Ah Summer! Once it used to be such a good season. Now… not so much, at least here in Italy / Europe. You’ve probably heard about the insane heatwave, which sadly now seems to have become the “norm” and not anymore an exceptional event.

Anyway, thank God I chose to live in a small village near high mountains, and I have a cooling system inside my house (floor cooling) so it’s not too bad, in the end. I’m still rather worn out and I can’t work as fast as I’d like but… it’s Summer! (sadly lol).

First an announcement: as usual my games are on sale on Steam and itchio, so if you want to support me, here are the links:

Steam Summer Sale

Itchio Sale

Thieves of Dingirra’s progress

Despite the weather, I’ve managed to make good progress on the game. I’ve already posted on Kickstarter this custom outfits update:

but that’s not all: Labwa’s outfit was meant for the female MC, and since I screwed up myself (misunderstood the backer but they were pretty clear lol) I decided to add that outfit too. Will use it in Labwa’s personal quest probably 🙂

Also, a backer paid for a custom character in the Traveler’s Delight one-night stand option and a new … “interesting” outfit for Halima. First, the character, a dark elf called Shalheira. There’ll be her sprite, not a CG since that would have been too expensive (and time consuming, there’s already a lot of art in this game to finish). But I managed to add a nice backstory:

And this is Halima’s outfit… kind of borderline for my requests of “something they could wear in public” 😀 but fear not, I’ll find a way to make her wear that in the story that makes some sense lol

Last but not least, I also added two custom landmarks and NPCs from backers. They both pledged for both rewards, so I decided not only to add them in the game, but each one will have a backstory as well. It’s nothing particularly long but add some depth to the characters.

They are Mr. Toes, and elf from Grandtree who runs a gemshop:

And Carissa Nevrine, who runs a sort of enchanted flower shop (really cool idea):

Had a lot of fun to write their backstories, and they have real in-game shops where you can buy stuff so they’re also involved with the gameplay with relative achievements if you play their whole backstory (will be revealed in 3 steps as you visit them from time to time).

Plans for beta and next Kickstarter

Despite all the progresses, this game is HUGE. Really big. Basically each story mission has a custom boss fight!! So they take more time to test and design. I wonder why I decided to do that lol, anyway I’m about halfway with that. Designing a single boss fight takes me a full day (finding the right sprite, deciding on a design, then a boss gimmick or skill or goal, etc).

There’s really a big variety, from boss battles where you only need to kill the boss to win (but won’t be easy), to others where you need to kill enemies before X turns, or survive for X turns, or … did I mention that there’s a big variety?

I’m also tweaking constantly the town management and guild part. For example lowered the NPC hiring and salary costs since they were too high later in the game. I also tweaked the big buildings (Library, Brothel, Temple and Hammam) so that you can do maintenance and reduce the upkeep or increase the income of each individual building:

All small details but that in the long run can make a big difference in the game’s economy. It’s the first time I attempt this kind of game and so far I must admit I’m having fun adding features and tweaking it.

I definitely pushed the estimate for beta from end of July to end of August, since I am also missing several more CGs. By the way, this game will be tamer than my most recent ones because I don’t want it to go in adult only. The plan is to have a clean base game and then an optional adult DLC.

For example in the base game, this Di’aab romance will show only this close-up, and not the full body since you could see… Dwyn’s butt lol

Anyway, even if I’ll do some censorship for the base game, there will still be some very hot scenes in the final version with DLC… for example I had to cut the lower part of this Yasemin CG because it’s still too hot to post!

So fear not… there’ll be this kind of content in the full game if you’re into that 😀

That’s all for now, I hope you’re having a good Summer (and maybe that’s not too hot where you live)!