New Alpha Build - IGF Submission news - Savage: The Shard of Gosen

This weekend I decided to hold my breath, take the plunge, and submit Savage to the IGF (against my better judgement, ha!). Why? Because I like being a nervous wreck and biting off way more than I can chew! On a personal level, I don't expect much to happen, but I am glad I submitted - in the long run, I think putting my game on a chopping block of that size is, overall, a good experience. Pluse: hitting the 'submit' button was great fun :D

On to the (potentially) more fun stuff -

I've decided to publicly post the build I submitted to the IGF because... well, why not? Quite a few substantial updates and bug fixes await anyone brave enough to go another round with the alpha, i.e.

• Added a few new items - Argeshii Fetish, Gosen Fetish, Meat
• Fade transitions, zoom in/out transitions on worldmap
• Overworld procedural encounters (hunting type, battle type)
• Story engine is now in place, with first story sequence
• Balanced the enemy spawners, some enemy HP and damage
• Weapons and Armor now lose BP upon death instead of outright breaking
• Broken gear remains in inventory (to be used in repair/salavage in a later update)
• Increased initial knives/axes carrying cap
• Font and UI polishing
• New Enemy: Jailer
• New location tilesets (only used in overworld encounters right now)
• Extended some areas
• New music track
• New death system/checkpoint system - game no longer goes to "game over" screen on death, but respawns player at the last (invisible at the moment) checkpoint they crossed.
• Squished lots of bugs (and probably created many new ones as a result)

The download for the latest alpha build:

(IMPORTANT: SAVE FILES FROM THE PREVIOUS BUILD WILL NOT WORK WITH THIS ONE - Sorry :/ This will probably be the case until beta, or whenever I put a much more stable save system into the game.)

And last but not least, Savage: SOG's first trailer (*sniff* he's growing up so fast):

Thanks for reading/watching/playing!
Crom laughs at your Four Winds,
-Matt