Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 38 / 2026

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The updated UI is progressing like normal!

Brightstone and Crimson Forest were both finished this week.
Besides that, I also did some bug fixing and added a "Distress Status" tutorial to when Farah joins your party, to better give players an overview of the pros/cons of having it, intentionally or not.

And that's pretty much it really, a short one for this week!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 37 / 2026

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Still hammering away at Brightstone, but almost done!
While certainly not as extensive as Colussia, the town still needed quite a few rewrites due to some of the dialogue being severely outdated with how the current story is.
For example, one of the conversations with Mayor Willheed stated there was never an empress when discussing the previous emperor's children, when clearly you can now find some busts around the Imperial Castle and other places of Empress Alvastasia who was once married to Emperor Augustus before she passed away.

I also slightly changed the dynamic between the two Farah's, emphasizing more on their possible sibling connection, rather than that of a mother/daughter relationship.
I should have Brightstone finished this week, though!

And with that, I'll conclude today's update and be back next Tuesday!

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 36 / 2026

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And the beta was indeed released around the middle of last week!
It had one major bug that made progressing through the story in Caimridge impossible, but I fixed that and re-released the beta, which only had a few graphical glitches.
(Everything reported already corrected on my end for the next release!)

Besides bug fixing, I've also finished updating Grassland Road and the explorable parts of Hollow Gorge before the story takes you there later, along with half of Brightstone.
The next beta might even come out this month too, or in October at latest, since the next story progression block will probably be River Checkpoint, meaning it'll cover and let you finish the High Lord Gathering arc.

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

Legend of Queen Opala: Origin - Week 35 / 2026

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The original plan was to surprise everyone with a beta release last Sunday!

Obviously...that didn't happened, solely because I worked out an even better way to show portraits without an invisible barrier cutting off parts, which made certain characters look like the box they were restrained to.
However, just removing the barrier is much easier said than done, especially since some of these portraits weren't made for widescreen and doesn't even have finished line-work.
Some characters could easily be fixed by simply mirroring the image, yet that in turn causes additional problems with some characters, like Gabrielle, since her beauty mark is meant to be on a specific side.

In those cases, I had to manually edit them, and in others without the finished line-work, I had to do that myself while adapting the art and coloring style to the rest of the portrait.
Long story short, the beta will still be out as intended during this week, just slightly later!

But I'll see you next Tuesday, one beta release richer!