hell yeah now you can actually play it

Hey Delvers,

It’s been so amazing to see the support for the game following the Showcase and the Demo launch. We can’t thank you enough for showing love to a project we have both been dreaming about making for over a decade.

From the very beginning, the goal was to evoke the vibe of playing those games with your friends, probably in a basement, maybe in Ohio. That’s a tricky thing, of course. It was months of experimentation and iteration until it even started to get there. We wanted to pay tribute to all the things we loved from that era, namely the stark B&W line-art, the rules that are both simple and arcane, and the pulpy stories.

The first hurdle was to create visuals that conveyed almost being inside that stark, often somewhat crude, art from the earlier TTRPG books of the day. Sean spent the better part of a year tinkering off and on creating a custom shader that let us dynamically generate cross-hatch shadow and lighting effects to complement the plan to have the 3D environment rendered with black and white line-art textures.

There’s so much art in the rulebooks and modules that the player never gets to enjoy, and we wanted to create something that gave a look from both sides of the screen.

Once the nuts and bolts of rendering the environment was sorted, the real work began, which of course led to the next thing that makes the game visually what it is… so, so much art.

Very much like how the original Dungeons & Dragons books (especially Basic/Expert, but 1st Edition AD&D as well) showcased an assortment of artists in the rulebooks, monster manuals, and other places, we wanted to do the same. The sheer volume of work involved would make it difficult for a single artist to keep up, but also the varied art styles of the old books are part of the charm we wanted to also bring to our game. Uniquely familiar, where it’s cohesive, but yet we still get to enjoy the individual style each artist brings.

Our memories are full of imagery from all the greats from classic TTRPG’s, names like Erol Otus, David A. Trampier, David Sutherland, Jim Holloway, Darlene and countless more. We both have our favorite pieces from many, though long ago agreed that we’re both huge Trampier (RIP DAT) fans (Sean of the classic AD&D Monster Manual Goblin, and Hunter of ‘Emirikol the Chaotic’ above all).

We knew we’d need to assemble our own rogues gallery of artists if we were going to make anything worthy of paying tribute to the greats, so we set out to find a selection of artists to help us illustrate the monsters, treasure, and possibly-doomed adventurers we needed to tell our tale.

The groundwork was done by Ian MacLean and Tommaso ‘Tom’ Galmacci. They did the initial illustrations used for everything in what became the prototype build of the game.

Once Hunter signed onto the game, and DreadXP picked it up for publishing, we really got to work. The demo is based on a much more developed framework, and of course, has far more artwork than the prototype.

The big splashy things we wanted to have finished for the demo were the opening illustrations, as well as the tavern scene at the opening where you select your characters. Those first moments of the game are so important for setting the tone, and helping draw you into the world and experience of what we think makes ‘Weepstone’ what it is: a gritty, downtrodden, mostly forgotten town. The goblins were the work of Ian, and the opening cinematic slides & character portraits were the work of Tom.

It’s easy to overlook all the additional art needed such as UI elements and 2D equipment. Another huge artistic contribution is the voicing. There is voice acting for all the characters in the game, but also the narration of the game text that’s read to you by the disembodied voice of the ‘Game Master’ (by far the most spoken lines in the game). The incredibly talented Steven Kelly serves as the voice of our GM, in addition to likely showing up in other places throughout the game (for example, Oswald).

The goal for the GM was to be casual and conversational, as a real GM would be. Not overtly campy, and riding the line cinematically. We think he nails it. We have been lucky enough to work with a few more voice artists (so far) with amazing range, so most of the non-GM characters in the game are currently voiced by Ellis Knight (including several monsters) and Sophie Roberts (Loronya, Starla and Della). It would be really easy to go on and on about all of the love and intent that we’re putting into the game, but I think it would be more fun to save some of that for another post.

Fear not, we’ve got more to share than any sane person would want to read, so post more we shall. Again, it means so much to us that so many have taken the time to play the demo. The enthusiasm for what we’re creating is such a morale boost and the kind of push any developer would dream of.

Signing off for now, but looking forward to more,

Hunter & Sean

Hello, everyone, and Happy Halloween! A new Halloween's update is available. Try it now. Boo!

New update v1.50 is here!
This version introduces new CNC control features and important fixes improving usability and accuracy.

🆕 Added

• Rapid Move (Space key) – quickly reposition the tool.

• G10 Offset Setting Command – set and adjust work offsets directly from G-code.

🛠️ Fixed

• Ball-nose tool name now displays correctly.

• Tool tooltips now update properly when language changes.

• Issue where tool change was sometimes unavailable.

• CNC tool auto-change now functions correctly again.

Keep shining with that bright curiosity and unshakable spirit. Here's to more stories yet to come!

A Birthday Celebration Box filled with the following will be given to each agent as a way to celebrate!

• All items in the Birthday Gift Box will be removed after 24 hours, except for the ‘Piece of Cake’.
  
• Birthday Gift Box: Untradeable and cannot be sold but can be stored in account storage.

Receive this once per account when you log in on November 2 at 12:00 AM UTC.

Don’t be late! This event only runs for only 24 hours.

Hey everyone 👑

this is the final patch of the release week frenzy. Some great quality of life stuff this time:

The tavern animation has annoyed people after a while, so you can skip it now by clicking on the "Enter Tavern" banner. Then I further improved the armory chances, so you do not gain duplicates as often. And the auto-disabling of special jobs has been removed. It was not necessary anymore now that the descriptions are more clear.

One great idea came from Caidryn in the steam forums. Hero equipment slots are unlocked with total glory now, which should make it a lot more motivating to try another hero. He has the slots you unlocked already, and it helps you to unlock more of them for all other heroes as well.

And then we have the usual improvements in clarity: A new tutorial for fate and the undead graveyard function, the markers are more noticable, and multiple descriptions have been improved.

It does also seem like the balance is finally getting into a better spot. I am so happy to see more of you having fun with the game now, and there also seems to be a lot less frustration. Looking back at this week, I think the progress has been phenomenal. Eight patches with substantial changes in seven days. Also, how we had no big or game-breaking bugs. I rarely talk about it, but this is my first game. I should be proud about that.

I'd love to take this energy and determination into the whole early access period, but I will need your help on the next steps. Please come into Discord and help with suggestions for new and existing content. Do not forget to leave a review, that helps so much. Or share the game on any other way.

But, due to popular demand, I will take it a bit slower now 😅 After all his patience with me, I do want to take Mio on some trips. And I do have a few "I'll do that after release" appointments next week.

Hope you have a great weekend! :sfk_mio:

Feryaz

• Clicking on the "Enter Tavern" banner skips the tavern animation

• Hero equipment slots are unlocked by total glory now

• Further improved armory chances so it's more likely to get one of each first

• All siege engines have individual coin costs now

• Added a tutorial for fate selection

• The graveyard gets explained during the undead tutorial

• The markers are a lot more noticable

• Evolution building vanishes if the evolved unit is gone

• Item Rejuvenation cannot be equipped by mana units

• Added targeting mode for units that attack a fixed position

• Curse requirement description a little more clear

• Undead Hunter upgrade improved description

• Humans reduced some star requirements

• Thickets removed flowers so it looks even less like a bush

• Removed the special job auto-disable thing

• Paladin increased base damage

• Bone Golems are slightly slower

• Demon Spider reduced damage slightly

• Dragon's fireball does not apply burning anymore

• Dragon's fireball vanishes on his death now

• Gyrocopters's bomb vanishes on his death now

• Magister reduced damage very slightly

• Phoenix comes 10m closer now

• A lot of monster adjustments in the last week

• Fixed Mort last quest step

• Fixed negative faith maybe

• Fixed pause menu corpse keyword

• Fixed training grounds not clickable

• Fixed experience scroll not clickable

• Fixed flag mode button vanishing when hovering lumberyard or farm

• Fixed Crossbowman not displaying pierce stat

• Fixed Dryad applying water damage instead of plant damage

• Fixed inactive swarms being hoverable

• Fixed Humans geologist hut description

• Fixed fate selection cards border

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I've just uploaded a small patch to address a few issues related to private messaging.

And since that’s how my Saturday went anyway, I also added a short note to the main menu explaining how the demo works and what its goals are.

• Added a quick status summary to the main menu to help newcomers understand how our Open Alpha demo differs from traditional marketing demos. It also includes short answers to some frequently asked questions about the demo’s goals.

• Fixed some reliability and visual clues issues with Chat related to the new Private Messaging functionality. The currently active private channel is now also more clearly highlighted.

These are small things, but I didn’t want to hold them back until the next update.

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Until the next update... Enjoy Feudums!

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Hey Club Members,

Hope you had a nice Halloween! There’s been a lot happening on our end this month, so let’s get into it.

With today’s update (1.5.0), we’ve just added the new side story “Recollections of the Great Hero.” This one’s a little different, so we’re really excited to hear what you think! Also worth noting: this is the last piece of new content before I Wanna Be A Game Dev! - Expansion comes out on December 19th.

We’re currently holding a fanart event about what Halloween costumes the IWBAGD cast would wear! While this was originally meant to end tomorrow, we're **extending it to November 9th**, so make sure to get your submissions in!

Now that Update 1.5.0 is out, the DLC is now our only major area of focus. A lot’s been coming together with it lately, so we hope you’ll look forward to what’s coming!

Hey everyone!

This month has been tough with all the preparation for Steam Next Fest, but it's over. Thanks to everyone for trying out the demo. I hope you liked it.

Now let's talk about what's new:

• Khaled can shoot further with wide/tall tee shots

• Sosta has flexible tee shot guidelines

• Jack gets 50% cooldown reduction

• Batal receives +1 extra stroke

• ...and 8 more unique abilities!

You unlock a character after completing each episode

• Added trophy rewards after defeating the boss

• New shield visual effect in the final attack phase

• Improved vacuum outline and explosion danger indicators

• Now uses a 3-life system

• Migrated course data to JSONBin for uploading online courses (solving our file size limitations)

• Enhanced save file system

• New player selection system

• Reduced course file sizes significantly

• Rotatable backgrounds for Episodes 1 & A

• New menu layout and save icon

• Post-boss music track

• Fixed ambience cutting out after failures

• Updated all store assets and Steam capsule

We're also working on online leaderboards and achievements as of now - stay tuned!

Thanks for following development!

Additions:

Upgraded all elections properly to use the new election system and all of its new processes and components.

This should fix all the issues with the election systems and going forward should be less buggy now that everything is fully using the new system.

Dynamic seat totals for countries like Germany who have MMP elections. Instead of 50 for State parliament.

Added Germany to the demo.

Bug fixes:

Committee study stage for Canada can now properly be viewed in live vote session and can be skipped properly.

Fixed party recalculation when adding and removing parties from countries that are not the United States. This was because the handler for non-counties was broken due to changes with the coalition system. But also because cities were not generating coalitions for countries that need them.

Germany coalition formation for the state level going to the National level and then the Bundestag having the Prime Minister of your region also become the Chancellor. This has been fixed. This is due to the fact that we only have one party leader in the game currently for a party. So I had to generate a full leadership team.

In the future there will be state level parties so this is a temporary fix.

Fixed calculated increase issue for policy effects.