With the 1.5 update introduced, the demo now contains Act I (full version), except for the Green Furies DLC. The Heroines of Swords & Spells demo is also available on Steam, but buying the game will give you access to achievements, cards and other community items, and also will be of great help to me.
The main changes: 1) New large portraits by Tr0yka, our artist (main characters only); 2) New cutscenes by Tr0yka; 3) Slightly reworked the balance. E.g. Meat Shield state is now removed by Fear. This means that Anastasia will no longer be able to cover her friends when she's in frightened state 4) Several game maps (mostly streets) were redrawn. 5) The English version of the game has undergone through some changes too. A number of hard-to-pronounce Slavic names and places have been adapted for the English speaking. For example, the surname "Strizhinsky" is now translated as "the Swifts". Anastasia Strizhinskaya became Anastasia Swift, and Strizhinsk was changed to Swifton. Being the creator of this world, this decision was not an easy one for me, but hopefully the adaptation of difficult to pronounce Russian names will make it easier for people to understand and enjoy the game.
v1.5 screenshots:
Also on April 15th a DLC called Green Furies is going to be released. The DLC is not free, but the price is quite a bargain. The DLC includes a separate game scenario about the four evil, greedy, but cute (in their own way) goblinettes. An 'anti-heroic' team of rival protagonists.
The Green Furies scenario should take around 7+ hours to finish. As with the main campaign, the main emphasis in the DLC is on the story, jokes and dialogues. The player will have to read a lot and, of course, understand what is written. Anyone who decides to go down the wrong path of anti-heroism with the goblinettes should expect: 1. Four new playable characters, each with unique personality traits that affect gameplay; 2. New story and side quests with a variety of playthrough options; 3. A small but ready to be explored goblin cave; 4. Engaging bosses and some original equipment.
I have to note that the DLC scenario is designed for experienced players who are familiar with the story of the main campaign, the world lore and gameplay mechanics. If you haven't played Heroines of Swords & Spells, rushing to buy Green Furies DLC may not be the best decision as far as I'm concerned, but it’s still up to you.
Thank you all for participating, I received a lot of feedback (not only via steam). It was very useful to see the game from the outside and now there is something to work on. Thanks again and have a nice day.
But, if you'd rather wait for the full release, no sweat! We're working hard to bring forth these changes (and many more). Once a launch date for 3.0 is locked we will make an announcement.
It's already been 3 weeks we ran our alpha testing and had a chance to meet you guys. We'd like to let you know that our dev team has started working on the next test based on the feedback we gathered from you. We do really appreciate your opinions towards our alpha testing 😄
Apparently bears scared everyone day and night. Go easy on them next time. 🐻
Alpha testing brought us such a great opportunity for us to have a direction on development and made us realize how Dysterra pleased players as a survival game. For the next test, we are planning to shape it up more close to a finished build and of course to provide you an enormous fun.
We were very touched by your creativity and adventurous endeavor to construct amazing buildings that no one has ever imagined. 🔨 With this posting as a start, we are going to bring some topics to talk about in our community every week - topics could be our development plan, what our team has been up to or anything else. However, any dev plan we'll bring into our community might not be set in stone yet but at least it's something we could talk about and hear your opinions.
We know how much you guys want to hear news from us and also we'd love to keep our community alive and bright.
Anything you'd like to hear from us or any questions, please feel free to leave a comment on our Discord channel.
Regards! It is I, SolarLune, here with some more news regarding MasterPlan!
Sizing
This new update, v0.7.2, brings a small, but important, QoL update to MasterPlan. The biggest improvements are support for resizing panels, as well as tab focusing. To resize Panels, simply grab the colored rectangle at the bottom-right corner and drag. And with tab focusing, you can keep your hands on the keyboard more by using the Tab key (by default) to cycle through the interact-able elements in Panels.
There's a few more minor fixes, as well, that made it into this update. Here's the short changelog in full:
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Panels are now resize-able.
Added tab focusing (pressing tab focuses on different, consecutive elements in a panel).
Multiple log files are now created for each time you run the program; a maximum of 20 is maintained.
Screenshots are now named using the clock, not just numerically, allowing for multiple sets of screenshots to be taken across multiple sessions of MasterPlan, rather than overwriting them constantly.
FIX: Paste Content crashes sometimes depending on text in clipboard
FIX: Checkbox button now properly matches the Task's position.
FIX: The Project's modified state (the *, for example, in the title bar of MasterPlan) is no longer incorrectly set directly after loading a project.
FIX: URL buttons are no longer misaligned in Checkbox or Progression Tasks.
FIX: The camera is now locked to pixels for less "funkily drawn" text and images.
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As usual, the changelog is packaged with the program as well.
Streaming
Also, I'm going to be streaming MasterPlan development on YouTube tomorrow (4/12/21) at 11AM PDT on my YouTube channel here:
Feel free to come through if you want to submit feedback or ask any questions!
Sales
Lastly, MasterPlan will be going on its first "official" sale here on Steam!
MasterPlan will be available for 20% off for a full week, starting on 4/11/21 at 10AM PDT, through to 4/19/21. If you already have MasterPlan, consider purchasing an extra copy to gift to a friend - I know I'd greatly appreciate it, and they'll probably like it too, haha. Leaving reviews is also very helpful; please do feel free.
Once again, I really do appreciate the love and support you've shown me; it's been very helpful and encouraging to see people really using MasterPlan and finding it useful.
I hope to keep working on it and steadily improving it so people who want to make things can do so without their own mind getting in the way.