development, Archons: Arena has left Early Access. The full release includes:

• 30 unique opponents
• 77 items
• 111 skills
• 7 weapon types: Sword, Shield, Blunt, Dagger, Spear, Ranged, Throwing
• 6 magic schools: Conjuration, Elementalism, Ether, Mentalism, Blood Magic, Life Force
• 6 attributes: Constitution, Agility, Intelligence, Preparation, Charisma, Specialization
• 2 fully-voiced shopkeepers

The release also includes an in-game editor, allowing you to customize and extend the game to your liking. The modifications are saved in the %APPDATA% folder. There are 4 main categories that can be edited.

Items

• Value determines the cost of the item in shop
• Uses determines how many rounds the item can be used before it's worn out
• Probability determines the likelihood of the item appearing in the shop

Cards

• Cost determines the energy cost to play the card
• Probability determines the chance that the card will be played successfully
• Single Use determines if the card can only be played once per round
• In order for a card to be available to the player, a Skill needs to be created that will grant the card to the player

Skills

• Category determines under which weapon/magic/attribute category the skill will appear
• Cost determines the number of skills points required to unlock the skill
• Requires determines which other Skills must be unlocked before the current skill can be unlocked
• Cards determines the cards and number of copies granted to the player when the skill is unlocked
• Instant Effects and Permanent Effects provide bonuses to the player on unlock

Opponents

• Level determines when the opponent will start appearing in the arena, with higher level opponents only appearing in the later rounds
• HP determines the number of hit points
• Block determines the default block value at the start of each turn
• Cards determines the cards and number of copies in the opponent's deck
• Effects provide buffs/debuffs for the opponent
• When creating a new opponent, a single .png file may be provided for the Idle Images field. If multiple images are provided, then they will be rendered in a loop at 30fps.
  
  [ 2024-09-13 05:17:24 CET ] [ Original post ]