Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 39 / 2022

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And we're back to the regular format of silliness!

With the latest beta out as of yesterday, or Sunday depending on where you live, the week leading up to that point has mostly just been tweaking things for the release and doing playtesting.
Since that would normally make for a very short update, I did mentioned last Tuesday I would be filling you in on an alternative take of the Howling Moon Clan Arc I decided to scrap.
So if you haven't experienced that part yet, you may want to bail out at this point.

The alternative sequence played out much the same until you defeated Cheiftain Gin.
But the protagonist felt she was holding back, being confronted with that, Gin explains she lost on purpose in hope it would set up for a peaceful pact between the Vargonians and Neifus.
At that point you would've had three choices, the two available in the current version and one more where you let Gin challenge you for letting the Howling Moon Clan stay with the Tiki Tribe.
Here is where you could pull an evil card and only accept the challenge if Gin stripped down in front of her pack and fought you naked for the rematch.
If you won again, the Vargonians would be kicked out, and if you lost they'd stay with the Neifu.

That's about it, some new emoticon/battleposes will be showing up as of next Tuesday too!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 38 / 2022

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Quick note regarding the LoQO figurines from the WebShop, I'll just quote a mail I got.
"Due to the rise of market cost on Sandstone 3D printing material, Shapeways will need to adapt and increase prices by 25%, effective September 28, 2022."

I feel like I've been all over the place this week when it comes to work, doing a little bit of everything from finalizing equipment/skillsets for the two new party members arriving later at some point, to adding some optional dialogues with Lady Farah that'll unlock a little something.
Unfortunately I also wasted a lot of time on an alternative take on how the Howling Moon scenario plays out, but I stopped halfway through, realizing the original idea probably was better all along.
I'll reveal what was scrapped after the new beta is out early next week so I don't spoil anything.

That's it for today, see you next Tuesday!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 37 / 2022

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Quick note regarding the LoQO figurines from the WebShop, I'll just quote a mail I got.
"Due to the rise of market cost on Sandstone 3D printing material, Shapeways will need to adapt and increase prices by 25%, effective September 28, 2022."

With that out of the way, I believe everything around the Howling Moon arc has been finished.
It took way longer than expected, but it has two branching choices to take into account with each one of those also having two additional tiny variations to them.
I still have to playtest the content myself and make adjustments to the cutscenes if needed.
On the bright side, the emoticon set for the new character is already done and added!

Besides mostly focusing on that, I've also been making more maptile and graphical assets on top of implementing additional details to the second area of Tseneria Isle.

That's all there is to it, folks! See you next week!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 36 / 2022

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This is now an official expression; "I'll leave you gaping for more."

And the Howling Moon side-arc is done, or at least the main dialogues as it turned out a bit longer than expected with additional tweaking needed to different branching outcomes.
It'll include a new character who is the leader for the clan, but the emoticon set won't be finished in time for the next beta being released later this month, so you may want to play through it once for the content and then reload an older save so you can replay that part again later.
It's also setting up a new optional character you can recruit to your party.

Thus, today's broadcast is donzo and I'll be back next week!