Hey guys, I recently created some new item icons for modders to use in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. If you want to learn more about mods and try some out, check out the EBF Discord.
EBF5 can be modded using decompiling tools, and a patcher can be used to modify your EBF5 installation. Currently the largest mod being worked on is called Tough Love, and it has new status effects, equips, player skills, and more intelligent and powerful enemies. At some point I will make it a beta branch of the game on Steam, to make it easier to install. But until then, you can try it out yourself using the resources on the EBF Discord. The community there is still quite active, and we also do fanart competitions with prizes a few times a year.
In more EBF5 news, the iOS and Android ports of EBF5 are both complete - they don't offer any new content over the PC version of the game, but if you have any friends who haven't played it yet, this is a great place for them to start. The mobile version has a lot of free content - like the web version did before Flashplayer was killed - and only the optional dungeons and extra game modes are behind a paywall.
In related news, Ruffle, a Flashplayer emulator, has made a lot of progress in the last year. It's getting close to being able to run EBF5, and can already run many simpler Flash games. What I'd love to do is eventually use Ruffle to run the Steam version of EBF5, which will lead to much better performance, especially on higher resolutions. This would also give me a good reason to consider updating the game in other ways too.
Finally, I've been working hard on Hidden Cats, my new hidden object game.
I'd say it's around 20% finished - I've started on the coding, and some simple test levels almost work.
Here's an example of what a medium-sized level would look like:
And let's zoom in a bit on a smaller scene:
The goal of the game is just to find objects, obviously, but I'm trying to make it more interactive than some similar games. You can look inside buildings, use keys to open chests and other containers, push items out of the way, smash clay pots, etc.
It's a bit more casual than my other games, but it'll be something cute that anyone can play, and will have a ton of content, so hopefully it will still appeal to many of you.
Anyway, that's all. Hope you're all having a good 2023 so far.