Valiant Souls Devlog 20221230

Hi guys! Rene from the Valiant Souls dev team here.

I discovered yesterday that itch has a devlog feature, so I thought I'll try it out and let you guys know how the development is going at the moment. Twitch streamer theonlyresh played our demo recently and thanks to his stream I found a lot of tiny issues I was able to fix, and thanks to the holidays Mario and me have a lot of time to work on the game, so there's lots of new maps, new monsters and other stuff. Fittingly, most of the maps are from snowy regions. (Happy Holidays!) 

We usually keep these devlogs in a private spreadsheet since they are mostly "internal" stuff, but if you guys are interested in seeing those I can post them regularly on itch for you to see. Please comment in case you like to see more posts like this or only "major" update posts with more actual content. (Don't want to send you too many notifications...) 

UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (Rene)

• Ufrir's Hollow map updated
• New forest map outside of Ufrir's Hollow
• Several dialogue changes in event scenes (thanks to theonlyresh for spotting)
  • Red and White event (removed "but")
  • Underground Passage event (these > those)
  • Deadly Silence event (stronger than they look like)
  • The Meion Ruin event (several changes)
• Changed the way Rowen Elmander is addressed from "council Elmander" to "councillor Elmander" in all dialogue scenes (thanks to theonlyresh for spotting)
• Added exclamation bubbles when the fog appears before the Mycorrhiza boss fight
• Weapon description texts for main character weapons

UPDATES AND ADDITIONS (Mario)

• Osmar's Sanctuary tile set and map updated 
• Added Malepu monster battle sprite

BUGFIXES (Rene)

• The invisible wall blocking passage to the western cave in Ferrum Mountain Path is now removed
• Fixed STR/ATK inconsistency in item descriptions  (thanks to theonlyresh for spotting this)
• Fixed spelling mistake in BYPASS type Soul Art descriptions (target's > targets)
• Added missing wall sign in the Academy entrance hall during the Deadly Silence event