Greetings everyone,

I apologize for the delay on bringing a new update for the game's public beta v1.5.0, been having some trouble balancing my work, university studies, and my duties as the game developer, work has been quite demanding these past few months and it has taken a bit of a toll on me and I apologize.

With that out of the way, here are the changes brought with this new update:

Bugs

• Dungeon generation
  
  
  
  • Temporarily disabled dungeons due to an issue with the way dungeon rooms are generated, allowing the possibility for the player to get soft-locked if the dungeon key is generated on a side blocked by the boss room;
    
  • In place of the usual dungeon entrances, there's now a statue in the forest part of the map that generates fights with the bosses currently available in the game, and future bosses as soon as they are made available.
    
  
  
• Spells not launching
  
  
  
  • Fixed an issue with spells like Lightning Bomb appearing on top of the character and not being launched, causing a soft-lock mid-fight.
    
  
  
• Crops collision detection
  
  
  
  • Fixed an issue where the collision detection for crops wasn't working properly so the player wouldn't be able to pick up the crop they were looking at.
    
  
  

• Post-fight screens
  
  
  
  • The victory screen has been remade to show the character's exp gain/level up separately and display the item drops after the characters;
    
  • The defeat screen as been remade to be separate from the victory screen so as to better highlight a defeat.
    
  
  
• Menu overhaul
  
  
  
  • Removed the party option from the pause menu as it was no longer necessary
    
  • Team menu
    
    
    
    • Party members are now highlighted in orange;
      
    • The menu now shows the list of characters on both pages;
      
    
    
  • Item Menu
    
    
    
    • The item menu was changed to a tabbed window that now allows players to filter them by category.
      
    
    
  • Character summary screen
    
    
    
    • This screen now shows the following tabs
      
      
      
      • Character information and stats
        
      • Grimoire and spells
        
      • Equipment (and allow equipment to be changed in this screen)
        
      • Element mastery (which will have a big role later on in the story)
        
      
      
    
    
  • Pause menu
    
    
    
    • Added icons to the pause menu options
      
    
    
  
  
• Minigame adjustments
  
  
  
  • The boulder breaking and dodge the rocks minigames now take less time to finish;
    
  • Minigames now give some money back at the end;
    
  • Minigames now have a chance to give an item to raise a determined stat at the end.
    
  
  
• Day/Night cycle adjustments
  
  
  
  • Changed the day/night cycle so that now 1 real-world hour is equal to a full day in the game
    
  
  
• Implemented a button mapping to allow players to skip the dialogue (still in testing)
  
• New music
  
  
  
  • Added new music for:
    
    
    
    • Title Screen
      
    • Arcade
      
    • Boss battle
      
    • Aramore forest
      
    • Fights
      
    • Intro chapter when the drakians are invading
      
    
    
  
  

Greetings everyone,

I know it's been a long time since I last posted an update to the game and I want to apologize for that, these last few months have been demanding both with my work and my private life and because of that, the game's development has suffered some delays.

With that said, I want to announce some new changes that can be tested in the public beta channel:

Story Intro
The game now has a proper story intro that shows some tutorials regarding movement and fighting and the battle between Arthur and Amolon Morrowstar.

Changes to the fight screen
The fight screen has been revamped and now has new icons for HP and MP and the old buttons with text for the various actions(Fight, Spells, Item, Switch) have been replaced with icon buttons to make it more compact.


Changes to crops
After some feedback regarding the crop respawn timers some changes were made to reduce the times to an average of 30 minutes instead of being a daily occurrence.

Interior Lighting
The interior map has been changed to add lighting sources(Ceiling lights, moonlight through windows, etc.) during nighttime.

New Title screen
The title screen now has a new background that demonstrates the influence of the Drakians on Nemithia and new social icons have been added that lead to my discord server, youtube channel, and Twitch channel.

Quests
Quests are now being implemented and can be seen by pressing O to toggle open the Quest Panel.
For now, only some main quests will appear and side quests are planned to be implemented at a later update.
Quest tracking icons have also been added to the minimap and will always show to help point to where the player needs to go.

New character sprites
I'm currently in the process of remaking the overworld and fight sprites for all characters as will be apparent throughout this beta's gameplay, these are not final and some bugs may occur with rendering.

This has been everything that's been done so far in terms of game development and from now on I'll do my best to do these more regularly as well as try to stream more often and publish some devlogs on Youtube.

As always any and all feedback is welcome and appreciated, the best options for it are either on the GitHub discussions forum or the discord server.

Thank you for your time reading this post.

Kind Regards,
Nuno "Omega Leo" Diogo

Hello everyone!

I'm happy to announce that during the Steam Winter Sale 2022 the game will be at 50% off, be sure to check out Nemithia and share with your friends :)

For now that is all, I'm currently working on remaking the story of Nemithia into something more appealing to everyone and will bring updates soon.

Wish you all happy holidays and hope that 2023 will be a great year for everyone!

Kind Regards,
Nuno "Omega Leo" Diogo

Greetings everyone,
There's a new beta update available for testing!

Features in Development

• Speed optimizations
  
• Added new food items, materials and recipes
  

• Right-click on the game and click on Properties...
  
• Select Betas
  
• In the dropdown, select "public-beta - Public Beta Branch"
  

Greetings everyone,
There's a new beta update available for testing!

Features in Development

• Added Stat Distribution to character creation in the mod tool
  
• Started working on 2nd chapter of the story
  
• Started working on Draycott Town
  
• QoL upgrades including a new input system
  

• Right-click on the game and click on Properties...
  
• Select Betas
  
• In the dropdown, select "public-beta - Public Beta Branch"
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed several bugs regarding story not progressing properly.
  

• New Aura effect in testing
  

Features:

• Added Beta version of modding tool
  

[h2]Bugs fixed[/h2]

• New Game
  
  • Fixed bug where New Game lead to a blank screen
  
  
• Crops fail to collect
  
  • Crops sometimes failed to collect
  
  
• New Game not working after loading save
  
  • Fixed a bug where New Game was not working after a save had been loaded and the player had gone back to the TitleScreen
  
  

• Item Rework
  
  • Reworked item prices and shops
  
  
• Crafting System
  
  • Added a crafting system to use items found in dungeons or improve equipments
  
  
• New interior design
  
  • Added a new interior design tileset
  
  

[h2]Bugs fixed[/h2]

• Dungeon Generation
  
  • Fixed issue with boss room sometimes generating in a place where it blocked the player from getting the key
  
  

• Fight Improvements
  
  
  
• Dungeon Improvements
  
  • Added new dungeon room types(more to be added soon)
  
  

[h2]New Features[/h2]

• Dungeon Chests
  
  • Dungeon Chests now have a chance to drop one of the following:
    
    
    
    • Recovery Items
      
    • Spell Scrolls
      
    • Equipment with different tiers
      
    • Materials(to be implemented)
      
    
    
  
  
• Forest Boss
  
  • Forest Dungeon now has a boss called "Birch Boss" with health regeneration per turn
  
  
• Item tiers
  
  • Items now have different tiers that can provide different boosts
  
  

Hello everyone,
It's been a while since I last did an update for the game and I apologize for the delay, but I'm glad to announce that we have quite the big update this time.

[h2]Bugs fixed[/h2]

• Characters from a later part of chapter 1 are appearing at the start
  
  • Fixed bug where Richard, Samantha, Zeke and Marcus were appearing at the park for the fight of the last part of the 1st chapter right from the start of the chapter.
  
  
• Xbox Button Mappings
  
  • Fixed Xbox button mappings for shoulder buttons
  
  
• Message Tags
  
  • Fixed message tags being typed out character by character
  
  
• Battle Aura cost not right
  
  • Fix Battle Aura draining 100 MP instead of 10
  
  
• Potions not working
  
  • Fixed potions being consumed but not restoring health when used from the items menu in the overworld
  
  

• Beds for healing
  
  • Added healing functionality to all beds
  
  
• New Titlescreen Backgrounds
  
  • Rotating TitleScreen Backgrounds
  
  
• Spell Level Up
  
  • Level up spells by use
  
  
• Mouse Cursor
  
  • Added mouse cursor to replace the default cursor
  
  
• Hide Cursor when using Gamepad
  
  • Cursor is now hidden when a gamepad is being used
  
  
• Dungeons
  
  • Added dungeons for special rewards
  
  
• Crops
  
  • Added crops to the game, for example, berry bushes in Aramore Town
  
  
• Item menu Overhaul
  
  • Add a separate box in any item menu to show the icon, flavor text, and effects
  
  
• Mouse for Next Message
  
  • Added mouse click support for next message
  
  
• Steamworks [Experimental]
  
  • Added SteamWorks capabilities for the following:
    
    
    
    • Translations
      
    • Custom Characters
      
    • Custom Dungeons compatible with Custom Characters
      
  
  
• UI Overhaul
  
  • -Implemented new changes to the UI to make it look better and more in the RPG style
  
  
• New Custom Tilemap
  
  • Finished Custom Tilemap
  
  

Hello everyone,
Before we start with today's patch notes I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year.
So this will be a small patch that will bring the following:

[h2]New Features[/h2]

• Translation to Portuguese (PT-PT)
  
• Anyone can do their own translations for the game(A guide will be published soon)
  

• New tileset
  
  
  
  • The world tileset is now a bit different from what it used to be and will change more in the next few patches
    
  
  
• New Fight animations
  

Hello everyone,
To start off this announcement, I'm happy to say that Nemithia is currently 50% off for the duration of the Steam Winter Sale so grab it while you can!

I also want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and also a Happy New Year, I'll be mostly resting during this time so that when 2022 comes I can come back to the game's development at full speed.
Patches to the game will still be provided if there any bugs are found, and finally, next big release will bring many new and interesting changes besides the 2nd chapter of story, one that I can tease a bit is the addition of dungeons where players can go into as many times as they want to fight mobs and bosses and earn items that may not be found in any shop.

For now that is all, thank you to everyone that has been supporting the game's development!

Kind Regards,
Nuno "Omega Leo" Diogo

Hello everyone!
The big moment we've all been waiting for is finally here! v1.4.0 has been released and with it come a lot of changes!

Bugs fixed

• Tilemap tearing/green lines
• Tilemap was showing some tearing/green lines in certain areas
  




• Player is moving while saving game


• Shop popup not showing Xbox One button


• FightScene Background




• FightScene Background's back layer was not aligning properly with the rest

• New Achievements




• Added new achievements to make the game more interesting




• Stat Training


• Added Stat Training option to raise the each party member's base stats(different from the stats that are shown in the character summary)




• Character Balancing




• Balanced characters in general and the experience points gained per fight




• Upgraded fighting UI




• Upgraded the Fighting UI to look more like an RPG one and to use the game's theme




• Dodge and Critical Hit Mechanic


• Added a Dodge and Critical Hit Mechanic that scales with Speed and Luck respectively




• Post fight victory screen


• Added a post fight victory screen to show teach character leveling up, amount of experience points and coins earned in the battle and also any drops that the enemy might've dropped




• Message Text Alignment


• Aligned the message text to Top Left to allow better reading of dialogue




• Remake story chapter 1




• Remade story chapter 1 to allow more player exploration and to make the plot longer




• Map Function


• Added a minimap to the Top Left corner of the screen to indicate important points of the current location and also the location name




• Status Effects


• Added Status Effects for Stunned, Burned, Poisoned

• Tell player to go to places


• Tell player to go to places instead of just teleporting there, allowing for more breaks in the story and more exploration


• More skills at the start
• Added more skills to the characters at the start instead of being just punch


• Italic for narration
• Make narration text in italic instead of just normal to make it clear that it isn't a character talking


• Indicate buying/selling
• Indicate buying/selling by showing text on the screen


• Make doors to outside clearer
• Make doors to outside clearer instead of just being a tiny opening in the wall tiles
• All sprites the same size


• Make all sprites the same size

Hello everyone,
To start off this announcement, I'm happy to say that Nemithia is currently 50% off for the duration of the Steam Autumn Sale!

As for v1.4.0, I'm happy to announce the update is almost here, just doing the finishing touches to the story to make it more fun and allow more player interaction with the world, so expect it in the next 2-3 weeks if all goes well.

For now, that is all, hope to bring more good news pretty soon.

Thank you all for your attention.

Kind Regards,
Nuno "Omega Leo" Diogo.

Hello everyone,
To start off this announcement, I'm happy to say that Nemithia is currently 50% off for the duration of the Steam Halloween Sale!

As for v1.4.0, I have to announce that in light of recent feedback I received for the game, it'll take a bit longer than expected to release the new chapter and all the new improvements for the new version, I predict it'll be here in late December to early January, one of the main changes will be a complete overhaul to the 1st chapter to make the player more involved in the story itself, allow you to explore the map more instead of being a straight line to the end of the chapter, and because of that, there'll be a delay to be able to fine-tune the changes so it'll be an exciting launch.

For now, that is all, hope to bring more good news pretty soon.

Thank you all for your attention.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Kind Regards,
Nuno "Omega Leo" Diogo.

Fixed:

• Zeke no longer is strong enough to defeat Marcus and Richard in the 2nd battle causing issues with the story.
  
• Xbox controller mappings
  

• Multiple save slots (experimental feature, bugs may occur)
  

• Character Balancing
  

• New chapter of story
  
• Stat training minigames
  

Added:

• New Equipment
  
• New UI
  

• UI not scaling properly for 4K screens
  

Fixed:

• Graphical issue where the new controls were showing on top of the previous controls in the fight scenes and the story intro.
  
• More performance fixes.
  

• Arrows to the title screen menu to allow scrolling through the menus with the mouse or touch screen.
  

• New equipment
  
• New title screen backgrounds that are shown at random
  
• Global options menu instead of only being accessible through the title screen
  

• Controller input
  

Hello everyone,
Sorry for the delay in bringing this update, but v1.3.1 of the game is finally here.

Changes:
-Overall performance improvement
-New titlescreen

There isn't much to update on for now since the performance improvements took a bit of time and might still need a few more tweaks here in there but I'll try to bring out updates as soon as I can.

As we draw near to the release of the 1st version of Nemithia's Early Access here on Steam, I made a lot of new changes to the demo to make it more "demo like", including changing completely the content of the demo to match the content of the main game, note that like with the main game this is also subject to bugs and may also suffer changes in the future,

[h2]New features[/h2]

• New Demo plot, tied to the 1st chapter of the main game
  
• Improved experience & gold calculation
  
• Added shops
  
• Added equipment
  
• Added a loading screen
  
• Added new option for cutscene volume
  

• Game's Steam forum
  
• Via email to support@nemithia.pt
  
• Via Nemithia's issue tracker
  

Added:
-New fighting backgrounds
-Frame rate capped at 60fps for now while a new options field is being added for it.

Fixed:
-Fireball spell saving incorrectly if you had it on someone

Great news everyone! #Nemithia's Demo is now available for download! :D

Any feedback on the game is highly appreciated :)

Feedback and Bug Reports can be posted on the specific forum here or can be sent to the support email support@nemithia.pt