Oct 21, 2024
The Die Is Cast - Canary
Steam Next Fest has come to an end!
The wishlist count for the game increased from 100 to over 500, and around 700 people played the game, with an average playtime of 1 hour and 6 minutes.
Wow! My game has received so much love, more than I could have ever imagined!
To repay this interest, The Die Is Cast is scheduled to release between late December and mid-January.
There are about 45 to 70 days left until then, so I’ll briefly outline how I plan to patch the game moving forward.
From now on, I will focus less on bug management and more on adding content.
In fact, The Die Is Cast was a broken game up until the second day of Next Fest, with 80% of players unable to reach the ending. By the fifth day, the game still had many bugs causing it to freeze. While the game has been somewhat stabilized now, it will soon return to being a bug-ridden mess!
The good news is that I’ve already prepared a lot of content.
For example, the legendary item Mjölnir was originally supposed to deal chain lightning damage to all enemies when hitting a single target, not just give a +10 attack power bonus. In fact, most of the heroic and legendary items had effects like this disabled because they were causing a lot of bugs.
Now, it’s time to reactivate those effects. If you look at the last GIF on the store page, you’ll see that there were also usable effects, like potions in Slay the Spire. These will also be added soon.
For the next 1-3 weeks, I’ll be adding these features to the demo. Please bear with me if there are serious bugs during this period. During this time, I also plan to revamp the trailer and store page.
After that, I’ll focus on building the full game content. I might recruit beta testers and patch a version different from the demo. When the time comes to recruit beta testers, I’ll post another announcement.
So… that’s the plan for now. I hope everything goes well!
Thank you for reading this long message, and I hope you have a great day!
The wishlist count for the game increased from 100 to over 500, and around 700 people played the game, with an average playtime of 1 hour and 6 minutes.
Wow! My game has received so much love, more than I could have ever imagined!
To repay this interest, The Die Is Cast is scheduled to release between late December and mid-January.
There are about 45 to 70 days left until then, so I’ll briefly outline how I plan to patch the game moving forward.
From now on, I will focus less on bug management and more on adding content.
In fact, The Die Is Cast was a broken game up until the second day of Next Fest, with 80% of players unable to reach the ending. By the fifth day, the game still had many bugs causing it to freeze. While the game has been somewhat stabilized now, it will soon return to being a bug-ridden mess!
The good news is that I’ve already prepared a lot of content.
For example, the legendary item Mjölnir was originally supposed to deal chain lightning damage to all enemies when hitting a single target, not just give a +10 attack power bonus. In fact, most of the heroic and legendary items had effects like this disabled because they were causing a lot of bugs.
Now, it’s time to reactivate those effects. If you look at the last GIF on the store page, you’ll see that there were also usable effects, like potions in Slay the Spire. These will also be added soon.
For the next 1-3 weeks, I’ll be adding these features to the demo. Please bear with me if there are serious bugs during this period. During this time, I also plan to revamp the trailer and store page.
After that, I’ll focus on building the full game content. I might recruit beta testers and patch a version different from the demo. When the time comes to recruit beta testers, I’ll post another announcement.
So… that’s the plan for now. I hope everything goes well!
Thank you for reading this long message, and I hope you have a great day!
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