{"id":1786,"date":"2014-05-09T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2014-05-09T20:32:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T18:32:26","slug":"planet-stronghold-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2014\/05\/planet-stronghold-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Planet Stronghold on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2OnfrPtcSQ?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs you probably are aware already if you follow me on the social networks, my sci-fi RPG Planet Stronghold is now <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/291050\">available on Steam<\/a>. Above you can see the game trailer (the info at the end is outdated though, the game is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.com\/ios_games.php\">available on iOS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already talked in the past about the game, in particular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/planet-stronghold-v-1-0-released\/\">shortly after I released it<\/a>, and is fun how Steam rejected the game back in 2011, and now 3 years later there it is! They have underestimated the power of the Wolves! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jokes apart, while I still consider Loren my best game, I&#8217;m quite affectionate to this one for two reasons: was the last game I wrote completely on my own (however is better if real native English writers take care of this aspect now!) and the first RPG\/VN hybrid I made, which saved me from a sure bankrupt and put me back on track to stay indie for more years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Seasons Of The Wolf Beta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, SOTW beta made a lot of progress in this last week. I admit I am a bit burned out because of how many bugs I fixed and how much balancing tweaks I made!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">First of all, while the stats-derivation method was delivering really well balanced fights (as expected) it had a huge problem: since everything was based on players behaviors, I had no reference for the battle difficulties. I couldn&#8217;t tweak a battle, I couldn&#8217;t lower or increase HP, Attack, Speed of the enemies because every time they would be different for every player \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, I had to discard the system after a few updates. Oh well, I&#8217;ve tried. Live and learn!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then started to rebalance the game again, but I forgot a small detail: the level scaling was off, so the difference of difficulty between Easy and Nightmare wasn&#8217;t big (and instead, should be VERY big). So I had to rebalance the game completely for a second time!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At one point I even took a screenshot of all the 4 difficulty mode of a boss enemy to compare the differences:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/balancing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1796\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/balancing.jpg\" alt=\"balancing\" width=\"792\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/balancing.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/balancing-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The Huge Kodiak is a boss battle in a sidequest<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;yes as you can guess, I went a bit insane \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All of this while fixing at least 5-6 major bugs daily (in first days even 10-15!!). It is good of course, and now that I have a much bigger following is even expected, but it was quite exhausting for me. Anyway, now everything seems to be working, so I can move on coding the second Act of the game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m probably going to open preorders once I have finished the second act (and is in beta) so I&#8217;m at a good point of the game.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stay tuned because next week will resume talking about C14 Dating, the new upcoming otome game \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you probably are aware already if you follow me on the social networks, my sci-fi RPG Planet Stronghold is now available on Steam. Above you can see the game trailer (the info at the end is outdated though, the game is also available on iOS). I&#8217;ve already talked in the past about the game, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,163,46,140,26,14,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-beta-demo","category-gameplay-video","category-iphone-ipad","category-planet-stronghold","category-roleplay-games","category-seasons-of-the-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}