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.

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.

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.

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.

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

• 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.

• Global & Friend leaderboards

Quality of Life Improvements

Pause Menu

Manual Wave Progression

Improved Tooltips

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!

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

• 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.

Minions: Golems

Improving Health

Demo

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

We regret to inform you that your performance at our academy has not met the standards expected of our esteemed and world-renowned alumni in the anomalous arts.

The zone-excursion programme introduced to fill the void left behind by our late-heroes is the sole option remaining for your continued studies, an exceptionally dangerous venture where only the strongest return.

Your journey cannot be completed alone, each new student joining your party will bring something new to the table with unique abilities, spells and upgrade trees.

Each character that you befriend grants:

• A unique skill tree for that character

• Upgradable active abilities

• Character-specific cards to enhance your deck

During battle, each student can be given modifier cards that bring them closer to mastering the anomalous and becoming an unstoppable force.

• Spells interact with other spells, creating an expansive range of combinations

• Modifier spells modify the fired projectiles with effects like swift-cast and freeze-shot.

• Cast spells change how your spells are triggered with effects like multi-shot and burst.

• Projectile spells spawn projectiles that can damage anomalous threats.

Between each battle, perform research to gain new cards which unlock an exponential number of formidable combinations.

• New cards unlock powerful and interesting new spells

• Cards are designed with interesting effects in mind, some may upgrade your characters, others may grant some great boon at the cost of sacrificing something else

Each battle requires a different set of skills. Each card provides something unique, from cards which enhance a student's powers to ones that sacrifice or enhance the cards in your deck.

As you venture deeper and deeper towards the core of the zone, the world beings to distort and the threats become greater. You feel like something is waiting for you...

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