Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 34 / 2025

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Alright, next beta will be out this weekend!

Most of this week and the coming days leading up to the launch will be all tweaking.
So instead, I'll list some of the content that'll be included with the beta.

Two new locations will be available on the Frozen Continent, one will include a couple of new monsters while the other will feature a sidequest involving a cameo character from LoQOII.
Adult shops have been introduced to several towns, these being Colussia, Kahr and Odidania, allowing you to purchase four additional outfits for various characters. (As of right now)
You'll also be able to buy motion pictures (animations) from these places later on, but I don't think I have time to fully implement a functional cinema at Castle Warrengard before the weekend.

With that, I hope you'll enjoy the next version when it hits!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 33 / 2025

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For funsies, I took notes on when I began one of my sessions today.
Adding one new costume for four different characters took 3 straight hours of work.
Just a little behind-the-scenes of how even the smallest thing take some time.

Anyhoo, clearly that was some of the stuff I did today so far, but otherwise this past week I've done a lot of micromanaging with coding and assets to set things up for the beta hitting later this month.
The sequence involving the cameo from LoQOII has been slightly tweaked with an secret ending being included to the side-quest, which you might have an idea of how to pull off if you remember the encounters with him/her in the previous game and a certain...rivalry.

More treasure maps is also on the cards, so the "Map Folder" in the journal has been modified to allow the other two pages including the numbers 11-30 to be accessed.

And that's about it for today, see you next week!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 32 / 2025

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I've been a bit all over the place this week, so you'll have to excuse me if I forget something.

But I do know I updated the Encyclopedia to include the latest locations and monsters, along with adding proper profiles for the Eminent Quartet in the journal and updating Tseneria Isle with new assets to make the flora more varied. (Two trees is double the content of just one, you know!)

Another thing I did was tweaking all forms of narrower "bridges" you pass horizontally, as I felt the vast majority of them was aligned by default to make it look like you barely walked across them.
Oh, and some color adjustments to the two checkpoints with Beldorian buildings in them to make those small towers not stand out as much from the rest of the scenery.

That's another Tuesday marked off the chart, but there is one next week too!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 31 / 2025

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I think the worst has past, everyone still with us, we survived another summer!

Deciding to expand upon the cameo and making it more than just one or two lines of dialogue,
I turned it into a sidequest where you'll get to unlock the character as a photoshoot candidate.
I've also playtested the two new areas and fixed some issues I found, along with adding monsters to Everice Lake and doing some minor improvements.

Unless something unexpected happens, it's safe to say the next beta will be out this month!

And that'll be it for today, see you next week!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 30 / 2025

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Not gonna sugar-coat it, the temperature 'effed me up pretty badly as the longer the heat remain, the warmer it'll also get inside...but thankfully, it seems like the weather finally turned towards the end of last weekend and it's getting a bit more manageable.

But I persisted and got some work done with the new adult shops getting NPC's and adding the concept of letting you directly interract with shelves/inventory, allowing for things to be on sale I'd have a really hard time including otherwise, such as...perhaps movies for your own cinema?
I've also been re-visiting LoQOII to remember what kind of personality a certain character had, for a potential cameo.

Anyhoo, that's all for now! See you as always during next Tuesday!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 29 / 2025

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In hindsight, I probably should've taken this past week off, because holy cheese and trocadero has the heat in Sweden been excruciating with no fan or air conditioner at my disposal!
28°C in the shade, which translates to roughly 82,4°F.
People in Spain and other warmer countries are surely shrugging at that and says "That's it...?"
Although, you hardly associate Sweden with that kind of heat, now do you!?

Anyhoo! I powered through some of it and managed to get the adult shop added to Colussia, Kahr and Odidania so far, finding ways of including them to already existing maps without having to create new districts...but that's it, as the Spanish say like established above.

Hopefully I'll have a more productive update for next Tuesday!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 28 / 2025

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Still hammering away over here on Everice Lake and Outlook Hotel.
All the maps and graphical assets are done for both locations and they're fully explorable, only thing missing is still an assortment of NPC's, enemies and treasures.

Additional assets has also been made for the adult shops I mentioned last week.
So even if those end up as nothing, I still have that new content to sprinkle in at other locations!

Been a slow week, but I'll see you against next Tuesday nevertheless!