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

[list]

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]