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.

#250

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!

And now to put things to the test

And linked all that

Set audio effects

a few more things to do, though

Linked Multi-PowerStrike spellani to the actual abilities

Shuriken Sound effect

Now I must look one thing up, as I believe Widzy made me a sound effect for this

I've set it that way that it'll work for ALL variants of the move in once

Multi Power Strike

Hmmm?

Let's see how this is handled (GRRR!)

Well?

Why is the hotspot being ignored?

And let's continue testing

Proper hotspot for the Blast item

Just a few more touches

Before I close #144, let's first test this

That should linke it all

Blast in IAA database

Unfortunately no good audio effect was possible on me... But hey,if you have something cool here, lemme know

Blast effect

Up to completing the split part everything appears to look alright now!

Take IV

GRRR!

Take III (over something as trivial as this solely due to case sensitivity... Long live Neil for ignoring cases).

I hope!

I HATE CASE SENSITIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES!

Take II

Case error

Let's see and resume the testing at Frunadarmon's mansion

As an experiment I did bring back the original background of the main menu... It looks better anyway, and perhaps the stretcher doesn't make it so ugly as I fear....

resuming

rebuild

Still an issue I had to fix here... Oh well

Resuming

Yeah, even a debugger can get bugged.... It's terrible, yet the truth

Debug issue fixed

Resuming

Enemy tag error

Next stop Malabia's caves

I've put in the Hermione Granger cheat which will help me on debugging the hard mode... I've seen enough for how hard it is to get everything, and I am satisfied about that, however for debugging it's a straight disaster and since a Hard Mode specific crash was found already I am condemned to sit it all out!

This should be fixed now

Good that I do these tests..... The random treasure routine crashes as soon as you enter Malabia's caves in the hard mode.... That's good to know

Running my build scripts again is in order, I think

Dernor couldn't charm Salamanders

Typo in ability "Sick Bite"

Blue Screen Of Death!

That only leaves 2 issues to fix before the beta can open up.... Not bad

#261

Gotcha.... An entry was missing in the Dutch translation of the love scene

I must remember NOT to enter Independence right away so I can investigate #261 in the process

Now on to the independent forest

I did do a test for Sugarland.... Got myself killed there, but it works in the hard mode, and that's what matters

Game tested up to the point that Gagolton is deserted

If this were possible the game could NEVER have worked in any single way, period!

So whatever magic caused this to happen I don't know, but at least I voided it now!

Char = nil?

Anyway I'll resume with Dyrt, so I am in the correct DevLog now

Right... Wrong devlog... AGAIN!

#48

THAT should do it!

A few fine tunings though

Abilities were ignored

New Foe Files generated

Generator done

Next stop: Black Dragon

Both dungeons function well

I'll test at least one of them... If I test the other depends on the time I need

Next stop are the white and green dragon lairs....

Well Some work has been done here

#118

Good!

And now for real! ;)

If this works I can close #118, but let's first put all this to da test, eh?

Bad speed setting for that move also

Linked to the ability

Shuriken

Oh wait... Hold the show... I forgot something important!

So on to Iskarderiu forest

I just finished Dragon Crack and the Red Dragon cave in hard mode

But my work here has NOT yet ended, so let's get more stuff to move, eh?

Star Story is taking shape, good!

It REALLY appears that it may be more and more plausible the release is closing in.... I don't think I'll still be able to do it this year (bad joke), but things are DEFINITELY on the road! ;)

Cross roads to Xenor OK!

And in the Red Dragon's Cave

Well, stuff is alright in the Dragon Crack Forest

Let's continue

#204

So I'm now gonna test Dragon-Crack Forest and the Red Dragon's lair

As far as I can test everything up to the end of Chapter 1 is in order!

Scenario reference error

The tutorial will only pop up the first time you enter Botanica.... I won't put the same tutorial in the other GJ exclusive dungeons

That links it all together

Game Jolt Exclusive Tutorial

Game Jolt Exclusive dungeons

And it's possible the hirelings use it to "heal" themselves.... with a price, if they are unlucky :-P

Can now be in bags in Zoraman Prison

Bad potion

Respawn wouldn't reset on prison (this due to the fact you always get here during the prologue stories).... Now it WILL reset once you leave your cell, that is if you never left it before, as when you come back here this won't happen. Since you can only engage in combat once you leave your cell this should be perfectly safe

(I will stop nerfing as soon as chapter 2 begins, as from that moment you have all freedom, so mathematical impossibilities are then no longer an excuse).

Nerfing of the stuff you meet in Weniaria's temple as it's mathematically impossible for Scyndi and Dernor to stand up against THIS

Wrong devlog

Code Typo

I don't wanna talk about it!

One more debug attempt to see if stuff is running the way it should

And an AI altering

More nerf

another round

Hard and mathematically impossible are two different things....

I've lowered a few statistics of the scorpion foe...

I VOIDED that bug that was NOT of my MAKING! This was after all NOT an error on MY side!

Copy-and-paste is bugged.... No other explanation why outdated data can be pasted all the time

Orcs became a TINY bit weaker

wrong icon confusion

another crash in confusion fixed

And that's it for today!

A crash which could happen when confused

Am I right?

I think I got it.... The hard mode was not properly configured for the number of enemies when you have a party of three

Nope

I dunno how this could happen

Randomizer issue?

Syntax error