AoA Weekly #3 - Day 6 Shines Anew

Another week has come and gone, and major improvements have been made. As we've been mentioning, we're in a 3 month Arkar update phase, focusing on pacing improvements early on. Well, with Day 6 done and tested, those updates are close to being finished. That makes 1 month down, 2 to go.

We spent Wednesday playing all of the new, revamped content, and bug fixing it afterward! But, there was more finished this week. Let's see:

• Revised Dualis Intro

  • Dualis's intro is now more in line with later content.

  • Skipped being sucked into Soulsteal, as this never happens again, afterward.

  • Made it shorter, and improved the writing significantly.

• Soul Target 1 Revamp

  • The first Soul Target has had some improvements, and smoothed over the pacing.

  • Some hidden talks with this soul target, should you find him in the early game.

• Remade the 'Awaken Shazinba' scene

  • Now more in lie with the massive quality improvement, seen later in the game,

  • The scene that follows smooths the transition from the new content into existing content.

• Large playtest!

  • Did a big playtest of the remade day, from start to finish!

  • Clarity and pace were improved

  • Just under 2 hours now for that day, but is much less a slog with awkward, distant feeling conversations.

• Remade Daulis's sprites

  • Redid his movement, and finally added jump animations and nod/deny anims.

• Remade Fate Clone [Dualis's Body]

  • At long last, Dualis's clone body has some animations. He's been on the back burner!

Next week, we're moving into more general improvements, and updates to the Unbranded Settlement. I know a lot of these terms mean nothing to you few readers, but they're more a log.

Besides, when you play the game, you might find yourself scrolling our old updates and start to think "Oh, that was way different before, huh?"

• CorrenBros