Hey. Been awhile since the last progress report. While I have been working on this project in which I took a lot of time fleshing out some of the core elements, its time for me to actually release a base beta demo for the game once I actually got a final test pass from critique and feedback.

I've showed some of the base beta demo to my friends for them to give me responses, but my feedback's really scarce. Which is why I would like to extend to you guys here, if you want to, to test the beta product before I release it here as a download. If you want to, I will give you a discord channel exclusively for feedback on Concordant and you can give me your opinions, your critiques on directing the game to be even just a little bit better, which is why I'm asking here.

But enough of requests for now. Time to show you how much changes I've made in the game right now.

While the "I don't know where we are" setting is still in place, the game will pretty much follow the same main and supporting cast, with additional supporting cast. Meaning, I have to do all the sprites for them to fit the game. It is a time consuming effort, not only to make sure it looks right movement wise but to make sure that it looks similar to the concept. There are also some move route issues with some events, but I'll eventually fix that. So if there's something that seems off on that front, you can tell me, but I'll be aware that I will eventually fix them on the main demo release.



In addition to some of the new features added such as Argument Break, which is simply choosing the correct response to the one giving the argument, I also made sure the game is balanced so that grinding is as minimal as possible but also made it difficult enough to ensure that the game isn't too broken or too easy. This may not be the same for all of you nor will it be balanced enough for your tastes. The only way to know is to actually play the beta and let me know so I can make some changes.



I kind of also forgot to mention this on the main page, but if you complete encounters on a set area, you will be rewarded with items which may help ease the game slightly. So something to keep in mind.

If there's nothing else, then I'll open up closed beta test if you wish to. That's all for this progress report. I won't promise you on a release date for the demo version. But I would estimate maybe by February or March you will have the demo put up here.