Deadwind

Devlog

• Alpha 2.5 Changelog
  January 13, 2023 by Jason Accardo

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  New Features Added overworld structure system Can stumble across small ruined buildings in forest biomes containing some loot Only one structure type for the time being but underlying system has been... Continue reading
• Alpha 2.4 Changelog
  December 09, 2022 by Jason Accardo

  Fixed an issue where you could use ability hotkeys on the world map Recent lighting changes inadvertently broke the Soul Steal ability's effect. This has been fixed Fixed a bug where dungeon entrances... Continue reading
• Alpha-2.3 Changelog
  November 25, 2022 by Jason Accardo

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  Just minor fixes for some things I noticed/wanted to change with the previous build. Fixed issue where lights attached to culled objects would never turn on again after being culled Reformatted save f... Continue reading
• Alpha 2.2 Changelog
  October 26, 2022 by Jason Accardo

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  Hello everyone, alpha-2.2 is mainly a QOL update with some handy features and some design clean-up. Added ability hotkeys. Simply press 1-9 while over an ability to bind it to that key. No more menu s... Continue reading
• Alpha-2.1 Changelog
  September 28, 2022 by Jason Accardo

  Fixed an issue where the boss room entrance for the Blood of Myrefell quest was not spawning Fixed a bug where using Lacerate on an empty tile was not correctly cancelling the effect, causing a crash... Continue reading
• Alpha-2 Released!
  September 23, 2022 by Jason Accardo

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  Deadwind Alpha-2 has been released! You can check the changelog here . Pay what you want and have fun!... Continue reading
• Alpha-2 Changelog/Life Update
  September 21, 2022 by Jason Accardo

  Hello again everyone! Deadwind alpha-2 will be releasing this Friday, September 23rd so I thought I'd write this post to summarize and talk about the changes and additions in this upcoming version. I'... Continue reading
• Future Features
  July 31, 2022 by Jason Accardo

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  Hello everyone, I hope you all have had a chance to play the latest version and are enjoying it so far! I just wanted to make this post to talk about what features/changes are going to be made to Dead... Continue reading
• Alpha 1 Released!
  July 29, 2022 by Jason Accardo

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  Hello everyone. Wow its been 2 years since I've written one of these. I've just released the first alpha version for Deadwind and it's available to download here, or on the main itch.io page. Just wan... Continue reading
• The Open World
  October 28, 2020 by Jason Accardo

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  Introduction Over the past weeks, I've been thinking through how the open-world system would work in Deadwind. I'm happy to say it's finally come to fruition and is pretty much ready to be populated w... Continue reading

  
• Public Pre-Alpha Demo Build
  August 04, 2020 by Jason Accardo

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  Finally got around to finishing up the demo for public testing! Feel free to DM me on twitter @thinginger any questions, problems or concerns. Be sure to read the controls on the download page and tha... Continue reading
• First Round Closed Alpha Postmortem
  April 29, 2020 by Jason Accardo

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  #postmortem, #discussion, #design

  Hi everyone! It's been a while since I've written a longform post but the time is right as a couple weeks back Deadwind went through its first round of closed testing! I wanted to make a postmortem to... Continue reading
• Reflection on the narrative elements of Deadwind, post-demo
  April 29, 2020 by Andrew Martello#narrative, #dialogue, #worldbuilding

  Before anything else, I would like to thank all the play testers, being a small team, it can be hard to gauge what works and what doesn’t during development, you have all been a significant help... Continue reading
• Factions and Conflict Part 1
  November 15, 2019 by Andrew Martello#Writing, #Narrative, #Factions, #Theory

  This devlog will come in two parts, look for part 2 later this week. Introduction Factions are an interesting subject, they are a way to presents ideals to the Player in a way that can display the par... Continue reading
• Attributes and Skills
  November 12, 2019 by Jason Accardo#design, #discussion

  Introduction Recently, I've been rethinking how the minor skills should work and I think I've come up with a solution that makes all of them viable and sensible during gameplay. With this new system,... Continue reading

  
• Writing for Deadwind
  November 12, 2019 by Andrew Martello#Writing, #Narrative, #Worldbuilding

  An Introduction Hello, my name is Andrew Martello, and I am writing Deadwind, an upcoming RPG by Jason Accardo. With the pre-alpha demo of the game on the horizon, I thought it would be the right tim... Continue reading
• Health System Discussion
  April 14, 2019 by Jason Accardo

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  #design, #discussion

  Summary I thought i would make this long form describing my thought process during the design of the next feature: the health system. The idea is that rather than having an entities health be a number... Continue reading

  
• Audio, Weather, and Bugfixes
  April 10, 2019 by Jason Accardo

  Summary Added 3 new music tracks Added sound effects for most actions Added rain effect Fixed UI bugs Hi all, just want to thank everyone again for the huge amount of support from twitter over the pas... Continue reading

  
• Catching up
  September 08, 2018 by Jason Accardo

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  Introduction So basically I've been working on this roguelike project in GameMaker: Studio off and on for a little over a year now but have decided to start posting my progress on itch.io as opposed t... Continue reading