Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 12 / 2025

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Worldmap shenanigans has continued throughout this past week as well.
Along with additional resources having been made to...hmm, reintroduce a certain "faction"?
I'm currently working on four different locations at the same time to bring them to completion,
those being the Pirate Cove and three areas from LoQOII with a visual/presentation overhaul.
Since not much else can be said, that'll have to be it for this short update!

As always, next Tuesday I'll be back with more news!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 11 / 2025

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Not too much to report on for this one, due to the nature of the work.
That is to say I've spent this week continuing tweaking away at the huge worldmap, which is about three times larger than seafaring was in LoQOII as it includes the three nations of the Beldorian Empire, Kingdom of Namaria and the Frozen Continent.
Although, where you can dock and which locations from the previous game will be available is of course limited, since adding the whole inland Namaria as an actual explorable area would just be insane and take up way too much time...but I can spoil you'll at the very least be able to visit Stonehedge and Tel Ravida again.

Back to work, I'll see you next Tuesday!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 10 / 2025

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Here we are for another Tuesday!

What can essentially be called an asset pack I've been working on lately is done and ready to be implemented once I get around to the finer details in a hopefully not too distant future.
But most of the time this past week has been spent on creating the next location you'll be visiting, which in turn will unlock sea traveling shortly after, much like how it worked in the previous game.
It's how you'll reach the final Iron Spire and gain access to a bunch of optional locations, both old and new, such as being able to revisit Tseneria Isle and even some familiar places from LoQOII!

And that about does it for this little tidbit update, see you during the next one!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 09 / 2025

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As always on the first update after a new beta release, today will be pretty flaccid too.

The beta was released like scheduled and most of the time leading up to that point was frantically putting the last puzzle pieces together and some last minute tweaking...thankfully with minimal errors, although one mistake I did make was locking out the latest addition to Castle Warrengard who joined you after the Duchess Mansion Arc.
She is in her room, waiting, having a conversation option, but not currently available through normal means in the release because I forgot to replace a trigger.

I've also been working on a bunch of sprite assets for an idea I have in mind.
And that's about it, really!

I'll see you next Tuesday as always!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 08 / 2025

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The next beta will be out on this Friday the 28th, curse ye' shorty February!

It'll be a close fit, but the only thing left except some loot placement is fixing NPC movements when getting back to Castle Warrengard after the arc is finished.
And due to all the work for this release being exclusively storymode related, don't expect a long list in the patch notes for other various additions as it'll be all about that Duchess Mansion arc!
But that alone will contain two new CG Scenes, one with and one without the protagonist involved.

So I hope you'll be enjoying this weekend and I'll see you next Tuesday!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 07 / 2025

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It is no exaggeration to say extensive playtesting has been going on!
Counting for the various parts, I've probably replayed the Duchess Mansion arc over 20 times.
All while tweaking and/or changing NPC movements and some dialogue, but I believe the only thing left to test is the wrap-up sequence back at Castle Warrengard and the initial ambush before going to the estate.

As I don't know how much or little trouble those two parts may cause, I feel it might currently be too risky announcing a precise release date at this time, although the beta is still scheduled for this month nevertheless!

I'll see you again next week with news regarding the beta launch day!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 06 / 2025

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While Duchess Mansion was finished last week...now I think it's done, even!

To elaborate since that sounded contradictive, what I mean is last week I finished stringing all the cutscenes together and now I've also completed adding all the NPC movements and emoticons.
Only thing left is to playtest the whole arc and correct whatever issues I find along the way.
The "optional" stuff I mentioned last Tuesday turned into manditory content and I ended up making one additional cutscene towards the end to really wrap things up.
So between today and when the beta is released later this month, it'll be all about playtesting, polishing and adding some extra tidbits I have in mind if there is enough time.

That'll be all for today, but I might even have an estimated release date for next week!