Hello everyone! :D It's been around a month and a half since I've brought out the game progress meter, so let's look at it again!



I'm aiming to put out another playable demo around half-way through the game (or maybe a little less), so it'll probably be after I finish Parvian and the Parvian temple, or perhaps somewhere in the Swirling Sands. I'll keep everyone posted as we get closer!

^_^ Thanks so much for your support and patience!

It's been a few days since the new rewritten demo was released, so I thought I'd take a moment to talk about how I'm going to do blogs about the game's progress from this point forward.

I'm going to use a picture with a completion bar much like the one I did when the demo was in-progress, but I'll be using locations as the gauge for how far along in the game I've made, meaning if the bar is filled to a certain location that all work on that location is finished and playable. Here's how it looks right now:



The names of future locations are subject to change, of course, but here you can see the entire list of planned locations in the game. I'll be updating this as work on the game is completed.

Also, if anyone else has any feedback on the rewritten demo (or, heck, just the newly added prologue), I'd still love to hear your comments, so please let me know :D

Hello everyone! Work continues steadily on the rewritten demo. Most of the writing is actually already done (thanks to Red Nova again for all of the help! :D ) but new tilesets and graphics have to be drawn for the new scenes. Here's an example of one, the outside of Castle Darkloft, finally revealed!



I'm hoping the whole thing won't take me too much longer, but even after I've finished, I'm going to have the whole thing thoroughly tested to make sure everything runs smoothly.

I'm also trying to fix a few points with the battle system. I want, for example, character sprites to glow or otherwise be highlighted on their turn to make it clearer whose turn it is each action. I'm also looking for a way to make poison non-lethal, so that poisoned enemies and characters still have to be finished off by other methods. If you have any knowledge or ideas of how to do either of these things, please let me know. I'd be really grateful! ^_^

Thanks so much for everyone's continued patience, and I'm looking forward to putting out a demo that can be even more enjoyable!

First off, I want to give a big thanks to everyone who played the initial Luxaren Allure demo! In a very short time, I've gotten a ton of great feedback on the blog pages, the main gamepage, and through PMs.

There have been so many great suggestions about how to improve the game, my next step is going to be to do some heavy polishing and rewriting on the demo. While I'll be tweaking the graphics and gameplay, the part I got the most feedback about changing is the writing, so that will be the main focus of the reworked demo.

A huge shout out and thanks to Red Nova, who's offered to help me with the writing/plot. (Also check out his game, Soul Sunder, which is also at the demo stage and is shaping up into something really cool!)

I'll leave the current demo up for anyone who wants to play, just be aware that I'll be doing a major overhaul to it and will update the download as soon as I'm done! :D

The very first demo is live and ready for download! Here's some information on it:

The playtime is around an hour and a half to two hours long.

Known Bugs:

The sprites of enemies who die due to poison still stay on the battlefield.

Karuna only swings one time when using her "There Will Be Blood" skill.

Things I Want To Improve:

Dialog needs polishing.

Interiors need their mapping polished.

In battle, I'd like the player's character sprites to glow or something when it's their turn, to make things a bit clearer. (Not sure how to do this; I'll probably need to ask for help on the forums).

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This is the first time I've released an RPG (demo or otherwise) that I've made so I'm very curious to see what people think. Please feel free to send me any comments or suggestions about the game, and let me know how the difficulty feels.

Thanks very much every one! :D