{"id":4853,"date":"2025-09-05T12:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/?p=4853"},"modified":"2025-09-05T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:55:45","slug":"thieves-of-dingirra-closed-beta-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/thieves-of-dingirra-closed-beta-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves of Dingirra closed beta begins!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I&#8217;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&#8217;ll need to finish writing\/coding everything!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a sneak preview of a CG with Labwa for you to enjoy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/labwa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/labwa-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4854\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/labwa-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/labwa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/labwa-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/labwa-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/labwa-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/labwa.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>the censored version of a bonus CG with Labwa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The two Wealdlings will have a special treatment since they&#8217;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&#8217;re caught while relaxing in an oasis and the MC has to carry Labwa on their shoulders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Di&#8217;Aab instead the CG will be about the &#8220;moon ritual&#8221;, a special ritual that grants him special magic resistance during the story (also in combat):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/diaab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/diaab-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/diaab-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/diaab-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/diaab-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/diaab-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/diaab-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/diaab.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>the moon ritual,obviously requiring Di&#8217;Aab to be in his underwear!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As I mentioned on socials, I&#8217;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&#8217;m taking my time) and all the epilogues. Since there are many characters and choices there&#8217;ll be many variations! I think two weeks will be enough to do them and then the public beta can begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The closed beta actually shows already 90% of the story, it ends just before a major plot twist that I don&#8217;t want to reveal. In practice once you reach the end of closed beta you&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to start the beta already since this game is so big that I&#8217;m sure people will find already several bugs to fix, so when <em>open beta<\/em> starts things should be better already!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s Next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After Thieves of Dingirra, I&#8217;m going to run another crowdfunding campaign for a male protagonist comedy game called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/winterwolves\/glamour-photographer?ref=crc2xo\">Glamour Photographer<\/a>&#8220;. It will put you in the shoes of a glamour photographer during the 1980s. I&#8217;ll do a proper introduction when that project launches but if you&#8217;re curious you can take a look at the crowdfunding page here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/winterwolves\/glamour-photographer?ref=crc2xo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KSmain-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KSmain-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KSmain-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KSmain-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KSmain-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KSmain-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/KSmain.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all for now, see you hopefully in around 2 weeks for the full build of <em>Thieves of Dingirra<\/em>, the open beta!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;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&#8217;ll need to finish writing\/coding everything! Here&#8217;s a sneak preview of a CG with Labwa for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853","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=4853"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4866,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4853\/revisions\/4866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}