First off a little clip of some of the cutaway work we are doing. This is a WIP of the effect from the other day, re-implemented in to Unity. As you can see we haven't made this play nicely with shadows yet but it's fun to see that we will have the level of control we need for the effect. Next Jason...

Update time! This week Ree did more coding on the  atmosphere system and then turned his hand to the GM Layer. The GM Layer  is a view a GM can switch to see notes, hidden assets and other goodies  that make running a campaign easier whilst also making sure it doesn't  get in the way of gameplay. Whilst there i...

This weekend Ree and I also took another look at the tile cutaway effect. This one is super important not just to reveal the part of the building you are looking into, but also to cut down walls that would get in the way of controlling your creatures. Please note: All the following screenshots are not from...

Heya folks,  It feels like a good time for a little update so let's get cracking! First off Ree has been making great progress on a bunch of systems but especially those around lighting. Here is a little gif where you can see some experiments in controlling the new day/night cycle. Those in the alpha...

Recently I’ve been spending most of my time working on undo/redo support and general data model work inside TaleSpire. Because of that, I thought I’d take a post to ramble a little about undo/redo and how a ‘simple’ feature can grow when you have a few constraints. This is not the exact way we are doing things i...

Current dev work is focused on the new building systems.My goal is to have the basics of the data model worked out locally by the end of the week. Most of this right now is focused on how best to handle undo/redo so that it's fast but also simple to synchronize. I had previously designed had some schemes for this but som...

Heya folks, it's time to talk about the roadmap for the alpha.One interesting part of shipping anything, even at the alpha or beta stages, is how long it takes relative to 'normal' work. All the various threads of the solution need to come to rest, be tested, fixed, changelogs & posts written and then finally shipped...

Whyyyyy, WHY did I say on discord that the next alpha update would be 'soon'? It angered the demo-gods and we've been dealing with an asset-loading problem ever since. That issue has now been fixed and I feel like we know when that update will be landing. However I am not evening hinting at when that could be given what ...

Update time! On the business side, things are looking good. @Ree has been off talking to accountants and such, working out details and so that has been exciting for us. Even though I've probably said this a dozen times already, getting a shot to be independent from the start is still mind-blowing. I thought you...

It's been a nice day today, both @Ree and I got some coding done. Here are a few highlights:- Dice feel regressed a while back and Ree got that fixed back up again.- He also updated the implementation of the radial menus which we hope has fixed the issues with some stats not showing. I tested this but we had never been a...

Day two of the dev planning and again things went well. The main job today was going back through the task lists and working out which ones would be dependent on which. This is important so we don't get blocked by each other and that, for the cases where the is a dependency, there will be work the blocked person can be d...

The end of last week saw me playing with a cool toy so I thought I'd write about it.First though, I've carried on with my digging into various erlang bits and bobs.With a bit of prodding I was able to get epmdless working with my erlang/docker setup. This is great as distributed erlang is one of the powerful features tha...

Ree and I have been having the first dev planning session today for the road from here to Beta. We've been going through the roadmap and making sure we know that, between us, we had an understanding of the next steps for every feature. This doesn't mean that each is fully designed, in many cases features need prot...

Heya everyone, Dev logs will return late next week. From the comments in the last update, it sounds like the best approach is to link those dev logs here once a week. We can start that and see how it feels over time. For now, we are doing post-Kickstarter stuff :) First off @Ree has been off down to see an account...

The Kickstarter campaign is complete and to say that we are surprised with the result would be an exercise of understatement at near Olympic levels. You've already had a month of us talking at you so I'll keep it brief. This is amazing :D We are just so happy that the game resonates with so many people, and tha...

The Kickstarter exclusive dice are making their debut!To those who backed at these levels, we hope that in the years ahead you'll enjoy flashing this little sign that you helped make this project happen. And to all the backers and supporters, thank you once again!

"In the final hours of the world, a group of adventurers stands ready to... get their butts kicked by chat!" Hello! As the final hours of the Kickstarter campaign draws near, we invite you to partake in an interactive live event on Twitch, where YOU will summon the vile creatures who will do battle against members ...

Our lead artist has just returned after recovering from a cruelly timed malady and immediately began the task of finding the identities of the Kickstarter exclusive minis. In short, order that was achieved so here they are!This is the first step in the life of a character. Next, with concepts in hand, please join us as...

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Wow! Before this campaign started there was no doubt in my mind that we would not reach the last stretch goal, it just seemed to outlandish. But here we are, a week to go and the cyberpunk target seems all but inevitable at this point.Thank you so much for taking us here. We can't wait to get started on this for real.Tod...