(Future Fragments) New UI, Progress, How Mana Works & more! (Patreon)

 PROGRESS REPORT

FrougeDev is working as hard as he can to get the demo out by December 8th; we should still be good to go!

Triangulate has prepared a pretty significant update to the UI; you can see an animation of it up above, and hear more about it below! He's also been working on various animations here and there.

I've been working on a variety of things, same as usual, pretty much. :P

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 A REMINDER ABOUT PLEDGES AND HOW THEY WORK

Just so you all remember, if you pledge, but your money doesn't go through at the start of the month, you won't get the rewards (or the new demo, unless you successfully pledged prior to the Newgrounds demo!)

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THE NEW UI

As you can see, we've moved some stuff around pretty significantly!

First off, the powerup slots have been shranken down and moved to the left side of the screen to save room.

Second, the area behind Talia's profile has been removed to make her flush with the screen, giving us more room, and the mana bar has been reutilized to be a semi-circle between her portrait and the life bar!

Finally, when it comes to switching powerup "styles" from the bosses you defeat, you'll be able to cycle through them with the A/S buttons using the neat design we've got here too.

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A SPECIAL COMMENT REPLY

If you want some backstory on the Ice Level, check my reply to "The Dayum Machine" on the last post! I wrote up a heck of a reply to them, haha.

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HOW MANA WORKS

Using one of the special elemental charge shots (more on that in a later update) or one of the elemental abilities, both of which you get from bosses, will use up one of the three mana bars you have.

Mana bars normally recharge automatically at a rate of one bar per 10 seconds, but some powerups can change that, and with balancing, we might change the time it takes for mana to regenerate, as well.

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CG ARTIST PROGRESS

Rtil has been doing the sketches for the first CG scene they're going to work on (the Fire Boss); so far, it's looking good! Hopefully we'll have something to show you all soon :D

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And as usual, thanks so much for your support; we're aiming to give you nothing less than the best game we can do!

The NEW Ice Demo will be out December 8th for all who successfully pledged in November, as well as those who pledged successfully prior to the Newgrounds demo!

(As an extra note too, if you wanted to check out the other two games of mine (especially if you're a yuri or a futa fan, respectively, since we're not doing either of those in this game), they're at http://www.patreon.com/reclaimreality and http://www.patreon.com/hentaiwriter.)