The Isle of Elanor
The Pre-Potion Crafting Demo Update
(1) Added three harvestable flowers to the map. This in preparation for the next build this week where you will be able to craft potions using a variety of harvestable ingredients from the map.
(2) You can now chop down bushes. Most bushes on all procedurally generated maps with be destroyable by the player. Some bushes in towns will be off limits. You will also be able to plant bushes.
(3) Added a new tree type: Birch.
(4) Redrew the bushes using a uniform art style across all large vegetation (trees, bushes, etc).
(5) Fixed a crash issue with PCs that used German as the System Language.
The Isle of Elanor Stream
I will be streaming The Isle of Elanor.
Demo Update
(1) Single click now moves items to and from a chest.
(2) Added a small pond near the player's house.
(3) Selecting your equipped weapon now deselects a selected stack of items.
(4) Improved slime path finding.
The Isle of Elanor NextFest Stream
I'm hoping to have the demo available in early May for the NextFest.
Cheers!
Demo Update 0.0.1.11
A few updates:
(1) Fire slimes added to the demo dungeon.
Fire slimes have 120% fire resistance. If you hit them with fire attacks, you will actually heal the slimes.
(2) Slimes now leave a surface (poison, fire, etc) behind when they die.
(3) Collision improved with the player's one handed sword attack. Some sword swings were not being recorded as hits when they should have.
(4) Some key bindings are now visible under the game's setting menu. Soon they will be configurable.
Demo Update
A few items have been updated in the demo:
(1) Slimes now randomly spawn Minor Healing Potions.
(2) You can press the character G to say "Good Day" to an NPC. If you are in range of the NPC, the NPC will respond to you.
In future game updates, (2) will be critical for briefly stopping an NPC when they are going about their daily business. You can then engage in a detailed conversation. And naturally NPCs will like it when you talk with them.
:)
Steam NextFest Live-Stream
I will be streaming game play in The Isle of Elanor.
Excerpt from the Novella Published
I have published an excerpt from the novella that will accompany the The Isle of Elanor game.
https://www.commonwombat.com/TheIsleOfElanorPrologue.pdf
Click the link above to read the excerpt.
Kickstarter Preview
Click the link here to visit the Kickstarter Preview:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/685752533/the-isle-of-elanor-an-open-ended-role-playing-game
The Kickstarter pre-launch page is also live. Click the "Notify Me On Launch" and you'll be the first to know when the campaign officially launches.
Thanks!
Too Many Trees
It has been a busy summer. The Steam Next Fest came and went and unfortunately I was much too busy to properly prepare the The Isle of Elanor Demo for the event.
I thought I would have more free time for the game, but there really was a tsunami of events from August to October that stole all of my free time away. Getting my kids back in school, getting my son into college a few states away, my full time job, and a few awesome camping trips all consumed the time that I had hoped to devote to The Isle of Elanor.
I've also been landscaping my back yard and planting quite a few trees. I've attached an image of a beautiful Oregon Green Austrian Pine that I just planted.
The good news is: Winter is Coming. :) I'm going to be trapped inside. I'm not going to be able to camp and plant trees. I started working on The Isle of Elanor during the winter of 2020, really as a way to relieve the boredom of being confined by Covid and the cold weather.
There will many snowy days and nights this winter that I can now devote to the game again.