We’re about a month away from releasing Fictorum, with our plan to release on August 10th! We have added more events and polish to our game in version 0.9.6, which will be our last major beta release with v1.0 coming soon.
Beta Trailer #2
Greg whipped up a quick trailer showing off some destructive spells in Fictorum.
https://youtu.be/zymHeCLQy5A
Fictorum 0.9.6 Beta
Major Change: Event Improvements
The scroll holder isn’t final yet, but this gives a good idea of what our new event window will look like. We’re really happy with how it’s come out.
Also we’ve added a significant amount of new events to Fictorum. This should help give more variety as you play through Fictorum.
Major Change: Visual Effect Improvements
Chip has been hard at work making sure Fictorum looks as good as we can make it and has made some modifications to some of our visual effects.
https://gfycat.com/TallBouncyEquine
Bugs Fixes and Minor Enhancements
Coming Weeks
We’ll be hosting another developer twitch stream on 7/11 at 8pm PDT. We hope to see you then! In case you missed last week’s stream, you can catch it here:
https://youtu.be/HQ5BN9-FI7w
Talk to you next time! Feel free to leave a comment letting us know what you think—Updates can come straight to you by subscribing to our newsletter below:
About two months until Fictorum releases! We’ve had a fantastic couple of weeks of development and polishing our game, as well as a very successful day of marketing—We created our E3 digital booth and added new mail and leather armor sets.
E3 Digital Booth
Last year during E3, Greg put together digital booth to share our game during the convention, as there was no way that we could afford to go, regardless of acceptance. The post did very well on both Reddit and Imgur. This year, however, our shoestring budget is looking more and more frayed; we still wouldn't be able to go to E3, so we decided to do another digital booth during E3. We created a gallery in Imgur and submitted it to /r/gaming. To our extreme surprise, this year's digital booth was wildly successful, putting on the front page of reddit, up to #1 on /r/gaming, and #1 on Imgur!
http://imgur.com/gallery/Fjclh
As getting the word out is one of the hardest battles to fight as an indie game developer, this has been a huge victory for our team—We are so immensely grateful for the incredibly positive response that we've received from the gaming community!
Fictorum 0.9.5 Beta
Greg whipped together a new vlog—Check out the latest changes in action!
https://youtu.be/7SrYsYzB7ts
Major Change: Leather and Mail Armor
Leif has been hard at work crafting fresh sets of leather and chain armor for the Fictorum and enemies to wear.
https://gfycat.com/IllegalPeacefulIcelandichorse
We wanted to make armor matter a bit more and have made a significant change to itemization in this patch: The heavier the armor, the greater the hit to spell range and speed. We think this is a great choice, providing tougher armor for those preferring to crush their foes at close range.
Bugs Fixes and Minor Enhancements
Coming Weeks
We’ll be hosting another developer twitch stream on 6/27 at 8pm PT. We hope to see you then! In case you missed last week’s stream, you can catch it here:
Two more weeks down and our August release draws closer. We’re proud of the state of Fictorum, especially with the latest patch, which has a new Spellblade melee ability and destructible damage changes!
Greg is back at it with this patch’s vlog. Check out the latest changes in action!
https://youtu.be/xXgzKLNBEMU
Major Change: New Spellblade Ability
An intrepid Fictorum can encounter the powerful Spellblade ability, enabling the wizard to overpower enemies at close range.
https://gfycat.com/FixedDismalClingfish
Major Change: Destructible Damage
Consider yourself warned: Falling rubble now deals damage to player in Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulties as well! The damage dealt is greatly scaled by difficulty.
https://gfycat.com/LinearClassicAndeancondor
Bugs Fixes and Minor Enhancements
Coming Weeks
We’ll be hosting another developer twitch stream on 5/30 at 8pm PT. We hope to see you then! In case you missed last week’s stream, you can catch it here: http://www.twitch.tv/ScrapingBottomGames
Howdy mages—One more beta patch down! We've replaced all of our old destructible castles and towers with brand new ones. Additionally, the amulet slot has been changed to a pauldron slot, allowing for more dynamic characters.
Gameplay Demo
We submitted for PAX West last week and needed a three minute video of unedited gameplay, so Chip put together this video introducing our game!
https://youtu.be/U60Pa6hN3-s
Fictorum 0.9.3 Beta
Major Change: New Destructible Castles and Towers
All of our levels have brand new castle assets, designed by our own Leif Drace. https://gfycat.com/OrangeUnlinedBasenji
Major Change: New Pauldrons Slot
We made the choice to replace all of our amulets with pauldrons. Seeing as how pauldrons actually appear on the character model, we thought this was a much more interesting way to do our itemization. If you have an existing character, your amulets will be changed to either a cloth or plate pauldron.
https://gfycat.com/JubilantMedicalHorse
Bugs Fixes and Minor Enhancements
Coming Weeks
Greg will be joining Chip in Seattle, therefore, we're going to shift our developer Twitch stream to be on Monday, 5/22 at 8pm PT while he's in town. We hope to see you then! Talk to you next time!
We also have more fun stuff posted on Twitter and Facebook, so follow and like us there.
Fictorum Beta Patch 0.9.2
Welcome back, wizards! It's been a busy few weeks over at Scraping Bottom Games as we crank out new enhancements and fixes to Fictorum. In our latest patch for Fictorum, we're featuring our new fire beam spell, improved spell decals, and upgraded fire manifestation.
Fictorum 0.9.2 Beta
Major Changes
Greg put together another vlog where you can see some of the features below in action.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNwcv6bmOS8&feature=youtu.be
Fire Beam
Here's our latest spell—Fire Beam spreads fire so easily that you can almost write your name with it! https://gfycat.com/SlimGraveGrayling
Improved Spell Decals and Effects
Chip wanted to have more visually tangible destruction left behind from spells. We think these new decals and effects absolutely fit the bill! https://gfycat.com/CompetentFrailAlleycat
Improved Fire Manifestation
You might have noticed above that Fire spells with a Manifest rune or a high Manifest multiplier will spread fire based on the radius of the spell—You'll see a big difference on larger spells like Flame Strike and Meteor.
Bugs Fixes and Minor Enhancements
Coming Weeks
We’ll be hosting another developer twitch stream on 5/2 at 8pm PT. We hope to see you then! In case you missed last week’s stream, you can catch it here: https://youtu.be/adAvYk_WTNo
We'll be updating our maps with the brand new castle set that Leif whipped up. Here's a preview!
https://gfycat.com/OrangeUnlinedBasenjiTalk to you next time!
Fictorum Patch 0.9.1
Known Bugs and Future Enhancements
For those interested, we’re making our development progress public. Feel free to check out the upcoming changes to Fictorum and vote on the changes that are most important to you!
Fictorum 0.9.1 Beta
As usual, Greg put together a vlog showing you some of the latest changes to Fictorum: https://youtu.be/B3foS6LLuWc
Trees
We’ve been distracted by the terrible look of our trees once destroyed and Chip decided to do something about it. Trees not only look better after being hit by a spell, but they can be used tactically to destroy buildings, enemies, and other trees!
https://gfycat.com/WellgroomedPepperyIncatern
Evil Quests
We’ve decided to start including evil quests into event rotation. Want to purge a town of citizens? Destroy key structures in a village? Have at it! We’ll be adding in more of these types of quests as time goes on.
Bugs Fixes and Minor Enhancements
Twitch Stream
We’ll be hosting another developer twitch stream on 4/18 at 8pm PT. We hope to see you then! In case you missed last week’s stream, you can catch it here: https://youtu.be/SEuiaTPi3IA
