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UpdateLatest · Steam news · May 20

Progress Update

Hello everyone, apologies about the lack of news and updates. Life has unfortunately been very much getting in the way of progress, I had to get a day job again a couple months back due to needing to make some repairs to my home. This has meant progress has slowed to a crawl as I've been working a lot more hours than intended at this second job. Thankfully things have slowed down so I now have more time to work on the game again. In regards to that...

Previously Episode 2 was going to be the more fantasy based one, where you play as a knight who's sent off into another dimension to do the bidding of the old gods. This was going to include the new gore system and a bunch of new levels. This will now be episode 3 instead. I changed this up as the story for the previous Episode 2 felt like a much better way to wrap things up.

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UpdateSteam news · Sep 25

New Gore System Coming To Episode 1

Hello again. So I've decided to push Ep.2 forward ever so slightly in order to get the new gore system and enemy AI into Ep.1 first.

It's quite a big task since it will require a lot of changes to old meshes (possibly replacing them all) but it does mean that Episode 1 will be brought up to the quality of Episode 2. The base villager mesh from Ep.1 was something I made in 2017 and it certainly shows. I think it's one of the main things holding the game back - the basic enemy AI and also the original gore/enemy system was pretty heavy on performance. This meant I was limited with how many enemies could be active at one time. It also means changing up the weapon system from Ep.1 from being projectile based to using sphere/raycasts, thankfully that's not too much work since I have the new system in place for Ep.2 already. It will also bring a performance boost, as well as more punchy/responsive weapons.

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UpdateSteam news · Aug 28

COVEN - What's next?

Hello everyone,

I know it's been a while so I'm just here to update you all on the future of the game and where it's currently at.

Work on the game has been a little bit slow since March due to life being life but I'm back on it full time now and making great progress. Episode 2 will come in two parts, one later this year then another around spring time next year. The first part is told from the perspective of a new character, a knight who must seek repentance and appease the Old Gods. The second part will put you back in the shoes (bare feet) of Amy. You pick back up at the end of the first episode and continue on across time and space to fight corruption and do the bidding of the Old Gods.

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UpdateSteam news · Mar 13

Custom Game Update

Hello there, so here's an update! The main addition is the Custom Game Menu, so you can replay levels/the full game with weapons/spells/upgrades/gameplay modifiers you've unlocked.

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