{"id":2768,"date":"2016-06-24T11:31:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2016-06-24T11:31:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:31:32","slug":"queen-of-thieves-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/queen-of-thieves-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Of Thieves beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2769 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/buynow-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"buynow\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/buynow-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/buynow-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/buynow-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/buynow.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, finally the game beta is ready! You can get more info and pre-purchase here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/winterwolves.com\/queenofthieves.htm\">http:\/\/winterwolves.com\/queenofthieves.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like always, during beta you need to visit my forums to know the download link, since it always changes based on the game version.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Of course even if it&#8217;s a simplified RPG, it&#8217;s still a RPG: so expect a longer beta testing period than my previous two games (C14 Dating and Heirs And Graces) ! However if you&#8217;re willing to help me and try the beta and report bugs, I will be very thankful \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2770 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/difficulty-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"difficulty\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/difficulty-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/difficulty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/difficulty-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/difficulty.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Non RPG players will also be happy to know that I&#8217;ve added a &#8220;Visual Novel Mode&#8221; even to this game, since it&#8217;s a feature that seems popular. Besides those who don&#8217;t like or aren&#8217;t good with RPGs, VN Mode is also useful to replay the game quickly, maybe to try other romances \/ alternate endings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As I posted in the forums already, what I&#8217;m looking for mostly is feedback about the game pacing: since in the story you need to unlock several scenes by reaching a certain money threshold every time (like 1000 gold, 2500 gold, etc). I want to know if the amount of time needed to reach each step is OK, or could be made faster (or maybe slower).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am also thinking that maybe I could even add in the options screen a sort of slider to adjust the game pacing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Slow: you get less money and experience from fights<br \/>\nFast: you get more money and more experience from fights<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This way if you like to play the battles and unlock the skills slowly (in practice if you like grinding!) you could pick the first option, otherwise the second. It&#8217;s just an idea of course so I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll actually add this feature, but I think could make sense to do that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The game is still missing a few main plot CGs and some background images, but in the past days a lot of testing has been done already, and I got several people that reached the end successfully.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, finally the game beta is ready! You can get more info and pre-purchase here: http:\/\/winterwolves.com\/queenofthieves.htm Like always, during beta you need to visit my forums to know the download link, since it always changes based on the game version. Of course even if it&#8217;s a simplified RPG, it&#8217;s still a RPG: so expect a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,149,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beta-demo","category-queen-of-thieves","category-roleplay-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","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=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}