Vogel wants to use RPG Maker art assets, but he has to pay premium rates for them, because he's using his own engine. That's why he needs $100k. It all makes sense.
...and which nobody cares about.
Queen's Wish November 2018 Update!
As promised, we have completed the main body of Queen's Wish: The Conqueror engine work. There's still a fair amount that needs doing. We need to finalize the interface and add a lot of frills, like weather effects. However, the game is fully playable.
The new graphical engine works great and has enabled us to add a lot of things that are overdue. For example, we finally have a game with mouse wheel support. We're also adding a lot of stuff our games have never had before, like a full fast travel system.
The Game Seems Fun
I took a couple of days off to actually play the game. This, of course, let to a million bug fixes and balance tweaks.
After a bit of poking and polishing, I found Queen's Wish: The Conqueror to be quite fun. The missions are smaller, leading themselves to quicker play sessions. However, they are balanced so that you are constantly getting weaker as they advance, so there's a lot of suspense. (Of course, if you don't want the tension, there is a Casual game setting, as always.)
I really like the feel of it. A lot of our audience is older and doesn't have as much time, so I want them to be able to make some progress without investing so many ours. At the same time, there is enough optional stuff to give a lot of gameplay for your money.
Primary Design
I'm now deep into primary design. That means that, for the next month, the Updates are pretty much going to be, "Still writing content." I make one small town or dungeon per day. A big town takes two days. Three outdoor sections makes a day.
This means the main world should be dome by the end of May, leaving a couple months to polish the thing, do the Windows port, and get it out the door August, 2019.
Reward Update
We just made the first few Scrolls of Absolution. We're sending them out tomorrow, to make sure they survive the mail system well. They look really cool and are each personally hand-signed and hand-singed.
We're about to send out official Kickstarter surveys to all backers. Most people who paid to put content into the game have responded, but we want to take this last step to get the information from everybody.
Anyway, we have a game now! And it's bigger every day!
- Jeff Vogel
We've been writing of lot of the Ukatish areas. They are fierce, tribal, ever-resentful swamp-dwellers. Don't get them too angry. They hold grudges for a long time.
These adventurers have stumbled into a truly unpleasant ambush.
Queen's Wish December 2018 Update!
Posted by Spiderweb Software (Creator)
This will be a short update. A lot of the updates will be short. We’re a couple of months into primary design: Sketching out, scripting, populating, and testing the towns, dungeons, and outdoor sections. It’s a big game, and there will be a lot of that. We’re around a third of the way through.
Primary design is hardest near the beginning. This is when I have to write most of the dialogue for the main characters, make the quest hubs (which frames out the entire story of the game), and make the towns that introduce the cultures of the game. It’s a lot of slow, painstaking work, but we’re making good progress.
We are also playing the game as we write it. It’s still fine. The balance has turned out to be really nice. You end a lot of dungeons in tense battles, just on the edge of disaster. But you make it. It’s suspenseful and fun. We’re going to keep playing and fine tuning to try to keep that going through the whole game.
Backer Rewards
We have mailed out all but four of the Scrolls of Absolution. We ran out of sealing wax, so a few of them are still not done. We’ll get them out as soon as we can get more wax. (It’s in the mail!)
If you paid to get your ideas into the game but haven’t sent them in yet, please check your Kickstarter account for the survey we sent out.
Anyway, everyone have some great holidays! I’ll leave you with the map of the world of Queen’s Wish, which I hope you find intriguing and pretty.
- Jeff Vogel
The continent of Sacramentum. It signed treaties with Haven. Then it stopped paying what it agreed to. Your mother has sent you to bring them to heel. What will you do?
Almost as good as Avadon's.
Well Avernum ones do look like a real thing. Also there are tunnels that lead out from the cave,thus giving the feeling that there is other shit outside of the game's space. It is light years ahead of a square surrounded by water.
This isnt all that different than his other games. It just lacks some of the detail. But yes, many of them are squarish.
