Hello everyone! :D How are you all doing?

As I promised, I've added a page with info on the game, maps of difficult areas, and puzzle solutions for anyone who's gotten stumped. Click here to see it! ^_^

Hopefully this should help anyone who's having trouble. If you have any questions about something not covered on the page, feel free to ask, and I'll do my best to help!

Also, if anyone's finding any area or dungeon particularly difficult or frustrating, please don't hesitate to let me know. I saw someone on tumblr who was having one heck of a hard time with the Watery Depths, aka the second Tide Area dungeon below Springsmouth. If you're the person who posted that, and you happen to be reading this, I apologize for all the grief and I'm so glad you made it through okay. I didn't mean for it to be that frustrating ^^;;

For anyone else who has problems there, there are now maps on the aforementioned new page that will show you the way through those areas. Even having said that, I'm considering adding a few seconds to the clock for each difficulty in that area, as I really didn't mean for it to be tearing-out-your-hair hard. Please let me know if anyone else found the Watery Depths too frustrating.

I'm also considering putting maps of the Final Dungeon on the new page, but I haven't for now, because I kind of want to preserve its mystery a bit. I may change my mind, though, as it's super-big and players may get lost. ^^;;

Hello everyone! Last time I spoke about battle cut-in art and showed some of it off. I'm afraid to say that I did so in error. Due to unforeseen personal matters in real life taking up all of her time right now, M-3-1 isn't able to finish all the battle cut-ins, so for now I'm removing them from the game.

Don't let this worry you too much, though, as these were only a cosmetic addition. All other artwork for the game has been completely finished. I asked for a ton of work from M-3-1, and she has been super amazing about all of it. Thank you again, so much. Your artwork is what really brings the characters to life, and I am so totally grateful for that. I can say thanks enough for all of your hard work!

I take responsibility for showing off artwork before it was certain that it would all be done for the final release. I hope I haven't disappointed you guys too much with that ^^;;

In more upbeat news, it's time to show, for the very last time, the Game Progress Meter!



Look at that! Sooooo close! Now, you may be wondering, "uni, what's left to finish, and how long will it take?" All that's left is the Last Boss battle and the ending.

Now, given that I still need to draw all of the forms for the last boss and make some new battle animations for her, and that I want to incorporate some new settings into the ending that will require new tilesets to be drawn, it means that getting everything done will, at the very least, take me a week or two. And after that the game will be sent off to the testers to make sure I didn't mess up anything. After that, it'll be ready to download!

It's been an interesting few last weeks. I have been working super-hard, and luckily real life has been kind. That January 2016 release date that I was wondering about is no more, and it will be more likely early or mid November (or end of October, but that's probably pushing it XD).

Making this game has been an amazing journey. Looking back, all of my game-making skills have come a long way since I started. This was my first attempt at making tilesets, and replaying the game, the growing-pains show. I didn't really understand how to draw with pixels, how to color, how to pick colors that look pleasing to the eye, etc. But as I went forward, I learned so much.

I also had so much help from the community on this. Seriously, there's going to be a mega-huge post when this launches to thank everyone. This game would be a lot poorer without everyone's advice, help, and general kindness!

After this is complete, I plan to take a short break to help get a friend's game out there (*cough Grappi cough *) and then it'll be back to game-making for me for a modern-setting game that I really hope you all will also enjoy.

Thanks everyone! We're so close! If all goes to plan, this will be the final blog before the game is released! :DDDDDDDD

As we close in on the home stretch here, it's crunch time for me. For my stated goal of having the game out before the end of the year, I have less than four months of time to complete everything.

While I am still pretty optimistic about reaching that deadline, I have to be honest that several factors are out of my hand, mostly the amount of time I'll have allotted to work from day to day. Therefore, I have to admit that the possibility of me being unable to release the game by the deadline does exist. Should things go poorly, I may have to push the release back to January of next year, but I think that will probably be the latest it gets pushed back.

I want to thank everyone who's been following the game, and an extra-special thanks to those who have been helping me out. Sooz is doing some really amazing sprite-work for me, and has done super-amazing work to help bring the dialog to life. Red_Nova has supported me since just about the very beginning, and his advice, helpfulness, and general enthusiasm about the project have been amazing. M-3-1 has done such an amazing job with the art, and I can't thank her enough for her time and attention to detail, despite all of the many, many facesets and drawings I've asked of her. And last but not least, I'd like to give another shout-out to Never Silent, who is doing some really, really incredible puzzle-work for me.

Thank you all so much! There are more thank-yous I'd like to give out, but I think I'll save those for the final release! Truly, I have been so fortunate to have the help of the RMN community. You all are so amazing!

Rather than specific updates, I just went on a bit of a rant for a blog today. If you're just interested in progress, then the tl:dr of it all is "work is going smoothly but the developer has some stuff on her mind that is slowing her down a little. Still, things are progressing."

I've been getting LA work done at a good pace, however, the unfortunate part of being at the end-game stage of things means that I can't really release screenshots or even much in the way of details without massive spoilers. It creates something of a dilemma: I want to keep people hyped about the upcoming release, but I can't really show off anything ^^;;

Being this close to the end of something I've put this much work into has put me in an interesting mindset: I'm constantly wanting to move forward, to inch closer and closer to finishing the project, and on one hand that gives me plenty of motivation to work hard. On the other hand, it has the downside that when interruptions, problems, or troubles arise, they kinda feel like slamming into a wall.

While I'm not able to go into any details right now, issues have arisen both in real life and with the game that have me quite a bit worried. Neither of these is going to stop the game from being released this year and at worst will just slow me down a bit, but each has caused me quite a bit of stress and frustration.

Ultimately, I know that I shouldn't let myself get too stressed out, especially with getting a game released, so I'm doing my best to remain clam, mindful, and trying not to take anything too seriously, but being so close to the finish line makes me feel a little more vulnerable to these sorts of things somehow. I handle it well from day to day, I think, but I also find myself slipping into a bit of a funk now and then and having to recover and re-motivate myself.

The lesson I've taken from all this is to remember the same state of mind that has gotten me this far: take things one day at a time, one step at a time. Those steps, however small, will one day become a completed game.

Thanks for letting me get that out there. ^_^

Hello everyone! I've been making a lot of progress, but I wanted a chance to ask for some feedback.

Before releasing the final portion of Luxaren Allure, I'm going to also be going back and adjusting the difficulty of the game overall. With that in mind, I wanted to ask everyone two simple questions:

1)What difficulty did you play on (If you never changed it from the original setting from before I implemented difficulties, then you played on Normal XD)

2)Did you find the game too easy, too hard, or just right?

Thanks a lot!