Sorry we've been gone for a year but we have been actively working. We have just released a public test build of 3.1.0 that adds a ton of fixes and updates including:
UPDATES
Armors are now color coded:
Magic Armor: Blue
Heavy Armor: Red
Common Armor: Green
The Accessory/Charm mechanic has been revamped:
The Accessory system has been removed
There are now 3 charm slots
Charms are now split into 3 categories:
Magic Charms: Blue
Heavy Charms: Red
Common Charms: Green
Rebalanced some Charm effects:
Made the Frost, Flame, and Electronic bands resist their respective elements by +25% instead of making the user immune
Made the Frost, Flame, and Electric rings resist their respective elements by +60% instead of making the user absorb
Battle Items are now color coded:
Healing: Pink
Magic Restore: Blue
Food: Green
Status Healing: Yellow
Corrected skill terminology for consistency:
Miniscule/Minor
Moderate
Heavy
Severe
Added a Credits and Changelog Window InGame
Made new Icons for Sync Spells and Pierce Attacks, and corrected a few Icons as well
Updated the Battle Results Screen
Changed the color of HP from orange to pink for consistency
Made a custom font (other fonts can be used in the menu)
Tweaked the Battle Quicktime Event to be more responsive
Tweaked a lot enemy stats for balancing
Tuned some maps to work better for optimization and gameplay
Elemental and Physical spell costs has been increased
Quill, Antonio, & Chollie have been buffed
Rebalance Physical and Magical skills for consistency
Updated the Tutorials to be quicker and more accurate
Updated the Demon Invasion Guidebook with completed tutorials
Added working monster book to view enemy stats and drop rates
LevelUp bars now only level up one party member per bar.
Updated the items in Item Bundles for balancing
Items have different inventory limits
Updated the Neon Station Dungeon for visuals and optimization
Updated the Stone Creek Caves Dungeon for visuals and optimization
Updated the Pinechester Mansion Dungeon for visuals and optimization
Updated the button graphics for the title screen
Updated the logo for the title screen
Updated graphics for intro cutscene
Updated some models and textures
Updated some of the cutscenes
Updated some of the Poltergeist sprites
Updated the Warden sprite
Updated weapon, charms, and item name descriptions
Updated and added new icons
Updated the "Status" menu with the "Stats" menu since its original purpose was redundant
Updated Soul Carve, now drains MP
All Sync Spells cost Max Stamina and now do Aether Damage
Added the toggle option to hide following party members
BUG FIXES
Temporarily removed the skill Frenzy due to it crashing the game
Removed walls that block the player's vision on certain maps
Fixed a fatal error with the Mirror boss "TypeError: BattleManager[_0x1f71f5(...)] is not a function"
Fixed a problem where most models turn towards the player when engaged
Fixed a few early enemies giving out too much EXP
Fixed a bug where some attack animations were not showing up
Fixed a few event functions
Fixed a problem where the timer event does not work in the Quillogeist battle.
Fixed a problem where some group status effects only targeted one person
Fixed a problem where Cholligeist was WAY too aggressive
Fixed a problem where the Warden and Mirror bosses has graphical glitches
Fixed a bug where using the sync spell Hailstorm did fire damage
Fixed a bug where some physical attacks didn't have their animations
Fixed an error where the LevelUp Bar leveled everyone instead of the selected character
Fixed an error where Otus would not buy back sold items
Music Related Updates
Updated the Track "Epic Proportions"
Updated the Track "Neon Dungeon"
Updated the Track "Pinchester Mansion Boss Battle"
3.0.6 A Little More Polish
MAIN FIXES
Updated tiles to help performance
Updated A LOT of maps for better performance
Fixed a problem where pictures heavily lagged the game
ADDED THINGIES
The save files now tell you your current objective!
Added an unlockable merchant in Pinechester Mansion
Aura can learn Toxic Fire
Updated lighting on numerous maps
Added the Battle Scar card, makes certain bosses harder
BUG FIXES
Fixed a lot of skills using the wrong animations
Fixed an error that allowed a few statuses to carry outside of battle
Fixed an error that made it impossible for dual element spells to do proper damage
Fixed a bug that caused the battle music not to change when promoted
Fixed a bug where the Loggia innkeeper disappeared mid cutscene
UPDATES
Redid Antonio's Apartment
Bows do Pierce damage instead of Physical
Updated the Deadblin's moveset
Made the Quillogeist more balanced, the timer starts at second phase instead
Made the enemy Slimeus not as OP
Agility buffs and debuffs have been rebalanced
Music Related Updates
Spirit Tile Jingle
Victory!
Slight Fix
Fixed a problem with the game not launching through steam library.
Quality of Life Changes Update (3.0.5)
Experimental Mac Version Now Available
ADDED THINGIES
Added some worldbuilding to Neon Station
Gave Chollie the skill "Bowtie"
Gave Antonio the skill "Juggernaut Clover"
Added the skill "Sunshine" to the Rosary item
Added the "Freeze Spray" does Ice damage and has a high chance to freeze
Added a new item "Spirit Key" (Lets you teleport between spirit tiles)
BUG FIXES
Fixed a fatal error that would make it impossible to finish Stone Creek and the Mansion
Added "Pierce" weakness to missing enemies
Fixed typo for element "Pierce"
Fixed icon for element "Pierce"
Tweaked numerous damage outputs for some physical attacks
Navarro's mansion dialouge has been fixed
All of the mansion puzzles have been patched
Fixed the Warden mechanic and its explanation
Fixed the Ball Puzzle in the Mansion
Fixed alot of the battle items animations in battle
Fixed the "Dispel Herb" not curing both Blindness and Frozen statuses
The "Inertos" spell animation is fixed
Fixed more spelling and grammar issues
UPDATES
Optimized more maps
Updated some dialogue in Neon Station and The Plaza
Revamped the item menu
Removed "(potion)" from the name Shady Concotion
Slightly buffed the healing of the Shady Concotion
Buffed "Pierce" attacks
Buffed "Gravity/Force" attacks
More enemies are weak to Pierce damage
All Mimic enemy types' speed has be drastically increased
Autosave now also activates after visiting a shop
Greatly decreased the amount of healing items enemies drop
Updated the descriptions of some of the clues in the Mansion
Updated the boss "The Mirror" to be more agressive
Updated alot of tilesets for the mansion
Instakill has been fully implemented
Added and removed some Spirit Tiles
Updated the sprites of the Poltergiest bosses
Updated the movesets of the Poltergiest bosses
Enemies won't spam status effect skills if the target already has the status
Tweaked enemy Ai
Windy Burritos heals more STA
Changed some enemy weakness for balancing
Updated ALOT of songs:
A Call From the Mystic(Title Theme)
NE in Ruins
The City in Ruins
Fight or Flight
Otus' Shop
Poetic Echoes
Rock'n It
Drifting Thru Life
The Intensity of it All
Alone
Remains of the Battleground
First Generals
First Generals (Osito's Fury)
3.0.4 Optimization Update Patch Notes
Updated the entire Stone Creek area for better optimization
Updated trees for the sake of optimization
Updated graphics for Stone Creek & Caves
Water is animated and looks better
Tweaked some enemy AI
Fixed some camera issues
3.0.3 Patch Notes
Updated all the cave and tree sprites
Fixed a bug where going into Neon Dungeon crashes the game
Fixed a bug where the healing move Hylia did way less healing than it was supposed too
Fixed the physical attack Wring, it was doing 20 hits instead of 3 hits per enemy
Fixed a glitch where the Otus cutscene played twice
Made it so the camera can see thru certain walls on some of the maps for better viewing
Tweaked numerous damage outputs for some attacks
3.0.2 Patch
Fixed some graphical errors and restored missing audio files that cause the game to crash.
✨✨ 3.0 UPDATE FOR PARADIGM SHIFT DEMO IS OUT NOW ON STEAM ✨✨
After several, several, several and several months, the early access 3.0 update has finally come out on itch.io (and soonSteam)! There have been several hurdles, including the entire team getting sick in the middle of development, but we managed to pull through to deliver what we can to update our demo.
The mac version is still being tested, we will make a post when its out. Sorry for the inconvenience! Additions Include: - Making the entire game 3D (seriously)
-A completely new battle system!
- Buffed the whole cast
- New ambush/surprise combat system
- Recreated dungeons and puzzles
- Updated UI
- Updated Options menu to adjust difficulty and 3D settings for optimization and FPS issues
- Antonio and Aura finally doesn't look like a goblin
- Updated balancing between each of the elements in battle
- The mansion and neon station have been completely redone
- Updated some attack animations (Still a big WIP)
-Revamped Sync Spells
Remember if you have any issues and bugs while playing don't hesitate to report them in the dissuasions tab.
We will also be doing bug fixes throughout the month as well so constructive comments are seriously appreciated!
See ya next update!
-Lunar Boon
Moving to MZ
Updates have been getting slower as of now, due to burnout of our main programmer. After all, this is our first real game we've ever created so far back in 2018, so there needed to have overhauls for concepts and how the game would look and play. Seriously, we greatly apologize for the slow progress. We didn't expect to find THIS many bugs in our demo, we're working with the best that we can get with our limited schedule. The game is being developed on our free time, between work and school.
This doesn't mean that we're abandoning the project no no not at all!
Right now, we're going to be moving the game from RPG Maker MV to MZ, to better optimize the 3D of the game, since there were a lot of issues with lag and softlocks in open areas (especially the NE map). Texts and dialogue will be updated, along with UI and battle animations. There are added options for adjusting the 3D: Field of View (FOV), Render Distance and the option to add or remove shadows.
With all of this in mind, bits of the game will be removed so that the demo wouldn't be bloated and/or it because it doesn't work on MZ (for now). This includes the bestiary and tutorial book.
We can't promise on the 3.0 update coming out very soon, but still do expect it eventually. Thank y'all for being very patient, and see you soon!
- The LunarBoon Team
Paradigm Shift Updates and News
Where the heck have ya'll been?
So It's been a hot minute since the last update and it's because we've been working really hard for this update. The game currently struggles to shift from 2d to 3d so we decided to completely convert the game areas to 3d. One of the big reasons this has been a while is also the implementation of 3d models, we didn't expect to need a lot but we're getting through.
We've taken this opportunity to also revamped and tweak a lot of the maps, in general, to make the game look better as well. So please keep and eye out near December, we hope to be very close to finalizing Chapter 1.
