Lucadia

First off I want to thank everyone who played my game and for Clyve and meh_ch for reviewing it.

I took down the main download down so I can fix the issues and bugs in the game and not have people download a bugged version. Here's a list of fixed issues and bugs:

Shorter text for finding/searching for items
Fixed major bug after defeating Thorjin's minions in the castle
Fixed bug where monsters reappear after going to the Skills/Cookbook/Crafting menu
Fixed money issue with potions, mana potions, and inn costs
Reduced the amount of monsters on maps
Increased amount of HP that potions restore
Fixed rock veins giving out no copper. Should now give proper amount of ore
Fixed intro transitions
Fixed bug where you can access the menu during the intro
Solas military base minigame has shorter time limit to increase difficulty
Slightly increased starting MP for each character
Fixed bartender graphic bug
Fixed choppy movement on Solas guard
Fixed pub matron's movements to seem more natural
Fixed barrel graphic bug in Fishing area

Currently fixing:
Mapping issues
BGM music not playing properly
New CMS for in-game menu
Graphic inconsistencies
Map layouts for dungeon(s)
Including more puzzles in dungeons (Yeah I know, the first puzzle is laughably simple)
Increasing the length of the second minigame
Adding random encounters in the world map so that walking around won't seem pointless.

I've pretty much fixed all the gripes that were mentioned in the reviews and feedback comments. I'll be putting out a longer demo sometime soon to give the story more depth.

Well, I can honestly say that I may not end up finishing the demo to my liking (especially because school is taking up most of my time), but I'll definitely try before then. I am almost finished with the Skills system, or at least most of it. And I'm just going to do the first dungeon and first area only because I'm not finished doing the next big scenario/dungeon/town yet and won't have enough time to finish it. I also added a Characters page. Hopefully I can work out most of the kinks to everyone's liking, or at least make the demo bug free. Here's hoping =P

And yes, this is my first game... please be kind lol.

So I had the urge to go ahead and put out a demo for the game but of course I wanted to test out and play the entire demo first before releasing it. The demo works perfectly as I wanted... however, there was one huge problem that was of concern to me and that was the skills system. It works fine the way it is but I didn't feel that it was what I wanted. The way the skill system works right now doesn't really help much in gameplay as it just awards extra skills/magic with no strategy involved in choosing the right skills. I've decided to do more of a skill tree system instead where players are able to use skill points to boost already learned skills.

So that means I must do a full re-haul of the entire skill system for each player, and fine tune their skills so it gives the players more of a strategy to use their skill points wisely.

I apologize for always promising that a demo will come out soon, but unfortunately it will have to wait.

Well I guess the demo won't be out for maybe another couple of weeks. The main reason is because I'm so damn lazy and the fact that I just started implementing "Crafting" into the game. Also, I had to scrap the main intro because it's so damn long and I don't think many people here appreciate long intros lol. Having to make changes to the database is another reason why it's taking so long. Stupid database... I just really want to put out a decent demo for everyone to play and put as much effort into a demo and not make a half-ass attempt. (I hate being a perfectionist).

I'll soon have a demo up. Either that or finish Chapter 1. If I do decide to just finish Chapter 1, it'll probably take one more week.