The Ebonheim Chronicle

I was recently doing a modicum of work on the home server backend to limit how often my poor little laptop was being hammered by bots and so I was staring at nginx logs all day and it reminded me that a few of you out there have this blog on your cool and fancy rss readers and so this post is dedicated to my lovely rss fans.

Where's the next playtest milestone??

I really need to stop making public time estimates. I was well on my way last fall, even having a little closed progress playtest with friends, when I was hit with a lot of very important and obnoxious responsibility and it completely locked down my home coding bandwidth. Normally I split my coding brain between work and home but it was all on work for 4 months so I was engaging in self-destructive behaviors like playing WoW Classic.

After the holidays, my first bit of work back was Dungeon Puzzle Sweeper which is proud to be a part of the wildly successful No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle which has raised $630,000 for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! DPS crossed 10,000 browser plays last week and I'm still so happy to see people enjoying that little project!

Now that things have settled down and normalized some, I've gotten some really great momentum built back up on Chronicles and it's moving right along. The last big stretch of work was performance improvements.

YouTube

The game has a YouTube account now where I am experimenting with, umm, modern lines of communication. I've mostly been posting gameplay shorts and it will likely be receiving some form of the same dev gifs everywhere else gets. So tell your nieces and nephews to subscribe!

Something you may be interested in is that I've created a playlist of songs for the OST over there and will continue to fill that out as I make them. These all use the The Big Chronicles Audio System

Discord

It's linked around various places but there is a Discord for the game. That place would theoretically become a lot less quiet when more open testing and demos happen but in the meantime if you're looking to have the cute chron4 skeleton in your sidebar I can provide that.

Thank You for Reading!

I think the key limiting factor to not posting here more often is that I have to copy images to the fileserver and cant paste them directly into writefreely, but that's more reason I suppose to do more text posts.

As a little treat, here's a gif of using a self-push ability on an archer to kite and keep distance, which I think is very cool!

Wishlist Chronicles IV: Ebonheim! 🌐   🙋‍