I'll keep this one short. First of all, I have no ground-breaking or crucial announcements today. Game development is going slow as always, because of usual reasons (work, family, spending time on drawing various stuff, other activities etc). I'm kinda tired of making excuses, so I decided to just stop. But anyway, that's not the main point of this post.

I was lately talking with one of the fans of the game and along our discussion, I suggested him that if he wants, I can post updated version of the game. There ain't that much of new content, but it's always something and perhaps will give him a bit better insight on what is what, what is going on and generally some answers for more and more "whats" that this game offers. So... anyone interested can find updated version in Download section.

Oh, beside new content I also made few small corrections in previous parts of the game. These are nothing big and I don't remember anymore what I changed, but I wanted to write about it anyway.

So, that's all. Cheers!

It seems to be some kind of habit lately… I’ve noticed that I write a post pretty much once a month.

In this past time I did… not much of a game, being honest. Main reasons for that were:
- being physically tired
- lacking concept for next Martyr’s stage
- being tired of working on Divinity Fatum (temporary, though - I’m not going to abandon this project)

In a meantime I started working on some kind of side project (yet another one) to serve as some kind of steppingstone for me, when I get tired of working on DF. It’s in an early phase as I only made “main base” and overworld so far. I guess that doesn’t tell you much, so let me explain a little about that project, before I move onto main topic.

Game’s title is: “Million Souls to Take”. We’re taking the role of recently deceased person. Action takes place in capitalistic Purgatory where we can literally buy ourselves a second chance by exchanging it for mentioned million souls. We can collect them from the “Fallen Ones” - beings that were once humans, but because they stayed in Purgatory for too long, they lost their identity and cause. I plan to make it into dungeon crawler being mix of “Elona“‘s open world and “Persona 3“‘s battle system (typical turn-based jrpg battles). I want to put there what I like the most in that kind of games - a lot of customization. I don’t really mean character’s appearance here, but rather a lot of skills, items, allies etc etc. I intend to even put there an option of making yourself a house and later on even creating something like a town. Except that, there will be a lot of dungeons ending with boss battles. We will be given all that, while fighting not only to gain a second life, but also to not turn into the “Fallen One” by ourselves. Everything kept in ‘80’s theme (kinda. I was inspired by Hotline Miami here). Anyway, here are some screenshots of that something:







Now, a little about Divinity Fatum’s development progress. First, I added a little visual adjustment in certain parts of the game. Basically, I thought that I could add script that I used in Townlore to enchant feeling of tension in certain parts of the game. At first I just wanted to make Martyr’s stages to look more disturbing, but when I noticed the effect of this script, I thought that I could also use it in other moments of the game. With that little touch-up, I get something like this:







Next news is that I finally get an idea for second Martyr’s stage, as well as how it should look like in the end. I had a certain idea for Martyr’s image alone, but I found it not exactly threatening. After spending some time away from the game I get an idea of how I could make second encounter look like. I haven’t scripted battle sequence yet, but beside that whole stage is pretty much done.
I should also finally force myself into maybe adding some dialogues with students from the School, add some books to the Library and write some descriptions for pictures in Art Gallery. These are the things that don’t push the story forward and pretty much serve no purpose other than making the game more interactive. That, however is ironically quite important part of gameplay…
Finally, some screenies of latest little progress:







I’d also like to remind that there are save states for both Act II and Act III in download section. If anybody would like to check out the newest add-ons by themselves, be my guests. Demo was also updated.
And that’s all for now.
Cheers.

As mentioned in one of past posts here, in contrary to previous acts of the game, final - third act - will have a battle feature. There won't be any random encounters, though. I intend to make every battle in the game to be a boss battle. With this, it is - in my opinion - somewhat necessary to present such enemies more representatively, than any usual mob.
Enemies in Divinity Fatum's III Act are called "Martyrs". Why? You may try to figure it out.
Next thing to do is to configure whole battle system and everything that will matter in a battle (that means: weapons, stats, skills etc), as you may have noticed that "battle" so far depends on simply attacking enemy until it dies (not mentioning that it doesn't even fight back for now). There will be also a bit of additional scripting for that battle, so it adds another chore to take care of...
As for dialogues, I'm aware they're quite... vulgar now. I hope nobody will mind that. I wanted to show somewhat more real world than in previous acts and in our own world vulgarity is simply far too common to try making this game while avoiding such language.
Not mentioning that there were already alleged rape scenes, so few curse words shouldn't be really that bad IMO.
Anyway, I hope that it looks at least a bit cool so far. Werther's theme (that's this Martyr's name) may sound kinda out of place, but I wasn't really able to find other suitable track so far (I wanted to avoid your usual rpg battle music). I may change it in the future, but honestly I kinda grew to like it, actually. However it is worth mentioning that every Martyr will have it's own music theme.

And well, that would be all for now. To the next one.

So, work on act III is going rather smoothly. I have whole main story written down. Also I agreed with myself on form of this final act. At first I wanted it to be something more like hm... detective game, or just typical adventure game. However after thinking about it for longer time, I concluded that if I kept my original concepts for previous acts (act I - endless wanderfest, act II - linear story, almost like reading a book), I should also do the same with third act.

In my original concept this third game was supposed to be more of an rpg, than adventure game. Main reason for that were occasional battles that would occur in that game. These fights however won't work exactly like in your common vanilla rpg, where you walk around and out of nowhere random monsters pop up in battle sequence. As I mentioned before, fights in Divinity Fatum will be occasional. That also suggests that they'll be evented instead of just happening out of the mist. To elaborate, when you'll be supposed to meet with monster, you'll get into it's realm - let's say. If you're familiar with anime titled Puella Magi Madoka Magica, imagine that you'll be fighting mobs in DF in similiar way that heroines of this anime fighted with witches. Why would I go so far with simple fights? As almost everything in Divinity Fatum, these fights would also be somewhat symbolic and for that reason I'd like to make every battle as original and memorable as possible.

Another thing worth mentioning is how you'll move around the game world in final act. Like in the first act, action in third one will also take place in a city. It won't be and endless city though, but just normal city with means of transport. Because of that we won't have to walk for a hour from point A to point B. Instead of this, we'll have a map of the city with list of places which we can visit.
Finally, I have prepared few screenshots showing current progress. I'm aware there is not much of it yet, but it won't hurt showing it to you, anyway:




Salomon's Home Theme


City Theme

Honestly, I'm kinda curious and at the same time a bit worried whenever my concept for the final act will be taken positively, as it will differ greatly from previous acts.
Also, I'll probably release a demo after first battle sequence, to see what you guys are thinking about that.

Dats all. Cheers.

Hi everybody. I wish to announce that I've slightly updated demo. It's not update of story, but rather fix of some issues and basically technical stuff. So, to not prolong that any further, here's list of changes made with newest update:

• Added splash screens - game rating and logo
• Added difficulty setting
  
• Added hotkey for map
  
• Made machete to disappear from inventory after Stab Town
  
• Fixed issue with mysteriously disappearing TV in alleyway on street 24
  
• Corrected some typos and made small changes in text here and there

Also, I've been thinking about adding some new 'events' - not really related to story or game progression. These would be things like gallery, or music room, where you could watch some pictures related to the game, or listen to music used in game. I also thought about maybe doing some idle actions for game's protagonists, like dunno... dancing, doing some basic gymnastics or whatever (at first I thought about that jokingly, but considering it further, it could be a pleasant thing to add). I may also consider putting some easter eggs later on - just for fun. There is a way to access 'debug room' already, so I could add some more stuff like that (for example I was thinking about making a small chance of triggering event with elevator, where instead of going instantly on choosen floor, you see elevator from inside - elevator music playing and Protagonist making some commentary on that). Ofc if anybody would have any additional ideas, I'd gladly listen to them and consider.