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[smokesomefrogs]

The new demo launched! It's part of the Steam Next Fest!

Try it out

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1535240/Sonucido_The_Mage__A_Dungeon_Crawler_by_Daniel_da_Silva/

[JobLeonard]

Hope it finds an audience!

Also, I just realized you're the same people who made Flufftopia. I enjoyed that little game

[smokesomefrogs]

Thank you very much! Yes, I worked on both games - the programmer and artist left the team - now I'm programming and making the pixel art and my fiancee does the drawn stuff 

[JobLeonard]

Hey I got a steam deck, want me to try how it plays on there for you?

[smokesomefrogs]

@JobLeonard Sorry that I didn't answer, I didn't check the forum thread for a while. I would appreciate it, if you want to you can try the demo but you don't need to! An acquaintance of mine tested the game and it worked flawlessly on the Deck which was a nice suprise!

[JobLeonard]

Cool!  Probably a sign you're not abusing undocumented features too much

[smokesomefrogs]

New Demo Update!!

The new demo is now also available on Itch!

Steam Download: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1535240/
Itch Download: https://smokesomefrogs.itch.io/sonucido-the-mage-demo

After over 2 and a half months, there is a new update to the demo and it is quite substantial!
The demo is now a lot easier to master. If you had problems before, try again. The game will be a bit harder but I think for a first impression it might be more fun to start a bit easier.
The health potions are now green instead of blue since this confused people.
I also added a start menu (which only appears for recurring players) and improved the death menu and the menu which is visible at the end of the demo.
You can now press crtl to see hotkeys. This should make it easier for players who want to play with the keyboard.

Have fun!

Full Changelog

- Changed the color of the health potions from blue to green
- Changed the color of the potion in the dialogue of the wounded guy
- A couple of shadow fixes and other minor graphical fixes
- Removed one enemy
- Added a health potion
- Removed a strength potion
- Changed the location of a health potion
- Made one tough enemy easier
- Minor bug fix
- Fixed two sound related oversights (they didn't adjust to the settings)
- Flipped the sprite of one enemy
- Fixed the dying animation of one enemy
- Added a start menu for recurring players
- Fixed the size of the clickable area of the decisions in the incident screen
- You can now press ctrl to see the hotkeys
- Got rid of a couple jagged edges if the player plays with MSAA 0 or 2
- Added the options to restart the level and start from the beginning to the death screen
- Made the death screen and the end of the demo more usable with the keyboard and controller
- Changed the brightness and adjusted the hue slightly in one level to make the dirt tiles less dark
- Changed the key which switches between the traditional and modern movement from L to H
- The movements of the spikes and the blocks in the related puzzles are now instead if you use traditional movement
- All humans in the demo now have attack and death sounds

[JobLeonard]

> You can now press crtl to see hotkeys.

Does the game also have an in-game reminder of that when players start the game? :p

[smokesomefrogs]

Not yet! I thought I would put it in the manual ingame eventually!

[smokesomefrogs]

Game is almost done! I will release it on the 2nd of December!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1535240/

More details tomorrow!

[JobLeonard]

Cheers! 

Even though it's not really my genre I'll buy it and try it out on my Steam Deck because I enjoyed the devlog so much and want to give it a shot

[Alain]

Game is almost done! I will release it on the 2nd of December!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1535240/

More details tomorrow!

That's awesome, looking forward to it!

[smokesomefrogs]

Thank you very much Leonard and Alain! 





What is the state of the game?

Sonucido: The Mage is almost finished and it will be released on December 2, 2022. All the levels are done, it‘s playable from start to finish and the save-system works. I will let my testers play the game in the next couple of days.


How long will the game be?

It should take you around 3 hours to complete it the first time. I think it makes sense to play it at least twice. In that case you can expect 5 hours of playtime.


How much will the game cost?

After considering the length of the game and even though it‘s replayable I decided to price it at 7,99$/7,99€.


What is missing?

A couple of the illustrations my fiancee makes are still missing from the game, especially for the endings but they will be all done by the time the game releases.
I still need to do localisations and I want to edit the text to improve and fix little errors.
The credits are also still missing.
And then: polish, polish, polish.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1535240/view/3416570446103958070

[smokesomefrogs]

It's out now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1535240/Sonucido_The_Mage__A_Dungeon_Crawler_by_Daniel_da_Silva/

[JobLeonard]

Congrats, and good luck! 

Got a copy, let's see if I find a few odd hours the next months to try out! (expecting my first child in the next few days )

[smokesomefrogs]

Thank you!

Congrats, I hope everything goes well!

[Alain]

It's out now!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1535240/Sonucido_The_Mage__A_Dungeon_Crawler_by_Daniel_da_Silva/

Awesome, congratulations!

[smokesomefrogs]

Thanks!

[smokesomefrogs]

New video!

[JobLeonard]

I tried the game, by the way! Was playing it on my Steam Deck, worked pretty well as a coffeebreak game. Then the steam deck broke before I even could give any feedback