Development diaries: introduction (Patreon)

Hi everyone! First of all we would like to thank all our patrons and followers for their support! Thank you very much! This is the first annual feed concerning our game-in-development “Heralds of the Avirentes”. It will be published on Sundays, consisting of two major parts:

- Current development progress, including description of implemented features, new characters, in-game world lore, game mechanics and a lot of other fun staff. Certainly you’ll find there new in-game art, sketches, character profiles and patron-only polls. 

- To-do list, including descriptions of features to be implemented in the nearest future, art-in-progress, evaluation of the overall game development process and approximate date of the next game release. 

These posts would be patron-only, including exclusive features and content for high-tier patrons, so don’t be shy! Become our patron and start supporting us today to make development of “Heralds of the Avirentes” a way faster! 

In the beginning of each month a similar post with overall monthly progress will be published for everyone. In order to give our supporters an upper hand, it would include content, art and staff from previous patron-only game builds (approximately one month older than a patron feed). 

If several interrelated features and/or character can be implemented in the game, but we’re not sure, which one to choose, patron-only polls will be rolled in order to make a final decision. The higher your tier is, the more impact you’ll have on the plot development and game making process! Exclusive polls will be offered for the highest-tier patrons with ultimate features or even a possibility to add something of your own into a game! (There’re still can be some limitations, you can always contact the development team and ask any questions before pledging)

As we’re concentrating on our game development, we would like to announce the planned and already implemented game features and content (this information will be posted and updated on our main page):

Planned features:

- Deep storyline with the possibility to make game-impacting choices

- Rich lore of a striking new world, inhabited by dragons

- Deep system of karma and impactful choices of a main heroine

- Turn-based RPG-like combat system

- Expandable interactive world map with multiple regions to visit

- Puzzles and secrets to unlock and solve

- Ancient dragon language system that would help you to find out more about the local world

- Dating sim and character attitude* system

- 50+ characters to interact with

- Multiple unique enemy types and ways to deal with them

- 10+ chapters (20+ hours of gameplay – may expand in future)

- High-quality visualization

Currently implemented:

- Combat system (beta version, subjected to change)

- First game-impacting key choices and karma system

- 4+ enemies (each enemy has several ways to deal with)

- Character attitude system* (beta version)

- Several side-quests

- Dragon language expandable encyclopedia (Contains every ancient dragon glyph and its translation, encountered in the game. But first it must be found and obtained)

- Characters and foes in-game wiki (Updates each time you find out more about your friends and foes)

- First Puzzles and ways to solve them (Solving the puzzles discovered is not obligatory, but they could give you many interesting artifacts and advantages or, sometimes, troubles)

- Starting city to explore

We’re currently not planning any status bars or exact next update date announcements, but we’ll do our best to bring you the best possible game experience asap! If our support reaches certain goals, we will optimize the development schedule in order to bring you even more tasty new content and striking new features by assembling a larger team and/or redirecting more effort to our project! Thank you very much! Stay tuned! See you in the dragon worlds, fellas ;-) 

P.S. Don’t forget to join our discord channel for more details, art samples and just pleasant conversation/discussions with other patrons and our development team! (All patrons are automatically invited to our discord channel. If you’re experiencing any issues with joining us on discord, feel free to write a personal message on Patreon (or post a comment on the community board), so we can invite you manually). Our game is still in an early development, so there can be some bugs and issues. We will try to fix them all asap, but you can help us a lot by reporting any found bugs, glitches and issues to our bug-tracker on discord. Thank you very much! Stay tuned!