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Dragonian: The Imbalance of Sierr
9 years ago

So... what have I been up to?


First things first: since one Jessica Brown has been doing a video playthrough of my game, she’s mentioned a game-breaking bug. It’s been recently fixed in Version 1.2.1, and it involved Twelkin Buns and girlfriends.
So, go get it.

Anyway, for the past several months, I’ve been without a game-making program. Now that I have one, I realize that GM Studio changed everything, making a lot of functions that Dragonian exploited (namely running programs from txt files and using Midis) obsolete. So, making a sequel to Dragonian will have to wait.

Also, since I’ve got GM Studio, I’ve been making a little game from scratch to see what it can do. What is it? …a platform-adventure game that takes some influence from Castlevania. …but NOT a Metroidvania. I’m going to call it Belgrad for now. …and it’ll be an episodic series, maybe.

Lastly, Rick’s still going to be in Indie Game Battle… eventually.

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