What will be in v1.1.0 ?
This update will add multiple things to the game, here is a non-exhaustive list of the things I'm working on.
Ultra Hard difficulty
This new difficulty will increase enemies spawn rate, health, but more importantly more boss attacks and patterns to make these fights more interesting. To make this new difficulty different, I'm experimenting with a +20% xp gain and a lesser increase in experience requirements to the next level. The goal is to be able to complete 2 talent trees by the 3rd boss, and enable more build combinations for maximum damage. To tackle this difficulty, you will need to use all the knowledge gathered when playing the previous difficulties, and make the most out of all the items unlocked. This difficulty will have its related Steam Achievements and Medals.
More enemy variations
Just like the Red and Gold imps you could face previously, there will be variations of other enemies to add more patterns and attacks. The greater the difficulty, the greater the chance of a variation to spawn instead of a regular enemy.
New trinket upgrades
There is room for new upgrades especially on trinkets that don't have any upgrades at all.
More interactable events on the map
Buff Shrines.
Various improvements and fixes
Collision improvements, UI fixes, damage balance, optimisations... Many issues were hightlighted this first month of release that will be fixed with the update. I've been working on this update for a full week already, and as some of you know, I'm alone working on the project. I don't have a specific date yet, but I'm hoping this will be ready for the 1st month anniversary (23rd of November). This accounts time to develop all these features and improvements, test it, balance the difficulty as much as possible and make it available to everyone. Thank you all for this first month of release, I hope you will continue to enjoy the game and the updates I'll keep bringing. Astrow
I wanted to pass this fix with the next big update v1.1.0, but the sooner it is live, the better.
Steam achievements
There was an issue with some Steam Achievements not registering. The related item was unlocked but not the Steam achievement. The issue appeared randomly and not on specific achievements.
- Added multiple retries, check confirmations etc to correctly register the Steam achievement.
- In the main menu, every achievement is analysed and validated if you have the related item unlocked but not the achievement. This catch-up happens after the "Press any button to continue".
Codex
- Correctly displays the current unlock status of the item. Locked->Unlocked but not found->Found
Small edge cases and rare issues have been identified and fixed in this patch.
UI
- Early in a run, if you pickup for the first time both type of scrolls in the same chest and they arrive on the player at exactly the same frame, the panel describing the Scroll could not be closed. It is now correctly displaying both scroll descriptions one at a time, and closes correctly.
- Red shop reroll option now correctly counts the required number of scrolls to be enabled.
1st Boss
- Reworked the door system, so that enemies cannot be locked outside when slowed down by frostbite.
3rd Boss
- Health regeneration is now disabled in the room before the boss spawns
Other
- Disabled OnDeath effects (ex: Blood rose trigger) during player death animation. To avoid health display changes when an enemy dies by periodic during death animation.
First patch note since the release, mostly to fix some UI issues and various issues that were found by players.
Boss
- 1st boss now correctly spawns exit portal
UI
- Black Shop - Side description panel correctly displays again after the normal shop is Sold Out
- Medal Tracker - Correctly displays the right image for Eliminations medal (it displayed the Time medal)
- Medal Tracker - Better text alignment when reaching the final step of the Treasure Medal. There was too much text creating a newline.
- Diamond mismatch between owned diamond and displayed diamond - It should now update the diamond count correctly
Boss Challenges
- 3rd boss challenge used to be re-usable when coming back from the boss. It is correctly disabled now when entering the infinite mode
Inventory
- Game correctly resumes when using a scroll from the pause menu (no issues with the use item shortcut)
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After more than a year of development, The Nightwatch is available!
A 10% discount is applied for the first 10 days of release, grab it while you can! A special bundle with Soundtracks is available too, if you enjoy the work that has been put into the musics or if you want to support the development of the game and its future.
And a bundle too!
You can grab it with an extra 10% discount with the great Genome Guardian bundle
What now ?
There is a list of other fixes planned for the next few days, nothing blocking but that I would like to improve. To name a few :
- Description side panel in the black shop disappears when the normal shop is sold out. Upgrades are still applied and you can check them in your inventory menu if needed.
- Mismatch between interface and real number of owned diamonds
Steam Deck compatibility
Since the game has a linux native build, it works out of the box. If you encounter the issue where the game doesn't start or Cloud Sync problem, Steam might be downloading the game with Windows proton compatibility. To fix this problem you can select manually the Linux Native build from the Settings->Compatibility option on the game, it will work directly Feel free to give any feedback or requests or if you encounter any problem during your runs, I'll make sure to fix it right away. Astrow Games Discord Have fun! Astrow
Demo is back!
And right on time for october's Steam Next Fest. The demo includes :
- 1 endgame boss
- normal difficulty
- 18 trinkets (one active trinket per damage type)
The date is set and the game will be officially available the 23rd of October. For the occasion, a new trailer has been made to introduce a few bosses, new graphics and animations and some of the environments that will be present in the game. [previewyoutube=yIg1FmrpEG0;full][/previewyoutube] As previously announced, the public demo will be back for the Steam Next Fest happening early October, with all the features the full release will have. We really hope the game will match your expectations, and we will continue working on it after the release to add the content that we didn't have time to include before the release. Don't forget to wishlist the game to help it grow or if you want to follow the development and updates. If you wish to follow the development more closely, weekly updates are published on Astrow Games' Discord server
After a few months of the demo available for everyone, we decided to remove it from Steam for the remaining duration of development.
As the development of the game is faster than ever, we no longer have the time to update the demo every week to match the new QoL features, animations and trinkets that were added to the full game.
We decided that we will bring back the demo for the Steam Next Fest of October, with all the major features that are beeing developed, to really match the experience of the full game.
Here's a sneak peek of the second boss that will be present in the next update.
If you want to follow the development of the game, please join the discord at :
https://discord.gg/cXDnxMbyzc
Hello to you, reader of this announcement! The full release is still planned for October, and we will be ready for a full experience of The Nightwatch by then, fully tested and balanced for you to enjoy. The sandbox version of the demo was "fine" to try and have a taste of what the game is, but the content is very limited and doesn't offer any real objective. Not much from the full game has been communicated except on the Discord server, and I'm here to try and resolve that by listing what is already done, what is worked on and what is still planned. I will be saying "we" during this article, but as many know I'm the only developer planning and working on the game.
1- What is done
Gameloop and incremental difficulty.
As any survivors-like, the gameloop is defined by the objective. Will it be to survive 10 minutes ? Kill a boss ? Kill multiple bosses ? It will depend on the difficulty you are at. The difficulty will be increased gradually by succeeding in previous runs, and the objective will change accordingly at important steps of the difficulty. Starting slowly by just surviving 5-10 min as introduction to understand and discover the game, to having to kill multiple bosses in a single run.
Bosses
The initial release of the game will have 3 bosses. Each related to a common ennemy in the game. 2 out of the 3 are designed and implemented, the 3rd one is currently designed by the same artist who did the other enemies. The first one is the Tentacle boss :
- This fight will be a typical bullet hell fight, with waves of bullet and tentacles attacking when the player comes close to them
- Defeating a boss will either finish the run if it was the objective, or reward a powerful trinket before returning in the main room with the enemy waves. To reach a boss, you will need to find the challenge runestone which will start a challenge fight that will open a portal to the boss room. To help you find objectives, arrows pointing to them will be displayed at the start of the run, and help the player understand that they shouldn't be too static in the center of the room, but walk and explore.
New "Eye" enemy
This enemy comes in group, with very small health, and explodes on death dealing damage to the other enemies in its range.
Clarity and animations
- Animations have been added to the game, visual indicators when an enemy is poisoned, burned or bleeding. - Upscaled animations have been replaced with new original sprites. - Player's light radius have been sharpened and increased. - Global visibility and contrast with darkness have been reworked to make it more appealing and clear.
Trinkets and general balance
- Now that the gameloop is set and worked on, balance is easier to maintain. Enemy health, speed, spawn rate and spawn location have been reworked for a smoother start and harder endgame. - 20+ trinkets are added from the demo, and we still have some time to add and test many more.
2- What is worked on
Second boss
The 2nd bossfight is currently in its balance phase, tweaking the difficulty and accessibility. This boss is the Imp boss. Watching the player fight from its throne and sending waves of imps to the player. We will send more informations on the fight when we are happy with the final result and feel of the fight.
Second Character
We are working on the second character, which would be the strict minimum for the full release. Difficulty progression will be linked to the character and will enable different gameplay than the bow and arrow.
A new trailer!
Now that a lot have been worked on, the old trailer is starting to get a bit obsolete. A new one will be uploaded as soon as possible to reflect the new changes and hopefully hype up new (and current) players.
2- What is planned
Third boss
The design is still in its experimental phase, but what we do know is that this enemy will be related to the new "Eye" enemy.
More, more and more trinkets
We really need to add as many trinkets as we can, as long as they are balanced and work well with the game.
More, more and more events
Same as the trinkets, we want the procedural generation to be as "random" as we can, with extremely rare events you can find on the map that will drastically change the gameplay if you choose to interact with them.
Steam achievements
Every trinket unlock, secret actions or player achievement need to have its related steam achievement. I for sure missed a lot of the new features that are currently implemented or worked on, but I really want to keep surprises and some mystery to what you will be able to find in the dark rooms of the Wizard tower. Can't wait to hear from interested players and I will answer any questions you might have on the state of the development or what will be in the full game. Don't forget to join Astrow Games discord if you want to follow the weekly updates, or just to hang out : https://discord.gg/cXDnxMbyzc May you survive the night ! Astrow
As the development of the full release continues, the demo has its first catch-up update to include many quality of life features that are already part of the final build. The important part of this update is to give the player more information, in example : - Visual representation of all the keyboard/controller shortcuts (you can find it in the settings menu) - Tooltips and animations to display scrolls and where the inventory is located - More shortcuts for keyboard and controller Some visual updates like : - Scene transition animation - Scroll pickup animation - Player light radius sharpened - Upgrade selection improved And of course gameplay and content update - Blood shop now has its own item pool with special theme items - Portals now knockback enemies when spawning - 1 new trinket If you want to know more about the full release, weekly updates are posted on the Discord channel https://discord.com/invite/cXDnxMbyzc Come discuss the game with us, all ideas or feedbacks are welcome.
The Demo is out ! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2817910/The_Nightwatch/ After weeks of polishing, it is now ready for the Steam Fest of Endless Replayability starting the 13th of May. Come try it out and give us your feedback, it will help us improve the rest of the development, as we will continue to work as hard as we can until the release. For the full content of the game, we are currently working on implementing objectives and bosses, now that the base is solid, and will be even more thanks to you. May you survive the night.
The Nightwatch
Astrow Games
Astrow Games
2024-10-23
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40 upgradable items
9 talent trees
3 endgame bosses
30 objectives
Normal and Hard difficulty
- Specialize your character with build-defining talent trees and unlock your true potential
- Explore to find chests, shrines and other events in the randomly generated rooms of the wizards' tower
- OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Processor: 2.0 GhzMemory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 200 MB available space
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