I have been hard at work over the past month attempting to get the last parts of the game figured out. I am nearing the end of the project now, and my current goals are to be able to reach and defeat the final boss before considering the game completed. In order to make this possible, several new mechanics have been introduced:

• A new mission map has been created, where missions will appear and slowly move towards the academy. If they reach the academy, then you will have to defend it or lose the game.
• After each mission, the player will be given a set of upgrades that they can take to modify their gameplay experience. There are 5 different rarities, with the higher rarities giving great upsides but also great downsides.
• Some upgrades will be given to make the game smoother to play, for example starting on a higher wave once a few missions have been completed to remove the slow starts.
• Saving and loading the game is completed and fully functional.
• A new shop has been added while in the character upgrade screen where you can purchase new cards, and set which cards you wish to be in your deck during play. This is necessary, as more powerful cards will grant exponentially greater effects which are powerful enough to overcome the extremely high difficulty levels of the endgame missions.

I hope you are as excited for the full release of the game as I am, I expect it to be ready some time in June this year, but that is subject to change.

[ 2025-04-28 08:28:42 CET ] [ Original post ]

An important part of Vespia: Shield of Aberration will be the management of the city and operations during your run. The end goal of the game is to push the anomalies out of the city, however it is also possible for the opposite to happen: the city can become overrun and the academy is lost, marking the end of the game. The place you manage what operations you perform is the city map, which shows the different possible locations of anomalies. Each opreation has different objectives to fufill as well as a different reward for completing them.
Accompanying the map is the meta-shop, where you can purchase new cards so that the further you progress, the more varied your gameplay will be.
New characters will be unlocked as a reward for certain special 'rescue missions'. During these missions, you wlil be able to purchase the character from the shop that shows between waves, which will be one of the mission objectives.

[ 2025-03-07 09:32:23 CET ] [ Original post ]

Build 13 has been released, bringing in some bug fixes for the demo as well as some new features: * Balance: Freeze no longer stops enemies from moving, but reduces their movement speed by 50% (stacks). * Tweak: Frozen enemies will now appear with a blue filter on their sprite. * Tweak: Enemies will now prefer to avoid passing through placed characters. * Fix: Various bug fixes from previous version.

[ 2025-02-24 16:34:51 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! I know it hasn't been long since the last update, but there have been some major/critical bugs that I've sorted out and it's better to push them sooner rather than later. Changes:

• Fixes non 1920x1080 resolutions not working.
• Fixes spirits not being placable in an adjacent tile to another tower.
• Fixes lag caused by huge amounts of blood on higher waves.
• Fixes the background music suddenly ignoring volume settings and playing at full volume.
• Introduces new steam store-page artwork.
• Fixes spells placed on a tower getting stuck to the mouse for 250ms when releasing after dragging them.
• Towers can no longer be placed inside walls if you move them after being placed in a valid location.

[ 2025-01-27 17:28:24 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone, We've gotten a lot of requests for various features and QOL improvements, and I am pleased to announce that with build 7 these are making their way to the game. They are available to try immediately by downloading the demo. I hope you enjoy these changes, and if you do please wishlist the game!

Change List

• Spells placed on characters will now show their description on hover.
• Opening a character's UI will show the names of all spells that they cast on fire.
• Added endless mode.
• Added an endless mode shop, which allows upgrading various different stats.
• Added card packs to the shop, which can be used to unlock more cards.
• Nerfed the laser, it now starts with 4 base damage which reduces by 1 for each enemy it passes to until it reaches 1 damage.
• All projectiles will be consumed when impacting an enemy, even if the enemy dies before all projectiles have performed their hit code.
• Fixed the player not being able to see what wave they made it to.

[ 2025-01-24 17:22:49 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hi everyone! After we released the game demo in a relatively early state, we have been getting some valuable feedback and data. In this post, we will go other some of the upcoming content that we have been planning for the game.

Endless Mode

Endless mode is the biggest thing coming with the next demo update. This will likely be the last large content patch we will be putting into the demo before we move to work on finalising and releasing the full game. Endless mode has several new features, and will work in the following ways:

• In endless mode, the waves are calculated algorithmically using a seeded random. This means that you will have the same waves as everyone else, and each level will be consistent every time you play.
• You will only start with some basic cards unlocked, further cards need to be unlocked through the mid-wave shop.
• Between each wave, a shop will open which allows you to purchase upgrades. This includes new cards, upgrades to your characters and global upgrades such as increased damage which will allow you to survive longer.
• In the demo, you will be limited in how long you can play for before being forced to restart.

Other features that we are thinking about but haven't finalised:

• Global & Friend leaderboards

We hope that this content will improve the replayability of the demo, and provide a preview of deck-building mechanics in a small vertical slice of the game.

Quality of Life Improvements

Pause Menu

We will be introducing a pause menu that allows you to configure your settings mid-game.

Manual Wave Progression

Currently, after each wave you have about 5 seconds to setup your characters before the next wave appears. We plan to change this so that the player has to manually progress to the next wave, allowing you to have time to customise your defense between waves.

Improved Tooltips

We will be expanding where we use tooltips to include the spells assigned to a character. Currently players are forced to remember what each spell does, which can be daunting for a new player. With tooltips, it will be much easier to analyse a character and determine how to improve their combat effectiveness.

[ 2025-01-17 09:23:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

The Vespia: Shield of Aberration demo has been released. This is a pre-release demo and gives a sample of what gameplay will be like in the final game. We are still testing and tweaking the game, so expect regular updates. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372730/Vespia_Shield_of_Aberration_Demo We are currently working on testing new features for the game, including an endless mode where you can unlock cards and upgrades between waves. We take all feedback into account, if you play the demo please leave feedback by clicking the feedback link!

[ 2025-01-13 13:44:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Everyone! We are currently hard at work with getting new content into the game, and with the help of our playtesters, we have a lot of feedback to cover! Here is a small snippet of some content we are currently working on!

Spirits

One issue we are having in our playtests is that players have nothing to do once they fully upgrade their characters. To address this, we are working to add spirits to the game. Spirits have the following behaviours:

• Spirits function similar to normal wizards, in that they can be given spells and upgraded.
• Spirits cost flux to maintain, if you don't have enough at the end of the wave then some spirits will disappear.

Overall, spirits are a great way to improve your defense and provide a continued use for your flux once the characters have reached their max level.

Minions: Golems

Minions are a summonable friendly entity which will move around the map and attack enemies. They have their own health pool, can be attacked and will die when they take sufficient damage. Minions are summonable through the card deck.

Improving Health

In the next update, we plan to improve how the player takes damage. Currently, when an enemy reaches your neutraliser, they disappear and you lose health. We plan to change this so that enemies will instead continuously attack the goal until they are destroyed, allowing each enemy to hit the goal multiple times.

Demo

We are working hard to get the demo out to players. The demo will be an early-access build of the game which we aim to use to gather more feedback and improve before the release of the final game. We want the final game to be perfect, and releasing an early-access demo is the best way for us to achieve this. If you don't want to play the game early, then we recommend you wishlist the game and wait for the full release.

[ 2025-01-06 13:06:05 CET ] [ Original post ]

Hey Everyone! We have decided to setup a Discord server, where you can come along to chat about the game. We will post regular updates about development there. https://discord.gg/6hgfjRrVJP

[ 2025-01-06 09:33:28 CET ] [ Original post ]