This weekend I decided to hold my breath, take the plunge, and submit Savage to the IGF (against my better judgement, ha!). Why? Because I like being a nervous wreck and biting off way more than I can chew! On a personal level, I don't expect much to happen, but I am glad I submitted - in the long run, I think putting my game on a chopping block of that size is, overall, a good experience. Pluse: hitting the 'submit' button was great fun :D
On to the (potentially) more fun stuff -
I've decided to publicly post the build I submitted to the IGF because... well, why not? Quite a few substantial updates and bug fixes await anyone brave enough to go another round with the alpha, i.e.
- Added a few new items - Argeshii Fetish, Gosen Fetish, Meat
- Fade transitions, zoom in/out transitions on worldmap
- Overworld procedural encounters (hunting type, battle type)
- Story engine is now in place, with first story sequence
- Balanced the enemy spawners, some enemy HP and damage
- Weapons and Armor now lose BP upon death instead of outright breaking
- Broken gear remains in inventory (to be used in repair/salavage in a later update)
- Increased initial knives/axes carrying cap
- Font and UI polishing
- New Enemy: Jailer
- New location tilesets (only used in overworld encounters right now)
- Extended some areas
- New music track
- New death system/checkpoint system - game no longer goes to "game over" screen on death, but respawns player at the last (invisible at the moment) checkpoint they crossed.
- Squished lots of bugs (and probably created many new ones as a result)
(IMPORTANT: SAVE FILES FROM THE PREVIOUS BUILD WILL NOT WORK WITH THIS ONE - Sorry :/ This will probably be the case until beta, or whenever I put a much more stable save system into the game.)
And last but not least, Savage: SOG's first trailer (*sniff* he's growing up so fast):
Thanks for reading/watching/playing!
Crom laughs at your Four Winds,
-Matt
Awesome work gonna have to give this game a go =)
Hey, thanks for checking it out :)
Looks great! Reminds me a Adventures of Link. Following!
Thanks, mhughson - That was always my favorite Zelda game and this is definitely a love letter to it :] Thanks for following!
Keep up the good work, this game is great, and once its done with alpha and beta, could probably make it on the steam greelight
Man, I hope so :) Thanks so much for the encouragement!