Hello everyone.

With the light of our 1 year anniversary, we have realised that Smitemon, no matter how progress it makes, is missing its core.

Our graphics are bad, story is uninteresting and Gods are bugged. We are like Smite, but with bad story. And if we want to continue with our project, we must change that.

That is why Smitemon is taking a few months of a break. We will not release updates and our current stable build will be going offline. Likewise, our discord server will get cleared and no people will be allowed to enter.

During this time, we’ll do the following:

• Redo Graphics

• Redo Gods

• Redo Music

• Redo Maps

• Redo Story

• Add bonus stuff

For all interested, you can find detailed explanations written below.

Graphics

Graphics are, undoubtedly, a big part of the game. They make for a single player’s most user experience when playing, and as such, can be the single deciding factor if someone will play or not.

Now, our graphics arent horrendeously bad. On the flipside, they aren’t nowhere near satisfying to play with. That is why we’ll redo all graphics before continuing with the project. We’ll also try to increase the number of animations to make the game feel more fluent.

Gods

Gods are story for themselves. They aren’t bad, as they were all rewritten few patches ago, but they do sometimes break, which can lead to frustrating experience when playing a game as simple as this.

To fix this, we’ll go through each God and play with him/her to see if everything’s running smoothly. What we will also do is add cooldowns to few abilities and ultimates since they were almost impossible to play against. This will create a more balanced state in the game for a more enjoyable time.

Music

Now, music is not that bad. We don’t have a music composer and we use what we can from Smite, but that is not the point. What our focus will be, however, is the change to remove all leftover Pokemon music from the game, so that the player isn’t confused upon hearing that.

Story

Our biggest change will be regarding the story. Even though Egyptian pantheon is the first one in line and should be kinda introductory, it is still incredibly “go from point A to point B” and we want to change that. We want to offer players some choice that seems to effect the greater story. Our new story will also be more mythologicaly related and will include more relationships between Gods.

Bonus stuff

Now, during our development of the newest patch, we will also add new things. To keep some hype up, we’ll try to reveal those new things periodically, not to spoil anything.

There are not specific dates yet, but when they are, they will be edited into our page and on this post.

Streaming

During the development, I (/u/Draco9990) will try to stream the makings of the game more. During those streams I will try to show people how to work in RPG Maker XP, programmings of the game and other stuff. All streaming will be announced on this subreddit and on the website.

Reveal Videos

As we come closer to releasing the new patch, we’ll have reveal videos showcasing new stuff. We will use those to bring hype up for the newest patch. All videos will also be posted on our site too!

Help of the community

We redid our sign up form. We now invite anyone that wants to help, to do so. This work is still volontarely, but if you want to help, feel free to sign up!

If you can’t find anything that will suit you, you can wait till we add more stuff which is sure to come in the following months!

That is all for now. Thanks for reading and we hope to have more updates soon!