Patch notes 12 December 2023

Hi everyone! We've been working on Septaroad Voyager as you can see in our recent news. But we haven't been patching the game with everything we've added. Today we uploaded a relatively big patch. Here's what's in it:

• New bat enemies with a life-drain attack. The bats are fully integrated into the Early Access procedurally generated campaign. You'll see the bats pretty much everywhere you find spiders and undead. Now that I think about it, we should probably pair them with pumpkins too. Based on your feedback, we might also add tougher versions with elemental attacks.
• Fixed area-of-effect attacks. Enemies had been attacking themselves with AoE abilities, which would then mark themselves as hostile. Now AoE attacks are damaging only the intended targets. Beneficial AoE abilities that heal or buff allies likewise will only affect the intended targets. The confusion status effect reverses which group gets affected.
• Added several new and updated animal sprites, including the bats listed above. We also added sheep, and updated the chicken and boar sprites. The new boar sprites you'll see right away. Sheep and chickens will be placed in non-combat areas soon.

We also added lots of new meshes and textures that aren't in playable levels yet. We're still making the blocks that we'll use to build the rest of the game. You'll see those pieces soon.

The life-drain attack opens up some interesting new possibilities that we may explore in the future. Maybe we can add abilities that sacrifice health to replenish mana. Or attacks that damage the attacker to do extra damage to the target. Maybe we can also add that ability into the arsenal of ghosts and vampires in the future. We'll see. Let us know what you would like to see in the game!

Thanks for reading. And thanks for supporting Septaroad Voyager!