Hello everyone! I am very happy to share some exciting news with you!
Gedonia 2 is now in development
I am now working on a sequel for a game. I am aiming it to be much better than the first game, and it is without the doubt the most ambitious game I've ever attempted to make. It's still very early, and the game is years away from release, but I managed to make a small teaser trailer for the game and a steam page for you to check out. Go there for more info, and Wishlist the game Now, because it would really help me out!
Why didn't you just continue expanding on original Gedonia?
While the first game still has a lot of potential to explore, there are some issues that prevent me from infinetely evolving it over the years. First one, of course is not being able to add multiplayer, but also some fundamental shortcoming in animation/scripting/stat scaling etc. A lot of these things are baked into the core of the game at the moment, and I could only fix them by remaking the game from scratch.
What will the second game be about? With Gedonia 2, I aim to explore Eastern regions of the map, like Esnon, Vubros and Osnein. The game will have completely separate storyline and explore different era of the world.
Are you still working on the game alone? No, I am happy to report that I've got some funds from the sales of the original game, and I hired a small tem of artists and writers to help me out! So there will be atleast 6-10 people working on the game in the future.
What's next for the first Gedonia
Don't worry, I'm not abandoning the current game, in fact, I came up with a roadmap for future releases. Check it out:
As you can see, we will explore different regions of the world with the first and second game, with the first we will go west and south, and with the second one we will go east.
Hello everyone! I am happy to say that Northern Kingdoms has finally arrived!
This is the biggest single update the game has ever received. I've had an idea for it for years, and been actively designing and developing it for 6 monts straight. It's a huge, expansive, gorgeous zone with real feeling of frozen winter. The zone is actually bigger than the whole Gedonia. It's not as dense with content ofcourse, but there are still a lot to do there. The benefit of this is that the draw distance in the zone is much larger than in Gedonia, and the zone looks great. Here is what you should know about it:
You can get to it through Gedonia desert, and it requires level 45 to enter
The zone is quite difficult, so before going there, you should get the best equipment you can get and farm few expeditions to improve your skills.
There are new caves, dungeons, towns, events, quests, enemies and resources. There are a lot of stuff there, you can see all of it through the map.
You can build another house at the center of the zone.
Reworking epic tier sets
I've decided to rework a system of getting epic tier sets. Originally, I had about 10 different sets, all of them were given in Citadel of Evil dungeons, and that was an end of it. Then, after adding more endgame content and more sets, the whole system because kinda janky. Half of playstyles were locked behind random drops, and after you got your set you were basically done with progression. That didn't feel right, so I decided to change it.
Now, after completing Citadel of Evil and starting Expeditions, you would be able to purchase any epic tier set you want in the specialized Explorers shop.
By default, epic sets are weaker, on the same level as Kainite armor. All bosses in endgame dungeons, expeditions and totems from Northern Kingdoms now drop marks of ascendancy, which can improve your armor a few times, making it much much stronger.
The anvil for improving epic sets is near runic forge and the shop
Tier set bonuses now 2 items/5 items instead of 3 items/5 items. That way you can actually combine two epic sets with different bonuses to further customize your build.
There is a lot more sets now, more than 2 dozens actually, and there will be more added in the future
Other updates
Main:
Max level cap is increased and is now 80. Experience requirements after level 50 now also increased.
Added character select screen to loading in the main menu
All runic effects from runic forge were nerfed. After testing some time I've felt that they become too powerful, and were overshadowing other types of progression.
Companions basic dodge chance reduced.
Changed voice acting for Wyanna nd Ernest in main story cutscenes, and added voice acting to some secondary quest cutscenes
Armor and magic resist calculations were changed. The cap is now 90%, but after some thresholds, armor values on items give less reduction. This was done so Highly armored characters were basically invincible, so getting to the cap is now harder. You will need about 190 armor or magic resist to get to the 90% cap
I've felt that Magic overload became too obligatory for most magic builds, and the ability by itself was boring. Magic overload was nerfed, and most magic damage was recalculated, Now base damage of magic scales better with level, and Magic overload is not required for dealing constant damage in endgame.
Effects of custom dishes you cook is now scales with your level
Difficulty and reward of advanced and expert expeditions are increased
Now to the particular skill trees changes. For the most part these changed are aimed to make some specs better at endgame, and you won't notice a lot of changed for levels 1-40, with a couple of exceptions.
Ferocity
I am pretty happy with ferocity overall, it's a simple and straightforward spec, so there isn't a lot changes.
Changed Crusher armor 5-items bonus to get you more stamina
Powerful strike with axes and maces now has different animation, which is quicker than the older one
Added a bunch of new cool heavy armor sets for Ferocity users
Combat mastery
Combat mastery was fine too, just changed a couple of epic sets
Buffed snakebite set, it is now literally bites enemies with actual snakes, which is pretty cool.
Added a couple of sets for agile warriors
Enchant weapon attack damage was recalculated. It scaled too much on higher levels and was too powerful.
Banditry
Banditry received massive changes, to amke assassins and rogues actually viable at endgame.
Banditry now requires 15 skill points instead of 7, and each skill point gives a chance to evade damage
New passive - glancing strikes
New mastery - toxis fumes
Damage of poisons is increased
Vanish was nerfed for characters with low agility, now if you have agility lower than 3, it has a chance to fail
Enemies have better chance to see you in stealth and sometimes attack the spot where they think you can be
Overall endgame damage of daggers was improved, and armor has a new stat - crit multiplier
Added new epic tier set
Dark assassin set was buffed and changed
Bows
Rangers had a lot of trouble at endgame previously, because after spending their cooldowns, they only had basic shooting for damage dealing. Here are the changes:
Explosive arrows, multishot and frozen arrows preparations now have actual effect with duration for applying, and can be stacked multiple times with different skills/armor
New mastery will allow you to stack up to 3 explosive shot/multishots/frozen shots per use
New passive skill "focused multishot" will allow you to fire a multishot in one single target, which would help to deal massive damage to single targets in long range
Added a bunch of cool archer tiers - stealth archer, mystical archer, commander archer, sniper
Sniper set changed and buffed
Added quivers with infinte arrows to craft or drop
Defense
Shield block now depletes stamina relevant to the damage dealt, This would make it harder for lower level characters to cheese higher level enemies at teh start of the game.
Shield bash damage increases better with player level
Added epic tier set for tanks
Elemental magic
Overall I was pretty happy with elemental magic, with few small exceptions. Base damage is now increased, after Magic overload was nerfed. Other stuff:
Invoke elemental is completely changed (for like fourth time), and I am very happy with the result. Not gonna spoil it, but the game ability is pretty useful now
Added frost mage epic set
Freeze effect was nerfed, now it has capped duration.
Nerfed OP elemental mastery trinket
Holy magic
Holy magic on endgame was pretty lacking, mainly because damage of main abilities was scaling well, It's now fixed, and some other stuff fixed too
Holy hammer now targets enemies better near the target of the throw, it knocks enemies down and scales better with player level
Judgement scales damage better with player level
Paladin seal damage and holy amgic bonus scales with player level
Metropolitan set now has new changed use for divine weapons mastery skill, which is insanely powerful
Dark magic
Dark magic was definetely in a good place, so there aren't many huge changes
Weak curse damage increased
Dark knight epic set is improved with a bunch of new effects
Drain health scales better with level
Arcane magic
Other than nerfing magic overload, the arcane magic tree had a lot of other changes:
Added new passive - evasive blink. It's pretty fun and powerful new skill, which basically adds dodge to mage type characters. I imagine it will become essential for most magic characters. It has some drawbacks for most mages, instead arcane mages
Arcane warrior and arcane mage sets were buffed and changed with a lot of cool changes
Nature magic
Werewolf form was reworked. Now it slows down during attack, so it's not that easy to strafe around enemies, but the werewolf rage will allow you to move faster for some time
Druid set changed
Spirit bear power increased
Flower guardian damage scales better with player level
Blood magic
Blood magic was changed a lot. Previously most damage abilities from blood magic were useless at endgame, and it was mostly used as health restoration tree for melee fighters.
Here are the changes:
Bloody spikes reworked for an extremely powerful wave aoe attack
Blood demon deals more damage, has different attacks, uses bloody spikes and hemmorage differently, and overall is mostly ranged based fighter now
Blooddrainer set changed
Added new epic set of Master of Blood which focuses on summons and dealing damage with blood ablities
Bard and speech
Bard was quite powerful, mainly because serenade of serenity was healing dead companions, making them immortal essentially. This was fixed. Otehr changes:
Added new passive - dark magician, which would allow you to spoil your skeletons and minions with your cool music
Fixed the bug with serenades duration degrading after some time
Can't use bard abilities while mounted anymore
Ancient armor set was reworked
Bug fixes
Fixed bug with Armalak running while not mounted
Fixed the bug with take all button not working
Improved shadows mystery in Volflar fields
Fixed not being able to escape a dialogue with mastery fishing rod, aslo changed its description
Fixed few small issues
Whats next?
After release of this update I will hang out for some time to check for any troubles and add small fixes, if neccessary. I am planning to take a break for a summer and spend it with my family, and actually doing some physical activity and improving my health. When I return to work in September, I will start to work on my next big project, which I will announce when I will be ready. I will still slowly work on Gedonia updates here and there, and maybe add more major updates in the future, but it will definetely be slower. I still have places I want to explore in this world, but I'm also excited to start working on the next big project.
Hey everyone! I wanted to share some details about new epic loot coming in Northern Kingdoms update and give overall more info about it.
First of, here is a preview of new environments coming in the update, if you havent seen it yet:
Living weapons
The biggest part of the new loot are new Living Weapons. The idea behind them is that they evolve over time, by getting experience from killing enemies and completing different challenges. Each weapon has 3 stages, and after evolving to the next stage, it will change it's appearance, improve stats and improve a unique mechanic, that is tied to it.
There are about two dozens of different weapons, that you will be able to choose from, and they cover most of the playstyles in the game. You will be able to earn your first weapon quite easily, and you will be able to earn additional weapons, by completing challenges in the region.
Jewelry sets
One thing that was lacking before in epic equipment was jewelry. You had a few epic jewelry pieces as reward for epic faction quests, but that was about it. Now, you will be able to get a bunch of new jewelry sets in Northern Kingdoms.
Jewelry set consists of necklace, two rings and a trinket. Unlike armor sets, you will be able to combine different sets. For example:
Here you have 2 different necromancer jewelty sets. Both of them give 200% dark damage bonus for 2 pieces, one is basically making your skeletons into active damaging ability, by allowing you to spam explosive skeletons who instantly explode, which is really fun. The second one gives you an option to run around with bone serpent all the time, and having a bunch of free mana pool. Or, you can just combine 2 pieces from one set and 2 pieces from another and get +400% dark magic bonus.
There are two dozen sets coming with 60 different items, so there will be plenty to choose from.
New armor sets
Other than that, I've prepared a few new epic tiers, that give even more options for different playstyles, things like frost mage, stealth archer, archer with companions, spear-oriented warrior etc.
How would you be able to get all this cool stuff?
All over the Northern Kingdoms there will be different challenges that will reward you with this stuff. These challenges will have an option for increased challenge and better loot, so they will still be challenging even for experienced players.
Other than that, there will be much more in the update: New crafts (yes, quivers with infinte arrows are coming), new pets to collect, new quests to complete, abilities and balance changes and much much more.
But when is this all coming out?
I am on track to complete the update in May. I would also require a short period of testing for it, so it might come out at first half of June at worst. Hopefully it will work out, and I'm really excited for you guys to try it out.
Hello everyone! The game was updated with version 1.22a:
Added two new epic sets of armor for previously missing character archetypes - Dark knight and Mystical archer. You can get them randomly through expeditions drops
Added an option to improve few bard abilities with runic forge
Magical chord and oppression chord abilities damage amount was quite overtuned, so it was decreased
Fixed bug with fishing in some lakes in the world
Fixed visual bugs with arcane mage set
Fixed bug with knock resistance and shield
Fixed the bug with killing enemies not counting in expeditions sometimes
Fixed werewolf and blood demon attack damaging friendly enemies
Northern kingdoms development
I wasn't able to work a lot in February due to family reasons unfortunately, but now I'm back at full force, and started working on Northern Kingdoms expansion. I'm not sure now long it will take to finish, cause there is a lot of stuff I want to add in this update. I have a few cool ideas for new dungeons, bosses, quests and activities to add, not even mentioning amount of level design that needs to be done. I think at the end of the spring I will be able to start some beta testing for it, and we will see how it goes from there.
Anyway, I wanted to share some progress that me and my 3d modeller managed to accomplish in these past few weeks. It's all work in progress and will be improved in time of course.
Hopefully I would be able to make a small preview/trailer for it on my youtube channel in upcoming weeks.