I've deactivated the auto-update... During the alpha this was handy, but now that the game is officially in the beta (and thus semi-stable, or at least, that's what it should be), that crapload of updates is no longer needed.

The reason I didn't want to do this in the previous run is simply because I didn't want my levels and powerups to influence the walkthrough levels and difficulty.... All that stuff was optional after all, and as a goldren rule (which also applies here) characters always get overpowered when you do all the optional stuff.... When you need to check a full balance, that's not the best way to go

Today I will be playing the New Game+, and cover the sidequests and New Game+ Only missions that I come across.... In this run I will also cover the Game Jolt Exclusive dungeons

Once the walkthrough is complete the checker flag will be waved.... We're really close now ;)

The Grand Finale

Lord Dzgjymza's keep

The City of Umerington

Forest

Wastelands

Mermaid Harbor & Dyrt Beach

Zondra's Grave

Black Prison

Frendor Bushes

Dark Storage - Main section

Dark Storage - Rondomo section

Dark Storage - Kirana section

A doorway back in the (halfway) boss room in Kirana's section didn't work at all

Dark Storage - Jeracko section

Dark Storage - Aldarus section

Dark Storage - General Overview

Jennifer's story

And a bit of "link-up" talk... I guess that was pretty vague, but I think you got... or at least, I hope so!

Frundarmon's mansion

Purple Forest

The Phelynx city of Felixium

That covers it all for Team Eric, so over to team Rebecca

Malabia's Temple

Malabia's Caves

The Lost City of Fruskbrando

Scharum

Rayal Palace

Meeting Aziëlla, daugther of the house of Gandron

The Marshes

The City of Independence (first visit)

Independence Bushes

Forgot to make some aliases that could crash the game if you played the True Abyss in the Italian language... This has been fixed (and it won't matter that the Italian dialogue will be corrected later, the builder will all pick that up).

Italan translation complete... at least the automated version that is... and I should have done it this way from the start, actually.... Would have saved me tons of (needless) work

Gagolton empty

The mines of Airom

Gagolton

I found a better way to do the Italian translation.... It will soon be "back" and some things even better worked out.... YAY, I'm awesome (well, kind of).

Yasathar's Temple

This looks hopeful.... I will get to this later.....

I've temporarily disabled the Italian language in the start settings, and I've copied the English language files as if they were Italian... This will at least prevent some issues for the short term

And as my backup program has failed me many times (out of memory for some odd unexplainable reason), I cannot recover the translation I already had, but maybe it's better this way, the new way I got in mind will (I hope) handle accent marks a lot better (I hope)

I will think of a quicker way to get the Italian translation done, however, I need a bit of time to properly prepare for that as I do need a bit of coding work

BIG DISASTER.... And the Italian translation went lost in the process

Azquakunda Prison

Grass Plains

Naked Rocks - jennifer's house

Naked Rocks - Caves

Naked Rocks - Outside

The Rondomo Encounter

Black Dragon's Lair

The Sheck-Lock encounter

Green Dragon's Cave

White Dragon's Lair

Imperial Castle

Iskarderiu Forest

And that took some effort due to some balancing issues

Red Dragon's Lair

The Red Dragon REALLY made me have it.... So a little nerf was in order

Dragon Crack Forest

Part of the scenario was missing in Dutch

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Zoraman Prison

Weniaria's Temple

Mysterious Crypt

Queen Shanda's dungeon

Doubline

Xenor Bushes - North

Ah yeah, that was a global config thing... That should be taken care of now

Syslog was still created

That was only saving as PNG but still

Another picture of Dernor not in order

Exams Ruins

But I'm running my build script to make sure

I think I fixed the 'Alias' issue

I hope this didn't cause any damage to the game, but we'll have to see, I'm afraid

SWAPKILL data was gone

Alias issue Dernor

My building scripts will now also update on itch.io

Xenor Bushes - West

Accent grave on the o for basic BoxText Font

On Itch.io the first public alphas will be released... Also note, that on Game Jolt this will only follow once the alphas are stable.... Butler has always been far superior over gjpush, and as such updates can happen faster anyway. Since Butler also supports binary diffing, it's only the first that'll take time here

As this was a very extremely critical issue, I'll also update the GJ Alpha

And onto the next round

Well, it goes without saying I fixed that now

I forgot the MOST IMPORTANT INSTRUCTION IN THIS FIX! Yes, I know I'm a moron!

And let's resume the action, shall we?

Old syslog - I also need to check if this is no longer automatically being done, however that can also be a project or config setting so,that comes later

And that makes it a good thing I didn't yet release the beta

In the meantime I will also make updates to the Italian "translation" but I will not keep on making notes about that!

Covered: Xenor Bushes

Introduction

THAT should do it....

One more uploade

Debug console was still accessible... shouldn't be!

I will now start a new game in the casual mode, however I will turn off the development mode... I will also start the game in the Italian mode... Not that I understand Italtian, but I know teh story through and through by now, so this allows me to test things out in this version... I will also write the walkthrough during this process

All done

Syntax error

The AI of the dark servant boss in the keep would crash the game if a cancel was performed before the first study

it seems things got a bit on the rampage here.... A total system restart is required

let's try it again then shall we?

Oh wait, I see it now.... .NET was in need of a fuckup

But I saved again, just to be sure

AND THE FILE WAS SAVED! THE INDICATOR OF MY EDITOR MADE THAT ONE CLEAR!

I even copied the line into pure Lua (as this is part of the few lines that was in pure lua so no translation issues are possible), and Lua accepted the line in question

Fix ignored

Another bug that produced in the process

Scyndi could not learn "Smite" in the hard mode

More done

Something really went wrong on the fonts.. or so it seems

é and è added to the font, as I see the Italian language needs those A LOT!

Large part done... I'm NOT gonna complete this before I resume my tests, however I will do a bit more before I resume my tests later

I am doing now a translation in Italian by request, however this is an automated translation (I don't speak Italian, at all, you know).

Brendor's ultimate weapon did not have its special effect

Well, the Squid had to be charmable by Dernor, doncha agree?

And I linked this to his character

Tsunami for Dernor

I think I fixed an issue with the Cleave spellani

Merya should get AP (and more than normally) for attacking enemies when the violator was equipped. This will happen now.

This means all pre-beta issues have now been closed... It *is* however too early to release the beta now. After the hard mode has been confirmed to work from start to finish, there will be one final test, but then when the development console disabled This would of course also force me to play the game competely fairly and that way some final balancing things can be taken in order. During this test I will likely also write the walkthrough, however the walkthrough will not be released right away but come later.

and a bit of project scripting

before I can get this to work I first need to generate a few things out, as I am not fully ready yet, but the artwork itself is done

And lastly the only missing art when it came to heroes in combat, Dernor's attacking pose

A little fix was in order as the check to disable bars was based on EXP and not on LVL... That has been fixed now!

Fear and Silence are considered implemented, however for the time being I cannot tell if all possible bugs in ir are really fixed or not

System will no longer show actual bars filling up when maximum skill level has been reached.

Take II

Bad property

One way to find out!

No telling (of course) if this will actually work or not!

Silence and Fear should now actively block moves and spells

See ya later!

Running

Audio loaded in the wrong function!

For the time being the alpha and the release will remain here, but the future is far from certain at THIS point!

Errorfix

So far.... so good!

Take III

Crash upon reaching max skill level

Good thing I tested this, as it WAS bugged.....

Take II

Syntax error

Since the first fight in the next dungeon is a boss fight, I'll first mess around in older dungeons to make sure Rebecca's advancement to the max fighter level does award the achievement accordingly

Well, I put those in.... Fwew!

WTF? More than half the skill cap achievements are on Game Jolt, but NOT in game?

An issue that would pop up if Eric would reach the max skills during the final chapter

The test is up to the point that I completed the Dark Storage in Hard Mode.... I will have to make sure if the achievements tied to meeting the skill level cap are properly rewarded... This will be the next step in testing

Another impossibility voided

IV

...

Bad for line

Take III

Scope error

Take II

Declariation and usage issue

Let's get ready to rumble

Next stop Kirana section

In my dungeon test I complete the Dark Storage, Aldarus and Jeracko sections

And I'll move on with testing and hopefully this works....

linking it all together

Put that into the cleave ability

Cleave

Jeracko Spin sound loads, but doesn't play

Sound effect for Jeracko Spin

Icicle set to the correct battle pose when using

Of course, once this is done, I will first finish this test as a whole, after that I'll lock the development console screen, and that should also keep the game from writing system log files...

That sets me up for the last issue on my issue tracker which is #250 - Now that is for most part done, only Dernor does not yet have an attack pose.... That should be easy to deal with

Sound effect didn't play... It does now.... No more testing required though....

Take XII

Code typo

Take XI

Audio crash

Take X

Enemy killed me

Take IX

Should be fixed now

And somehow the "bang" doesn't appear, and the game keeps "frozen" in this stage.... However "frozen" is a big word, as the event handler and flower still work, allowing me to call the debug console to force quit the game

For starters Rebecca is standing in the casting stand in stead of the attacking stand

Multiple things are wrong

Take VIII

I think all NIL parse errors must now be accounted for

Take VII

"self"

Take VI

WTF?

Take V

GRRR!

Take IV

FUCK YOU!

Take III

MOAR of that

Take II

NIL issue

These are the last lines of code you'll write in NIL, Jeroen... Hang on!