Today I’m opening the closed beta of the game for those who backed the game through Kickstarter and Patreon. I am planning to switch to open beta in maximum a couple of weeks, the amount of time I think I’ll need to finish writing/coding everything!
Here’s a sneak preview of a CG with Labwa for you to enjoy:
The two Wealdlings will have a special treatment since they’re my first fantasy furry romanceable characters. While the other characters will have 2 romance CG depending on choices in the story, the Wealdlings will have each 2 CGs plus the threesome CG scene. One CG is the single romance scene (if you romance only one), and the other is a bonus CG of a scene in the game. In the scene above they’re caught while relaxing in an oasis and the MC has to carry Labwa on their shoulders.
For Di’Aab instead the CG will be about the “moon ritual”, a special ritual that grants him special magic resistance during the story (also in combat):
As I mentioned on socials, I’m really not missing that much: a few main plot battles and scenes, all the romance scenes (I want to do them well so I’m taking my time) and all the epilogues. Since there are many characters and choices there’ll be many variations! I think two weeks will be enough to do them and then the public beta can begin.
The closed beta actually shows already 90% of the story, it ends just before a major plot twist that I don’t want to reveal. In practice once you reach the end of closed beta you’ll see a pop-up message about reaching the end, and then you can just roll-back (using mousewheel or PGUP key) and save the game, so you can resume and finish the story once the full beta (or the final game) is done.
I decided to start the beta already since this game is so big that I’m sure people will find already several bugs to fix, so when open beta starts things should be better already!
What’s Next?
After Thieves of Dingirra, I’m going to run another crowdfunding campaign for a male protagonist comedy game called “Glamour Photographer“. It will put you in the shoes of a glamour photographer during the 1980s. I’ll do a proper introduction when that project launches but if you’re curious you can take a look at the crowdfunding page here:
That’s all for now, see you hopefully in around 2 weeks for the full build of Thieves of Dingirra, the open beta!