Hi everyone, hope you are doing well! The last month I’ve been working on a new game, "Who am I?". It follows Mark, a man struggling to get by, who receives news of his aunt’s death. Hoping to uncover the truth, he sets out on a journey that could change his life. Here you can check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3448240/Who_am_I/.

Fix small bugs.

マイナーバグ修正。

Welcome back to Tico Talks. We’re hard at work making fundamental improvements to THRONE AND LIBERTY based on player feedback. This episode covers server consolidations, combat improvements, field bosses, and more player-driven changes.

Watch the video below and then look forward to an in-depth article later this week on what to expect from the upcoming server consolidation.


Join the THRONE AND LIBERTY Discord server or visit this episode of Tico Talks on YouTube to answer our latest community question. If you could add any other form of lifestyle content to THRONE AND LIBERTY, what would it be?

Thank you for your support and we’ll see you in Solisium!

General:

• Bug Fix (Round 2): Enemies sometimes stop permanently, logic added to overcome this

Act 1-1:

• Reduced Difficulty: Reduced enemy health by an additional 5%
  
• Improvement: Ore now displays in the top panel once unlocked

Act 1-4:

• Bug Fix: Mouse cursor no longer flickers when mousing over enemy towers

Dear Players,

Thank you for playing Malleus Cocconum: the Heiress and for the love you’ve shown us!

We wholeheartedly welcome you to share your passion for this game through video commentary, fan art, written works, and other creative expressions! These creations mean the world to us and help introduce the game to even more people.

To protect the game’s content, we do not encourage uploading unoriginal, pure walkthrough recordings. If we notice such videos on platforms (e.g., YouTube or Bilibili), we will contact you to request their removal.

If your creations contain spoilers about the game’s story, we kindly ask that you wait at least one month after major updates before publishing them, so as not to impact the exploration experience of other players.

If you’d like to recommend Malleus Cocconum: the Heiress on social media, we encourage you to share posts, screenshots, or other creative expressions of your love for the game instead.

Thank you once again for your support!

Your enthusiasm and passion are our greatest motivation!

If you’re willing, please share this game with more friends!

Domus Aurea

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Edit : We did make few changes to clarify certain things. Make sure you check “the state of the team” again if you read that early !

Hello everyone !
We are aware the lack of informations and in-game content since the last announcement can be frustrating, so today, we are doing a monthly update of what’s going on, through this Dev update #3.
As we already mentioned, we are operating big changes to the game's internal structure, and the goal of this post is to give more details about what it involves, and the progress we made so far.


Before talking about the game, we want to talk about our team. The “Dev” role on our Discord can confuse you into overestimating the number of people working on the game. So far, only two of us have actively worked on the game, and only one has the skills to work on internal game structure rework, mentioned above. In short, this means one person is doing all the work we will mention below.

Regarding our recent recruits, we want to clarify something very important.
In general, you can expect hiring to be based on pre-existing skills, but this is not what we did.
Our end goal is to have a cohesive team that can evolve with our projects, and for this we hired long time friends based on their deep interest in the field and estimated learning potential, rather than their pre-existing skills. All of them have useful experience in different fields that will be useful for our projects (animation, other fields of programming, etc). Two of them went to a video game school, one has worked as a programmer for 6 years, so they all could be working in the industry right now in their dedicated field, but this is not enough to efficiently contribute in our current workflow, which would be equally problematic with any “experienced” profile we could find for the post.

While we are confident in their learning potential and the resulting team after these efforts, it means all of this training takes a lot more time than if we hired already experienced people. Managing their training is, and will remain our #1 priority until they have the skills to actively contribute to our projects, and it’s a lot of work that inevitably slows down our progress on LOCKDOWN Protocol.

All of that being said, let’s talk about the game related stuff.


The idea of the game's internal structure being rebuilt has been briefly mentioned in the past, but we want to break down what we are doing, and why, to let you better grasp what is happening.
First of all, we managed to confirm the jump from Unreal Engine 5.2 to 5.5 is technically possible. In the current state, LOCKDOWN Protocol relies heavily on features that were interesting but experimental which changed a lot between the two versions of the engine and broke a lot of things in the game (which will be detailed below).
While a lot broke with the version switch, once repaired, the game should be a lot more stable, which will most likely fix a lot of crashes and bugs currently present in the game, and let us work with newer tools that will enhance our workflow.


Just below, I will break down the mains aspects that need work, and the goal associated :

- Interface : This one was already mentioned, the goal here is to rethink the entire system to be modular for future content, and redesign the entire thing to be more user friendly and introduce as much of the requested features as we can, such as translations, non-Steam in-game alias, session name/password, better kick/ban management, etc.


- Render pipeline : The render pipeline in Unreal Engine slightly changed between the two versions, and needs our game render to be updated. We will take this as an opportunity to do some optimisation while we are rebuilding it.

- Sound system : Many of the sound features we used became obsolete and got replaced with different stuff in the newer version of Unreal, which broke our system and now requires an entire rework.

- General code : Similarly to the interface changes, our plan is to review a large portion of the game code to make it more modular for future content. That future content includes big things like new items, tasks, maps and gameplay features, but it’s also about smaller but important stuff such as more reliable lobbies, more advanced session customisation, and optimisation that could reduce crashes and fix bugs.
That part is by far the most complicated and time consuming.


Again, we are aware the lack of game updates can be frustrating for players, and it is for us too, but all that work is necessary to ensure this early access can turn into a fleshed out game with a healthy future, and we hope we can achieve all these changes as soon as possible !

As shrimple as that 🦞

Today, I am excited to share a special look at the evolution of my game from the very first planning stages to the original release and now to the reimagined version.



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This journey has been incredible and yet it will continue, and it's all thanks to you my amazing community. Your feedback, encouragement, and enthusiasm have driven me to make For What Will Come: Reimagined the best it can be.

Stay tuned for more updates, and as always, I can't wait to hear what you think when you get your hands on the reimagined experience.

Wishlist now and get ready to experience the evolution!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3182220/For_What_Will_Come_Reimagined/

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Best regards,

Fitzy
Emberwave Studios

...and the winner of community vote No. 5 is... the bear traps and rakes!

It was the tightest race so far among all polls, with 999 votes total.

This concludes the voting for the upcoming milestone. Thanks to all people who participated! The next vote will be for new companions, since the milestone after that will be the companion milestone.

As a bonus, here's a picture of the item ideas we are working on and want to implement at some point. Some of them are recurring designs from Lucky Tower 1 & 2 that will hopefully find their way into Ultimate.

Feel free to share your own item ideas. Cheers!

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