It's been a busy few weeks and I'm pleased to say the next content update is now complete minus a few small things. I personally believe the next content update offers the most interesting content of the game yet, from the enemies/AI you will encounter, to the environments, graphics, sound fx, music etc etc. I have spent a lot of time in this area to really strengthen it as much as possible. Some important things to note:
1. I'll be adding achievements in this week for the new content so if there is any type of achievements anyone specifically likes to earn, let me know and I'll see if I can come up with something cool.
2. The new melee combat abilities will not be added in to this new release because of some communication issues with my animator and he's on vacation for the next month, so I'm out of luck unless I hire someone else, which I don't want to do. They will be added in as soon as he's back.
I want to do about another week's worth of testing and improvements before I push this out, so thanks for your patience. I have made other improvements/additions to other parts of the game as well, but I've withheld from publishing a new build simply because so much has changed that it was going to be tough doing a partial build and exclude a lot of the changes the new content adds.
I love this new area so much I'm also going to make a new video trailer, dedicated specifically to this area, so expect this with version 0.6.0.0 as well!
Following the release of the swamp content there is only 2 more areas of the game to complete: The desert of Marzule and the Underworld. This content will not be released for several months as the next couple of months I'm going to be spending time polishing and improving existing content, from creating lots of new, higher quality textures, add in a lot more music, update the world map (which has already begun), and just simply tighten/improve everything else.
The swamp should put the total game content up to about 15 hours for the average player, but for those who want to collect all the gold and earn achievements I estimate about 25 hours.
Expect the new content soon once testing is complete and I hope you enjoy it. By far my favorite part of the game yet, and I hope it will be your favorite too!