October Update

After a couple months on hiatus, art and code development has begun again. Relative to the progress of the last year, the game is making great strides. A demo by the end of the year may be possible after all.

Portraits and sprites are complete for five of the playable characters. Including bosses and optional monsters, seventeen enemy sprites have been created. Development has been directed towards making the code more modular and efficient. Some framework for special abilities has been made. On the technical side, another important step has been taken - a new way to play music has been worked out, so the disc space taken up by sound files has been reduced to about 20% of its original size.

The next steps are to load equipment when starting the game, coding in shop and town functions, and making the dungeon interface shared. Also, time will continue to be devoted to creating monster and character art.

And now, the first publicly-released screenshot of the game, still in development (click for full detail):