State of the Game Oct 2017

What’s up, everyone?

It’s been a while since I’ve posted an overview of where The Waking Cloak’s development is at, so let’s do that!

Currently I’m working on:

• Art, animation, and logo for title screen
• Mechanics and prototyping for a major game item–the swap staff
• NPC art
• Planning for story, draft two
• Roll attack for combat
• Dungeon design
• Tweaking the pit hazard
• Discord server setup
• Writing this post (hehe)

NaNoWriMo

November is NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month–if you write 50,000 words by the end of the month, you win (there are lots of winners)! This year I’ll be writing the second draft of The Waking Cloak’s story, and I’m very excited.

Back in 2015 I wrote the first draft, which sort of just ended up being a very extensive outline. This year’s version will be much more in-depth. I’ll be going into each of the character’s lives and hammering out a bunch of lore. It’s gonna be great.

I’ll be pausing other development in the game (NPC reveals included) until December, since NaNoWriMo will take up every second of my free time. Once it’s over, I’ll pick up development where I left off, with the addition of finishing up combat (roll attack and simple enemy AI, mainly).

Discord!!!

YEP you heard me right.

Look at this beauty:

For those who are unaware, Discord is a communication app, like Skype but not evil. It’ll be a place where we can hang out in real time, chat, discuss the game, whatever–an honest-to-goodness The Waking Cloak Community! There will be a channel for you guys to ask me questions, a channel to post fan art, and so on. I hope you’ll join me in getting hyped about this. :D

There are a few more things to do before it goes public. First, for my sanity during NaNoWriMo, I’ll be waiting until at least December of this year. January 2018 is probably a safer bet! Keep watching this space or my Twitter (@MrDaneeyul) for updates!

Patreon

Last but not least, I’ve got a Patreon set up in case you’d like to help support the game’s development! I try to be pretty open about development, but if you support the game, you’ll get to see most everything early. In addition there’ll be a Discord channel just for patrons, and you’ll get access to some cool secret stuff and discuss cool secret things. Even $1 helps!

If you can’t support me financially, but would still like to help with the game, please share and reblog as much of the game stuff as you can–your favorite NPC, art, anything! You seriously have no idea how much it helps to spread the word.

That’s all for this time! Hope you’re all doing well. I appreciate you a lot! I’m blown away by the support everyone has been giving to The Waking Cloak; I’ll do my best to make our dream game. :)