September came and went, and I've been doing a lot of work on Umblight, even with school slowing down progress drastically. Unfortunately the plans for joining the October Next Fest failed, but this is probably for the better, as I didn't feel like the game would have been ready for a public demo release this early in development.

Ok but what did I work on?

New Steam Page

The biggest thing that you can also see, is the brand new overhauled Steam page! The previous one was mostly based on slightly updated screenshots from the game jam version, but I've done enough progress on the game to finally be able to change them out to something cooler. As suggested from feedback by other developers, I tried explaining the gameplay ideas a bit more, and I focused less on the relatively "boring" part of just travelling around the world.
(old gif used in the "travelling" section of the steam page) Instead, I replaced it with the brand new skill tree, that's going to increase the depth and replayability of the game by a lot.
Speaking of which, I should probably explain what amulets are...

Amulets / Skill tree

You get to choose an amulet after every fight, somewhat inspired by Vampire Survivors.
(Level up screen in Vampire Survivors) There are amulets for increasing the base damage, card skill chance of your cards from your random deck, increasing your max health, gaining light coins after entering a new room etc. I'm going to be adding a lot more amulets in the coming weeks, but currently the game has 5 of them, and I can already tell it was a good idea to add these, as each fight feels more rewarding, rather than just getting another random card, or card skill.

Shop

The shop is something I wanted to add in the game jam version of the game, but unfortunately I didn't have enough time back then. No worries, I still added it, and now you can buy some special cards, and card skills (not implemented into the shop yet) for your light coins, giving more use to them then in previous versions.
(image of the shop, and the shopkeeper; the eyes follow your cursor and it looks really funny) I did a lot more polishing and stuff, but I'm not gonna mention them for no reason. If you read all of this, thank you, it means a lot to me, and have a good day!

[ 2024-09-27 19:58:23 CET ] [ Original post ]