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The biggest change this week is the tests with new themes. There was an idea floating around the dev team for a bit, about leaning a bit more into the fantasy side as a way to address certain culturalization issues. We are doing some tests including giant insects as enemies, and so far I believe it feels pretty good gameplay-wise. We are still deciding what to do about this and the topic is far from decided, as we have reached out (yet again!) to our friends and contacts with experience in the subject to get their ideas. Expect more info about this in future updates.
There was a lot of work in preparation for the semi-public demo, the most interesting part of it was the addition of more complete dialogs for the intro characters, including a big deal of information on how to play the game, and tips for each one of the scenarios. I also disabled the scenarios which are not yet playable and streamlined the introduction tooltips.
On the character portraits side, a new “starter pack” was added for the female European characters, and we also included more variations for the Tqnda (male and female). I’m also figuring out a better way to handle the skin color variations, and for now, decided to disable the “dark” skin variants we had for the European male characters.
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